lalo

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i can't get this Stargate Arduino code to work with my D1 mini

i am building a 3d printed Stargate with lights and sounds using a D1 mini and a DFPlayer mini. The code is from this github repo: (https://github.com/spradlinb/Stargate_3D). when i compile the code in the Arduino IDE i get a SPI error as depicted in the image. I've tried remapping the gpio pins with no success. what am i doing ...

lalo ,

Undo any code changes and try setting your board version and the libraries to the latest version they had when the code was uploaded (jan 28 2024). Usually this does the trick when trying to build older code for Arduino.

lalo ,

Just one thing: veganism is not about protecting animals, just not exploiting them needlessly.

Getting nutrition isn't 'going out of your way'. This is something you have to do no matter what. Veganism is just going 1 or 2 aisles over in the supermarket and fetching the alternative to the animal explotation. It's not like volunteering, protecting people’s rights, stopping climate policy rollbacks, scrolling social media, or even playing video games. It's just changing an action you daily take to another one with similar effort level.

lalo ,

But why don't YOU choose vegan ways?

lalo ,

By your semantics, someone who doesn't abuse children can say they protect children from abuse. If someone comes up to me and says "I protect children from abuse", I interpret that completely differently from "I don't abuse children".

The same could be said about boycotting companies that [are doing something]

If you truly are against doing something, can you support it while being against it?

Are you against needlessly exploiting animals?

lalo ,

If someone was kicking a dog to death in front of you and you could press a button to stop them with no repercussions to you, would you press it?

lalo ,

Besides beans, lentils and their multiple variants, there are peas, tempeh, nuts and seeds and their variants.

If you care about not needlessly exploiting animals, please consider just commiting in going vegan.

You can free recipes and free nutritional support from https://challenge22.com/.

They get you in a group of like-minded people that live near you to support you all in going vegan.

lalo ,

"a vegan is assumed to be a sanctimonious, hyper-sensitive liberal freak"

You could be a living counter-example to that perception, prove lots of people wrong and normalize being vegan in our society.

You can be vegan and do outreach. I've been doing outreach for about 6 months and got tens if not hundreds of people commiting to go vegan. There are lots of people that are compasionate towards animals and just don't know what they're supporting. That maximizes the impact and you don't have to say 'animal exploitation is bad' while partaking in it (i.e. being a hypocrite).

"I’d rather eat meat that’s already prepared than watch it go to waste"

If you're not waiting for the animal explotation product to be thrown out and are at the table consuming it, other people are creating the demand for this product in your name. If you're commonly having meals with this group, even if you wait until it gets thrown out, they'll make more knowing you will get the leftovers and the demand will increase specifically because of you.

lalo ,

Yes, these vegans are as irrational as people who refuse to eat human meat. "Ethical implications", or whatever irrational thing they say.

I just need one reason to do something: it feels good, that's how you know you're being rational.

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    lalo ,

    Why are you questioning the motivation behind someone trying to do a selfless act? An act that could even be described as altruistic. How does knowing OP's motivation helps you and OP convince their relative?

    I'm just asking questions so I can help you help OP.

    lalo ,

    Agreed, also recommend doing this completely in private so they don't feel like there may be other people listening to your offer.

    lalo ,

    because that informs strategies for helping

    I asked how so

    lalo ,

    Even with the "worst" motivation, why couldn't OP apply the "best" strategy towards helping?

    lalo ,

    Just use your interpretation of best when you said "better" advice in your original comment. Seems like the metric towards "best" is "more likely to actually help".

    Also, you can give a few example of motivations that would end up with the strategies most likely to actually work. Maybe OP didn't think of these motivations themselves, but they would adopt when you state them out loud for us.

    But coming back to my main point, I still don't see how the motivation could dictate strategies most likely to help.

    lalo ,

    On giving guesses: you could just give the strategy you think will be the most effective in helping and then pair the strategy with motivations if you think it's still necessary. That way you can really help OP be the most effective. If you don't do that, just sounds like you wanna critique and whine about OP's motivations.

    On the motivations behind the same actions having different consequences: you are correct, it really sounds like you've avoided the question. When people have read and understood books, they usually are able to bring the argument in themselves.

    Here I'll give you a simple counter-example of the exact same act with two different motivators and the same consequence:

    Person A wants to help and asks person B in some specific way: "Do you wanna learn how to read?" The result is: Person B answers yes.

    Person A wants to look good and asks person B in the same specific way: "Do you wanna learn how to read?". The result is: Person B answers yes.

    Even if the motivation behind the same exact act would change the consequences, you'd have to demonstrate that's true instead of vaguely pointing at literature.

    How to motivate people to be part of the change?

    Depending on your perspective and your environment, there might be a hopeless amount of bad things going on. Things like war, potential war, increasing income disparity, fascism, capitalism, big tech taking over, AI bubble, etc. etc.. So how does one pull out someone who is exposed to an unhealthy amount of negativity like this, ...

    lalo ,

    There are some people that low hanging fruits and are much more prone to change. These will be the ones who already agree with some basic aspect of the view your trying to show them. For example, say you're trying to show people veganism is the way to go. Then you try to outreach people who agree with the pillar of the idea: needlessly exploiting animals is wrong. If the person disagrees with the cornerstone of the idea you're trying to instill, is worthless to continue the conversation. There will be plenty more agreeable people.

    Investing your time on these targets will make much easier to change the Overton window and from there, with enough activists, some sort of snowball effect should start occurring. Like the civil rights movement or the suffragists in the US.

    lalo ,

    To expand a bit on stubbornness: as I've said in another comment, invest your time on people who agree with the basic idea of your position but disagree with the conclusion.

    When you go talk to those people, avoid telling your opinion. Use the Socratic method to make them walk step by step towards the conclusion (see this video, pay attention to how he poses open ended questions). This way, it's the interlocutor arriving at their own conclusion instead of you pushing your ideas on them.

    Keep in mind that whenever you start debating, you've lost the opportunity to make them see what you see. Debates are only useful if the target of your activism is someone listening to the debate.

    Something I have been Questioning, as A Vegan, Since I Started Eating More Processed & Salty & Sugarly Vegan Foods…

    If you turn Vegan, eating wise, & are strict (no cheating) about it, then you will eventually (if you started overweight-obese) will never be overweight-obese, for as long as maintain being a strict Vegan. ...

    lalo ,

    Can you rewrite the second paragraph? Currently, it's very hard to understand.

    lalo ,

    If I help some mentally handicapped homeless women with newborn children, do you think it's OK for me to milk these women since I'm helping them? Even if their milk taste the freshest?

    Veganism is about not exploiting animals when you don't have to.

    Even in your scenario, there can be cruelty involved: the hatcheries you get your chickens from also grind the day old male baby chicks. These genetically modified egg laying hens that put about 1 egg a day have a huge strain on their bodies compared to what their natural counterpart used to be (red jungle fowl), laying about 1 egg a month.

    But to reiterate, veganism is about not exploiting animals.

    lalo ,

    One thing is a system that depends on exploitation. These systems should be abolished, like exploiting animals for their flesh or secretions.

    Another completely different thing is a system that contains exploitation. These should be improved, like underpaid/overworked employees.

    There is no hypocrisy in that. It's not a dichotomy where you need to exploit either an animal or an human. Just go vegan and also advocate for human rights.

    lalo ,

    You say that as if migrant workers aren't exploited to make animal products.

    When you buy a meal, you have 2 options: contribute to animal exploitation (that probably contains human exploitation) or not.

    If you know which companies exploit humans, it's on you to denounce them publicly and not support them.

    Until you can name these companies so you know what to avoid, you can be sure that any animal product you get is the result of animal exploitation (and probably human as well).

    lalo ,

    Why not compare to home crops, then? If the person has resources to produce the animal feed (so they can ensure there are no humans being exploited, right?), they surely can grow crops to directly eat.

    lalo ,

    Until now you were arguing that buying plants would incur in human exploitation. But now that I've argued for the least exploitative scenario, you came up with 'responsibly sourced plant options at a reasonable price'.

    So now we can get plants without exploiting immigrants, right?

    Then there's no need to exploit animals, simple as that

    lalo ,

    I'll just summarize your points:

    • There's a way to get cheap and ethically sourced plants when they're destined for animals
    • There's no way to get cheap and ethically sourced plants when they're destined for humans

    You're missing that humans are also animals and we eat some of the same crops non-human animals eat. The human exploitation you're arguing against doesn't magically disappear from crops grown for animals.

    lalo ,

    Everybody knows that animal feed comes from magical farms that never exploit humans.

    Come on you vegan dummy, go get your B12 supplement. >!/s!<

    So funny how when 'vegan' is mentioned, everybody is a homesteader.

    lalo ,

    People feel they are 'doing enough already', which I really don't get. If you changed yourself after leaning that these animals have to die for you, why not change again?

    lalo ,

    !Nb6? Even if you meant Nb7 or Nb5, then black Rxg8+ followed by white's Rxg8+ is not mate in 2. I duplicated the ponies so it's easier to see, even in this position is not mate Position in question!<

    lalo ,

    How would that happen without public support? The public currently pays for these companies to keep doing what they're doing

    lalo ,

    "We likely can't stop child abuse but we can make it less cruel, let's just do it on less sentient children". What kind of crazy take is this article? "Dairy = medium bad" 🤮.

    This has nothing to do with veganism. Welfarism is exploitation with lipstick.

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    lalo ,

    When you see a pic of a child, do you also feel the urge to comment "I like tight pussy. I love sex"?

    lalo ,

    My most respect to activists that take direct action, but we should protect ourselves so we can have a continuing impact.

    This type of activism can be good because it makes the news, but if there's no follow up the impact is limited. Especially when the abusers get to push this narrative:

    Petaluma Poultry has said that DxE is an extremist group that is intent on destroying the animal agriculture industry.

    I hope she appeals and wins, condemning someone that was saving sick animals from being mistreated is crazy.

    lalo ,

    The jury decides on a verdict (guilty/not guilty) of the crimes they're being accused. If guilty, then the judge will define their sentence (usually following some guidelines) in between the minimum and maximum established by law.

    lalo ,

    Why do you state it's a contrary view? It's not like OP's article title is "The myth of the omnivore caveman".

    Unit 731 and the Stanford prison experiment helped us advance in our understanding of physiology and psychology, so what?

    lalo ,

    It's a common viewpoint among vegans that systems that depend on animal exploitation should be abolished. On the other hand, systems that contain animal exploitation should be improved.

    I'll give two examples with human animals so it can be clear:
    Slavery? Should be abolished.
    People getting ran over and killed by cars? We should improve that.

    lalo ,

    Animal manure as fertilizer in farming. We can use fertilizers that don't depend on animals to be made.

    lalo ,

    Do those crops depend on transportation of pollinators? To me it seems like they don't.

    By your own admission, there are natural pollinators. We can also manually pollinate them, which reinforces my point that systems that *contain* exploitation should be improved.

    lalo ,

    Oh honey, I have no idea

    lalo ,

    Thanks for conceding. Now to your new point: once the majority of people are vegan, we can focus on those systems that can be improved. Currently the majority does not even care about animal exploitation, so there's very little value in trying to change systems that don't depend on animal exploitation.

    Those two counter examples that I provided aren't all possibilities to replace open pollination. Surely experts in the field can come up with better solutions once this problem actually becomes a worry in the minds of the majority.

    lalo ,

    Lower density only means lower production of the usable land remains the same. Which would not be the case if the world became vegan: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

    lalo ,

    As I've said in the above comment, hand pollination is not the only alternative. Fixing this problem is a bridge we'll cross when most people are on board with veganism.

    lalo ,

    Cows need to be impregnated by introducing an arm in their anus and holding their cervix so they can introduce a rod with semen in their uterus.

    Male cows and chickens are useless to the industry so they usually get killed soon after birth.

    Chickens usually are kept in cages the size of an A4 paper, cows also usually are very badly treated in order to be milked. Check out https://3minutes.wtf/ so you can see that even what the industry calls the "best animal treatment" is still very inhumane.

    lalo ,

    Males are still killed at 1 day old.

    Domesticated chickens were bred to lay about 1 egg a day when their wild counterpart lay about 1 egg per month. That's a huge toll on their body.

    You seem to care and go out of your way to avoid needless suffering. Fortunately it's easy to stop supporting animal exploitation.

    lalo ,

    I thought that chocolate brand only had vegan dark chocolate, so cool to see that they found a milk substitute! Will try to find that cookies variation on the market.

    lalo ,

    I'm so used to not having these products that I'd probably be sitting on the toilet for a long while if I tried it, so it's a pass for me.
    I might open an exception if it's human breast milk, because I've never tried it as an adult.

    lalo ,

    There's already a scaled sort, that will boost the ranking of communities you follow ;). I hated (not) seeing downvoted posts on vegan communities.

    lalo OP ,

    There's nothing stopping a malicious user from doing that right now. Be aware that anyone who wants can already see your votes.