I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
This is a lot to unpack, but I’ll do my best in case it helps someone understand theses issues better:
My beef also isn’t genetically modified to survive glyphosate, which gets absorbed by the soy that gets turned into your tofu
Glyphosate is bad, and should be banned. That said, beef is not somehow immune to glyphosate, as it is a contaminant in much of the food sources cattle eat, and the food for our food is not as strictly regulated as our food. Source Additionally:
Much of the glyphosate found in food is found in grains, which are often served as accompaniment to a primary protein (e.g., meat or plant proteins). Swapping a beef burger for a veggie burger (or, your tofu straw man), likely does little to reduce overall glyphosate exposure, which would be coming from the bun. Using plant glyphosate levels as a negative for going vegan is deceptive at best.
Glyphosate is not allowed in organic farming, so buying organic foods, including plant based protein alternatives, like organic tofu, dramatically reduces exposure to glyphosates. The system isn’t perfect but has been shown to quickly and effectively reduce glyphosate levels. Source
While “there is currently no consensus among the scientific community, and there is controversy over the safety of glyphosate and its health consequences” Source, there are studies showing correlation with negative health outcomes, so someone playing it safe may want to avoid these chemicals out of an abundance of caution. THAT SAID, there is a significant body of evidence that consuming red meat is linked to increase the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and premature death. Source. Another Source. If you’re avoiding “tofu” for your health, you’re not doing yourself any favors.
If industrial farms would sell the manure and spread it on fields rather than blanket them with petrolchemicals (fertilizers) this entire argument would be completely moot.
No. Manure is only a small part of the issue. Much of the methane produced by cattle comes from digestion, not excrement. Additionally, much of the carbon footprint of cattle is a result of land use change, specifically deforestation and other land use change. None of this is solved by spreading shit around. (And its unclear from your comment but just in case it needs to be said, fertilizers and glyphosate are unrelated, but I think you know that, it was just unclear)
We need to return to traditional farming where the cattle can graze and naturally fertilize the land instead of being confined and mainly fed corn (which exacerbates the spread of ecoli).
The concept of regenerative farming is thrown around a lot as a justification for eating beef. First of all, its not happening, so stop using a pretend what if to justify bad behavior.
Secondly, a cow can graze the food it needs off of ~2 acres of (highly productive) land per head. Source.
To meet today’s meat demand, there’s ~1.5 billion cows on the planet. If you were to give each cow 2 acres, that would take 3 billion acres of land, or 1.5x the land area of the continental US. This would be a logistical nightmare in addition to all of the other challenges that come with this land grab. There’s no scenario where we maintain current meat consumption levels sustainably.
At some point people are going to have to put down the steak and gasp eat some tofu.
Traditional farming can also reverse desertification of land therefore can reduce the CO2 footprint of this industry.
No beef required for this one. Though it is worth noting much of the desertification is directly a result of clearing land for cattle and their feed.
Also get mad at the military and they are the top contributors of CO2 emissions and they have 0 restrictions and are omitted from every study.
Did I have some sort of a stroke or something? Am I hallucinating graphs that don’t exist? Is OPs chart only showing tofu as an alternative and I just imagined the dozen or so other foods on the list that can be mixed and matched to build a nutritious meal with a significantly lower carbon footprint than beef?
Someone please send help, because all of these beef shills have me convinced that there are only two foods and we must all choose just one in the great food war
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
this website has videos, they’re still 4MB slideshows. OP’s slideshow and the ones in this link are made using pictures from the GOES-east geostationary weather satellite. it takes a picture of the same half of earth about once every 10 minutes 24/7/365. 1 picture every 10 minutes over the whole 4 hours of the eclipse will be hard to turn into something smoother than a slideshow
another part of the site has jpgs of the whole hemisphere and zoomed in areas of the US and Canada in different sizes up to 21696x21696px. you can get recent pictures by clicking the download images link. it only has images going back about 10 days so if you want to get eclipse pictures from there you need to get them by April 18 2024. maybe someone else with more video making ability and motivation than me can turn the super big pictures into a super big slideshow.
Important legal context: the origin of this Geneva ban is not only that gas weapons are atrocious, but that your foe might doesn’t know what gas has been fired and may reply to CS with gnarlier chemical weapons. The treaty also names the issue that the offending forces may, inadvertently or perfidiously, not know or mix up what gas they’re sending downrange.
This is a big fuckin’ deal in the current conflict. Russia uses a near-identical gas grenade for both CS and nerve gas, in Soviet era crates and stockpiles handled by the hard-luck HIMARS catchers in their logistics chain. If they fuck that up or a pissed off Buryat conscript wants vengeance via sabotage, a whiff of bad-boy gas on the wrong wind could make things extremely spicy.
What are you on about? Western support for Ukraine is not a legitimate casus belli. It gives Russia no right to attack.
Not to mention, the edited title is nonsense. Putin's main narrative is that there is no Ukrainian people, no Ukrainian state and that this nation has always belonged to Russia. CIA "meddling" is merely a small excuse in a long list of excuses that Russia is using to make its imperialistic wars seem reasonable.
That’s slightly misleading. Rape is defined as the specific crime of penetrating a person with a penis.
There’s a separate, more modern crime of “sexual activity without consent”, with both penetrative and non-penatritive variants that was created that was created to be a gender neutral sex crime.
One of the purposes of this offence, in addition to the wider range of sexual activity, is to create a female equivalent of the offence of rape, which carries the same level of punishment for what amounts to the same type of offending behaviour.
"The private security firm Ambrey reported the British-registered, Lebanese-operated cargo ship had been on its way to Bulgaria after leaving Khorfakkan in the United Arab Emirates. "
This ship didn’t have a damn thing to do with Israel.
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Why so many men like to play with a female character?
I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men (msmagazine.com)
Beef produces 85 kg CO2e per kg of food. Tofu produces 2.9 kg CO2e per kg of food. (ourworldindata.org)
28 Years Later: Everything We Know About the Sequel Trilogy (www.joblo.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10503609...
Former Blizzard President Thinks Tipping Game Creators Is Great Idea (80.lv)
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
April 8th eclipse (cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net)
What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?
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The longer I look, the more confused I get. What is this marketing? (lemmy.zip)
I'm mildly proud of how I categorise my games on Steam and interested to see others' methods (feddit.nl)
They’re in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.
We have found it. (lemm.ee)
Beautiful cascades of Sligachan with the Black Cuillins in the distance [OC] (lemmy.world)
Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue (metro.co.uk)
I love this pensioner.
Heavy Meowtal (sound on, obvs) (i.imgur.com)
US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence (www.theguardian.com)
Washington says no despite ‘frantic’ talks between diplomats, as bodies lie in street and army battles gun-toting gang members
Anon flies air Chad (sh.itjust.works)
>Volcano erupts in Indonesia...
NY times has confirmed what Putin has stated multiple times (www.nytimes.com)
in regards to the cause of SMO
Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input (lemmy.world)
Extravagant Words (Incidental Comics) (lemmus.org)
Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, for February 22, 2024
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Donkey w/ Mounted Panzerfaust (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7c575d5e-2dce-4467-8ace-a3489d55ed3a.jpeg
Houthis reportedly sink British ship in Red Sea (www.ynetnews.com)
Critique (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don’t, you weren’t paying attention....