ProdigalFrog

I'm probably up to, like, 90% vegetarian these days (it's been a long road lol).

You're way ahead of me, I've been kinda stuck trying to find a good homemadd alternative to impossible, but it's been tough to find something that passes the good enough mark.

I notice the difference with Beyond meat as well, which has a slightly unpleasant aftertaste for me too. Overall just OK. Usually don't seek it out.

I'm surprised people at those cookouts can notice with impossible though. I haven't tried to grill them, so maybe that makes it more pronounced? But out of my airfryer, I genuinely cannot detect anything unmeaty about them, which blew my mind the first time I tried em.

I tend to get them as a treat since they're so much. I rarely see them on sale around here :/

The meat industry is always trying to greenwash themselves somehow, they cannot be trusted.

With how intensely serious and rapid global warming is becoming, we really don't have time to try and make meat lower emissions, we need to move away from it now.

Though unfortunately expensive, impossible burgers and ground 'beef' are virtually indistinguishable from the real deal already, and IMHO taste better than real, and truly are a guilt-free-ish alternative that exists right now. I only hope demand increases so they can scale up even harder and bring prices down to the same cost as cheap beef.

Bloody brilliant.

Hell yeah! Awesome news indeed.

I was quite confused until I searched bundle of sticks flag, and then it became clear.

Surprised I hadn't encountered that before!

"Ugh, get off my back, mom! I'll figure out ethics by myself! Jeez..."

Apparently in many highschools and middle schools, literature classes will only make students study an excerpt or article on the subject, not the entire book. When they get to college and their professors drop a book on them, it's unexpected, because they thought it would be more articles and excerpts.

I'm glad to see this has been as positive a place for you as I have found it to be myself. Your thoughts are well formed and pleasant to read, and I'm thankful that you choose to share them here with us. :)

Perhaps they are thinking of the “anarchists” that just watch YouTube videos to get angry at “the tankies” based on a misunderstanding of history in the 1920s

Curious what that misunderstanding is. Do you feel the betrayal of the Anarchist Kronstadt sailors, Nestor Makhno's black army, CNT of Spain, or the lengthy list of offenses against the IWW were just an oopsie?

I think the worry is that, sometimes problems or concepts are too complex to be distilled into a short form. If someone only ever gets the short version of everything, they can lose a tremendous amount of nuance, and the desire for the shortest version may lead people to come away with a misinformed or caricaturized version.

We're already seeing how dangerous that is with how everything has to be a quick soundbyte or people lose interest due to a short attention span, to the point where they ONLY know the soundbyte but feel well informed, when they are in fact still ignorant. This can lead to people being easily manipulated, or coming to harmful conclusions that don't account for enough complexity or variables.

If tiktok and twitter train your mind to have a short attention span, reading long form books trains your mind to be able to hold large concepts in your head all at once, and how they relate to one another. In other words, it is training you to be able to form 'big picture' conceptions about things.

This video on the subject does a good job of delving into the issue.

Ahh, Kotor 2, my first morally ambiguous RPG that made me question if it was wrong to help homeless people due to unforseen consequences as a 12 year old (which, BTW Kreia, it IS good to help homeless people who are starving, wtf dude)

That was a well done little compass thing, and a lovely trip down memory lane. Thanks for the share Jesus!