i am more than willing to engage on any positive claim you want to make (i probably agree with a lot of them). what i’m not willing to do is tolerate personal attacks and dogpiling.

more non falsifiable vaguery

the entire problem with your comment is that you are using vague language and not defining your terms. as a result, you have presented unfalsifiable theory.

no one should believe anything you’ve written here.

animal liberation front did some good work. earth liberation front, just stop oil… you get the idea I hope

they can organize among themselves. affinity groups that practice direct action are like my favorite political orgs.

I just want to say I love militant vegans, so long as militant means they are organized and actively creating the world they want to live in. if they are just preaching, I would not say they are militant, just evangelical.

and, to be clear, I’m neither. I just find militancy admirable.

Would fewer non human animals be exploited in a meatless Monday world? Yes.

I wouldn’t count on it

honestly too light

I thought you said it was common knowledge. is it groundbreaking research?

Laws are made entirely on morals.

this has never been true

your insistence on relevance is giving the lie to your denial about moving the goalposts.

I know actual game developers who released their games for free or under a pay-what-you-want model. They refuse to do so again because they can’t support themselves by doing it. I am a game developer and I won’t release my games for free because I need to support myself. There is all the data you need.

the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”

You know it and you are simply arguing in bad faith

this is rich coming from someone who is moving the goal posts.

you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.

you’re moving the goalposts.

no, they don’t: people make things without being paid all the time.

“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.

there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.

just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?

github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.

this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.

so use isn’t tied to paying. one has nothing to do with the other.