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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • zlatiah@kbin.socialtoScience@lemmy.ml•Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
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    1 year ago

    Thanks! Wowzers I’ve never heard of Nature Food, didn’t realize this journal had such a high impact factor. A few things of interest to me from the article…

    • Vegans are one standard deviation younger than heavy-meat-eaters and eat fewer calories… although they should have adjusted for the difference
    • This didn’t show on the fancy Monte Carlo simulation they did, but vegans emit much, MUCH less methane than any other group
    • Literally any group is significantly better than heavy meat-eaters, especially low meat-eaters or below

    The questionnaire they used to determine categories:

    • Do you eat any meat (including bacon, ham, poultry, game, meat pies, sausages)? (Vegans, vegetarians and fish-eaters respond ‘No’.)
    • Do you eat any fish? (Vegans and vegetarians respond ‘No’.)
    • Do you eat any eggs (including eggs in cakes or other baked goods)? (Vegans respond ‘No’.)
    • Do you eat any dairy products (including milk, cheese, butter, yoghurt)? (Vegans respond ‘No’.)
      And meat-eaters are divided by grams of meat eaten per day: <50 g/d, 50-100 g/d, >100 g/d. Apparently one patty from McDonald’s (Big Mac has two) is like 45 grams of beef so…

    I mean the conclusions aren’t anything surprising, cows are literally one of the major sources of environmental damage… But it does provide some way moving forward I suppose. I suspect banning steakhouses would have a much better impact than forcing everyone to be vegan lol

  • zlatiah@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•With the way the world's going, is there even a point to anything anymore?
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    1 year ago

    (insert astronaut meme) never has been

    Jokes aside… This is my personal philosophy & probably won’t align with everyone’s. As someone who started science quite young, I realized quite early that beyond societal issues, literally nothing is “meaningful”… If Earth itself will be gone in a few billion years, might as well practice some optimistic nihilism and do some stuff with whatever life I have. There’s still stuff to do even if society doesn’t prioritize ppl like me

  • zlatiah@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
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    1 year ago

    Daily drive Gnentoo, not sure if I could ever wholeheartedly recommend it since it’s not really accessible for beginners…

    If I need a VM I’d probably spin up an Arch or Alpine since they are relatively minimal & are not that difficult to set up once you’re familiar with stuff (well Arch is one-command setup now). For servers… pretty much Debian always since that’s what everyone supports

    Stability-wise… I guess it depends on what type of “stability” I want? If I meant stability by having stable programming environments then it’s not compatible with having new updates, Debian probably would be best for that. If I meant stability by the system not breaking too often, then most rolling release distros are probably fine? Arch/Gentoo have a lot more room for user error which is probably where most of the instability comes from, but otherwise they typically don’t have too many issues I believe. Fedora is great but there’s been some issue with RHEL going close-source, so I guess some ppl won’t want to support that endeavor

  • zlatiah@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
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    1 year ago

    Yes and yes! Couldn’t contribute that much but I try to

    I think having a highly important FOSS project that is not controlled by a company known for shutting down many of its beloved products (I’m talking about you Google) is pretty nice…

    Also I think map quality is location-dependent. I live in a large metropolitan area in Southern US; OSM is usable, but there are no house/building numbers, and a good number of businesses are missing. In contrast I think the map is a lot better in Chicago which is a lot more pedestrian-friendly? Also, when I looked at Germany it seems OSM is on-par or better than Google Maps… in fact one of the larger rental websites use OSM instead of Google Maps (imagine Zillow doing it in US lol)