prodigalsorcerer @ prodigalsorcerer @lemmy.ca

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I'm not trying to be a downer here, but a lot of those recipes are just "use dairy-free milk/yogurt/butter" instead of the dairy version. There's nothing inherently vegan about those recipes.

Imo, the non dairy versions are all worse than the dairy versions, and some (like vegan butter) are actually less healthy than the dairy version. Much like how beyond meat isn't healthier (or cheaper) than beef (though is much better to the planet), dairy free alternatives just aren't all that great.

Over the last year, I've worked my way to about 50% of my meals being vegetarian or vegan (mostly vegetarian), but I'm largely unimpressed by vegan/vegetarian recipes that rely on 1:1 replacements for non-vegan products.

The problem with resorts is that they're expensive, so if someone pays for a trip, they're going no matter what. So you get guests with super contagious infections, and then everyone gets it.

There are things resorts can do to better mitigate the damages, but if someone with Norovirus decides they're going to spend the day at the swim up bar, a lot of people are going to get sick.

If a resort is open long enough, their reviews will eventually contain a week or two of people who all got sick.

It's also possible that food handling is not done safely and all manner of other things, but that's hard to distinguish when looking at reviews.

If they couldn't take their collective heads out of their assess for the 5 nanoseconds it should take to see through Trump's crusty veneer, then they were, in fact, fine with it.

"I didn't care", "I didn't know", and any other form of ignorance is inexcusable, especially after his first term in office. Did they think he'd changed somehow?

Every single eligible voter who did not vote was complicit in his victory. A supermajority of voters were fine with this result.

This is a great ideology, but there aren't many better alternatives for a lot of people. Most of the alternatives (e.g. Walmart) are just as complicit.

Avoid Amazon when you can, but they have such a critical mass that the only way to defeat them is through government regulation.

Damn. Biden should have cancelled more EV and clean energy projects and funneled money to the oil companies in his last week.

if supply is low, can’t the province run healthcare just pay more

Best we can do is cap raises at 1% per year.

Exactly this. I'm not going to sell my model 3 - I already paid for it, and I do like it - but I'll certainly be looking elsewhere when I need to replace it if Musk is still associated with Tesla.

With other manufacturers adopting NACS, the biggest advantage of owning a Tesla has vanished.

What charges did the right-way driver get? Ultimately, this wouldn't have happened if they were also driving the wrong way.

Oh sorry, I thought we were playing the "blame everyone but the police" game.

I forget the exact number, but it was the first few. Maybe 3?

One more problem was that the various milestones had projections for likelihood and time to completion, but what they presented to the shareholders was different than their internal projections.

So not only did they think some of these milestones were likely, they lied to shareholders about how likely they were to make the package seem more difficult to achieve.

It can be hard to separate art from artist, but just keep in mind that you've already paid for those books. He isn't getting more money from you just rereading them, and nothing changes if you continue to enjoy the books.

Most people don't "back" Trudeau. We tolerate him because the likely alternative is so much worse.

That's the thing though. The people flying the duck Trudeau flags don't understand that we don't have unwavering loyalty to the party. They don't understand nuance. And it's going to destroy Canada during the next election.

Don't feel too bad. I'm sure that the Chinese 6 year old who made your product didn't try very hard and was punished appropriately.

Why can't a country (or city, or anythung) choose what others call them?

We call it Timor Leste instead of East Timor. We call it Cote d'Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast. We call it Kyiv instead of Kiev. We call it Russia instead of USSR. All of these are names chosen within the last 50 years or so.

A lot of the "traditional" names are just historical holdovers from a very long time ago. If we encountered them for the first time today, we probably would use their chosen name. If tomorrow they said they wanted to be referred to as Deutschland or Nippon, we'd probably accept that and start calling them by those names.

So the only difference is that if you survive your encounter with the police you can get some taxpayer money?

I think people would be more upset about a secret foreign police force if they had any sort of faith in the non-secret local police.

We had a drone scare in a town near where I live. It was dropping a "mysterious substance" on cars and houses. Turns out it was just a heron pooping on things.

Now, there are photos of the NJ drone, so I'm more inclined to believe this is actually a drone, but even still, consumer drones are getting better and cheaper. This could easily just be a teenager having fun.

Can I ask which province you live in? In my experience (Southern Ontario, not GTA) local meat is not cheaper (though it's definitely better quality). Same with locally milled flour and locally grown produce (when in season).

I have tried to support local (and sometimes still do, despite the cost) but I just don't understand how labour costs in Ontario can be so much higher than labor + shipping for produce from California or Florida or Mexico.

Is it just a bigger markup because there are enough people who are hardcore about buying local here? Is there another factor I'm ignoring?

What makes the Kindle more annoying? I've only owned a single Kindle, but I've never had any problem dropping pirated content on it using Calibre.

My next eReader probably won't be a Kindle, but not for reasons related to piracy.

aside from ensuring the fundamentals are in place of affordable accessible homes, is there really any realistic way of nullifying that advantage and is it even right to do so?

I don't think that's an aside, I think that's the key to solving a lot of problems with our current society. Give everyone a roof and enough nutritious food, and most people can figure out how to live their lives from there. The problem is that the lack of housing and food options forces people into low paying jobs with no upward mobility, and continues the cycle of poverty.