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[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (15 children)

The irony of environmental activists using the word "veganism" while not being vegan ๐Ÿ˜’ (being vegan is one of the most significant reduction to greenhouse emissions that is within your personal choice)

[โ€“] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

They aren't using the word. Other people are using it and applying it to them.

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[โ€“] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

AI vegan is not a thing and shall never be.

The correct term is Technophile. Anyone obsessed with tech would never hand it off to a third party to do when they can go through the joy of learning themselves.

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[โ€“] BearGun@ttrpg.network 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] CarrmynCarnage@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If anyone says the words "AI Vegan" to my face, I'm throwing shit.

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[โ€“] sixty@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Let's not call it that

[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 24 points 5 days ago

'AI vegan'....

Where I come from, saying something that stupid will get you killed.

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'd rather be called a Luddite than ai vegan

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[โ€“] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am a AI Freedom Fighter.

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[โ€“] toast@retrolemmy.com 26 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Nothing wrong with being a Luddite

[โ€“] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

It was always about worker's rights anyways:

Malcolm L. Thomas argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. "These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made."[10] Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration because manufactories were scattered throughout the country, and that made it impractical to hold large-scale strikes.[13][14] An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centring on breaking threshing machines.[15]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

It was about making sure that as mechanization resulted in a lower need for labor, that workers compensation remained steady, and they worked less hours.

People hating luddites is just the result of centuries old propaganda from the wealthy

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Iโ€™ll just stick with calling myself โ€œold man yelling at cloudsโ€ for the double meaning and so Iโ€™m not a vegan of any kind, thanks.

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