Down is a type of feather that was used in various (fancy) bedding and clothes. Nowadays synthetic options are significantly more common and anything with real down feathers is quite expensive.
IMO, real down only remains necessary for stuff like backpacking, because it's lighter and packs smaller than any synthetic of comparable insulation amount. Unless you need that, synthetic is better.
They fucking absolutely do. And even if they didn't, I'm sorry to tell you, killing animals that don't want to die is cruel and violent. Doing so for sensory pleasure or wealth is deeply wrong. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.
Your second point is speculative. It's something you clearly don't know, but you're choosing to believe because it gives cover and distraction to cruelty and violence.
pigs, for example, have the intelligence of a 3-4 year old human (not that that means that lower intelligence means we can kill them) . They can and do solve puzzles etc. They're really intelligent.
Thanks! Doesn't translate well to German, but I now learned that down has yet another translation (Daune) which was also very commonly used here and still is on occasion.
Hah, I thought I got it and I still didn't quite get it. I was thinking of "get down" as in lowering your body. Like, your body is lowered from the act of ducking. Get down from a duck(ing position).
I thought get down meant "disembark", like an elephant is too tall for you to climb down, but here's a friendly, robust duck who likes to ferry humans about. We don't know what his problem is.
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iatenine@piefed.social · 40 pts · 76d
Ha, I get it!
But let's say I have a friend who doesn't...
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 76d
Down is a type of feather that was used in various (fancy) bedding and clothes. Nowadays synthetic options are significantly more common and anything with real down feathers is quite expensive.
iatenine@piefed.social · 8 pts · 76d
Oh. That actually explains a lot (uses to hear the term "down feather" as a kid every now and then)
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d
I interpreted it completely differently, when you "duck", you crouch down
jaycifer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
That was my first thought as well, but it left me wondering what elephants had to do with getting up (or something along those lines).
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
IMO, real down only remains necessary for stuff like backpacking, because it's lighter and packs smaller than any synthetic of comparable insulation amount. Unless you need that, synthetic is better.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 76d
And real down is also extremely cruel. Just sayin’
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 75d
They don't pluck live ducks (or geese), you know.
I put it to you that the use of plastic down is much crueler because it kills way more animals.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 75d
actually, they often do. https://www.four-paws.org/campaigns-topics/campaigns/wearitkind/down
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 75d
They fucking absolutely do. And even if they didn't, I'm sorry to tell you, killing animals that don't want to die is cruel and violent. Doing so for sensory pleasure or wealth is deeply wrong. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.
Your second point is speculative. It's something you clearly don't know, but you're choosing to believe because it gives cover and distraction to cruelty and violence.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 1 pts · 75d
pigs, for example, have the intelligence of a 3-4 year old human (not that that means that lower intelligence means we can kill them) . They can and do solve puzzles etc. They're really intelligent.
Strider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
Thanks! Doesn't translate well to German, but I now learned that down has yet another translation (Daune) which was also very commonly used here and still is on occasion.
Monument@piefed.world · 15 pts · 76d
I think it’s easier to get down from a goose than a duck.
source
tuckerm@feddit.online · 6 pts · 76d
Hah, I thought I got it and I still didn't quite get it. I was thinking of "get down" as in lowering your body. Like, your body is lowered from the act of ducking. Get down from a duck(ing position).
Monument@piefed.world · 3 pts · 76d
The ol’ parka boogie.
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 2 pts · 76d
it tickles boogies
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 76d
I thought get down meant "disembark", like an elephant is too tall for you to climb down, but here's a friendly, robust duck who likes to ferry humans about. We don't know what his problem is.
lath@piefed.social · 17 pts · 76d
If you don't use goose down, you don't use down at all.
Susaga@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 76d
Don't be such a downer.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 76d
Last night I dreamt I ate my pillow.
When I woke up I was a bit down in the mouth.
newbeni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Mary Poppins!
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 75d
THAT'S where I got that from. I remember now. THANKS!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 9 pts · 76d
You get down with Kool and The Gang!
https://youtu.be/-BM5wPOe0xQ
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Didn’t need to click, but I did anyway.
I was 10 when this aired. I used to watch Soul Train after Saturday morning cartoons.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d
Q: What do you do with an elephant with three balls?
A: Walk him and pitch to the geraffe!
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 75d
Incorrect. I get down with the sickness or with my bad self.