• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means “covered in or consisting of liquid,” and yet everyone seems to think water can’t be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t itself wet

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    Playboy models were hotter back in the sixties and early seventies, before cocaine, implants, and bleach blonde hair became the norm.

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    Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned

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      8 天前

      Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.

      I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh

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          A towel.

          I don’t take shits in the shower though, so there’s really no risk of me wiping shit on my towel when drying my ass after showering. The bidet is good, but won’t necessarily get everything 100% clean. Two squares of TP to get dry + ensure that everything is completely clean is a very cheap insurance policy.

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        7 天前

        The complete lack of thought for obvious disastrous consequences is how you recognize a true Maoist policy.

        I welcome or wet-ass bidet future, comrade.

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        Right? TP ban sounds like something a person who has never used a bidet would say. Even the bidets that “dry your bum” take forever and don’t fully dry.

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        Just wait a minute and it will dry. I’m going to be sitting there for a couple more minutes on my phone anyway.

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          I’m totally fine with just using two squares of paper to both get dry faster and to ensure that everything is fully clean post-bidet application, to be honest

      • treesquid@lemmy.world
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        7 天前

        Admitting it is left. Creating a whole bigoted persona around how bad it is while secretly engaging in it anyway would be right.

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    Sending the government anything official (like passport or jury summons response) through the post should include free shipping for letter sized envelopes.

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      free

      Not free, paid for with taxes. And as we all know, all taxation is theft. Except for the roads I need to drive my lifted truck on.

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      Wait, you have to pay to send your government official stuff?? Anytime the government wanted me to send them anything (mail-in votes, tax return) they include a free envelope with shipping paid (the netherlands).

      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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        Well, if OP is from the US we typically have to pay at just about any interaction with the government.

        They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet, but I genuinely can’t think of any other meaningful, direct interaction I’d have with a government office that doesn’t involve me playing money.

        Edit for clarity: by paying money, I mean by a means other than taxes.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        nah that’s actually right wing (in theory)

        in reality, it’s left… the world is a weird place

        • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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          Nah, driving is a very cultural and now traditional practice, changing it is a change in those domains so it’s left

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          I mean, people on the left generally aren’t against subsidizing transportation, the problem is with cars specifically. Their dominance is generally bad for society as a whole, but good for a few already very powerful people.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    People really actually should learn how to make bugs into more widespread, varied, and tasty cuisine.

    Meat is about to get much, much more expensive.

    Addendum: Ask the vegans about their most cost effective, most sustainable protein sources.

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      but insects are less efficient than just growing protein-rich crops, it makes way way more sense to just stop feeding our crops to livestock and instead turning it into seitan and TVP

      plus, both of those products are effectively just a strange kind of meat, if you serve someone bolognese without telling them it’s made with seitan they absolutely will not notice the difference.

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        Please do tell me more about seitan and TVP.

        Or, rather, I will have to look into these more on my own at some point.

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          i mean there’s not much to it, they’re both protein extracted from plants in some way.
          the only real difference to meat is slightly different texture and lack of innate flavour, so you need to either serve with something else flavourful or marinate it first.

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      All plants are good protein sources, and you probably don’t need as much protein as you think. The most sustainable plants are grown on a local farm. Investing in a CSA share makes it more economically sustainable for both the farmers and consumers. The most cost effective is probably something gross and drowning in pesticides (not sustainable).

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        Ah see, this is the problem though.

        I agree with all you’ve said.

        But… CSA won’t feed 8 billion people.

        Full stop, it won’t.

        Not without a magically generated total overthrow and reworking of world capitalism as it exists, toward some kind of eco based localized socialsm or something… yep, it would be nice if that would happen, but magical thinking is dumb.

        So, that can’t be the generalized proposed framework for the future, unless you’re just fine with a few billion people starving to death.

        Bugs though?

        Might be a more cost effective solution for protein that can actually work at scale, allow CSA to focus on the healthier and more sustsinable plants, and bugs as a protein source would probably be a hell of a lot less resource intensive and more sustainable than… our current level of cows, chickens, pigs, etc.

        We use so much farmland to grow food for pigs cows chickens.

        We could probably use a lot less farmland if that went to feeding crickets or something, and then use the saved farmland for healthier vegetables.

        At least, this is my rough and broad understanding/idea.

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          It’s harm reducing compared to exploiting mammals and devastating the environment with ranching and it’s supporting agriculture. Also - you will eat the bugs.

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                  It is at this point, 7 comments deep, arguing over whether or not this is a ‘left’ or ‘right’ stance or otherwise how to classify it, that I am going to suggest that I have successfully produced an opinion which does not easily fit on the traditional left-right spectrum.

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                  Oh gotcha, yeah, it’s tied in with conspiracism about the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab that’s based on the standard global elite antisemitism

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        Came here to say this. Don’t be weirdos trying everything to eat new animals, and eat some BEANS immediately

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          I mean, I mostly agree, beans and legumes are very, very practical…

          But … beans and bugs?

          Variety is the spice of life?

          Maybe there is some kind of way to process crickets or ants into basically… ‘meat’ patties, ala impossible burgers or what not?