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🤯 wow, that’s a neat idea! That might come in handy some time 🤔

I also highly recommend the audibook

I’ll check them out. I just started the bobiverse books, which are also similar and have the same narrator.

Fair enough. I missed that requirement. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to listen to most audiobooks while working, but I guess it depends on what kind of work. If it’s mindless work like washing dishes or driving, no problem.

Emergency Skin is also really good, but its a short-story.

Project Hail Mary is my #1 fav audiobook, hands down. Just don’t look up anything about it beforehand, because spoilers would really ruin it. All you need to know its about a scientist on a spaceship who has a very important mission.

Not all Amish view technology as entirely something against their religion. Peter Santenello has a bunch of great videos where he interviews Amish people and understands their culture. This is a good one on that topic: https://youtu.be/EgY1SVXiBrU?si=E2zTNOhQxm6Qcgff

Whoa, this works on Android too. I had no idea you could do that! Thanks for the tip!

HOW ARE YOU HOLDING UP? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO

Grain bowl. Mix one or more from each of these categories into a bowl:

1. Some sort of grain (white rice, brown rice, quinoa, barley, buckwheat, farro, etc)
2. Some sort of legume or protein (lentils, beans, peas, chickpeas, tofu, etc)
3. Greens (kale, spinach, lettuce, etc)
4. Other veggies (carrots, beets, onion, peppers, tomatoes, okra, etc)
5. Sauce (salad dressing, hummus, bbq, red pepper sauce, miso dressing sauce)

Most of these ingredients are dirt cheap, and packed with nutrients and fiber and other goodness.

https://playswellwithbutter.com/san-marzano-tomato-sauce/

The only “produce” is the garlic, but you can just buy the jarred minced garlic. I usually find it near the whole garlic in the produce area

I tip higher at small restaurants than at chains

Thank you for that image. “big portion” is a bit vague, and this does clarify it. To me, 11% is quite a lot of that pie, when you think about:

• Electricity is becoming greener every day due to solar and wind being cheaper than oil and gas
• Transportation is getting greener via EVs
• Industry is getting a focus from people trying to create green concrete and steel

Here’s another chart that breaks down that agriculture portion. My understanding is methane is mostly due to cow farts, and nitrous oxide is mostly due to animal urine and fertilizers.

We need to make impacts in all of these sectors, if we’re going to fix climate change.

Re: meat tax, we could start by just not subsidizing meat and dairy.

This is the thing. In isolation, enjoyment is a decent argument for anything. But you have to step back and look at the impact of things to see if it’s a good or bad thing.

In the case of animal consumption, the pros are:

• it tastes good
• it’s convenient
• it means people don’t need to change.

(People often add “it’s nutritionally necessary” here. I know I did. But that’s a myth. You can get everything you need from plants. If that wasn’t the case, vegans would be unable to live whole lives without issues, but that’s happening)

The cons?

1. It causes millions of land animals to be killed every single day, many in a very scary painful way. If you include fish, that jumps up to hundreds of millions
2. Animal farming contributes to a big portion of the emissions that are causing climate change.
3. It’s an extremely inefficient way to produce food for humans. Just think: in order to produce one pound of meat, how much input grains/grass/whatever was there? Why not skip the middleman and eat the plants directly?
4. Industrial fishing is destroying our oceans, which also contributes to climate change.

I could go on, but I digress.

But these are the things I came to learn when I went vegan last year. So it came down to a simple question in the end: do the pros outweigh the cons? Do my tastebuds matter enough to contribute to all those problems? The answer was clear enough for me

I’m in the process of making this switch. I’m a transplant in the US south and I’ve always been a bit averse to y’all because it feels too southern, but I think that’s the one I’m going with. It’s the best fit I’ve found. And I’ve noticed it getting more popular elsewhere in the world, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it.