Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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Characterizing Peterson as a "talented and charismatic academic"?? I don't know, maybe he was before anyone knew of him, but he certainly hasn't been that in the public eye.

Jordan Peterson became a well-known figure after publishing a series of Youtube videos about his opposition to Bill C-16, where he argued that respecting people's pronouns is an affront to his free speech. He's been a hack, a grifter, and an asshole since day one.

I was in theatre school for a while. We touched on everything related to a theatre production, including sound. Our tech would always test his setup with Paul Simon's Getting Ready For Christmas Day.

I've heard that song used to calibrate audio setups so often that it's become easy to identify any issues when I hear it.

Cattle sure, but if you include poultry and porc that shoots up to around 80% of soy used for feed.

I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we'd call it "pot" or perhaps "herbe", both of which don't translate to "bad grass".

Unless overseas "herbe" translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with "gazon" (which just means grass)

Yeah because making clearly false claims and refusing to back them up is totally in good faith and the peak of civility. I don't tend to be civil with people who'd gladly take away my rights.

I know what you're selling too, and don't consider not having to talk to you to be a loss :)

I'd love some examples if you care to share!

There is a difference between "calling everyone a nazi, racist, and transphobe" and calling out Nazis, racists, and transphobes, and a lot of people fail to grasp that nuance. From what I've seen so far in your comments, you're giving off the vibe of someone who either doesn't understand that nuance, or willfully avoids it.

Again, would love some examples if this isn't the case.

I work in a café and the comments I overhear men saying to my feminine coworkers are insane. I get some weird comments sometimes (I'm pretty visibly queer) but it's nothing compared to them. I honestly don't know how women deal with it.

Tomatoes would be odd, I've never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.

But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don't have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P

To add to idiomaddict's great points, the animals don't eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): "the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes" (SFMCA).

This includes "cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins" as per that same source.

I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.

I'll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can't scale to meet current meat consumption.

Sometimes adding the installer as a non-Steam game and running it through Proton works, otherwise I use Lutris. You can find tutorials online for setting it up to use with FitGirl's installers.

Although specifically for Cyberpunk 2077 I had issues with the install, so I found a no-install version, I believe from DODI.

I'm very curious at to what these "far-left" extreme views that the media (owned by billionaires) are espousing. The only news I see is either aligned with fascists or the milquetoastiest of liberalism.

(I'll bet anyone here 5$ that this guy considers "racial minorities and trans people deserve human rights" to be an extremist position)

Ooo I've never heard of this! Kinda sad I only saw this comment after the Summer Sale :P Thanks for sharing!

I'm honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?

I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.

Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren't also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I'd be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.

There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).

If you know where to look, a certain athletic woman can give it to you for free if you're on a Steam Deck!

In a similar vein to Superluminal, I'd also recommend Viewfinder, it's kinda like Portal but with a camera rather than a Portal gun.

Fun fact: there exists black women other than Oprah Winfrey! Experts say there are at the very least 12 non-Oprah black women.

If your job mostly revolves around checking people's documentation and you fail to recognize government-issued ID (from the country in which you work, no less), you're objectively shit at your job.

I don't understand why you're making excuses for the airline. I did a better job than this as a 19 year-old cashier selling lotto tickets.

I would definitely put my money on white nationalists.

Seperationists don't tend to join the Canadian military, nor would they typically display stickers of the American flag on their trucks as you can see in one of the images on the article. Also, when's the last time the souverainiste mouvement got violent? I can't think of anything more recent than the early '70s.

I've recently bought a Steam Deck and have been getting back into gaming after a long hiatus.

I used to play competitive online games (mostly Counter-Strike) and got kinda burnt out on them. It made me not want to game for a while, so I'm diving into slower-paced, single-player games.

Viewfinder and Superliminal are both perspective-based puzzle games that I've been really enjoying. Tickles my brain in kind of the same way the Portal games did on my first playthroughs.

Speaking of Portal, I've also started Portal: Revolution which is a fan-made mod whose story takes place between the two official games. For what it is, it's honestly quite excellent, the puzzles are challenging and fun. Not quite as well-polished as Portal 2, but so far it's giving the first game a run for its money.

I've also been emulating a ton of Mario Kart 8, trying to git gud, my friend group often breaks it out at get-togethers and I want to surprise them with my sudden increase in skill!

EDIT: I forgot, I've also been playing Stray which is honestly such a chill game, you play as a stray cat in this kinda post-apocalyptic world, which you slowly uncover more info about as you hop around. 10/10 so far, might become a catgirl.

I think what the author describes as the culture of Whatever is also a big reason everything kinda sucks now. It's all run by MBAs who have no relation to the product and have no vision except "line goes up". They have no incentive to care about the product they're offering because they couldn't care less about it.