drinkwaterkin @ drinkwaterkin @lemm.ee

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Not a single comment with an ideal alternative, despite best efforts. We need a fediverse Amazon alternative. 😞

Wage stagnation is absolutely heartbreaking.

But even if I were making a livable wage, Nintendo's prices and other AAA are still ridiculous. The Steam wishlist sale life is the good life.

It's not really individual approaches that my comment is about. I was a cashier in a state where they had banned single use bags, and that seemed to make things worse. Instead of thin single-use plastic bags getting everywhere, there are now nearly as many thicker multi-use usually plastic bags being treated like single-use ones and also getting everywhere. My point was that it's a system that needs more circularity.

Even in spite of best efforts for good systems to remember mine, I still forget them often. The problem in the US is that the system is not complete. The bags need to be made of biodegradable and/or recyclable materials, and every store needs a convenient way to turn in old bags so they can go into a recycling system. There probably shouldn't be a charge for them either.

That's generally even worse, cause the shop-at-home people will automatically buy the cheapest bags at cost to you and they will add up with every grocery delivery.

This must be a sign from God that I need to pursue the American dream of monetized game streaming.

Because even if vegan shoes are made of synthetic materials, leather is still arguably worse. Anyway, having more plant-based materials to work with hypothetically means anything made of those materials should be more biodegradable. But you have a point, biodegradability almost kind of by definition means the product in question is one that's not designed to last. There's probably a middle ground that can be found, like shoes that break down into soil-enriching materials after 50-100 years.

Did you watch the video?

It's possible, and if finances are a struggle you just kind of have to make your best guess in some cases, or buy used. Most of the time when shoes have leather, they advertise it pretty boldly, so that helps. Still, you never know - for example, what are the adhesives made out of? That's why vegan certifications are important, a lot of things can be easily hidden, and a lot of companies aren't particularly clear on their use of animal products even when reached out to directly.

Going vegan means learning to have to put everything under a microscope. The word 'vystopia' exists for good reason.

It depends. For example I just made one quick search, "biodegradable vegan shoes", and this was one of the first results:

https://blueviewfootwear.com/

Also see here, leather at least as bad environmentally, in addition to being ethically awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQgcBUGD3g

They're usually not, at least at this time. More R&D needs to go into plant-based materials for more options. Even so, leather itself is also anything but "organic."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQgcBUGD3g

Anybody can cherry pick isolated studies to support any argument they want. I'm not giving you the time of day on this because it never ends. That's the point. It's the same playbook as the tobacco industry, same as the oil companies. Corporate-backed pseudoscience that appears just about legitimate-enough to create distractions and confusions.

You already admitted to being anti-epidemiology and "respecting" people like Taubes, as well as name-dropping the carnivore diet. That's all I need to know, to know that you're full of nonsense.

Called it. Get your pseudoscience crackpot cheesehands diet nonsense out of here.

Is "associative studies and relative risk" another way of saying, "correlation can't establish causation"? Does that mean we actually don't know if smoking is bad for us? Sorry, but if you're going to read from the same playbooks as idiots like Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz then you're not going to have any credibility. Nutritional epidemiology is rock solid and the cornerstone of sound nutritional science. If your views depend on undermining an entire field of science, you're already cut from the same cloth as climate deniers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeoYQ6FaAw

I'm sorry, but while it might feel good to adopt a "different things work for different people," view, elimination diet is only a necessary tool for rare edge cases at most. There is plenty of foundational research at this point, and for the real nutritional scientists who do the real science, there is a consensus that the Mediterranean dietary pattern is the preferred choice for the general population. That is why this diet is pretty much always the backbone of government dietary recommendations (with deviations in those recommendations usually being the result of capitulation to corporations).

And the more plant-centric your diet gets, the better your outcomes.

I've already gone through and toggled on virtually all of the filter lists.

I got a set of grips for it, but I'm not going to use them unless I'm playing a game using the analog sticks. That's the only part that's uncomfortable for me. On dpad-centric games I'm finding it very comfortable on it's own. Also just want to add that it has probably one of the best dpads I've ever used. Very accurate inputs, and just the right amount of tactile feedback without being quite as loud as the Xbox controller.

It's growing on me very quickly. Been playing a lot of Chrono Trigger on it right now. It's a lot more comfortable to hold than the Steam Deck too. Plus, it supports both Android and Linux. There are already versions of Rocknix and Batocera available for it. It has one of the best looking displays I've ever seen as well.

That said, Steam Deck is still my main go to, because at the end of the day it is a full fledged PC.

I had this thought-process back in December before ordering a Retroid Pocket 5, which was evidently the right call. At this point things are so turbulent that it might be too late. I mean you probably could order right now and the price probably won't suddenly go up - but more important is that everything is so up in the air that you might need that money in the near future for other necessities.

And when the Cathars, or the Templars were eradicated, or when Protestants and Catholics went to war, do you really think it's because of sincerely held beliefs regarding their God, or because one group threatened the hegemony and material wealth of the other? In the case of the Protestants, the single most critical doctrine they went after was the Catholic belief that doctrinal authority came in part from the Bible, and in part from the Church; whereas Protestants argued for Sola Scriptura - the belief that doctrinal authority came from the Bible alone. And even the 95 theses clearly had the goal of ending a system of exploitation and financial parasitism by the Catholic church. Welcome to real politics.

None of this does anything to change that cases of church authority are still functionally the same as those of state atheism and anti-theism. In the case of Christian churches, you have the view that only Christianity is the truth and everything else is both the result of the devil, and leads to evil, and therefore all other beliefs are invalid and ultimately must be eradicated.

In the case of these varying state atheist groups you have governments expressing that atheism is the only valid belief system, and again, all others must cease. And anti-theists are explicit about their view of all other religious beliefs being invalid and needing to be eradicated.

If persecutions and executions against religious people by governments that are saying everyone has to be atheist isn't killing in the name of atheism, then what the fuck is?