I keep saying for a while that Precision Fermentation is the future. Because if it isn't, that probably means there isn't one.

Using the lowest trophic level possible to grow our sustenance directly is the only way to ensure the least destruction possible. Which ensures the most environmental and ethical efficacy. As there should never be anything to distinguish between them in the first place.

Have an acount on both and use them to verify each other.

I have a Proton mail account. While I'm ready to scold them for stop posting on Mastodon while still posting you know where!!... I think the stupid tweet that Andy Yen posted got way too out of hand. It was one tweet. You should find the tweet and read it yourself. It's just a dig at the "Left" in the vein of "wait, since when is a Republican defending small tech from Big Tech more than the Left?" It was tone deaf, and dumb and calls caution to the fact that this may be another dumb tech Bro who likes to tweet irresponsibly just as much as the idiots we know too well. But it wasn't any form of endorsement at all. Just a tone deaf attempt to create social pressure for the supposed "Left" to do what it is supposed to do. And oh boy, did the tone deaf tweet backfire.

But anyway, I belive, like many people here do, that one shouldn't put all of one's efforts to just one bet. That is how we got Google in the first place. You should also have a Tuta Mail as well, especially if you seem inclined to and don't have an alternative mail to Proton. I'm always ready to jump at any time that I find something that displeases me. And that includes Proton.

There's also personal preferences at play. What works really well for one person, might not for another.

We should try to spread our choice amongst all the villagers. Do not replace your entire Google suite for the Proton one. That's how we get another powerful conglomerate.

I don't like making generalisations...

But...

I agree.

There is absolutely an observable correlation there. And mentioning exceptions will only prove the rule.

Yup. It does, doesn't it?

I know people with a lot of money to their name who buy second hand just to get around, and people with not much that end up with barely a cent to spare because they're paying a loan to own a car they couldn't really afford. Go figure.

"It takes a special type of person"- as you said.

Also, my comment wasn't a dig at people for liking or enjoying cars at all. It's about specific ones and how they're being driven around... we see them around right?

It's the same with motorcycles to.

The problem is never the vehicles themselves, obviously, it's the idiots that get drawn to them and ruin what others might enjoy in them as well.

Thank you for pointing that out to me because I really missed that.

That does make blurring the license plate hilariously futile. Well, unless people need to go get their ears checked or cleaned like me.

Thanks again. You gave me something to laugh and something to worry about.

Cheers.

Why is it always the kind of person you think it's gonna be? I mean, always. One can match the level of inconsiderable idiocy from car models alone.

Imagine knowing you're wrong and persist and insist this much in continuing to do the wrong thing in front of everyone, so that everyone can behold the thing that everyone knows that is wrong for you to be doing, and you still continue to do the wrong thing that you know that everyone knows that you know that is wrong to do. No? Hurts your brain, doesn't it?

Now... Why is his license plate blurred in the video? Does this level of inconsiderate behaviour deserve that level of consideration in return?

Thank you for beating me to it. I 100% agree with you.

But I have to say, in order to meet the nutrient density requirements, they would have to completely reform the agricultural sector. Which I would love, but we know how this goes with these people.

And the fact that in 2025, we keep stacking people on top of each other to the point that more than half of the world's population is living like this in cities, which is integrated in a vertical axis, but the energy consumption of the same people is still spreading elsewhere on an horizontal axis... that is foreboding the worst of outcomes in this regard.

The permaculture philosophy and the syntropic method would have to be integrated. And with it, vertical indoor farming in cities as a necessary response. But this would mean the end of monocultures and pesticide use. No more plowing either. Terrible for the microorganisms in the soil, means terrible for everything else. Soil policy would have to be in place as a baseline... it's a lot.

But I keep saying this... Environmentalism, veganism, sustainability and ethics are all the same thing. The very same thing. It's trying to insure that our lives as both the individual and the mass population causes the least destruction and suffering as possible. And that we can aspire to be net positive to all biological life on the planet. If the general population understood this, we could be heading somewhere. Unfortunately without understanding entropy and how the trophic balance is achieved, I doubt that one can understand syntropy or what the hell I'm even talking about right now.

But yeah... Syntropy vs Entropy is hard to explain in a small paragraph to the ADHD crowd of our time, I guess.

So... Optimism is just not in the cards. Not for me at least.

In my opinion it lacks the core essentials of game design.

But one ought to get used to it. With the A.I. boom, procedurally generated is no longer secluded to the dungeons and "rogue like" games, as the future in the mind of a lot of game devs these days is how it augments the possibilities of any given game. And while in theory it is true, in practice it translates into very bland gaming. Because it lacks the intention and precision in hitting whatever makes the contextual gameplay interesting and engaging in the first place.

But... to each their own, I'd say.

Thank you for being so considerate.

I live in the south of Portugal. In the Algarve to be more precise (lots of Americans started moving here since covid by the way). It's hot and humid because of the proximity with the ocean. Nights don't cool off when it's this bad and that is the shitty part.

I can't say that I'm not used to it. It happens every year. But I can't say that I've ever gotten used to it either.

It has gotten worse over the years, though. I'm entering my middle age now and when I was a kid the temperatures here would go up to maximum of 33 °C (91,4 °F), and now we get 40 °C (104 °F) and people think "it's just another one of those days". My girlfriend caught 43°C (109.4 °F) in the thermometer in her car this weekend.

Anyway, I use most of your suggestions every year, and they're all helpful to anyone who's not used to this kind of heat.

I would say my most unusual ones is to remain covered when I go outside, not only a hat, but long sleave overshirts and pants, both so that the sun doesn't directly hit my skin, which both dehidrates us faster and raises our core temperature as well. Then when I get to the shade or indoors, I remove the shirt and the hat and let the cooling begin. It's essentially the same idea that people did and still do traversing deserts. They're all wrapped up to preserve humidity and keep their bodies from heating in shade. This works much better in dry climate than humid, but still does work. It's not the most pleasant feeling though that's for sure. The other one that everybody thinks I'm nuts is to never shock my temperature with too much cooling. That means no cold beverages or ice-creams. Or cold showers. Why? While they provide relief, I find that my body then doesn't stop the craving effect, and it gets harder to sustain the periods in-between those "shock reliefs" as I call them.

But yeah, salty snacks and drinking water continuously rather than too much at once would be my top suggestions.

And keeping an eye on the elderly of our family and community too.

I've been barricated in my room with the Air Conditioning for as long as it is possible over the last few days.

And while it brings me some relief, it also burdens my conscience to know this relief is also contributing to the problem that makes seeking this relief necessary.

Just shoot me already.

I was registered on Lemm.ee. Now I'm registered on piefed.social. So, technically not Lemmy anymore. I do suspect a lot us moved to piefed. That was the general buzz. I genuinely don't know if the posts and comments of Piefed don't track on Lemmy. I'm sure the ones amongst piefed users in piefed instances don't though. That alone could justify a substantial part of that drop. But I'm still here interacting with Lemmy.