Everyone can only do the best they can. Anyone who expects everyone to have zero impact is an idiot. Even a salad involved death and cruelty somewhere (animals caught in farm equipment, underpaid immigrant farmers who get abandoned if injured, etc).

So really, all you can do in your life if you care about these things is minimize your impact as much as you can based on what you know.

Similar to people who value giving to charity. Do they give all of their spare money to charity? No and no one should expect them to. Just giving anything to charity regularly has a positive impact and the whole “you’re not doing enough” does much more damage than good.

Reminds me of vegetarians/vegans. I’m not really either, but I don’t eat meat. And I’m just happy when I hear people say they want to eat less meat. Whereas most people who are against meat are only happy if someone else is also against it completely.

For people who value reading: if they have no books on their shelves. They might be avid readers of ebooks, or just use the library.

But this should clear itself up with a rather simple discussion started by mentioning a book you read recently.

I think it’s more common for people to rotate which service they’re subscribed to each month.

But piracy is still increasing in popularity.

I think animals should have more rights already. It’d be nice if they could talk or something to help people realize they’re actually living things worthy of empathy.

But to your point, cats and dogs are already among the better-treated animals in large parts of the world.

Compared to animals who get farmed (especially factory farmed), or get the death sentence label of a pest or invasive species.

We have our place on the planet purely by right of conquest.

It’s fundamentally immoral what we do to animals but people just ignore it, accept it as a necessary evil, or somehow block the empathy from their brain applying to animals.

We all should, though.

Eh, lots of stuff can be easy to learn, difficult to master.

Most languages only take a few minutes to do a “hello world” app.

When you announce you’re comfortable with something, it probably depends on the scale of the apps you’re used to working on.

So a junior dev could very well feel they’ve learned something like react after two days of cramming.

Or trying to drive to the shop instead of getting a tow.

Plain sparkling water. It’s already my favourite one. I drink it by the pallet.

This is like us too. The important stuff aligns, but we have very different general interests and hobbies.

How different from water does it have to be? Just not in the title?

Because both something like sparkling water and juice are basically water.

But I already pretty much only drink sparkling water so I’ll pick that one if it’s allowed (if the spirit of your question is “no flat water”).

I feel like most people who get their news primarily through Facebook, are horribly misinformed.

So maybe this is a good thing?

Make sure you use it with Firefox. It works better.

Things like weather will be fine unless you have an unreasonable boss/job.

But people should only use work computers the way they would if they knew the entire company was watching a live stream of their desktop.

Even for working from home, I put my work laptop on the isolated guest wifi because I don’t trust them the same way they don’t trust me.

They just assume that because they continue to see anyone, that they are still seeing everyone.

I understand when most people have this thought on lemmy. But you know you’re on a reddit community, right? This place is dedicated to talking about reddit.

I mixed piracy with s couple of tge larger streaming sites for a while. I’m 99% piracy now. (technically have prime video, but don’t watch it)

Although, it’ll probably be one of the coolest months for the next while.

There is no reason what you describe should give rise to consciousness rather than a biological artificial intelligence. The sense of self, the perspective that feels like me peering out through my eyes, is not explained by anything you said.

A copy of me does not equal me because we’d both have separate senses of self. Having copied memories does nothing to affect that.

Consciousness is not based on memory or else computers would be considered conscious.

And if according to what you’re saying, a clone with all of your memories would mean you have two points of view. I could take your clone into a different room and you’d be able to tell me what they see. But it obviously wouldn’t work like that because your own sense of self would still be locked in your head and the clone would get its own sense of self, albeit one with the same memories.