ProdigalFrog

I popped in there to encourage some having trouble. One seemed pretty grumpy about not remembering an old account as a roadblock for some reason, but hopefully someday they head over here regardless.

Absolutely deserves it, it's a masterpiece of animation and storytelling.

For those concerned about climate change enough to radically change your diet, which is no small feat, I'd highly recommend giving some of the meat substitutes a try if you haven't already.

While some can have an off flavor, there are some types that are genuinely indistinguishable from the real thing. In my experience, Impossible Meat and Quorn brand beef, chicken, and sausage substitutes are literally as good as real meat, and can be used without modification in any recipe that calls for them.

Impossible meat is somewhat expensive, but you can stock up when it goes on sale, or when you see it at costco. Quorn on the other hand is quite affordable and widely available in the freezer section of most grocery stores (and as an added bonus is made in Ireland, so you can buy an EU product at the same time!).

An even cheaper option is Seitan, which can also be indistinguishable from real meat, and can be created in a few different ways.

You can stretch out these meat alternatives in things that use ground meat by adding in some lentils to bulk out a meal without taking away from the meaty-ness of it, or even use lentils themselves as a meat substitute, though that won't taste the same and will be its own thing (but very economical!).

I was a pretty heavy meat eater most of my life, but the horrible conditions of factory farms combined with the climate crisis finally pushed me into trying these alternatives, and I'm quite happy to report that I can still make all of the meat-filled recipes I grew up with thanks to these alternatives, allowing me (and my family) to cut real meat out of our diet.

I seriously recommend giving it a try, I think you'll be really impressed with how far meat substitutes have come.

There's very good reasons that app developers focus on flatpaks, which mostly revolves around how incredibly terrible the experience is creating native packages for each distro and each release version of those various distros.

Flatpak used to be problematic, but even a loud hater of Flatpak, Richard Brown of openSUSE, now lauds Flatpak as an excellent solution after his criticisms were addressed.

Unions are helpful in teaching people how they can have power collectively, and how to wield it and organize.

Admittedly many unions now are corporate captured (teamsters as an example), but more revolutionary unions like the IWW are much more useful in regards to actually getting people to become class conscious, and more apt to prefiguraton.

An example in practice is how the FNT and CAI unions in Spain were able to organize their communities when the government institutions crumbled during the Spanish civil war, resulting in a well functioning anarchist society in Catalonia.

For me on voyager, the link directs to a comment below on that post left by Rubisco, which links to an article about restricting communication to encourage people to purchase things, which I assume the OP considered worthy of posting here.

Update: further investigation into this topic has revealed that the information in my previous comment is out of date. Trans fats in margarine have been effectively outlawed in most countries (starting properly in the US in 2021). The solution from the companies making margarine was instead of partially hydrogenating oils, they fully hydrogenated them, turning them into a fully saturated fat similar to coconut oil or avocado oil.

However, to achieve the same result as the partially hydrogenated form, they are now using fat interesterification, which hasn't really been researched enough to know the full health implications, but the studies that have been done so far seem to indicate it's not healthy.

There are currently no laws or regulations forcing companies to reveal the use of interesterified fats in a product, but they are likely used wherever the older trans-fat containing margarine was previously used.

Apologies for spreading outdated information!

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I would personally advise against the use of margarine and all other hydrogenated fats/oils, ~~as they are typically very high in trans fats, which are strongly linked to heart disease.~~ EDIT: No longer true, please see my other comment below

A good replacement for butter is butter flavored coconut oil, or other butter alternatives that do not use hydrogenated oils/fats, such as Miyoko's Plant butter, which uses a mix of safe oils (but is usually pretty expensive).

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1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!

If you live in a effected area, a cheap under sink carbon block filter should filter out most PFAS (and chlorine, making your water taste much better).

The most likely contributor towards the plant oils being healthier is, I can only assume, their makeup of Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids. Most research seems to suggest that having a more balanced ratio of omega 3 and 6 fatty acids results in reductions in all cause mortality. Since most diets nowadays significantly over represent omega 6, it's usually recommended to focus on Omega 3 to swing the ratio back the other way.

Butter has very little Omega 3 (a teaspoon only has about 25mg~) and is mostly just a saturated fat, which can be used for energy, but has little health benefits, besides the Vitamin A and E. It does not meaningfully contribute to either Omega 3 or 6.

Seed oils on the other hand can have significant amounts of Omega 3, depending on the oil. There's a bunch of caveats when it comes to seed oils, as how they're processed or the type used in cooking can effect if they are oxidized (and thus become a health hazard). But a high quality seed oil high in Omega 3, such as an expeller pressed Canola oil that was not exposed to too much heat, will offer significant sources of Omega 3 (and 6), without the cholesterol of Butter. I suspect that's where most of the health benefits are coming from.

Since most seed oils are quite sensitive to oxidation when exposed to heat, I personally think Avocado oil is the safest to use when frying, as it has the highest smoke point. But for salads, or low heat applications expeller pressed canola is a fantastic choice.

Fahrenheit 451. It houses a pertitant message within a really fantastic pulpy thriller.