I believe Lula and his government appreciates anything that reduces the influence of the US.

Well in this case the video is about over the top “woke” anti-veganism

This is something that annoys me a lot to be honest. Obviously, there are racist, colonialist vegans. It is a structural problem of western societies, and vegans aren’t unaffected by that. Bringing it up and talking about these issues is important, but especially from non-vegans, it is often insinuated that these problems are somehow particular to vegans.

It is a huge distortion of the narrative. It is not the vegans asking indigenous people to stop eating meat, it is white people saying “ohh what about the indigenous” and use legitimate and important indigenous issues as an excuse to continue to consume animals and animal products.

This is what I keep seeing in leftist anti-vegan arguments. You take any of the social issues (racism, ableism, sexism, whatever) and use them to legitimize veganism as a movement. And this is rarely done because of sincere concern of these issues, it is nothing but a shell to try to make their opinions appear ethical. It feels hollow.

Beyond that, the intersection of carnism and colonialism is striking. The animals we eat, the rainforests that are burned down for animal feed, the environment we destroy through animal agriculture - that is an extension of colonialism. And now when Anti-colonialists are for some reason way more outspoken about veganism than they are about carnism, then they are pretty inconsistent in their own anti-colonial beliefs.

Someone told me once they used ChatGPT as a tool to practice a language. I thought it was quite invovative

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There will be an official repository maintained by the Blender Foundation. It’ll have some quality control, but I don’t know what their standards will be exactly. The cool part about it is that there can be multiple, third party repositories. So people can build and maintain their own extension platforms, decentral, just like lemmy

I’m pretty excited about this. I wonder if there will be other repositories for the addons, like the blendermarket.

I genuinely don’t think this is uneffective. There are probably a bunch of people who genuinely didn’t recognize the problem here and were exposed to a different perspective. And might be more critical next time they see a supposedly ‘wholesome’ picture like that.

I didn’t intend to be effective, I just wanted to share something that upset me with some fellow vegans.

Most people aren’t familiar with whale microexpessions and think this whale looks happy.

I don’t think you have to be familiar with that at all. The dolphin lives in a tiny confined space and is deprived of everything interesting in their life, unable to pursue most of their behavior. Now if there is something going on outside the barriers of the aquarium, of course it excites/interests the dolphin. That doesn’t make it wholesome. It is just sad.

what else would you want me to do? don’t put highly intelligent creatures into cages for our own entertainment. It doesn’t matter what human emotion we project onto them. they lead sad and stressful lives.

I’m actually suprised this is controversial, considering this is a vegan community

I love Vital (Vitalium) and Zyn-Fusion. Surge and Odin are great too. all of them are open source and work great with bitwig.

oh wait that was episode 666 releasing on friday 13? 😱

fair point - noone on reddit buys awards so that they can contribute to reddit financially - people do that to draw more attention to the kind of content they like. So I thought you could use that to get more money to people who can make use of it. So to the donors it wouldn’t primarily be a donation. if lemmy.world is doing well for now - that’s great for them, but there are many groups who can make really use it.

well liberapay pretty much exists to give people a way to contribute to the FOSS they support. What I was thinking of is not much more than a way to do just that, just in a way that is more engaging than the typical donation system

I see your point, makes sense to me - it gets bloated and meaningless when there are so many of them

certainly not everything is about money. but servers do cost money, and if we want to keep lemmy servers independent they’ll need some source of income.

yep! I laughed when I read that. GPL working precisely as intended.

right, since blender 2.8 it has been way more accessible for users to get into. I’ve always really liked blender’s unique approach to design though. The Blender Devs work in the same building as their in-house animation studio. This kind of synergy has always come up with unique workflows that are crazy powerful and useful once you get behind it. right-click-select is one of these things. The devs at the Blender Institute are always surronded by artsists who have tons of ideas on how to make things faster to use for the artists.