Think they condemned the Union side of the American Civil War or the Independence War too? US side of the Vietnam War since the US attacked first? US side of the Iraq War sinc--I mean you get what I'm saying right?
I wonder if it has something to do with surface exposure to magnetic fields. A very strong magnetic field, enough to levitate a train, zipping by you at the speed of said train, while not harmful to human biology unlike a lot of fear mongerers claim, can interfere with radio antennas and the navigation systems on ships and aircraft. The inside of the train is heavily shielded but I imagine it's pretty much impossible to prevent it from escaping into the outside without containing the entire track in shielding.
Just like how Nazism isn't "white supremacist" but a single very narrow white ethnicity supremacist, Zionism isn't about all Jews but a single ethnicity/subgroup of Jews. Israel has committed numerous documented atrocities against other Jews.
The "Xi got butthurt and banned all of Winnie the Pooh in China" thing is mind numbingly easy to disprove. Just search the phrase on literally any Chinese internet service. If they still spout that claim, they've obviously not done even one minute of research or fact checking and are so clearly just blindly regurgitating propaganda (which they also accuse people who support China of doing, funny how that works) that all of their opinions on China can be safely ignored.
You know what I did when I first heard that claim? I went straight to Baidu and searched up Winnie the Pooh, in English even, and surprise surprise it returned results like any other search engine. And this was when I was still a liberal who didn't like China.
I'm not a huge fan of the OCP personally (and it's been repealed so I guess they're not a huge fan either now) but I need to give a piece of context that I never see talked about in the West: Ethnic minorities in China are totally exempted from it from day one. This includes Uyghurs and Tibetans. It's pretty much only for Han people which is the majority in China. Make of that how you want but if they created it as an ethnic cleansing tool like so many Westerns claim, they were really really bad at ethnic cleansing.
Ah yes! This is actually a big part of the story I have for this world and plays a huge part in its recent developments and plot-relevant history!
Dietary enzyme supplements are taken by all predator animals, so that they can eat plant based food instead of the flesh of their comrades. There are different formulations for different species, but generally they get more complex and with more advanced biochemistry the closer you get to the obligate carnivores, or the animals that have evolved to only eat meat.
If dietary enzymes don't work for you, there are other options like nutrient fortified foods and plant-based meat replacements, as well as direct nutrient supplements. Kind of like Beyond Meat or vegan cat food we have today.
They also have something called "synthetic meat" that is essentially a generalized animal tissue with the exact same proteins, fats, vitamins, and other nutrients found in natural meat, but all synthesized artificially and minus the cellular structure. Resembles something like pâté. Though, it's not that common as it's difficult and inefficient to produce (a protein synthesizer makes enough artificial meat for one animal in the same time it takes to make enough enzyme supplement for over a hundred animals, simply because you only need a small amount of enzyme to produce a large amount of usable nutrients in the body, and protein synthesizers are complex and expensive machines to run), and is only really used by carnivores who due to medical conditions cannot take any nutrient or enzyme supplements, it's a fallback because it basically is chemically identical to meat.
There are no non-sapient animals because I really hate cop-outs of "oh well we'll just eat the designated food animals then!" Zootopia did this with fish (implied), and Lion King did this with bugs. Even as a kid I found the the way that something like Lion King where they basically said "don't eat us but here, eat these bugs, they're obviously lower tier animals and nobody cares about them," to be really hypocritical coming from an animal that is trying to convince their natural predator not to eat them. I really wanted to directly confront the entire concept of predation so every animal is sapient to roughly the same extent even though I only regularly feature a small subset of the animal kingdom. Also, I wanted the opportunity to have any animal as characters and not limit myself in that way.
However, even if there were non-sapient animals or one of our animals suddenly appeared in their world, yes the law would still protect them. Their main anti-predation treaty makes no distinction between any animal, which was the point because past attempts to limit predation did make distinctions based on species.
More lore if you're interested: I had actually developed this idea for a hypothetical in my world of what if a regular non-intelligent animal somehow found their way there? Like if a cat from our world to their, right in the middle of Feline territory? It hasn't happened in my plot yet, but it's a thought experiment/ethical delima type question that does exist in-universe.
Well, Felines in their time are Unitist (anti-predation) and interact very amicably with many other species, including their former prey, if a non-sapient cat lands in a densely populated area there will be a lot of prey animals like mice, birds, etc just milling around, not really caring there's a cat around because they've not had to worry about being hunted by cats. But to the our-world cat, they would be easy prey and it'll probably pounce, a small critter or two will get eaten before the authorities get called the the is arrested and indicted by the Feline government.
But this is also when they start acting funny, obviously, since the other cats have human level intelligence while this is just a cat, so they'll do a brain scan and a DNA test, and realize that this is one of the proto-cats before they evolved and is not, sapient, basically. They wouldn't be able to convict them for predation or any other crime because their whole peace treaty and legislation between predator and prey is predicated on the fact that intelligence/sapience can allow an animal's brain to shut down natural hunting instincts and give them control over and responsibility for their actions with other animals. But a non-sapient cat can't do that, so by their philosophy, it would be both unreasonable and unethical to punish them for it.
But they can't really let the cat out in public since it would be a danger to prey animals, and they also can't just abandon a cat like this, they still have rights, so the government basically assigns doctors and caretakers to essentially raise it like an indoor cat in our world, giving it all the enrichment and cat to cat interactions it needs in a controlled environment away from prey. Since they already have the technology to seamlessly convert obligate carnivores to plant based foods so no problem there, they would just feed it plant based food like what the rest of the cats in their world typically eat, would still be fully nutritionally complete and healthy all things considered. The scientists in this world would be most likely be allowed to collect non-invasive data on the individual though (mainly just observations and maybe some tests that do not cause undue stress on the cat in question) since it does also present a massive opportunity to learn about their evolutionary history.
I would say generally no, they do engage in plant (and fungi) agriculture and it's pretty much the only things they eat other than the small amount of nutrients directly synthesized from abiotic chemicals. They also live on and inside trees and do a ton of forest management in the same way we do urban planning. However, they do a way better job of taking care of their environment than humans do though, and for all intents are purposes are considered sustainable.
They may also not be that far from Star Trek esque replicator technology, but that is something I explore in my plot and won't be happening in the near future.
also did ALL animals just gain sapience at the same time? feel like if one species gained sapience before the rest they inevitable would’ve established some sort of ‘specie’ supremacy and rule over the others.
There are three major things that I kind of handwave/leave ambiguous in this world: Why every animal is sapient and can all cross communicate, the fact that they all have roughly human scale lifespans, and that they have a lot better control of their reproduction rates since prey species aren't being eaten yet haven't gotten severely overpopulated. I have been experimenting with various other explanations for this, maybe they just naturally evolved this, but my more favored possibility is that the humans were experimenting with modifying animals to be sapient, with a longer lifespan and generally more human-like with a gene-editing retrovirus. When the humans evacuated or went extinct the virus got out and eventually infected every animal, giving them all sapience and a long lifespan. Maybe just out of curiosity as to whether an animal like a cat or mouse can gain these traits, or maybe, they knew that their time on Earth was coming to an end, and passed on the gift of sapience to the animals so that maybe they can start a better and longer lasting society than humanity, so the Earth can have another chance at complex intelligent life. I talk more about it here. (Reddit link)
Also, the humans left plenty of ruins and plenty of things containing information that the animals uncovered and eventually deciphered, giving them a head start on the knowledge required to develop technology but also causing them to adopt a lot of the standards that humans have developed. It's already there, it's already been well thought out, why not just use it? It's how I explain why they're a non-human society using things like meters, kilograms, a 24 hour day, and other human constructs. They generally have a lot of similar values and philosophies that various human societies happen to have.
also how is production organized? is there a state or is this is a post-communism society?
There is a state, something I modeled after socialism, something between the PRC, Cuba, and Star Trek at least for the Unitist side of things which is what my plot focuses on. Basically, almost all major industries are either state-owned, or worker co-ops with state oversight, and they're at a state of technology where most essential things like food, housing and transportation are free at the point of use and provided by the government. There aren't really any private businesses to speak of, it's nearly all collectivized.
Thank you! I'd honestly love to raise awareness for autism while meeting other autists. Will probably post more about my experiences under this account since it's far enough removed from my personal life that I feel comfortable doing so as long as I'm careful. Definitely need to do more research and weigh my options and ideally get more than one opinion for my real life diagnosis.
That's the norm unfortunately. Immigration is not about the person immigrating, it's about if you're useful to the country. It's also the norm that typically the only real way to be let in on a work permit long term is if they specifically need people in your field (usually highly skilled white collar work and/or jobs that they have trouble filling locally). Speaking from experience as someone that immigrated as a young child from China to Canada with parents that got in through this exact route. There's a reason developing countries are experiencing brain drains, where do you think they're going? Too often do I wonder if our lives would be better if we stayed in China since we're not exactly doing superb over here, but I'm already a Canadian citizen, went through all of high school and university here, barely know how to read and write Chinese and am pretty far removed from the culture back there, so that ship has sailed.
Even though those same countries you mentioned literally frame their immigration programs as "look how much we're doing for those poor people in third world (sic) countries! we're such bastions of niceness and human rights!"
Honestly the economic situation in Canada definitely does not help. It's hard enough for a neurotypical person here to live a good life it seems. I know for a fact that the uncertainty of my future here has aggravated my anxiety disorder (diagnosed, medicated which does help at least to prevent panic attacks, but frankly I don't even know how much is actually anxiety "disorder" and how much is actual reasonable fear for how I'll survive). Probably interacts negatively with my possible autism too.
Interesting. Thanks for your perspective!
Just curious, what were you disappointed about?
Think they condemned the Union side of the American Civil War or the Independence War too? US side of the Vietnam War since the US attacked first? US side of the Iraq War sinc--I mean you get what I'm saying right?
Highly recommend reading the Red Deal, which is written by Indigenous socialists on what they think decolonisation should entail.
I wonder if it has something to do with surface exposure to magnetic fields. A very strong magnetic field, enough to levitate a train, zipping by you at the speed of said train, while not harmful to human biology unlike a lot of fear mongerers claim, can interfere with radio antennas and the navigation systems on ships and aircraft. The inside of the train is heavily shielded but I imagine it's pretty much impossible to prevent it from escaping into the outside without containing the entire track in shielding.
The issue is that the crimes he committed are legal in the US.
That genuinely got me for a second before I clicked on the video lol. I was like "Wait what? Why would Warrior Cats release a statement about Assad?"
Greetings comrade!
That's the American version
Just like how Nazism isn't "white supremacist" but a single very narrow white ethnicity supremacist, Zionism isn't about all Jews but a single ethnicity/subgroup of Jews. Israel has committed numerous documented atrocities against other Jews.
The "Xi got butthurt and banned all of Winnie the Pooh in China" thing is mind numbingly easy to disprove. Just search the phrase on literally any Chinese internet service. If they still spout that claim, they've obviously not done even one minute of research or fact checking and are so clearly just blindly regurgitating propaganda (which they also accuse people who support China of doing, funny how that works) that all of their opinions on China can be safely ignored.
You know what I did when I first heard that claim? I went straight to Baidu and searched up Winnie the Pooh, in English even, and surprise surprise it returned results like any other search engine. And this was when I was still a liberal who didn't like China.
I'm not a huge fan of the OCP personally (and it's been repealed so I guess they're not a huge fan either now) but I need to give a piece of context that I never see talked about in the West: Ethnic minorities in China are totally exempted from it from day one. This includes Uyghurs and Tibetans. It's pretty much only for Han people which is the majority in China. Make of that how you want but if they created it as an ethnic cleansing tool like so many Westerns claim, they were really really bad at ethnic cleansing.
Thank you!
Ah yes! This is actually a big part of the story I have for this world and plays a huge part in its recent developments and plot-relevant history!
Dietary enzyme supplements are taken by all predator animals, so that they can eat plant based food instead of the flesh of their comrades. There are different formulations for different species, but generally they get more complex and with more advanced biochemistry the closer you get to the obligate carnivores, or the animals that have evolved to only eat meat.
If dietary enzymes don't work for you, there are other options like nutrient fortified foods and plant-based meat replacements, as well as direct nutrient supplements. Kind of like Beyond Meat or vegan cat food we have today.
They also have something called "synthetic meat" that is essentially a generalized animal tissue with the exact same proteins, fats, vitamins, and other nutrients found in natural meat, but all synthesized artificially and minus the cellular structure. Resembles something like pâté. Though, it's not that common as it's difficult and inefficient to produce (a protein synthesizer makes enough artificial meat for one animal in the same time it takes to make enough enzyme supplement for over a hundred animals, simply because you only need a small amount of enzyme to produce a large amount of usable nutrients in the body, and protein synthesizers are complex and expensive machines to run), and is only really used by carnivores who due to medical conditions cannot take any nutrient or enzyme supplements, it's a fallback because it basically is chemically identical to meat.
Fair enough!
There are no non-sapient animals because I really hate cop-outs of "oh well we'll just eat the designated food animals then!" Zootopia did this with fish (implied), and Lion King did this with bugs. Even as a kid I found the the way that something like Lion King where they basically said "don't eat us but here, eat these bugs, they're obviously lower tier animals and nobody cares about them," to be really hypocritical coming from an animal that is trying to convince their natural predator not to eat them. I really wanted to directly confront the entire concept of predation so every animal is sapient to roughly the same extent even though I only regularly feature a small subset of the animal kingdom. Also, I wanted the opportunity to have any animal as characters and not limit myself in that way.
However, even if there were non-sapient animals or one of our animals suddenly appeared in their world, yes the law would still protect them. Their main anti-predation treaty makes no distinction between any animal, which was the point because past attempts to limit predation did make distinctions based on species.
More lore if you're interested: I had actually developed this idea for a hypothetical in my world of what if a regular non-intelligent animal somehow found their way there? Like if a cat from our world to their, right in the middle of Feline territory? It hasn't happened in my plot yet, but it's a thought experiment/ethical delima type question that does exist in-universe.
Well, Felines in their time are Unitist (anti-predation) and interact very amicably with many other species, including their former prey, if a non-sapient cat lands in a densely populated area there will be a lot of prey animals like mice, birds, etc just milling around, not really caring there's a cat around because they've not had to worry about being hunted by cats. But to the our-world cat, they would be easy prey and it'll probably pounce, a small critter or two will get eaten before the authorities get called the the is arrested and indicted by the Feline government.
But this is also when they start acting funny, obviously, since the other cats have human level intelligence while this is just a cat, so they'll do a brain scan and a DNA test, and realize that this is one of the proto-cats before they evolved and is not, sapient, basically. They wouldn't be able to convict them for predation or any other crime because their whole peace treaty and legislation between predator and prey is predicated on the fact that intelligence/sapience can allow an animal's brain to shut down natural hunting instincts and give them control over and responsibility for their actions with other animals. But a non-sapient cat can't do that, so by their philosophy, it would be both unreasonable and unethical to punish them for it.
But they can't really let the cat out in public since it would be a danger to prey animals, and they also can't just abandon a cat like this, they still have rights, so the government basically assigns doctors and caretakers to essentially raise it like an indoor cat in our world, giving it all the enrichment and cat to cat interactions it needs in a controlled environment away from prey. Since they already have the technology to seamlessly convert obligate carnivores to plant based foods so no problem there, they would just feed it plant based food like what the rest of the cats in their world typically eat, would still be fully nutritionally complete and healthy all things considered. The scientists in this world would be most likely be allowed to collect non-invasive data on the individual though (mainly just observations and maybe some tests that do not cause undue stress on the cat in question) since it does also present a massive opportunity to learn about their evolutionary history.
I would say generally no, they do engage in plant (and fungi) agriculture and it's pretty much the only things they eat other than the small amount of nutrients directly synthesized from abiotic chemicals. They also live on and inside trees and do a ton of forest management in the same way we do urban planning. However, they do a way better job of taking care of their environment than humans do though, and for all intents are purposes are considered sustainable.
They may also not be that far from Star Trek esque replicator technology, but that is something I explore in my plot and won't be happening in the near future.
There are three major things that I kind of handwave/leave ambiguous in this world: Why every animal is sapient and can all cross communicate, the fact that they all have roughly human scale lifespans, and that they have a lot better control of their reproduction rates since prey species aren't being eaten yet haven't gotten severely overpopulated. I have been experimenting with various other explanations for this, maybe they just naturally evolved this, but my more favored possibility is that the humans were experimenting with modifying animals to be sapient, with a longer lifespan and generally more human-like with a gene-editing retrovirus. When the humans evacuated or went extinct the virus got out and eventually infected every animal, giving them all sapience and a long lifespan. Maybe just out of curiosity as to whether an animal like a cat or mouse can gain these traits, or maybe, they knew that their time on Earth was coming to an end, and passed on the gift of sapience to the animals so that maybe they can start a better and longer lasting society than humanity, so the Earth can have another chance at complex intelligent life. I talk more about it here. (Reddit link)
Also, the humans left plenty of ruins and plenty of things containing information that the animals uncovered and eventually deciphered, giving them a head start on the knowledge required to develop technology but also causing them to adopt a lot of the standards that humans have developed. It's already there, it's already been well thought out, why not just use it? It's how I explain why they're a non-human society using things like meters, kilograms, a 24 hour day, and other human constructs. They generally have a lot of similar values and philosophies that various human societies happen to have.
There is a state, something I modeled after socialism, something between the PRC, Cuba, and Star Trek at least for the Unitist side of things which is what my plot focuses on. Basically, almost all major industries are either state-owned, or worker co-ops with state oversight, and they're at a state of technology where most essential things like food, housing and transportation are free at the point of use and provided by the government. There aren't really any private businesses to speak of, it's nearly all collectivized.
Thank you! I'd honestly love to raise awareness for autism while meeting other autists. Will probably post more about my experiences under this account since it's far enough removed from my personal life that I feel comfortable doing so as long as I'm careful. Definitely need to do more research and weigh my options and ideally get more than one opinion for my real life diagnosis.
That's the norm unfortunately. Immigration is not about the person immigrating, it's about if you're useful to the country. It's also the norm that typically the only real way to be let in on a work permit long term is if they specifically need people in your field (usually highly skilled white collar work and/or jobs that they have trouble filling locally). Speaking from experience as someone that immigrated as a young child from China to Canada with parents that got in through this exact route. There's a reason developing countries are experiencing brain drains, where do you think they're going? Too often do I wonder if our lives would be better if we stayed in China since we're not exactly doing superb over here, but I'm already a Canadian citizen, went through all of high school and university here, barely know how to read and write Chinese and am pretty far removed from the culture back there, so that ship has sailed.
Even though those same countries you mentioned literally frame their immigration programs as "look how much we're doing for those poor people in third world (sic) countries! we're such bastions of niceness and human rights!"
Honestly the economic situation in Canada definitely does not help. It's hard enough for a neurotypical person here to live a good life it seems. I know for a fact that the uncertainty of my future here has aggravated my anxiety disorder (diagnosed, medicated which does help at least to prevent panic attacks, but frankly I don't even know how much is actually anxiety "disorder" and how much is actual reasonable fear for how I'll survive). Probably interacts negatively with my possible autism too.