Tofu Linux when? 😟

‘Using cloud software will lead to lower costs and a better overall service quality’

mostly automated, including cotton harvesting

Do you have a source for that? As per the last documentaries I saw on this topic, sweatshops are still a huge topic in the textile industry. 10 years ago there was a horrible accident in Bangladesh where more than 1000 people were killed and another 2500 injured after the building of a single textile factory collapsed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse

As per the sources I know, conditions might have slightly (!!!) improved since then but still miles away from acceptable.

More than 60 million people work in the textiles and garment industry across the world according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) – most of them in developing and emerging economies. Yet in many of these countries, production and working conditions fall short of internationally defined environmental and social standards.

https://www.bmz.de/en/issues/textiles-industry

Despite public outrage about substandard working conditions, the global garment and textile industry remains rife with cases of sweatshop conditions, union-busting, gender discrimination, and forced and child labour. Around the world, the rights and safety of garment workers are being systematically neglected.

https://www.somo.nl/our-work/sectors/garment-and-textiles/

Textile workers in underdeveloped countries face labor rights abuses, low pay, long hours, dangerous working conditions, and restricted access to healthcare and education. Gender discrimination is a significant issue, particularly for women.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-5341-3_19

Today, the textile sector is one of the largest economic sectors globally in terms of production amount, labor employment, and gross domestic product. At the same time, it is also one of the least sustainable sectors due to its profound negative environmental and social impacts

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15589250231220359

Also it’s the first time that I hear that fashion is manufactured mostly in automated processes. I always heard that it’s highly labor intensive because the styles permanently change, batches are small and complex designs still can’t be automated in an economic way. As far as I know, there are no machines that can produce the numerous different models of shirts, trousers, backpacks, jackets, caps, dresses, skirts etc. that we see in fast fashion.

How exactly do you plant and harvest cotton, transform it into cloth and sew a shirt without labor? In agriculture as well as the textile industry we see horrible working conditions in Africa and Asia where this stuff is mostly manufactured.

Alcohol is a harmful substance that destroys numerous lifes every day and shouldn’t be gamified!

Guess you gotta drink now!?

Are there piracy related websites with a domain from the EU or any western country? I thought for this very reason they always go for .to, .cc, .in and so on…

Yeah, I don’t say I don’t understand your feelings. People seeking revenge is a natural impulse. It’s just not what the German system aims for.

Well, I guess it depends on what you want to achieve.

If just you let a criminal rot in jail forever without any perspective, that’s just an inhumane and expensive form of death sentence. If you desire revenge and torture that’s your way to go.

On the other hand, I think 15 years in prison is a pretty long time to realize what you have done, to regret it and possibly change for the better. In a scenario without perspective you as a prisoner feel completely detached from society and instead of maybe having an epiphany one day, you’ll rather feel more and more hatred.

Sure, if you’re still as bad of a person at the end of your sentence, then you can’t be released in order to protect society from you.

If I were a victim, I’d probably feel better knowing that my offender is released from prison, feels guilty and deeply regrets the crime. At least in comparison to someone that is proud of what happened, full of hate and is just waiting for a chance to get at me again.

No, I think there are some that are comparable to mid-class hotels and some that are a lower standard. But in general none should be as bad that you’d rather die if you didn’t want to die before your imprisonment.

In Germany at least, jail time doesn’t scale linearly with the count of crimes or victims. Jail time isn’t primarily meant as revenge or punishment, but more as the time required to revisit the mistakes you did and to make you again a functional member of society.

It won’t necessarily make a difference if you murder one person or 10 or 100. Typically, the sentence will be 15 years. If the judge thinks you’re too dangerous to ever be released again they can order you to stay in prison after the 15 years end (“Sicherheitsverwahrung”) but also this decision will be revisited at some point.

Would it be racist to now give more money to the darker skinned people?

From my perspective, yes.

The redistribution of the generational wealth should be adressed as well by politics but that should be independent of the racism discussion. Significantly unequal distribution of money due to inheritance is more and more dividing society. But I don’t care if the rich people have a lighter or darker tan.

If you target inequality with inequality in the opposite direction, you’re just feeding rightwing narratives IMO.

For those of you who understand German or are willing to use a translator I highly recommend this recipe: https://veggie-einhorn.de/veganer-russischer-zupfkuchen/

I use Altra Lone Peak for hiking and there’s indeed lots of space for your toes. Never had blisters again.

I vote for Japanische Kampfhörspiele!

But emotions aside, wouldn’t I cause additional harm rather then less harm to animals and the planet by replacing them?

Even some vegans who adopted veganism recently may keep some of their leather items until worn out instead of replacing them straight away as they may have done with wool or silk clothes.

What would be a reason not to wear them anymore? I didn’t read the full article till the very end but IMHO the most damaging part is buying leather products. If you already have them, I see little sense in trashing the stuff. If it’s in good condition, you could sell/gift it to someone to potentially avoid that other person is buying new stuff.

The only other reason I could make up would be ‘marketing’. So to stop wearing these things to stop the normalization of it. But TBH I doubt that an average person can tell the difference between real and fake leather boots or merino and polyester shirts.

I have a 20 year old leather belt with a lot of wear on it, old leather boots, some merino clothes for hiking that I have fixed with yarn like a dozen of times… All of it isn’t in a condition to give it away but also feels not ready for the trash. I think I do better to keep 'em until they really fall apart completely instead of buying alternatives now.

As far as I know, it’s not the number of processing steps that decides on the healthyness of the end product. We know that most processed meat products are really unhealthy thanks to potassium chloride and carcinogenic nitrosamines.

But pasta or bread aren’t worse than wheat as long as no additional ingredients are added. Tofu isn’t worse than soy. A ready to eat tomato sauce with herbs, garlic and olive oil isn’t necessarily worse than a sauce you prepare yourself.

However, industry food often contains lots of added sugar, saturated fats and questionable additives. But that’s more a correlation than a causality.

The list IMHO contains mostly common stuff. To add a few:

• Sweet lupines (can be prepared like beans but also transformed into patties, sausages etc.)
• Hemp seeds (for best nutritional value they should be eaten raw as a pesto, pasta topping, in salads, muesli etc.)
• Lin (either available as seeds, then basically the same applies as for hemp, but you can also get a flour that is left-over from the lin oil production that has around 50% protein)
• Pumpkin seeds (same as with lin, also here you can buy the left over powder from oil production that’s loaded with protein.
• Peas
• Pistaccios
• Peanuts
• Almonds
• All kinds of nuts (walnut, hazelnut, …)
• Oat (from my perspective heavily underrated as it’s really cheap and tasty, not only for muesli but makes a great base for patties, croquettes, whole oat kernels can be also prepared like rice etc.)
• Chickpeas
• Sesame (also exists as a paste called Tahina, only in moderate amounts as it contains arsenic)
• Pearl barley (like rice)
• Cous cous (wheat based)
• Polenta (similar to cous cous but corn-based)
• Pine seeds
• Cedar nuts

For all of these sources you can buy the the pure ingredient but there’s also a lot of prepared or even ready-to-eat products available. There’s all kind of high protein pasta that’s made from peas, chickpeas, soy, lupine etc. Patties, sauges, …

Kernels, nuts, seeds aren’t only great protein sources but contain also very healthy fats. So definitely integrate them into your diet but keep in mind the calories.

Also most veggies, mushrooms are good protein sources. They don’t contain as much protein per weight because they contain so much water. So they aren’t an ideal primary source of protein unless you want to eat like several pounds. But if you look at dried tomatoes or shitake mushrooms they are also rich in protein. The fresh ones are even better of course. Same with potatoes. Great protein, just dilluted with water and starch. ;)

Getting enough protein isn’t that difficult afterall. Always try to mix several sources to provide a wider variety of amino acids available to your body.

I agree. I would rather praise the alternative. Let’s explain that it’s delicious and healthy and potentially cheaper and (depending on your target audience) better for the planet and animals. And be normal about it. Veganism has a pretty bad image in some circles and people don’t want to be seen as some kind of freak.