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  • For me, no. I used it for several years but their linux support is not good enough for me. The linux vpn client depends on networkmanager, but I use iwd, so I was sol (loading wireguard profiles is not a good enough solution, too much of a hastle). They also don’t support ipv6 for vpn. Their linux email client doesn’t exist, and on android their app depends on google play services and they refuse to put a degoogled version on fdroid or host their own fdroid repo.

    i switched to mullvad for vpn (linux app works great, they have ipv6, and since I don’t use vpn that often I save money on the months I don’t use it) and tuta for email (they have a decent email app on linux and android, works great without google play services and is on fdroid, and their servers use green energy)

    for pass, I’ve used keepass with syncthing and keepassxc on linux and keepassdx on android so proton pass wasn’t a bonus for me anyways


  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldhypocrite.
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    8 months ago

    Tell which thing? I wrote a lot

    but, one thing we could do is divert the massive subsidies and bailouts the US gives to animal agriculture (and a lot of the subsidies to plant ag too! It leads to a tremendous waste, iirc the reason corn syrup is so common is we grow too much corn cause it’s overly subsidized. People need good food, not corn syrup) and spend that on actually feeding those people

    While we’re redirecting funds, the military budget could use some massive cuts that could also be used to provide food, shelter, and healthcare to people


  • Are you saying everything we can talk about is arbitrary because everything we can talk about is with words and concepts?

    Are you talking about meriological nihilism? (thanks alex oconnor for teaching me that term lol)

    I know sentience is real based on the fact that I’m experiencing things right this moment. Based on my understanding of the brain and nervous system, and the strong evidence that those things give rise to my sentience, I think that it’s reasonable to extrapolate that other, similar nervous systems/brains are also sentient and their experience is worth consideration in a similar way to how I consider my own experience (among the many other reasons to have a basic level of empathy)


  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldhypocrite.
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    8 months ago

    Then present yours lol

    Sentientism answers the question of “who/what matters?”, not “what ethical framework should be used to care about who/what matters?”. It can underly many ethical frameworks, personally I don’t care that much what ethical framework you use as long as we can agree on who’s included in the moral scope (although there are some utilitarians who I think have bad definitions of utility and/or do a bad job weighing the utility)



  • sure, there are a lot of factors that would make it difficult. If most people can’t afford to be vegan (for monetary or other cost reasons especially) that reflects a failure of our food system. Our food system hasn’t even gotten to the point of ensuring nobody goes hungry, we should be using our cropland to feed humans not other animals (look up how much of our crops go to livestock)

    we should end the biggest problems first, and start with ending factory farms, but we should also remember that culture is not a good reason to hurt others


  • there are other approaches to sentientism that aren’t based on valence. I don’t feel like writing a book on the different ones, but to give an example of a rights based one that I think is strong is that every sentient being has, at the very least, a right to their body, since that’s the one thing they’re born with and that is (almost certainly) what gives rise to their sentience in the first place. And to violate another sentient beings bodily autonomy is to forfeit your own (a sort of low level social contract), which allows for self defense and defending others

    but to go back to utilitarianism, I think there’s a strong argument that most ethical frameworks can be defined in terms of a sufficiently creative definition of utility. I don’t really feel like getting into the weeds of that discussion though, and I don’t think it’s particularly relevant to the conversation anyways



  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldhypocrite.
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    Sentience is what I base my ethics on (i’m a sentientist or sentiocentrist), which has implications on diet when considering whether to exploit and/or kill sentient beings for food. I don’t think it’s arbitrary, if someone is sentient, they are morally relevant because they can experience positive and negative valence (pleasure/pain, to put it more plainly but lose some nuance). If something is not sentient, I don’t see how it can be ethically relevant except in cases where the nonsentient thing matters to a sentient being

    if you’re looking for arbitrary, the anthropocentrists are that way

    Also I agree we can’t prove that plants aren’t sentient, that’s why I said “to the best of my knowledge”