> "First, people keep trying to say you should eat insects to save the environment / help animals / be vegan. I don't want to do this. That makes it very convenient that it also seems to be potentially morally wrong."
Oh, please. This post reads like a very smart person going to great lengths to justify why they don't want to try eating a new thing. Like, no one is making you my dude. You don't need to flex a Shakespeare quote to justify not wanting to eat something.
I don't eat shellfish because they look gross, no one needs to read an essay about it. That's my one beef (hehe) with the rational crowd, and I love 'em to death, but dude you don't need a dive into philosophy to justify why you like pizza better than milkshakes. Let life have some whimsy in it.
Also, this is the third time this week I've heard people fretting about being "forced" to eat bugs. It is a common alt-right conspiracy theory that "the left" is going to force everyone to eat bugs. So there are endless memes about how they should courageously eat even more meat to "own the libs". At this point I genuinely wonder if this isn't just an extremely effective marketing campaign by the meat industry to turn meat consumption into a form of protest, right when meat is getting almost unbelievably expensive. My dudes, it ain't "the libs" jacking up the prices of meat and bringing in record profits.
So when I see someone fretting about eating bugs I have a hard time taking it too seriously. If you don't want to, then don't.
From a financial utility, whey protein is expensive, and not everyone can consume it. The veg alternatives taste like chalk, so I know quite a few athletes who are quite interested in high protein insect flour. If you could spend half the price for a better tasting shake...
This term is 'triggering' for me because it is such a thoughtless complaint. Between inflation and economic growth (and population growth), record profits are practically inescapable.
Further, I doubt that when people use the term, they actually spent the time looking at the financial statements for the businesses they're talking about. Did you? Or was it just a headline?
It would seem that yes inflation makes things expensive, but also yes they are raising prices because of "increased demand". And possibly illegally price fixing because it's a monopoly.
I don't really understand why these kind of posts make it to the top page of HackerNews. Perhaps there is a bigger audience for this than you would think?
There's occasionally a weird undercurrent on this site which flirts with alt-right conspiracy theories. Partly because Hacker News attracts the kind of person who wants to show off how intelligent he* is, and those people easily fall prey to this kind of nonsense.
(I try to remind myself that I'm not immune to many of the same thought traps, though I'm unlikely to ever go alt right. As I age, I move ever more leftwards.)
From a European's perspective, we have times where everything is going very much to the left, so naturally the right wing will grow. There will be a balance, but more and more I see that what is called the right wing is the former centrism. That kind of right wing has to emerge for there to be a balance. And it is to the benefit of those who try to divide groups into smaller ones. I don't know which conspiracy theories you are talking about, but I myself watch with interest how efficiently they introduce some of them, in various ways.
What you are describing ("demonstrating intelligence") is low self-esteem & narcissism. Howling ego in space, as a counterbalance to an understated self-esteem. And it is more common on the left. Where there are the most parasites. On the principle of playing the victim, simply, so give me something, because I deserve it. All those amulets, prepositions. The left is more prone to creating its own false world, rather than aligning itself with the real one. And this is something you can act on and make money from. They have a hard life with themselves anyway, and to others they are just emotional vampires.
When someone is intelligent, they don't f around with things that you can see they're tryharding for. Because it is not intelligent. Truly intelligent people have no need to prove their intelligence to others, they even often don't want to. They are lazy and they know they are intelligent, so they won't waste their energy explaining things to people who can't see. They know they are right and they pathetically observe the downside of commenting on controversial topics.
All in all, from the perspective from a centrist in Europe, I think it's very good that such currents are appearing on the site and do what you want with it. Because an intelligent person will rarely want to explain to moron that he is a moron, therefore he should not vote because he will harm us all. Unless he sees the potential, which is again - quite naive.
Oh, please. This post reads like a very smart person going to great lengths to justify why they don't want to try eating a new thing. Like, no one is making you my dude. You don't need to flex a Shakespeare quote to justify not wanting to eat something.
I don't eat shellfish because they look gross, no one needs to read an essay about it. That's my one beef (hehe) with the rational crowd, and I love 'em to death, but dude you don't need a dive into philosophy to justify why you like pizza better than milkshakes. Let life have some whimsy in it.
Also, this is the third time this week I've heard people fretting about being "forced" to eat bugs. It is a common alt-right conspiracy theory that "the left" is going to force everyone to eat bugs. So there are endless memes about how they should courageously eat even more meat to "own the libs". At this point I genuinely wonder if this isn't just an extremely effective marketing campaign by the meat industry to turn meat consumption into a form of protest, right when meat is getting almost unbelievably expensive. My dudes, it ain't "the libs" jacking up the prices of meat and bringing in record profits.
So when I see someone fretting about eating bugs I have a hard time taking it too seriously. If you don't want to, then don't.
From a financial utility, whey protein is expensive, and not everyone can consume it. The veg alternatives taste like chalk, so I know quite a few athletes who are quite interested in high protein insect flour. If you could spend half the price for a better tasting shake...