Absolutely, am a pan of tofu in pan fries. I also use less meat and then bulk put with red lentils, chickpeas, or mixed beans. But the only pure-lentil protein meal I’ve managed to keep on is the Butternut squash curry, because the squash masks the chickpeas. The mealy texture of lentils makes them hard for me to appreciate solo, especially chickpeas (I can’t eat peas for similar reasons) so I tend to half-and-half. A single chicken breast still feeds four people if bulked right. Hummus is fine since the chickpeas texture isn’t as much an issue, and makes for good vegetarian soul bowls.

Unfortunately tofu is not cheap here, it costs about as much/slightly more than chicken. :( Regional pricing I suppose, I’m from an isolated farming nation so luxury goods have to be imported at large mark-up. Anything we don’t grow here gets priced to match :/ Lentils are cheap though, and you can also do a lot with a baked potato!

Much agreed. Humans are the only species were aware of that can make ethical considerations in their diet, and there are so many ways to do that.

My preference is towards sustainably and environmentalism, as limited by my income bracket. So I love mushrooms, love vegetarian dishes, eat in season; but still eat eggs, dairy, and cheap meat for affordable protein. But I prefer sustainable farming practices, and using low-cost cuts like sausagemeat that might otherwise be wasted. I can’t afford most plant-based alternatives because they’re considered ‘lifestyle’ luxuries, so I have to have whey protein instead of pea, etc. But eggs are cheap enough I can splurge on free range with SPCA cert, and I love me a sweet-potato-mushroom burger patty if I can afford one. Nut mince is also great for nachos.

This means I support insect farms for future protein sources, since they use far less resources than even plant-based alternatives and are much cheaper and more land efficient. That makes me different from most vegetarians and vegans it seems, but I don’t consider our philosophies to be in conflict. Ultimately we share a common goal in maintaining more ethical diets that limit the harm we cause, and there are several approaches to do that. Every step we can affordable maintain is progress to a kinder and more sustainable world.

Your point about the tick is correct, but I’m not sure if that counts as veganism? Theres a significant difference between vegetarianism and veganism beyond the diet itself.

Vegetarianism is a dietary restriction around consuming flesh, whereas veganism is a philosophical restriction around animal suffering/exploitation. But even that philosophy can have different interpretations (what counts as suffering? What counts as exploitation?).

Thus vegans having a reputation of being inflexible, because eating nonvegan is a violation of their personal principles; whereas most vegetarians won’t care what you eat so long as you still provide something they can eat.

Therefore I’d expect vegetarians don’t eat lab meat (it’s flesh) but many vegans may (if they believe it is developed ethically, and doesn’t incentivise unethical practice).

But IMO both of the terms are pretty absolute and inflexible. An increasingly large number of people ate ‘vegan except for X’, or vegetarian [98]% of the time’, and we don’t have words to distinguish them from those who don’t plan to reduce animal products at all. I’d like if there was, to encourage people to have more varied diets without seeing it as ‘all or nothing’. Significantly reducing animal intake is still an environmental win even if they can’t eliminate it.

Vegetarian is fine, there is no flesh. Vegetarianism is typically a dietary restriction, rather than a philosophical one.

Vegan: it depends. Cultivating figs may be seen as expotation, like bee’s honey is; regardless of the insect’s actual life or wellbeing. Each individual person decides what counts as vegan.

I don’t see the point in this level of specificity, because by eating anything at all you consume fungal spores, tiny mites, microbes etc. Plants are also alive. So there is clearly a line where life is permittably consumed.

If ‘experiencing suffering’ is that line, insects do not seem capable of it, only responding to basic stimuli. I once watched a one trying to eat its own partially severed head, turning it in its front legs while its mouth parts rapidly twitched. It evidently had no comprehension.

Depends on the vegan you’re talking to.

Wild figs may be but as soon as you’re cultivating fig varieties that require the fig wasp, you are artificially increasing the wasp population specifically to perish, in order to sustain human horticulture. Much like honey or milk, the fact you don’t eat the animal’s flesh might still defy the spirit of ‘no animal exploitation’. Most pollinators do not explicitly perish as part of pollination; figs are one of the foods vegans may disagree on.

The good news is that there are a small number of fig varieties that can be fertilised without the wasp (either by hand, or self-pollinating clones). In a lot of countries this is the variety that may be grown because importing wasps could be ecologically dangerous.

There is a lot of water (H2O) in the air too. This is bad for the car.

The machine uses electricity to force the H2O molecule to break down into H2 and O2, common gases. This does not hurt the car.

Cyberpunk fiction isn’t about a hypothetical speculative future. It’s an critical allegory for the issues of the present. Of course reality aligns with it when left unchanged.

Very promising! Thank you, I’ll look into this. Hopefully it’s what I need!

Yes, I am a design professional. Although I use Affinity rather than Adobe wherever I can, since i own the licence in perpetuity; but that isn’t Linux compatible either. The only AI tool I use is content-aware selection for masking. I don’t use genAI at all.

Since design software can include metadata in exported files, it’s also wise to use legally registered software so that my clients aren’t exposed to legal issues.

I’ve been looking at Linux for several years now, and this is the sole reason why I can’t leave Windows behind yet, because as you say: random issues with compatibility and troubleshooting.

So it bothers me whenever I investigate this and people suggest clearly inadequate ‘alternatives’ like GIMP or tell me I should just switch anyway. Anybody that implies I could do my job with GIMP clearly isn’t informed enough to actually answer my question.

Thank you very much for the nuanced and good faith explanation.

What about software outside of browsers of gaming? Lemmy talks about gaming a lot but it remains to be seen if working professionals are able to leave W11 behind

Lol, well I probably would because I don’t know what that is. And it sounds like an artificial sweetener.

But I get your point. Humans aren’t good at feeling out chronic ‘mundane risk’ and significantly deemphasise it in favour if acute, ‘dramatic risk’.

Much as how 9/11s death toll permanently transformed America politically and culturally on multiple levels, whereas the severity of far greater numbers of vehicular (or firearm) deaths are accepted as unavoidable facts of life.

Tbf she made zero effort to converse with OOP either

At this point the files are irrelevant. The connection is obvious, and nobody is fucking doing anything except saying “somebody [else] DO something!” while looking vaguely aghast.

The files only document the past; meanwhile the present is being actively fucked up both nationally and globally.

So please, let’s stop treating heinous global-reaching decisions as if they’re just a petty distraction from an open secret Americans have already decided not to do anything about.

Must be the title of their new book, they’re on a press tour

First we have to convince them exists XD they keep leaving us off maps

I’m not good at linking communities on mobile but. MapsWithoutNZ on lemmy.nz (or Reddit, for far far far more examples, because IT KEEPS HAPPENING)

Trying to get other cartographers to take the hint

Hmm, I’m not sure my gut’s microbiome would recognise the sawdust as digestible food and trigger actual satiation hormones. Nor would my brain recognise any protein chains associated with nutrition while my mouth broke it down. Digestive systems detect so much complicated information, you have to work at it to trick them. There’s something nutritious in the walnuts that my system really likes and is noticeably glad to eat.

If your system doesn’t need whatever walnuts would provide, perhaps your own baking needs a different alternative… Would you prefer some Omega-3 rich fish oil instead, make those brownies extra fudgy? :P

I am also pro walnuts. They’ve not much flavour on their own, but when I make the exact same recipe without them, it’s sweeter, too rich, but also unsatisfying. I end up eating more of them despite enjoying them less.

With walnuts though, they’re satisfying. I enjoy them more, and then I’m satisfied after a couple pieces. I think the fibre and fats in the nuts actually helps my body to ‘see’ the brownie as food in a way that hyper-processed flour and sugar can’t be.

Oh I thought this was gonna be like… the bride’s ‘Brother… in Christ’

My point is they dont work together. I can believe Nvidia ‘started’ it, but it doesnt matter or help me solve my problem. I’ve decided I want to try Linux but I can’t afford another card so I’m doing what I can.