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Cake day: January 22nd, 2026

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  • The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.

    Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.

    But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.

    Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.

    If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).

    In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:

    • Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
    • Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
    • Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.

    And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.


  • They aren’t going to manufacture there. Chip manufacturing happens almost exclusively in Taiwan. That new building is just an office to design those chips.

    A lot of maths goes into designing computer chips. You need an army of highly trained mathematicians and engineers for that.

    And Israel is a really rich country that gets a lot of gifts and “investments” from people who want to show they aren’t antisemitic. They invest a lot of that money into the education of their citizens.

    Israel’s universities are some of the best in the world. While US universities are on a steep downhill.














  • No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

    However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

    • Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
    • Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
    • Universal free preschool
    • Free school lunch
    • Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

    Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

    • Tighter control on monopolies
    • Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
    • Minimum vacation days
    • Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
    • Maximum weekly work hours
    • Banning false self-employment
    • Union protections
    • Parental leave
    • Free college admission

    The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

    What’s your opinion on those questions?