Or an actor that only did television shows.

Speed limits would result in groups of traffic sort of just sticking together, with most everyone going right at the speed limit and the occasional slower vehicle.

Healthcare debt could be considered to be under duress. At what point are you “physically forced” to sign? Does “accept this medical treatment or die” make the cut?

Isn’t that what laws are, in theory, supposed to do? Establish a minimum standard.

I know that in practice, there is significant deviation from legality and morality, but lots of people pick and choose the parts of religion they want to follow as well.

Additionally, why do people complaining about these comparisons always view it as lowering the standards for certain groups of people rather than raising the standards for animals? It’s the wrong takeaway from the comparison.

If modern medicine and things like vaccines are ok, then so are supplements.

Supplements are lower impact and less “unnatural” than animal agriculture.

There’s never a “right time” to bring up a topic that they don’t want to address because they are complicit.

Prioritize the already-living before creating more of them.

This doesn’t help your argument.

Except that there are 2 groups: progressives and a more extreme left group. Progressives who were arguing in good faith against genocide were lumped in with the latter group.

The establishment Democrats were engaging in censorship and suppression of anything that was critical of Israel. Now Trump has stepped up this censorship/suppression, but it was definitely happening under Biden.

I bought a new computer a few years ago that has 11 on it. With how the Steam Deck has seemed to really promote Linux for gaming, I’m seriously considering it on my next build.

It is very obvious to me that Windows is becoming increasingly subject to enshittification.

I have 11, so not directly affected. But with “no more security updates” being the only real reason one needs to change, the obvious question here is if there is 3rd party software that can protect a Windows 10 system?

I remember when anti-virus software was in common use.

But I think that a healthy society includes a few child-free people.

Regardless of one’s views on antinatalism, we absolutely need to acknowledge that not everyone is suitable for parenthood. I’m not suggesting that we (as a society) impose restrictions on it. Rather if someone self-selects for not having kids, people need to STFU and accept it rather than trying to shame or pressure them.

Because I don’t think there’s a point to living without reproduction.

So the meaning of life is … the continuation of life? Or to put it another way, life is the meaning of life. That seems rather tautological.

Housing can either be affordable or a good investment. I should be affordable, but unfortunately it would seem that society has chosen the latter.

There are real consequences of sex though: pregnancy and communicable diseases. Some of these can be mitigated (e.g. modern contraceptives), but I think they are at least factors to consider in favor of monogamy.

That said, I believe that life-long monogamy (as would be prescribed by marriage) is fighting against human nature.

We should make inheritance less powerful but also make it easier to build up your own financial security and have better social safety nets.

Generational wealth is in opposition to the idea of equality and egalitarianism.

Antinatalism: the belief that the creation of sentient life is morally wrong

My point is that Democrats, whether progressive or centrist, shouldn’t be supporting this. It shouldn’t matter (on this particular topic) if progressives aren’t voting; I’m not willing to give centrist Democrats a pass and will condemn them just the same.

I keep hearing that progressives aren’t voting in the numbers that they should be, but there might be another problem: there simply aren’t that many progressives to get offices. As a “Reddit refugee”, I realized that we are overrepresented in a lot of these online echo chambers.

So you’re ok with centrists supporting and actively protecting perpetrators of genocide?