I’m from Germany and we know to good how fast bat shit crazy and intelligent guys with authoritarianistic aspirations can hypnotize the masses and let them commit crimes against humanity (in fact we’re just witnessing it again with the AfD). Those same guys have the absolute will to win the next US election. Doesn’t matter if they ran into a few roadblocks on their journey. Doesn’t matter if they claim they are not associated with the Nazi mentality or that Hitler was an abomination. They essentially pursue the same goals.

I have no will anymore to discuss this out with internet strangers, so I let others speak:

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/01/16/project-2025-if-allowed-will-cement-america-as-a-rightwing-authoritarian-state/

"Author and legal analyst James Zirin, said in an op-ed in The Hill on Nov 13 Trump wants to “terminate the Constitution to restore himself to power, an insurrectionary act in and of itself. That power would be in the hands of the president with neither checks nor balances.

Trump has vowed on Day 1 to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to violently crush any protest or dissent. He plans to purge the Justice Department of anyone deemed disloyal and deploy across four federal agencies a 50,000-strong bloc of loyalists to defense, legal, judicial and regulatory slots."

From the perspective of people who understand that Project 2025 is just fascism hiding behind the MAGA hats:

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/16u12zj/hitlers_rise_to_power_episode_and_project_2025/

And a podcast for to share with friends & family:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5Dfl20klw

The playbook for Project 2025 is about 1000 pages long. A think tank with decades of experience about US politics is behind it. Heritage Foundation heavily influenced a lot of policies of past GOP presidents.

In a german podcast I recently heard about a few of the keypoints of their plans. Let me just say: 2017 wasn’t the most important election in the USA. It’s this year. Especially when regarding what’s happening in Europe and also with the climate. The world can’t afford “Drill baby drill” or guys like DeSantis getting blank checks and other foobar situations like mask bans everywhere or leaving NATO.

If you’re not considering Dark Brandon you’re just not informed enough.

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Diamond Age is my all time favourite (although I read it just one time as I do with all books). In the current age of AI it is very relevant. If nano technology and AI will progress we’ll maybe head into the depicted scenario and I hope I’m still alive then.

Cryptonomicon, Anathem, The Baroque Cycle are wild rides and masterpieces too. Anathem was a bit hard to get into but it got really exciting after the first 300 pages (of ~1000) or so.

I did not read that book of Calvino (nor have I heard his name) but there exists a free game on steam called “If on a winter’s night four travelers” with very positive reviews which seems to be inspired by the book.

I only read “The Left Hand of Darkness”. That novell was fire (no pun intended). Excellent world building and super captivating and immersive writing.

In my note app I’ve saved my old replies I’m fairly confident of regarding research, impact and links to sources and fire them up against the standard arguments. It’s cheap but it would be madness to answer the age old cliches popping up in mass under a controversional vegan post with individual new answers. The definition of Sisyphus work. I refine the posts to take deviations from standard arguments into account. I don’t spam them in a thread of full of the same cliche answers but tactically under one of them with a lot of upvotes/likes. This saves me some headaches and at least I know I countered the disinformation at least once and will maybe make some people see that the most regurgitated answers are not per se the most correct just because of their prevalence.

Which would be the impossible factor(s) in your opinion?

This man was able to be vegan over 1000 years ago while he was blind from the age of 6 due to smallpox and lived to the age of 83. All while he established himself as a renowned poet, writer and philosoph of the arabic world. Granted the B12 levels in soil were much higher back then. But what’s bad about taking a pill a day vs destroying the livelihood of future generations?

FFS it’s not only the methane. It’s all the GHG sinks we destroy to let cattle graze and feed other animals caught in CAFO. In addition it’s the whole infrastructure around the system

https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

Half of habitable land is used for agriculture (5x the USA). 2/3 of that is grazing land. 1/3 crop land. One half of the 1/3 crop land is used for plants that are directly consumed by humans. The rest is animal feed and stuff like biofuel.

Crop land and grazing land for animals combined make up 80% of all farmland. Meat, dairy and fish combined make up only 17% of all calories and 38% of protein.

If everyone went plant based the global farmland use would be reduced from 4 billion to 1 billion hectares and therefore crop death would be dramatically reduced. The land could be rewilded and natural GHG sinks could be established again.

Everyday 5000 soccerfield sized areas of amazonas rainforest are razed to the ground for cattle, leather, soy (for animal feed ofc) and palm oil. Mafia like cartels of cattle breeders threaten and murder indigenous people and activists there and implemented a complicated system of cattle laundering to hide that they burn intact rain forests (green lung of the earth) there. The 10.000.000 anually slaughtered cows there are also exported to US meatpackers. The leather ends up in european car seats. Via container ships.

https://www.pcrm.org/good-nutrition/nutrition-information/chicken

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9495152/

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/13/6/845

My aunt had helicobacter for years. Not a joke.

Apart from that we got lovely H5N1 which has an easy game on poultry farms on animals with weakened immune systems and is bound to break out or mutate if not the whole flock is culled. It’s killed people and some virus could emerge when human and avian flu viruses join forces. It’s ravaging in non-avian wildlife and even a polar-bear currently. All this screams next novel pandemic.

And stuff like this that sure will effect human health in some way. Those behaviours are deliberate. It’s a ruthless industry.

The stringy material is probably Seitan (or vital wheat gluten). It’s purely plant based and made from protein rich flour. It has the highest content of protein in plantbased meat replacements (close and above than real meat) but is usually low in the amino acid lysine, opposed to soy-based replacement which contain all 9 essential amino acids in sufficient amounts.

In forgot vital wheat gluten alias seitan which a bite of would probably obliterate a gluten sensitive person. It’s often used in convenience food.

It’s made out of flour and nothing much else and it happens to have the highest amount protein per gram among the plant based products and even higher than some meat products. The problem is the amino acid profile:

https://vegfaqs.com/seitan-amino-acid-profile/

Protein is made up of about 20 amino acids. Your body can produce 11 of them itself. You need to ingest 9 of them, the so called essential amino acids.

Meat usually contains the complete protein, as well as soy (tofu, edamame, tvp) does. But there are others like quinoa or hemp seeds.

Other plant based protein sources like legumes, beans, peas, grains, seeds & nuts need to be combined to get the 9 EAA because they all are a bit deficient in mostly one amino acid (but they too contain all of them). That’s why beans and rice are often eaten together:

https://www.piedmont.org/living-real-change/what-is-a-complete-protein

I would look into tofu and TVP (textured vegetable protein). The latter is made up of soy but comes in the form of crumbs of varying sizes. It’s dirt cheap here and high protein. If you get the finer grained, you can process them into stuff that resembles ground meat. You can make bolognese, casseroles or burger-patties (in combination with a binding agent like aquafaba or linseeds, onions, mushroom) out of it.

If you don’t want to cook you could make shakes with a food processor or smothie mixer. Plantbased protein powder (pea/rice/soy) + fruits, seeds cocosmilk etc.

I’d install the app cronometer and get a kitchen scale if you don’t have it.

Cronometer contains a gigantic database of products you can easily enter by scanning the barcode. The database is contributed to by users. I can tell they seem to be strict with the quality-control of the contributed products. I contributed one 3 weeks ago and it’s still not in the DB although I looked at pretty in depth websites for the micro nutrients and triple checked the units and numbers.

So you enter your body data and it tells you what your goals are. You can set individual targets, e.g. protein according to your level of activity. You can track workouts too which then modify your macro goals accordingly. You can enter the ingredients of a recipe, save it and restore it when you cook it again. I made myself one e.g. for morning cereals which let me meet my overall daily protein and overall target of 30-40% already. With a daily report it tells you down to the individual vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids what you need. All in the free version.

What you need to do yourself is to find out what micro and macro nutrient is in what product. Cronometer gives you hints if you click on them in the daily report. You don’t need to track forever as it’s sure cumbersome but to get a feeling for proper nutrition it’s an eyeopener.

Most of the listed foods don’t have much taste on its own. And nobody should eat them unprepared. RememberTheApollo_ described it well. But spices are a thing. With them you can transform them into culinary experiences.

Combine chickpeas with cumin, lemon juice, olive oil, tahini/peanut butter and garlic: delicious nurturing Hummus.

Combine chickpeas with parsley, onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, pepper and sesame seeds: mouth watering falafel.

Combine tomatopaste, oliveoil and spices to get a nice base for frying crumbled tofu (a complete protein) to emulate ground meat.

With all the dried food it’s important to prepare them correctly (rinse, soak, cook) to get rid of plant toxins like phasin, solanin, oxalates or arsenic.

E.g. a study found out the best way to prepare natural rice. Peeled rice doesn’t contain much arsenic but natural/brown rice may contain it in its shell (amounts vary by its country of origin).

Chickpeas, soyflakes, rice, hemp & chia seeds, quinoa, tofu, lentils, flour. Most of the dried goods have a shelf life of 1-2 years. The cost of them is sinking in germany. I’m fine with people complaining about rising cost of meat, eggs and dairy and ignoring that fine sources of protein, minerals and vitamins. More for me.

The browser login of my bank needs a separate application that’s windows only or an app. The Java(!) application Jameica saved my ass for the 6 years I’m on Linux now. It can manage multiple accounts. It offers statistics, saves all the transfers, deposits and balances ad infinitum on your disk, is searchable and has templates and schedules for transfers.

The protocol my bank uses is FinTS, I think. I’m logging in via a certificate file and a password.

I don’t want to use an app, cause I trust my cutting edge Linux (Kernel 6.7.6) a lot more than my possibly malicious app riddled outdated android.

Don’t know anything avout xorg development although I’m profitting for years off it now. Just wanted to chime in and say that the Arch maintainers put out updates pretty constantly. If the code isn’t worked on anymore then what’s happening there?

Edit: There is definitely happening stuff with the xorg-server code.

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I saw it in the evening news show of a main TV channel (Das Erste) here in germany that Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas introduced a law to roll back child labour laws, which seems a few other of the GOP reigned, god fearing states also like.

Where several parts of Iowas new law are violating federal child labour laws (e.g. Hazardous Occupations Orders) and that’s why those states are under federal investigation.

From Europe, I hope your gov keeps the promise of cracking down on migrant child labour in hazardous environment and other trends to return to pre-industrial times (e.g. caregivers who exploit the child labour) and offers those kids better possibilities. Those voters in Iowa, Nebraska and the likes are lost anyway.