AnimalsDream

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[–] AnimalsDream 2 points 4 hours ago

Snap is hot garbage, and Mint is Ubuntu without Snap, so much better.

[–] AnimalsDream 2 points 4 hours ago

Have you installed it recently? They fixed the common annoyances like missing nonfree drivers.

[–] AnimalsDream 3 points 4 hours ago

Why is Debian more difficult than Fedora? I could understand older versions, but these days they fixed pretty much all the small annoyances. No need to use the "nonfree" iso, because that's integrated into the installer. And post install sudo works as expected out of the box. I'd say they should be equal.

[–] AnimalsDream 8 points 14 hours ago

Whenever this topic comes up, it makes me wonder if healthcare costs are factored into the equation. Imagine how much money could be saved when a person can have both cheaper groceries and potentially get off their blood pressure meds, or various other prescriptions that only exist to mitigate the harms of all the lifestyle diseases.

[–] AnimalsDream 3 points 14 hours ago

Well fuck, now what toothpaste do I get?

 

Hypothetically it would make the concept of "voting with your wallet" a real possibility. The biggest flaw I can see is that records of costs would likely see much more fraud, which would require more monitoring and enforcement.

[–] AnimalsDream 30 points 1 week ago

Speaking of things people are better without, I wish everyone would stop using Medium. There's so many better alternatives - Write Freely, Wordpress, Ghost, just to name a few.

[–] AnimalsDream 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is a fair point. But then again, I don't even remember the last time I was in a store that had honest prices.

[–] AnimalsDream 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is one of those things that makes me feel the slightest bit more agitated and cynical towards people and society. We all know it's manipulative, and that should be enough reason not to do it. So why does everyone who runs a business do it? Like yeah it does work, but is it really worth subtly eroding your own customer's trust in you? There's an invisible cost of goodwill here.

[–] AnimalsDream 17 points 1 week ago

Of course it's a good thing. There's no way in hell I, or a lot of people, can ever afford to buy a whole new car of any kind. Used is the only option some of us have.

[–] AnimalsDream 7 points 1 week ago

Middle Earth itself has been described as the "ring" that Morgoth poured his own power into. Since a river is an extension of Middle Earth, it means Morgoth really was the true Lord of the Rings.

[–] AnimalsDream 2 points 1 week ago

Both health and ethics reasons. Healthwise coconut oil has even higher saturated fat levels than palm oil does, but both are quite high.

Ethics wise coconut is similarly not sustainable, at least not in terms of being yet another monoculture. I would say it's arguably not vegan because of the harm that comes to animals and their habitats because of the coconut industry.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/by-the-way-doctor-is-palm-oil-good-for-you

https://theconversation.com/our-love-of-coconut-oil-may-have-forced-some-species-to-extinction-141454

[–] AnimalsDream 2 points 1 week ago

Yup, to be honest I'm surprised that Butler's has zero direct competition. To the best of my knowledge there is no other whole-bean single-ingrediant meat substitute, all of the other closest competitors are tvp-based.

https://www.butlerfoods.com/

 

A lot of people accuse vegan communities of being echochambers. There's good reason for vegan communities to be insular, if for no other reason than because there are so few of us.

But I want this to be a space where everyone feels comfortable to ask questions and have discussions. It's my hope to make a space where these contentious issues can be talked about in civil and fair ways.

 

And let everyone sort posts by emoji count.

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