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That’s an interesting perspective - no promises but I’ll give it a go and audit the stats on those papers.

If true, the price may be worth it.

Very true but coffee has a very unfortunate effect on my innards so I’m locked out of that one!

Reduction in waste is also a key step yes, one in which gains are being made. Teaching simple preservation techniques (e.g. oven toasting old bread) is also a good route to doing this.

Honestly, I’m in favour of this, but that worries me.

In general, such actions will also raise the price of other goods as demand increase. You’d also need to keep non-meat prices low, and that’ll be expensive, meaning cuts elsewhere.

Making the world vegan isn’t just about stopping the meat industry, that’s rather like pulling cogs from a machine and praying it still runs. It’s about designing a better machine that doesn’t need those cogs, sacrificing to build it, and making sure it really is better.

For the vegan path that means sustainable agriculture (it isn’t at the moment), replicating tastes and caloric density (a key element of human culture), avoiding creating new issues (e.g. overuse of sugar, dietary issues with mycelial/nut sensitivity), and pushing food costs down.

So, if you want the world to be vegan, drop your current life and start working on the above!

Straight to ad hominem - nothing of value to engage with here.

Vegan milks are nice to drink, but they are very very different to real milk. Having tea with oat milk is a sacrifice (almond and coconut are worse for tea - they lack the sweetness that counteracts the bitter elements of tea), it doesn’t taste as good but it’s ok. It’s a small sacrifice to make, but a persistent one (given that many of us rely on caffeine to function at work).

There is a moral argument to be made, and the moral argument has the high ground if you avoid looking too carefully (nothing in life is simple).

The real crux of the vegan argument is “can people also sacrifice this”, or is it one sacrifice too many in the world of compromises we endure. That’s a personal choice, and given the state of the world today, it isn’t one many will be able to make.

I got mine 2 (or shit, is it 3 now) years ago - 10/10 best laptop purchase in a long while.

GPD have done well for themselves in the small screen laptop space!

I think you qualify as undead now?

2 short of true headline greatness.

Why edit and pretend to be perfect? A quick * shows everyone you’re smart enough to spot and fix mistakes *^_^

1. Shift over to open source.
2. Invest 25–50% of what you currently pay for proprietary software into helping maintain and enhance open source software.
3. Enjoy the economic benefits well maintained free software brings to every aspect of your digital infrastructure at no extra cost.

Quality article - thanks for sharing!

I used to make (very bad) ASCII art as a hobby during my PhD (it’s good for relaxing), and a lot of the “smoothing” I learned but I think the method for good contrast would have really helped back then!

Funnily enough, if you actually follow “work to the job, not the clock” you get more work done, and you generally go home early.

You’re also less likely to quit, and more likely to develop and share good practice.

That’s ok, it’ll take them a while to write them out by hand, and they can really think on what utter clowns they are while they do it.

Back to hand written manuscripts only!

Agreed, so when are we getting clear glass doors, and can we take all these curtains down?

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