Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Silver]

We finally found the trash compactor. xD

[Joods]

Lol you crack me up.

[Fireball]

CIJS,

There doesn't seem to be any dumpsters within the apartment complex.  What the heck are we supposed to do with our garbage?

I had an apartment in Pocatello, Idaho, where we put the trash in a basket in a cabinet which locked from the inside and was able to be opened from the hallway. The trash collectors actually came into the building and emptied them for you. Never seen that anywhere else.

[Joods]

Some highrises have trash chutes that go to the underground level and get dealt with there.

[Succubus]

CIJS,

There doesn't seem to be any dumpsters within the apartment complex.  What the heck are we supposed to do with our garbage?

Us smart British folk have a system for getting rid of shite, we sell it. Our car boot sale is admired throughout the civilised world. Load up the car with surplus to requirements valuable household items tat and drive along to some field or pub car park where you will find an endless stream of mugs prepared to swap money for broken toasters and CD player head cleaning disks.
Curiously the system doesen't actually reduce the amount of garbage in the world as most of it is recycled the following week at different locals.

[Seraphina]

It was just a trip and stumble, really. Falling forward with my arms splayed out shocked me back upright. I've smoothed out my clothes and I'm on my way.
You were saying?

-Teresa

[brewer]

It was just a trip and stumble, really. Falling forward with my arms splayed out shocked me back upright. I've smoothed out my clothes and I'm on my way.
You were saying?

-Teresa

Yeah, sure, that's how I broke my arm. Learn to tuck and roll.

[Aegon]

You think there are pro-life vegetarians who eat eggs?

I just had this thought and didn't know where to put it so I chose here.

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't consider insentient beings to be alive in quite the same way. I don't think 'alive' is quite a synonym for merely biological. All sentient beings are biological (so far), but not necessarily all biological beings are sentient.

I mean, ferns and grass and algae are biological... but I wouldn't call them alive.

I've thought about this all before

I don't have anything better to do really lol. I don't get out much lol.

I wouldn't even call fish alive. They're just like little biological robots that taste nice.

I think octopuses/octopi (apparently both are the correct plural so I'll just use both) are likely to be alive though.

Here's more info on the minds of octopuses/octopi:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...ephalopods

Here's just a short sample of that article:

Half a billion neurons put octopuses close to the range of dogs and their brains are large relative to their size, both of which offer biologists a rough guide to brainpower

In captivity, they have learned to navigate simple mazes, solve puzzles and open screw-top jars, while wild animals have been observed stacking rocks to protect the entrances to their dens, and hiding themselves inside coconut shell halves.

Their great escapes from captivity, too, reflect an awareness of their special circumstances and their ability to adapt to them. A 2010 experiment confirmed anecdotal reports that cephalopods are able to recognise – and like or dislike – individual humans, even those that are dressed identically.

I also find this part interesting:

Our last common ancestor existed 600 million years ago and was thought to resemble a flattened worm, perhaps only millimetres long. Yet somewhere along the line, cephalopods developed high-resolution, camera eyes – as did we, entirely independently.

[Aegon]

I mean, yeah, chickens are dumb. But they feel pain, fear and stress, which is enough to make a moral argument against consuming them.