Maybe it comes from the distinction between meat and fish that stems from fasting in Catholicism.
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bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study foundEnglish3·1 month ago
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meetingEnglish1·3 months agoYeah, make it twins!
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to worldEnglish32·3 months agoThat supposed golden age was a time of massive deregulation, which is still wreaking havoc on the country.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’English91·3 months agoThere is moral, there is legal, and there is ethical.
This may have been moral, as well as legal, but it sure as shit wasn’t ethical.
The organisation that started it is called Eurovision.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas messageEnglish1·4 months agoTithing is expected. There is peer pressure involved, so it can hardly be called voluntary.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself6·4 months agoSo, Trumped up.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobbyEnglish1·4 months agoMaybe? I don’t know the specific rules, so I just went the quotes text.
But yeah, that would be crazy.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobbyEnglish42·4 months agoReads to me as saying that it must contain meat, not that it must only contain meat.
So any sausage with meat as one of its ingredients would count, but anything that doesn’t contain any meat would not.
Which, to me, is ridiculous, because most vegetarian options have a variation on the word “replacement” on the packaging.
This is just the meat industry throwing it’s weight around.
It’s only a door if it has a handle, and there is none.
The thing that looks like a bolt on that rectangle.
Sure, it’s not well designed, but you can just see the rings of the curtain, even though the curtain itself doesn’t hang that far.
None of it is well thought out, but an effort was made nonetheless.
It’s a curtain rod.
It’s AI though, which to some people is probably fine, but I can’t unhear the uncanny valley.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible — Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worseEnglish13·5 months agoAssuming he doesn’t try to get a third term, people will still die well into his successor’s term.
And I am certain that the republican party will point that out ad nauseum.*
*Depending on the type of person who died. Poor and non-white people excluded.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreadsEnglish6·5 months agoAnd how many times did the creators (not the marketing people) say that no CGI was used?
I know it happened in several cases, and I try not to watch those movies.
But others, where they are upfront about it, I think it is fair play.
The key is ethics. Always has been.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreadsEnglish14·5 months agoThe movie doesn’t pretend that the main character has really jumped from a cliff onto a ship.
It isn’t lying.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removedEnglish46·5 months agoIt wasn’t anyone Dutch who decided that the signs had to be removed.
bramkaandorp@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretaryEnglish7·5 months agoMiss? She’s not even married? How is it that she is accepted by her fellow fascists?
No, that’s the other one.