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Yeah, r/vegan was almost more of an outreach community, even though that wasn’t technically supposed to be true.

Makes me think of a trend in FTP gaming, where there was a correlation between play time and $ spent, so gaming companies would try and optimise for time played. They’d psychologically manipulate their players to spend more time in game with daily quests, battle passes, etc, all in an effort to raise revenues.

What they didn’t realise was that players spent time in game because it was fun, and they bought mtx because they enjoyed the game and wanted it to succeed. Optimising for play time had the opposite effect, and made the game a chore. Instead of raising revenues, they actually dropped.

This is why you always have to be careful when chasing metrics. If you pick wrong, it can have the opposite effect that you want.

This is why I have trouble trusting restaurants that aren’t fully vegan. To them, veganism isn’t about ethics, it’s about marketing.

“My own dogs are family and I have limits, I only badly mistreat other dogs… I have no emotional bond to them, they are toys pure and simple. And [there are] plenty more where they came from.”

This is in line with the implication of carnism. Animals are simply objects to be consumed for pleasure. They have no intrinsic value; their only value is derived from the carnist’s own emotional attachment to them.

Much of the detail of Britton’s crimes are too graphic to publish, and so “grotesque” Chief Justice Michael Grant warned the courtroom they could cause “nervous shock”.

And yet he’ll be up for parole in 2028. This fucker deserves a life sentence.