careful, you can get lost in these stories they are kind of a train wreck. the worst one I’ve read about so far was (cw: torture) the attackers who tortured a guy for an hour with a heavy drill and made his four-year-old daughter watch

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    Online/offline is probably fine enough if “real” is too dated, which it probably is. To me, reducing life itself to “meat” is both reductionist and sort of :im-vegan: hostile at the same time, kind of grotesque and diminishing with the implication that an internet connection magically makes things enlightened and transcendent by comparison.

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      The “meat” refers to the things that humans are made of and has nothing to do with :im-vegan: people unless they’ve developed cell walls and chloroplasts recently. Online/offline are adjectives to describe state, not the places themselves.