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Vegans and vegetarians (once a month meat consumption isnt really an omnivore diet) are more likely to be deficient in Zinc, Iron and are more susceptible to osteoporosis due to poor Calcium uptake. Because animal protein does help the body to absorb minerals like Iron, Zinc and the like (it isnt known for sure why and phytates in certain plant foods also hampers mineral uptake) vegetarians and vegans need to overcompensate for those minerals in their food. On the order of about 50% higher than the RDA for omnivores.

Now I am not saying it cant be healthy, it can and there certainly are problems with how the average westerner eats, but I have no confidence in this being done correctly on a mass scale given the data that has come out. eg. 50% of vegans are deficient in B12 as measured by blood test and thats among a population that is likely much more aware of B12 being problematic since it is only naturally found in significant quantities in animal products and almost every meat and dairy substitute on the market is fortified with B12. And that widespread deficiency STILL happens. Vegetarians are less susceptible to B12 deficiency but still generally rely on the dairy industry to obtain that B12 along with Calcium and Zinc. And because B12 is water soluble not fat soluble, it needs to be obtained daily or in higher doses, semidaily. And the effects of B12 deficiency can be delayed months (pernicious anemia) or years (permanent nerve damage with the anemia hidden by excess folate consumption)

People need education and better meat and dairy substitutes that arent as processed to make this work. Right now, most of them have too much salt and saturated fats to be an improvement.

It takes time to develop things. And solid state batteries like this really are promising.

You think thats bad, we have active shooter drills and safe rooms because nothing is done about our gun nut problem.

The sad thing is that the rates would still be pretty high just to cover the risk. People dont get a payday loan because everything is going fine for them financially.

No it isnt because unless you eat/drink enough dairy or take B12 supplements, youre going to have a B12 deficiency if you do that. People forget that meat actually serves a nutritional purpose.

Then it wont be a problem for most of them when theyre not legally allowed to buy one.

I thought I was an introvert then I realized that "traumatized extrovert" isnt the same thing

My uncle was a mechanic. He spent a lot of time getting that car into good condition. It was the last car we worked on before he died of cancer.

In the US, surgical spirit is isopropyl alcohol.

Isopropyl alcohol

Soaps are generally speaking, salts of fatty acids not long chain alcohols and strong acids. Dont trust LLMs for anything important.

Gold and Tellurium nanoparticle synthesis was the most interesting but I am not sure it qualifies as "complicated" given the procedures we used.

If computational chemistry qualifies, I have run on the order of 5,000 DFT optimizations+freq and of those, the most complicated ones involved metallocarborane clusters. These are composed of Boron, Carbon, a metal and different groups coming off the cluster. The largest one that I worked on took about a week to run the calculations on my home machine.

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The decision making in the economy is too centralized. Not only does that reward corrupting the system and is arguably immoral, the wisdom of the crowd only works when there is a crowd making those decisions. eg. coops, smaller businesses + more competition/lower barriers to entry

Not exactly. Those technological leaps are spread throughout. It just looks like its entirely incremental even though its not really. It takes time to develop things and along the way the existing tech is refined.

Over the last two decades battery technology has increased DRASTICALLY. So the cynicism isnt entirely deserved.

Except... these brands market themselves as environmentally friendly/fair trade. But in reality they're luxury brands. Which isn't compatible with that goal because luxury brands are niche products not products that actually cause real change. Something that actually causes change needs to be sufficiently widely adopted.

Thing is... I actually want things to improve. It matters to me that environmentally friendly products that dont exploit the people that make the materials used in them actually get popular enough to start forcing the industry to change. And while the law is a useful tool to acheive that change, it cant do it on its own. Peoples' buying habits need to be taken into account. You cant just... brute force everything.

If its an oxide or something else insoluble the toxicity would be relatively low. Soluble salts you may as well finalize your will.

If the goal is to actually change the chocolate industry, they're going to have to start caring about price. If a company's product is priced at 14 times the most common forms of chocolate, theyre not doing anything other than catering to the minority of people that are willing to pay that premium. The meat substitute industry has the same problem. Price things at what their niche is willing to pay rather than at a price that people that are more on the fence are willing to pay. So the result is that the cheap brands continue to fuck up the environment and exploit workers with little reason to do otherwise.

1. The coconut cream I can find has the exact same ingredients as the coconut milk from the same brands. It just differs in the amount of water. i.e coconut cream is coconut, water and guar gum. Coconut milk is coconut, water and guar gum. The guar gum is there to help the coconut fat mix with water. You are discovering why that emulsifier is there.
2. There is a reason most people do not do what you are trying to do. There are things that are worth making and things that aren't. What you are going to find is that coconut milk falls into the "dont bother making it yourself unless you literally cannot buy what you want" camp. You seem to want something that is inbetween coconut cream and coconut milk and the reality is that you're probably going to end up mixing the two to get what you want and that isn't going to be cheaper. You need to decide whether you want something cheap or good because you cannot have both.
3. You get what you pay for. Cheaper coconut milk is going to have more water in it. Thats why it is cheaper. The very cheap coconut milk may not even have coconut as the main ingredient besides water.