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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (9 children)

There are two things you do when voting in a two-party system:

  1. Vote to keep out the candidates that would do real damage
  2. Vote to communicate your preferences for candidates with platforms that match your priorities

I know it seems like a third party is the only solution to your current situation, but it's not. The solution is to keep the idiots out by voting Democrat in general elections, and then to vote in primaries or with your campaign contribution dollars for Democrats who match your views on Israel/Palestine.

You might also support candidates who are in favor of voting reform, including things like ranked choice voting, which also happen to be people who currently run as Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely agree that in general, methane/carbon emissions from ruminants cannot be much of a long-term problem since they're part of a closed carbon cycle.

But, it is worth research IMO, simply because methane is so much more powerful as a greenhouse gas for the short time it remains methane. And it seems quite possible we could steer cow diets in a less methane-y direction without much cost if we had all the right information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't believe anyone who uses tailwind is shipping the whole thing with all of those megabytes of classes in production. It's actually sort of hard to even do that on accident if you're following a tutorial or their official docs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Short version for anyone wondering:

Even assuming the absolute best, most rose colored glasses kind of outlook, lab-grown meat will be many times as expensive as meat currently is, and that's notwithstanding the billions in investment it will take to get there. Currently it's so expensive to produce that it doesn't even really exist except as publicity stunts. But unlike other potentially paradigm-shifting tech like solar, there's not an exponential downward-sloping cost-adoption curve to look forward to. As of right now, inexpensive lab-grown meat doesn't seem difficult, it seems scientifically impossible.

It would probably be much better to spend those billions on reducing methane in cow farts (seriously), using sustainable grazing to preserve and rejuvenate disappearing and desertifying grasslands, accelerating carbon capture, subsidizing Omnivore's-Dilemna-style holistic farming, etc.

Because, seriously, affordable lab-grown meat is not going to happen without several Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. Instead, it's just going to waste a bunch of money out of the pockets of well-intentioned VCs and institutional investors who could be using it more effectively.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the tip on Omnivore. I'm now down the rabbit hole and thinking to using it and using the Obsidian or logseq plugin to get everything into one place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

So incredibly true

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Every time I grab my son's or my grandma's iPhone to help them with something I run into this lack of universal "back" functionality and it drives me absolutely crazy.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit admins: "Surely nobody will actually like Lemmy. It's like if you took reddit back in time 10 years. Smaller, more niche, less brand activity, pretty much just die-hard nerds. Who could possibly prefer something like that?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Another vote for fastmail. Very nice interface, full-featured, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I recommend silverbullet.md as someone else posted above.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Third rec here for US Mobile. I actually switched from Mint after a couple of years with them (and Google Fi before that). Three of my family members are on the Verizon network through US Mobile, and one is on the T-Mobile network. Nice to have the split when we're traveling because one of the two networks always has coverage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is all just so... sad.

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