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Soulcreator

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  • 75% of Americans oppose US attempting to take control of Greenland, CNN poll finds

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  • One interesting point in the article you posted rather than OP's is that according to Ipsos only 17% of Americans approve of taking Greenland. I have no clue what the truth is but that number 'feels' a little more accurate.

    In short that would mean 17% of Americans are ride or die MAGA which sadly is a believable number.

  • ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale

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  • You sure about that? Ethan Peck is four years older than Nimoy was when he started to play Spock. The current iteration of Spock only feels younger because Ethan clearly has a good skincare routine.

  • "vegetarian, but not vegan" progresso soup can

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  • I feel like if you put something like that on a package you should probably give some kind of indication as to why it's not vegan. Like maybe for clarity in parenthesis next to the item "natural and artificial flavorings (not vegan)"

  • Why do you personally hate Christmas?

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  • Christmas at it's heart is a religious holiday, it deeply bothers me, to be immersed in Christian family values for what now seems to almost two months out of the year.

    I've never been a member of the Judeo-Christian faiths, I didn't have a particularly good upbringing so I'm not really close with my family. I'm addition I don't have children and I have zero plans on becoming a parent. So in short, this holiday is not for me.

    Then to add insult to injury and you have the blatant consumerism. Where you are forced to be a good capitalist and spend money on gifts you can't afford to buy gifts people for don't really want it. Yay.

    Edit: After scrolling I was reminded of the music. Holy fuck is the music bad. It amazes me that there are people out there who will happily and VOLUNTARILY put this drek on. As a listener of hard rock and metal holy crap does the music set me off.

  • Everything went from kinda expensive to really expensive.

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  • You do know that not everyone is looking for a caffeine fix and there are people out there who do not drink coffee or tea, right?

  • what are you saving up for

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  • Hypothetical situation, you are a normal person you've likely struggled all your life with bills and debts and then one day you randomly find yourself a billionaire. Perhaps you inherited it, or won the lotto. What would you suggest a person in that situation do? This is would be a once in a lifetime opportunity, , you could finally not have to stress about money, but in order to save your soul should you give it all away to charity and go back to your normal life as though nothing had happened?

    Edit: I was legitimately curious what the ethical solution would be if one were to find themselves in that exceedingly rare situation that I described. But okay looks like I ruffled a few feathers by asking.

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  • Would you be able to give examples of healthier behaviors that vegans and vegetarians perform that the general population does not?

    If one made their choice to abstain from meat for ethical reasons and not health reasons I'm not sure their lifestyle would be drastically different from their counterparts, then again I'm not sure what particular behavior patterns you are referring to which could throw off studies.

  • This is a cool idea.

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  • I think this is the correct answer, outside of large cities it is not legal to build apartments or row houses in many places in the States. It would probably be significantly easier to skirt the zoning laws to buy a plot of land and put 100 tiny houses on it, than to attempt to get some sort exception granted to the zoning in order to build an apartment or row house.

  • nets

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  • Yes. Yes I did.

  • Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.

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  • One that doesn't have a strong taste, canola yes, olive no.

  • I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s

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  • I think this comment really nails what's irking me amount newer Trek. It used to be a show that was written in a way that regardless of your politics, anyone could watch, and it would make you think. It was a show that would sneakily slip in progressive ideas that could make you second guess your perspectives on the world.

    Now there is no depth to it, it just slaps you in the face with politics.

    This is probably gonna be a hot take, but I think Star Trek should be written in a way that is appealing for conservatives to watch, but regularly slips in metaphors which challenges their world view. Trek was at it's best when on it's surface it was a fun adventure show, and the politics was on a deeper level.

  • What's some better vegan/vegetarian/plant based communities that aren't militant and rude?

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  • I really think this is an incredibly insightful take. I can't say I hang out in many vegan specific corners of the Internet, but I know there is a very active and vocal segment of the Internet community that's anti-vegan, I've heard stories of coordinated brigading attempts against vegan communities on the Internet.

    I'd imagine it would be almost impossible to run an open and welcoming community when you are getting constantly inundated with hate messages, eventually it would become incredibly difficult to discern between a user who has genuine curiosity and one who is asking bad faith questions in order to trigger some kind of debate.

    At this point in time you couldn't pay me to become a mod in one of those communities, it really seems like a no win scenario.

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    I miss when the quiet part was kept quiet

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  • Probably 30+ years ago I went to a Star Trek convention and went to go see George Takei speak, at the time I was pretty young and was all geared up to hear stories of his time filming the show and/or movies. Instead he spoke about his time in the interment camps. As a ten-ish year old kid, I was pretty confused, but yeah it would be a lie if I said that didn't stick with me.

  • Any day now.

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  • I suspect this meme is trying to make a statement about the intent of the green party in the US.

  • Anti-Aging Hopes Rise as Organ Rejection Drug Rapamycin Gains Attention

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  • Indeed there are, but just under half of all of medical studies performed world wide are performed in the States, roughly half of the world's pharmaceutical companies based in the States, and the US has consistently lead the world in medical innovations, with almost 50 percent more innovations than from the EU and Switzerland combined.

    My point is not to sound US centric, but to say there is a lot of capital and willpower in the US pharmaceutical industry, and without that willpower it will be significantly harder to get rapamycin accepted as a viable longevity drug.

  • Anti-Aging Hopes Rise as Organ Rejection Drug Rapamycin Gains Attention

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  • See that's the interesting thing about rapamycin, it's an old drug that has been used for immuno-suppression for years now, only just now scientists are discovering this interesting side effect. The patient on rapamycin has expired so you can get a generic prescription for cheap.

    But ironically because the patent expired there's no money in it for the drug companies to get it approved for longevity purposes, so who knows if it will ever become approved for this purpose.

  • Those poor plants

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  • Hi friend, I propose you try an experiment: post a small handful of anonymous comments on the Internet, try to make them benign as possible but casually slip in an acknowledgement that you are vegan. Something along the lines of "God that recipe looks amazing, but I think I might swap out the beef broth for veggie broth as I am vegan" like I said the point of this experiment is to say something completely as benign and inoffensive as possible.

    Once you post sit back and wait for the responses to roll in. You will likely find that while not every time, it is incredibly common for people to send you pictures of bacon, and an abundant of angry responses to the mere offhand mention of the word.

    I sincerely wish it was a straw man fallacy, but it unfortunately is a exceedingly common response to the word.

  • Those poor plants

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  • Hey non-vegan, fun fact: No one really cares when you tell them eating plants are more efficient.

    Common responses include "bAc0Nnnnnn!" and "I'm gonna eat two times the amount of meat to make your efforts useless".

  • YSK that the recommended daily fiber intake is 25g for women and 38g for men in the USA. 95% of the country does not meet this amount.

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  • Yes, they are a great source of insoluble fiber.