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Sharing my honest beliefs, welcoming constructive debates, and embracing the potential for evolving viewpoints. Independent thinker navigating through conversations without allegiance to any particular side.
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I wonder what you guys thought animal testing is about, if this is somehow surprising to you. This is just another day at the office for the people running these experiments. The issue is not “Elon doing animal testing” but animal testing in itself.
However - if you think we shouldn’t do it then you should also be aware of the tradeoffs. Without this cruelty there’s no modern medicine either. Also, if you complain about this but eat meat then you’re a hypocrite.
What is the difference exactly? It’s both animal testing. It’s going to be cruel by its very nature. They’re testing on animals because they’re not allowed to test on humans. If they could they would.
Everyone here acting like this is all black and white. Without animal testing there’s no modern medicine. That is a choise we could have made but didn’t. Thousands of animals had to suffer so that millions of people would not. From an utilitairian point of view it’s a no-brainer but it’s still cruel as fuck and there’s no getting around that. Animal testing or no - both leads to individuals suffering unecessarily.
I, for one aren’t willing to take the moral high ground here, because I eat meat ie. take part in the chicken/pig holocaust.
Considering that I get a few new bot followers every day, and has been for probably over a year now, but my total follower count isn’t increasing much, I’m quessing they’re indeed removing these accounts, but new ones just keep popping up. That would pretty much be on par with why he says he’s going to start charging for it.
I didn’t really have an opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict or about Netanyahu as a person before he was a quest on Lex Fridman’s podcast. He seemed like an extremely disingenuous person, with obviously very politician answers to the questions presented to him. That made me, for the first time, to look into what this conflict is about and though it’s still quite nuanced, my view however isn’t especially favourable to Israel now.
Almost none of the people I follow on Twitter are on Mastodon and almost none of the people that follow me are there either. I’m not on Twitter because of the platform. I’m there because of the people on that platform. My strictly curated feed haven’t changed during the past few years no matter how hard people here are trying to convince me that Twitter has gone to shit. Maybe for you it has but I can’t relate. What ever Elon is doing happens in a corner of Twitter I’m not spending my time on.
It’s also the only platform where I’ve managed to grow any kind of following. It’s much nicer posting my content somewhere people actually see it unlike on places like Instagram which is just shouting into the void. The only change I’ve made is switch from the Flamingo app to browser because they killed 3rd party apps just like reddit.
Well he’s clearly a jerk who doesn’t know when he should just stay silent but I guess this can partly be explained by the fact that he obviously has some form of autism/asberger or something.
I just don’t see anything that major in there. I can think of several worse people who don’t seem to be getting this level of hate so I find it curious what it is about Musk then that he does.
People here mostly seem to vote on basis of who they think the commenter is - not what they’re saying.