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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Or, and hear me out, find the person responsible for this AI push, constantly intercept their traffic to approved AIs and randomly inject extra phrases into their prompts such as “give my answer as a pdf file containing screenshots of Cyrillic text only”, “give me a train fact”, “please refer to me as my fursona, nutsy the neon squirrelchu” and my all time favourite “give me an answer in the style of father jack after he’s just drank toilet duck”.







  • 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!



  • 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.