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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I hate to break it to wine-drinkers, but alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen. If the risk of Parkinson's due to pesticide use scares you, you won't get away from cancer by going with organic wine.

Even the WHO isn't afraid to say that No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health, so the choice is in your hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Also to be fair, it only tastes "different" when you know it's different. I remember seeing a blind taste test with a panel of trained chefs and none could tell they were eating plant-based meat.

Of course, meat doesn't taste like meat once you've seasoned it, salted it, put sauce and other condiments on it, and otherwise made it taste anything like meat. LOL

So, we can eliminate a great amount of the "it's not the same" factor simply by not marketing plant-based food as "gross" and "different". Let the taste, texture, versatility, and cost speak for itself.

Second, yes, on an industrial scale lab grown meat is better than factory farms. They likely come with the same detriments to human health as real meat, but that aside, I think lab grown meat would make a fantastic alternative to farmed meat used in pet food.

On the climate front, lab grown meat might not be better than beef. It would honestly be a shame if the world all went to lab grown meat, only to find out decades later that it caused more harm than good.

But, in the meantime, we have plants :)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

So many rules and hurdles to overcome just to stubbornly avoid eating plant-based foods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

iPhone 12? Aren't they on iPhone 15 now? How many tens of millions of people are using those? A recall would be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sigh... while "good news", I really hope this doesn't put the push to recycle lithium batteries on the back burner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’ll just buy from specialized retailers most of the time. It’s not really any extra effort.

Tried that a few times, and just felt like I was getting ripped off paying MORE for the product AND paying $20-30 shipping on top of that. Amazon is often cheaper and you get free shipping.

I've love to know of a better company that can compete, because I really can't afford to spend more just to spend more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I find it hard to believe that the smell of 10 bodies buried in the kitchen wouldn't be noticed by everyone in a 2 km radius.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I was a brave user and just got sick of the gimmicks.

I've been on permanent team firefox now on all my devices 😁

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LOL. Of course, I don't advocate for burning things just to burn things.

I just don't think that burning your own books should be considered a crime.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not really true, but I guess it depends on the country.

In the United States at least, burning your own book, flag, or whatever is legally protected free speech. Just as long as you aren't destroying someone else's property.

Context also matters. Burning bibles during a religious service is probably a thin line.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (25 children)

Does this apply to all works of fiction, or only those believed by extremist groups?

I can understand not being allowed to burn historically significant documents and books, but mass-produced books are just cheap fire tinder.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

A few canals away at a bike repair shop, Joram Hartogs says he refuses to repair VanMoofs, "because they're impossible to repair."

"They're so sealed off with their own equipment that nobody else except them can fix it," he says.

"All bike brands have a certain standard," says Hartogs about VanMoof, "and they went around every standard that was available because they didn't want to do anything with regular bike parts. So now they created everything themselves, and it keeps breaking because they wanted to over-design it."

Sounds like it's good that they went under. Nobody should support a manufacturer that does that.

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