AmaryllisBlues [she/her]

https://www.theveganstoner.com Ignoring the name, its got decent recipes for when you feel exceptionally lazy.

Are these workers making weapons? The article says this factory is for Boeing’s passenger jets.

Aren’t all the characters minors?

I’m not really sure if you want advice or to vent. If you don’t want job advice, please ignore the rest of my comment.

An option is looking at remote work that is technical, but not related to your degree/what you want to do. It won’t be a fun experience but it helps pay bills.

Something like data entry or technical writing doesn’t have much of a barrier to entry other than having a technical degree.

Another option is assembly/factory type work. This one is very location dependent, but there are stuff like PCB houses where if you know how to solder, you can probably find work. Or welding or something since you’re a MechE. It isn’t great pay, but it is usually more than retail.

I’d like to take a different approach than what information I usually see people give about the inhumane treatment of captive animals. And that is why is it acceptable to have animals in captivity for the sake of our enjoyment? The animals that get put in zoos get put there because people get enjoyment out of seeing them. Its not about conservation or however zoos try to play it up as. If it was for conservation, then why is there a lion in fucking Kansas instead of their natural habitat?

And sometimes people will describe zoos as a transactional thing between us and the animals. Like “we give them food and shelter, so looking pretty is the least they can do” kinda thing. And why is that appropriate for animals but people consider it bad of you said the same thing about women, or kids, or literally anything else.

I also find it amusing that anything that mentions animal rights or factory farms is assumed to be a pushy vegan. I’ve met dozens of people who buy grass-fed flesh because “its better for the animals”. Ignoring that it isn’t

Waiting on lab grown meat to go vegan is the same thing as waiting on carbon recapture to solve climate change. We can, and must, do shit now but that requires inconvenient changes to out way of life. Instead we jump on half-baked bandwagons to tech ourselves out of a miserable future because we don’t want to be confronted with the idea that we might be wrong.

Wait 'til y’all learn the inhumane treatment of animals isn’t unique to the fur industry.