I think it's really a difference about whether you approach meat consumption as a moral issue or an environmental and social one.
I tend to agree with @Melpomene that any improvement is a good thing, maybe a better analogy would be in CO2 emissions. If we can convince 10% of people to bike to work one day a week then that'll make meaningful difference, and it's exactly the same from an emissions standpoint as taking X cars off the road.
Convincing someone, at least in the USA, to do without a car is fundamentally difficult, but convincing them to use it less is a significantly more accessible proposition.
I'm changing my stance on the whole Meta/project92 thing after reading this article. I think the entire* fediverse should block project92 by default. Later, some instances can re-evaluate whether to maintain those blocks, once we have a better idea of what the benefits and consequences of federating will be:...
I can't imagine that meta aren't already collecting fediverse data. It's an existential threat to their business model and the data is comparatively easy to harvest. I'll bet their internal user model already has records for which federated services a facebook user also uses. There's not a lot of privacy here!
I'm considering rewriting all of my comments, but I want to do this carefully and correctly because I'd eventually want to delete the account, so I wouldn't be able to make changes...
I feel that way too. I started trying to figure out if I should archive worthwhile comments (maybe move the comment text to a page on my site and create a link to it) but then honestly there are probably a dozen comments out of 40k in karma that might be worth saving (they aren't my top ones either).
Maybe i should see if i can have ChatGPT replace them with the most-wrong version of the answer, but that also seems like work
We started out with 3 gerbils, but for the last couple of months we're down to one (he's about 3 1/4 years old) and I think he's pretty lonely. Unfortunately he was the one of the three who most disliked human handling, and so i'm not sure he super enjoys when we take him out of his enclosure.
He's got his wheel and a huge enclosure all to himself, but he's been noticeably less active since the others passed.
I always wonder if our pets think we're eternal beings or something, I've had my dog since she was a pup and now she's old and i (from her perspective) have hardly changed.
I'm also not sure the interface is quite right. There are maybe use cases where subscribing to a lemmy community or kbin magazine might make sense in Mastodon, but most of the time that feels like a weird use-case. It feels like I want to subscribe to my own feed of people who reply to me, then I could reply to them from Mastodon (except there's no real link between my identities, which is messy)
Yeah absolutely, plus there's lots of space for new entrants with different ideas for what a hybrid platform might look like. Some of them will surely be terrible but maybe there's a magical do-it-all solution that we just haven't imagined yet.
Not having to recreate the community from scratch makes it so much easier for technologies to emerge
The self-hosting community does some good stuff with rel=me links on the semantic web.
I have a link to my Mastodon profile on my homepage, and then my mastodon profile puts a verified checkmark next to my website because they've linked together. That means that by following the chain, anyone that trusts my mastodon server can identify the other accounts I choose to share.
Certainly i selfhosted mastodon then I could be @graham@graha.ms but I'm trying to wrap my head around a way that I could sign into someone else's hosted federated service with my own credentials. That way i could have a common identity across all services.
Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...
For me, the first thing I'd do is clear my family of all debts(or whatever financial issues) there is and then the second thing i'd do is buy a hundred Siomai for me to eat...
I also don't believe that we'd receive none of it either.
The EU will certainly have to exact a price for the whole debacle, but it'd also be beneficial to the EU to add a large, relatively-affluent trading partner back into the bloc. The EU strike me as more pragmatic than petty, and having someone leave and then come back again would really validate the whole community.
I expect in reality we'll rejoin the EEA and find ways to wrangle most of the benefits (for both sides) without having to fully rejoin and deal with that embarrassment.
Yeah it's not like Britain rejoining tomorrow would make a sudden change in the UK's economic output, but it could at least stop it from continuing to deteriorate.
And while the UK GDP is surely on a downwards trend (at least comparatively) that ignores the fact that the UK is still the 6th largest economy in the world and is, i think, still larger than France. Obviously it'd be better for the EU to add a similarly sized country which is growing instead of slowing, but those don't exist. Turkey's GDP Is still 4x less than the UK.
Brexit has certainly helped EU cohesion, support for Finnexit or Deportugal has dropped significantly since 2016. However if by some fluke britain turns out to be a success in the next 10 years then it might reverse that trend. The EU can nip that in the bud by coming up with a Brentrance deal that isn't horribly punitive, because there are real policy and fiscal advantages to the EU in British membership.
The EU seems more cohesive because of Brexit - all the fears about our large countries leaving seem to have evaporated and the utter abject failure of Britain has really taken the wind out of the anti-EU movement. Not to say there aren't still major problems and challenges for the EU to rise to, but fragmentation seems like less of a risk now.
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
Lots of bean/lentil dishes are pretty magic for that.
There's also an element of skill/experience in that category too. I can't find the exact quote but David Chang said something to the effect of "anyone can cook a filet mignon well, but cooking with scraps takes skill".
As i've gotten more competent in the kitchen i've absolutely gone from buying fancy cuts of meat to stew meat and will buy mutton any time i ever see it. I've also got much better at observing what fits well together, if there's some left over potatoes in the fridge then I know that I can mash them, roll them into gnocchi and make a quick pesto with some wilty kale from the back of the fridge and basil from the garden. I'd totally have planned and made the same dish ten years ago, but i'd have started by going to the store and buying the ingredients. Being able to work with what I have and balance it is key.
I live in colorado right now and we get great, cheap melons in the summer. Fresh corn is also dirt cheap here when it's in season. When I first moved here (from Scotland) I was really excited about those things, but as time goes by they are less interesting to me. I eat way more seafood here, in Colorado, than I ever did in Scotland - and the selection is better here too which blows my mind.
Eating what's local and in-season almost always improves the deliciousness and the price - but you probably won't appreciate it because I think we some some innate desire to seek out different flavors.
A lot of it is just weird cultural complaints. Who'd have thought small towns in Germany don't have big box stores, or that electronics are way more expensive. That's really easy to have figured out first.
Germany is pretty much top of the countries i'd consider moving to. Though as a Scot living in the US it's no longer super easy for me to move to Berlin.
Sun Tzu: “If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame."
The Line of Command key not just in warfare but in business and politics. I'm really excited to have a subreddit where I can discuss the different managements style exhibited by today's leaders.
What a surprise that the guy who thinks the Democratic party should primary a sitting Democratic president should be aligned with Russia on the matter of Ukraine. I may die from the shock.
It'd be useful if he had a real actionable path out of this, it's all good and well to say that we need a peaceful solution but that's hardly something we can declare unilaterally.
Really he's only making this statement to name-check his uncle. If he had some grand plan to offer Putin something he could present as a small victory domestically then that might help, but I can't really come up with a golden bridge he can retreat over. Putin's the one that needs humiliated here, but that's also the end of him.
What are people's thoughts on how Reddit is coming out of this so far? How bad have things been for Reddit? Do we know how much their traffic has dropped and would a drip in traffic even hurry them that much. Why don't we see talk of a new blackout at the end of the month?
I'm also struck by the incongruity that reddit makes something like 12c/user/month but their fair-actual-cost of the API calls needed to service that user are in the $2-3 range.
I suspect that's a lie and that the API prices are profiteering, but that isn't exactly inspiring me to invest in them :D
Twitter's new TikTok copycat is filled with animal cruelty videos. Elon calls content "Edgy" (www.nbcnews.com)
Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (privacy.thenexus.today)
I'm changing my stance on the whole Meta/project92 thing after reading this article. I think the entire* fediverse should block project92 by default. Later, some instances can re-evaluate whether to maintain those blocks, once we have a better idea of what the benefits and consequences of federating will be:...
What did you guys replace your reddit comments with?
I'm considering rewriting all of my comments, but I want to do this carefully and correctly because I'd eventually want to delete the account, so I wouldn't be able to make changes...
Rat appriation post (AMA) (beehaw.org)
I love rats. I really do. Ask me anything pet-rat related.
Mastodon <> Lemmy Interoperability
cross-posted from: news.cosocial.ca/post/2263...
James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' (www.youtube.com)
Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...
You just won One Billion Dollars, what are you buying?
For me, the first thing I'd do is clear my family of all debts(or whatever financial issues) there is and then the second thing i'd do is buy a hundred Siomai for me to eat...
Britons who want to rejoin EU at highest levels since 2016, survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
I moved to Germany and regret it. I've felt unwelcome by the people, and not even the great healthcare can convince me to stay. (www.businessinsider.com) German
I was wondering when they'd get round to the smaller subreddits
As it turns out, RFKjr is a Russian stooge after all (www.kennedy24.com)
What a surprise that the guy who thinks the Democratic party should primary a sitting Democratic president should be aligned with Russia on the matter of Ukraine. I may die from the shock.
Christian Selig: I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support (reddit.com)
Edit: archived link, (alternative)...
Has Reddit won and what does that mean?
What are people's thoughts on how Reddit is coming out of this so far? How bad have things been for Reddit? Do we know how much their traffic has dropped and would a drip in traffic even hurry them that much. Why don't we see talk of a new blackout at the end of the month?