AnimalsDream

There's often a confusion between people who go "whole-food plant-based" for personal health reasons, and people who go vegan which is about animal's rights. Of course a person can want both too.

In any case, people who adopt more plant-centric diets do often see a reduction is bodyweight, but it's not guaranteed. As the pic up top shows, it can still be very easy to have an unhealthy lifestyle even if it is plant-based.

Pretty much. Recently got a device for Meshtastic, need to get around to playing with it. If I recall, SearX is an open-source search engine yeah? We should mod it to explicitly block the corpoweb as a whole and strictly favor results from foss and federated sources.

I ran into a similar issue, tho in my case I let the moderation slide because my deleted comment was admittedly harsh and inflammatory.

Still, we do need to start publicly calling out the presence of what is a clique of suspiciously dedicated anti-vegan users. Sorry, but if you're that obsessive and committed to derailing and (in the case of complicit mods) silencing the voices of people who are just trying to persuade the world to be a less violent place - then you either must have a financial/material conflict of interest that veganism threatens - or your life is just very, very sad.

An anonymous person has claimed that the meat industry paid them and others to discredit veganism online.

The person revealed this information within an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) post – effectively a virtual, real-time Q-and-A – on Reddit at the end of November.

The anonymous person said that an unspecified US-based meat industry trade group paid them USD $17 per hour for a year to “go on sites” and “discredit veganism.”

https://plantbasednews.org/news/meat-industry-paid-to-discredit-veganism/

I have two, they are flexible, and I find them obnoxious to have to use. I specifically chose my current phone because it has a headphone jack, and I won't make the mistake of missing that again.

It makes no sense to say it's for a very small segment when we weren't given the choice in the first place.

No, bluetooth is not great. Just because you don't use something doesn't mean other people are like you.

Phone makers need to understand that a missing headphone jack is a dealbreaker.

Tho it wouldn't be if companies would at least put two usb ports on the devices. I'd be fine using usb wired earbuds as long as I don't have to give my phone one of those dumb splitter tails.

I think tofu is just an acquired taste. When I first started cooking it, I did all the things. Pressing, freezing then thawing, brines, breading, sauces, air frying, etc.

But the more eating it became habit, the less all that stuff mattered. When I'm preparing it now, I usually take it out of the package and immediately crush it with my hands into rough chunks into whatever I'm cooking. I actively crave the stuff enough that I will pretty much always eat a raw chunk as I'm crumbling it.

In a sense they're not wrong, but it depends on what is actually happening, and what the person's attitude is. It's good to pursue a lifestyle that's increasingly less dependent on animal products, even if imperfect. But is an actual progression occurring? It can often be the case, especially with dietary things, that a person will do something they believe is good once, and then treat themselves with a "cheat" day three times to that one good choice.

My change didn't happen overnight. But I approached it the same way that I did when I quit smoking: I kept track of how long I went without eating animal products. When I messed up and caved in, I would start over at 0 the very next day, and resolve to go even more days without animal products than I had done on the previous attempt.

One of the larger barriers I had to break through was an anxiety about nutrition. By that point I had a pretty firm grasp of nutritional science already, and knew that people can get all of their nutrients from plants. Consciously I knew better. But unconsciously there was still this wild fear as to whether or not I could keep living on plants only. It felt dangerous. I was going up against a lifetime of propaganda.

The last time I intentionally ate meat was some pepperoni. At that point I had gotten so used to living on plants that it didn't taste the same anymore. For one, it turned out at least for me, that after being without meat for long enough, it didn't smell the same anymore. The odor became more rotten. It didn't and doesn't matter how fresh the meat is, it all smells like putrefying carcass now. That was one thing that made the pepperoni taste off. The other was that apparently I had gotten used to having less salt in my diet, because it was a completely overpowering, disgusting salt bomb.

And something had clicked in my head by that point. As I was eating it I kept thinking, "Why am I doing this? I'm not even enjoying it. I don't need it. This isn't right." So I stopped eating it, and I haven't felt the need to consume any animal body parts ever again.

Anyway, I think where things become frustrating depends on how a person is framing their habits. If it's something like, "I'm trying, I am working on doing better," then it's understandable. But if it sounds more like the person is trying to justify eating animals or their products, and they're either talking about it in a way where they're trying to seek validation or using "militant vegans" as a strawman to criticise (see: the majority of the comments here) - that kind of makes it hard to remain diplomatic.

In cases like the latter, why are you so preoccupied with what other people think? It's not about vegans, it's about the animals. Going vegan requires going against an immense tide of social pressure, and that burden will never go away. You need to learn to think for yourself. Because when you do, you can look more objectively at how humankind treats every other species of sentient being on the planet and use your own internal moral compass to finally recognize what's right in front of your face: it is wrong to eat them. It is wrong to exploit them. What happens in factory farms and slaughterhouses is horrific. And it can never stop until we stop supporting it.

It's a hard conversation because y'all are demanding we tiptoe around a vast injustice that is urgent and actively resulting in the extreme suffering and deaths of billions every year. That's not even getting into the other issues like health problems, environmental destruction, and pandemic and zoonotic disease potential.

I always go back to Debian. It's the spiral. Even bought a t-shirt.

Ooops, I misread your comment. Looks like we just agree.

Dude, I was there and this is not true. Ps3 is what pushed me to opt for HD, and 90% of the time I spent on that system was in HD. That shift happened everywhere very quickly, especially by the time Skyrim came out - the text of which is damn near unreadable on a CRT.

If anything ps3 was the point where they started designing with HD in mind. You want ps2 and lower. So for one example, the textures in Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast version) result in a pseudo-3D effect on a CRT, but become noticeably flattened on an HD display.

You could also give the famous Symphony of the Night a try, and see if the art really does match that example picture. Really anything ps1 era, and SNES as well.

Hey MTG, if you've got evidence, maybe get that shit leaking. Leaders need to start talking more seriously about treason charges, because that is what this is.

I hate trucks in particular, and cars, and am re-dedicated to a car-free lifestyle since it's easier than ever with my current work commute. That said, having lived in a heavy winter rural midwest area and trying for years to be car-free there, I hit a breaking point in my situation at the time, and learned that a reasonably sized truck is actually the appropriate tool for such inhospitable tundras.

But again, fuck cars.

Hypothetically it should have. Those were additional fields that I added to the main account login entree, in order to keep all the relevant data in one place.

No but your files are not stored as text files. That’s not what you’re paying for. You’re paying for the development of the software used to create, store and fill them at the appropriate times and places. If you don’t care about that, just keep them stored as text files on your computer. Boom, problem solved.

But you say just below this that I never paid for anything in the first place? In any case, whether paid or not, they still have to compete with other options including free ones like Keepass. Why would I pay for Proton over the free Keepass if Proton is basically ransomware?

You keep using that phrase. You are not “paying more” because you never paid anything in the first place.

Untrue. I was paying for it, and they required that I pay even more just to access the data that their system allowed me to enter.

If you think Reddit is the only place that’s going to call you out for being a choosy beggar, you’re in for a surprise.

You rn:

Wow, you are really full of shit. Stop wasting my time.

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Anyone else about ready to give up on the internet?

Banned for pointing out anti-vegan trolls past behaviour

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MTG defends protester shot by DHS and says people need to lose their ‘blinders’: ‘You are all being incited into civil war’

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Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.