dhc02

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[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Completely agree that in general, methane/carbon emissions from ruminants cannot be much of a long-term problem since they're part of a closed carbon cycle.

But, it is worth research IMO, simply because methane is so much more powerful as a greenhouse gas for the short time it remains methane. And it seems quite possible we could steer cow diets in a less methane-y direction without much cost if we had all the right information.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I don't believe anyone who uses tailwind is shipping the whole thing with all of those megabytes of classes in production. It's actually sort of hard to even do that on accident if you're following a tutorial or their official docs.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Short version for anyone wondering:

Even assuming the absolute best, most rose colored glasses kind of outlook, lab-grown meat will be many times as expensive as meat currently is, and that's notwithstanding the billions in investment it will take to get there. Currently it's so expensive to produce that it doesn't even really exist except as publicity stunts. But unlike other potentially paradigm-shifting tech like solar, there's not an exponential downward-sloping cost-adoption curve to look forward to. As of right now, inexpensive lab-grown meat doesn't seem difficult, it seems scientifically impossible.

It would probably be much better to spend those billions on reducing methane in cow farts (seriously), using sustainable grazing to preserve and rejuvenate disappearing and desertifying grasslands, accelerating carbon capture, subsidizing Omnivore's-Dilemna-style holistic farming, etc.

Because, seriously, affordable lab-grown meat is not going to happen without several Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. Instead, it's just going to waste a bunch of money out of the pockets of well-intentioned VCs and institutional investors who could be using it more effectively.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for the tip on Omnivore. I'm now down the rabbit hole and thinking to using it and using the Obsidian or logseq plugin to get everything into one place.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 97 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Reddit admins: "Surely nobody will actually like Lemmy. It's like if you took reddit back in time 10 years. Smaller, more niche, less brand activity, pretty much just die-hard nerds. Who could possibly prefer something like that?"

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Another vote for fastmail. Very nice interface, full-featured, etc.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I recommend silverbullet.md as someone else posted above.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Third rec here for US Mobile. I actually switched from Mint after a couple of years with them (and Google Fi before that). Three of my family members are on the Verizon network through US Mobile, and one is on the T-Mobile network. Nice to have the split when we're traveling because one of the two networks always has coverage.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

First past the post voting systems prevent viable third parties because of human psychology. Why are we pretending to argue about how we phrase this?

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

This is all just so... sad.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Really? That's huge.

[–] dhc02@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been pretty happy with Tusky

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