naevaTheRat

🙄 when you get angry at racists, sexists, sex pests, DVers, people that beat dogs, whatever are you angry because you want to feel a sense of self satisfaction? Or because it hurts you to see people hurting others and behaving in reprehensible ways?

Yeah me too.

it's not a slur, it's the name for the ideology you follow. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnism

Thinking it's a slur is as silly as people thinking cis is a slur and exactly as reactionary.

I uh don't think you understand what veganism is about.

I'm queer, and for a long time I was not allowed to marry my wife. Imagine how ridiculous it would be to say something like "you shouldn't shame people for not treating you as an equal. You would have more of an impact trying to get people to recognise your relationship for medical authority purposes". It's just completely missing the point.

Humans are not fundamentally different to non human animals. Each one of them deserves dignity and respect, every cage must be empty.

Look I've got terrible depression and chronic nerve pain. Idk what to tell you, hurting isn't a good reason to hurt others.

Personally I tend to feel better about myself when I'm doing good, I think that's pretty common. It's not so difficult of a change, if you learn like 5 solid lentil/bean based meals you can make easily (such as stews you can just throw in a pot) then you can just rotate through those as you learn.

Something like a chilli non carne, Moroccan chickpea stew, couple of dhals, and a pearl barley stew with lentils. I can dump some of what I use to avoid starvation when brushing my teeth is a 2 hour battle if you like?

If you value veganism either you should be vegan or you're lazy and want others to fix problems while you hinder them

I feel like I'm missing out...

If you can spare the (relatively minimal) time you can reheat anything by putting it in a container and sitting it in hot water. Like a throw dhal in zip lock bag, partially fill container with hot water, put bag in hot water and lid it. Wait 10 minutes, enjoyed warmed food. So anything you can fit in the fridge you bring with you or get but needs heating can be heated that way.

glass, metal, or thin plastic will be best for the inner container (assuming glass is able to withstand thermal shock, e.g. borosilicate and not ice cold) as they're thermally conductive. Tight foil wrapping does the same thing too but more chance of leaks. Or you could use those hot water resetting hand warmer type packs to supply heat in an insulated lunch box type thing and reset of an evening for a warm lunch while out.

Stuff like quinoa or couscous cook in hot water so with fresh veg and a sauce make some sort of bowl? Salady but substantial at least.

Buy silken tofu, pack seaweed and miso. Quick light soup? boring but better than nothing.

That's all I've got soz. GL!

EDIT: oh actually a solid esky and occasionally restocking ice/cycling cold packs from minifridge freezer can be an impromptu freezer if you want to being some frozen meals that stay good fridged for a week.

Also the staff at the hotel might microwave something for you in the break room if you are nice to them.

Maybe, space and rental costs for the shop are pretty limited and pretty high. I sort of want to start my own but I'm a human garbage fire between the nerve pain and the depression making the fucking hard yards of getting started extra hard.

Idk what to really do. With the death of community hubs it's really difficult to get enough of a group together it's not a heroic effort generating interest and that sort of organising is not anything I'm good at or even really know how to approach :(

Coops are so powerful. I tried to get involved in our local ones however they're dying for (imo) really frustrating reasons.

Instead of leveraging their core strength, namely allowing poor people to collectively negotiate for fair prices while cutting out middle men, they are focused on everything to the max ethical hippy shit (amusingly the same busybodies pushing this also voted to make it not vegan anymore... wtf do you believe in?) so the result is they've become super bougie.

Instead of being a place where you can buy beans and rice etc at below supermarket prices while still giving the farmers a better deal it's all organic biodynamic gluten free almonds and luxury teas. Don't get me wrong, I love my fancy tea, but first and foremost it needs to be a place where you get your bulk calories/macros cheaper than the supermarket or at least comparable (obvs supermarkets loss lead on some stuff like bread you'll never match).

Also fuck me for this opinion but putting food on the table of some working class people and taking power back from supermarkets and giant farming conglomerates does more good than serving organic teas to the 50 wealthy people in the area that can afford them. Survive first, improve from a position of strength.

Yes but no.

Like yes, it is a method of harvesting energy from the sun but no because practically it's going to lose out in efficiency and practicality to PV, solar thermal, or even just heating an area of ground and using the updraft to turn a turbine.

It's so low energy density given you need to turn it into a electricity anyway. You're losing out by the inefficiency of heat -> electricity (I think this pathway sucks because large entropy changes but my thermodynamics always sucked. It's just worse than other routes), and you have really low power density, and it's fragile and slow.

Compared to solar thermal which is already a bit dubious you can just concentrate sunlight on something, get it very hot, store heat in that (no loss due to atmospheric pressure changes either), and use it to then drive a standard steam turbine we're pretty good at making approach max efficiency.

It's just an extremely usaian thing to do. Mega cringe to see constantly.

400k euro is still like the peak of wealth. Nobody is earning that much reasonably, even if there are even wealthier people doing shenanigans.

This is France