Amends (2018-05-23) (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 65 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Oh no, just imagine the black cloud of mosquitos

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Do I get to kill the ants a second time?

    Fuckin hate ants, always tryin eat my hair

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was gonna reply with a joke, but this punchline of yours felt different. So, I looked it up, and holy shit, ants will just fucking abscond with your hair.

    On the one hand, it's not personal. They don't know your hair from a leaf on the ground. All they know is that your hair is especially delicious and they wanna get all up in there.

    On the other hand, if ants started chopping and hauling my hair like some sort of tiny logging expedition, I'd probably wanna double-kill them, too

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  • It's more that I'm farsighted and can't see ants (not even with glasses, those ant nerds) unless they're the big fuckers. I have sat in so many ant trails because I could not see them.

    One summer, during the week that you stay home alone when you're 14 as a rite of passage to prove that you won't die when left to your own devices, the ants attacked a cupboard that had no food (I thought). The cupboard with all the bowls and plates and cups and apparently ants that week. Well okay first they attacked the pantry. Then they attacked the bowls. Then they went after the sink and cleaning supplies. In retrospect I would not be surprised if my shitass brother mixed some bouillon in with the bleach.
    I ended up having to clean the kitchen from top to bottom four days in a row. Including the fridge at one point, I was not leaving anything to chance after attack number 3. I wasn't going to cook and eat anything from a freshly poisoned kitchen, so I kept getting pizza instead of getting to try new recipes like I wanted.
    I'm not sure it would be heaven without the opportunity to extinct me some ants. And then do it three or four more times to the same, reincarnated ants. I think my part of heaven is the baggage closet.

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    [–] 38 points 1 month ago

    there's an elephant in the room

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I like to believe this is implying he also ate that guy

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Do we have to make peace with each bacteria individually or can we do it collectively?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    I've already made peace with the lives I've taken and will take to secure my own survival. Talk to any of those pigs and they'd do the same thing.

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago (48 children)

    Interesting way to blame individuals for capitalism.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Capitalism sold you meat. That didn’t occur in a vacuum. We were eating meat before capitalism was involved.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Do you think most people today would go slaughter their own animals for food if the other option was picking up vegetables and other easy options at the store? Most people don't have the stomach or tools to kill a cow, chicken, or pig and prep it.

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  • I think that's more a side effect of people largely not living an agrarian lifestyle anymore since folks literally did that for thousands of years. Though you often times did also just get s butcher for larger animals since they were professional and often did it in exchange for a share.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I can't legally keep my own chickens where I live, otherwise I would.

    I had to put down my rabbit, I had to crush my pet spider under my heel. I sure as hell can take out a chicken that I've raised explicitly to be food, and if I can't... Well, my wife grew up on a micro farm, where they raised their own cows and chickens, she definitely can slaughter an animal and butcher a carcass.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Man, he was a hell of a hunter but a pretty sub par soldier from the looks of that line.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Wait, so I get to talk and cuddle a bunch of chickens, cows, and pigs? That doesn’t sound so bad. I’d be happy to make amends with them. I’d love to see what they’d have to say about the industrial food complex.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The thing about asking forgiveness and making amends that people tend to forget is that you have to actually regret it. If you're just like "sorry I killed you, but you were delicious!" you're not really making amends.

    I've got a friend trying desperately to teach their toddler that biting someone while apologizing for biting them doesn't prevent them from getting in trouble.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So was he like a rancher or a slaughterhouse worker after the war?

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    He sure killed a lot of animals.

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