This is more than mildly infuriating. This is fascism in action.
Sounds like a perfect time to have a minimum-wage worker bring you food!
(jokes aside I hope you're ok)
Are the Americans ok?
Transcribing the conversation here:
Recessa, ↑4 ↓1: That's completely idiotic, milk exist because there's demand for it.
commie, ↑1 ↓4: I think you understand that milk is produced as part of the mammalian reproductive cycle. can you describe the causal steps between demanding milk and it's production?
friendlymessage, ↑3 ↓2: Do you think dairy cattle just randomly spawns on the planetary surface?
commie, ↑1 ↓3: do you think there's a direct causal link between drinking milk and more being produced?
friendlymessage, ↑3: Are you fucking with me?
commie, ↑2 ↓3: no. I'm trying to illustrate that markets are not governed by natural law; they are populated by irrational actors.
friendlymessage, ↑2 ↓1: Yeah, but they're not as irrational as you are and producing milk costs money. If there's no market, they will stop because they are not fuckin lunatics and they don't have infinite resources
commie, ↑2 ↓2: milk was farmed before markets existed. there is no reason to believe that will ever stop.
friendlymessage, ↑3 ↓1: That... must be the dumbest discussion I've had in a while. Please read through your comments tomorrow when you're sober
commie, ↑1 ↓1: I've been sober all day.
friendlymessage, ↑1: Okay, whatever you say
commie, ↑1 ↓2: everything I've said is true. you're objecting to reality, and being pretty shitty about it to me.
friendlymessage, ↑2: No, you're just making a no sensical argument at all. Milk was farmed from dairy cattle because it was consumed by humans. It's simple supply and demand. There is no rational argument at all that if mankind stopped consuming milk, it would still be farmed. Why would any farmer go through the effort to upkeep cows and keep them impregnanted to make them produce milk if they cannot trade it or won't consume it? Yes, humans have free will but they won't produce stuff with very high effort just for fun. Except maybe very sick minds that just enjoy animal cruelty. And you won't elaborate what your actual point is anyway.
Also, not that it matters, but you're arguing that dairy farming existed before the market is simply wrong. There has been trade between human civilizations long before we started domesticating animals.
Oopsie poopsie, my attempt at becoming a dictator didn't work, sowwyyy!
Aren't these 'girl with blue hair' jokes a bit old already?
I still don't understand how at the same time, men are feral beasts who can't resist the urge to rape someone because checks notes they saw her hair, yet they are the logical ones who can be trusted with power and responsibility.
Girl how on earth do you look like a supermodel 24/7 when you're living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, scavenging among ruins and debris for food so you won't have to resort to cannibalism??
It really depends on the context. When used as an adjective, it's fine. For example, the sentence "My female coworker has brown hair." is correct. However, when it is used as a noun, it can be dehumanising. For example: "A female at my workplace has brown hair" is dehumanising. It can be used as a noun when talking about non-humans ("After mating, the female will lay her eggs.") or in medicinal context when referring to people with uteruses.
European here, these are what different states or areas of the USA remind me of (like what's the first think I think of when I hear it's name):
- Southern states: right wing twats
- Alabama: incest
- Florida: gators and really, really weird news headlines
- Texas: stupidly large trucks, guns and cowboys
- Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
- California: expensive, liberal
- Ohio: those fucking memes
- Hawaii: warm, colonialism
- Mississippi: riverboats
- Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
I was supposed to eat, now that I remembered the existence of this practice, I'm not that hungry anymore.
I'm 95% sure it's satire, like it's making fun of those guys that edit pictures of female characters because they're upset when their video game has women who look like actual people.