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I <3 my kindle

I got a kindle 😄😄

Another one of my dad’s recommendations. If my dad started a book club it would literally just be about WMDs.

Need Mr. Rosewater 😔

“He hypothecated an America in which almost all of the work was done by machines, and the only people who could get work had three or more Ph.D’s.” How prescient.

Yay for EMDR! 🥳

“When we talk about being forceful, nothing is more forceful than controlling every aspect of someone's life. Nothing is more forceful than taking someone's life from them. So when we compare veganism to non-veganism, while vegans might be passionate, maybe even judgmental, what is actually more forceful? Campaigning for veganism or exploiting sentient beings and ruining the planet in the process?”

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“Avoiding animal products can contribute to reducing the misery we inflict upon animals, to making more food—not less—available to feed a growing population, to saving the planet from catastrophic climate change, and to lessening the risk of another pandemic.”

“. . . it is likely that many birds [chickens] are not properly stunned. Some will have their throats cut while fully conscious, but others will also miss the blade. The conveyor belt then takes them into a tank of scalding water, intended to remove their feathers. Those birds that have not yet been stunned nor had their throats cut will die by drowning in scalding water.”

“Surely one day, though, our children’s children, reading about what was done in laboratories in our era, will feel the same sense of horror and incredulity at what otherwise civilized people could do that we now feel when we read about the atrocities of the Roman gladiatorial arenas or the eighteenth-century slave trade.”