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These days, just a retired guy who likes to hike.

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And just like DEI teams, ethics teams will be easy to cut back on if a company runs into economic trouble.

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Avoiding dupes is, I think, an important one. We've had multiple instances on Beehaw of the same story showing up more than once. If you try to post a duplicate link, Lemmy will let you know (by showing the previous copies to you as crossposts). It's harder to make sure you're not posting the second or third story from a different source on the same topic. Perhaps we can just encourage people to search before posting.

I'd like the rules to at least ask people to add an image description in their original post. https://beehaw.org/post/686974 would be good to link to here.

And given the nature of many posts in the news, I think it would be good for this community to remind people to be(e) nice in their discussions.

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Clearly someone needs to figure out how to get an old Furby to interact with a new Furby.

(Of course, someone has already done ChatGPT + Furby)

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Their web site is down, but their Github account is currently still available, with 3D printing files and software for their microlab.

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I'm pretty sure that discovering a new isotope while working on your MS guarantees that you'll get the degree.

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Telling one person that they can help out by not having kids is rather different from, as the dictionary says

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group

Even suggesting to a whole group of people not to have kids is not the same as killing them.

So no, it's not a logical conclusion. It's illogical rhetoric. But you do you, I guess.

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You appear to be unable or unwilling to distinguish between "preventing births" and "voluntarily choosing not to have children."

Not sure why you're quite so interested in escalating the rhetoric here (forced sterilization? in a thread that started with individual action to save honeybees? really?) but in view of the first rule of Beehaw ("Be(e) nice") I'm not interested in joining you.

Logitech Faces Stock Price Drop and Troll Reviews After Titan Sub Disaster (www.mensjournal.com)

"OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush piloted the Titan submersible using a Logitech F710 controller designed for PC gaming. After the tech giant was seemingly implicated in the ill-fated expedition, the reaction from the stock market was instantaneous. According to MarketWatch, Logitech's share price started out the week at $56.73 on...

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I've seen this "sub affects logitech stock" story a few times now, and I don't find it very credible. If you look at the 1-month or longer price of the stock, it's pretty evident that (a) a 5% intraday variation in price is totally normal and (b) the recent news that has actually hurt the stock price substantially is that their CEO resigned.

I'm skeptical that Amazon review trolls are buying enough stock to move the market.

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In addition to making it easier to find authentic perspectives, we're also improving how we rank results in Search overall, with a greater focus on content with unique expertise and experience. Last year, we launched the helpful content system to show more content made for people, and less content made to attract clicks. In the coming months, we’ll roll out an update to this system that more deeply understands content created from a personal or expert point of view, allowing us to rank more of this useful information on Search.

That seems like just a step in the inevitable AI arms race.

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This is why I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, and Firefox with a few selected extensions that ensure I almost never see an ad. I would be shocked if Google enabled any long-term ad-free experience.

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Yep, I get it. Effectively block ads and javascript and it doesn't much matter what a site wants to do. I skip the few that have actually effective paywalls (as opposed to just putting a div over content on the page - as far as I'm concerned, if it's downloaded to my computer, I am allowed to read it). Of course, the sites that load up on ads tend to be pretty low-quality content anyhow.

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I re-read books frequently. But then, I am a fast and voracious reader. I’ve recently been trimming down my library from around 7000 books due to an upcoming move, and there’s a hardcore of about 2000 I’m unwilling to get rid of because they’re either reference materials or old friends I expect to re-read before I die. There are some things (LOTR, much Heinlein, Oz books, Alice in Wonderland…) that I’ve read a dozen times or more.

I do re-read some non-fiction, mainly history. But most of my well-worn books are fiction.

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Beans & Greens - infinitely flexible by varying your choice of legumes, liquid, greens, and seasonings

Spaghetti sauce or Sloppy Joe meat can be made in almost any quantity and is at least a few steps up from McDonalds

For more formal recipes, we enjoyed these two:

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That is...amazing.

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I think one of the major benefits is that courts do take notice of science, even in this country. The more we get studies on the record, the harder it will be for transphobic laws to stand judicial challenges.

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Yes, that sentence is in the original article. Did you have something you wanted to discuss? There are three studies in all in the article, so I don't find cherry-picking a single sentence contributes much here.

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I tend to wing it a lot with stew-ish things. Here's one set of rough instructions:

  • Saute any combo of mushrooms/onions/garlic/cherry tomatoes/peppers in olive oil
  • Add 3 cups water/vegetable broth, bring to boil
  • Stir in 1 cup green lentils/red lentils/yellow split peas/green split peas, stir as it comes back to a boil
  • Season with salt/pepper/smoke seasoning/chili/whatever looks good
  • Simmer 15-30 minutes till done

Freezes fine, though I usually eat it before it makes it to the freezer

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Non-paywall article on the same topic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-meteorologist-chris-gloninger-quits-18-year-career-after-receiving-death-threat-over-his-climate-coverage/

I'm saddened by this, but not surprised. The rationalist in me wants to think that at some point the red state attacks on science will have consequences in worse quality of life for their residents, but I'm not optimistic enough to believe that will happen before the whole culture collapses.

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It's not just about the information though, is it? Web forums can offer a sense of community that his preferred alternative (long-form Medium articles with comments) just can't match, in my experience.

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And yet politicians are still talking about fixing Social Security. Good luck with that.

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One of my favorites: https://www.unicornlove.com/blog/2015/2/18/easy-olive-oil-shortbread-recipe.html

I have to limit how often I will make this, because I know I will gobble up the entire pan in a day and feel guilty about it.

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I've done them both ways. They're still sweet and munchable with cheap grocery OO, but if you like the taste of a high end oil it will come through and make them even better (in my non-humble opinion).

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Besides the ones in the article, I think these are also worth a look:

  • The Veganomicon - Lots of what I would consider "classic" vegan recipes
  • Veganize It! - A starter for converting meat recipes to non-meat versions

Also just about any near- or far-east cookbook will probably have some vegetarian recipes in it. Get outside the US and Europe and the "meat with every meal" focus seems to decrease.

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Chickpea salad sandwiches. There are plenty of recipes out there. Here's one.

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Terrifying. I worry enough about chipping my teeth on things like pits as it is.

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Oh man, I used to love eating uni...many years ago when I lived in the Seattle area. Now I'm in the midwest where "sushi" means "suspect-looking tuna rolls at the supermarket" and I'm vegan to boot. No more sea urchin gonads for me.

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I personally enjoy baked beans mixed with mac & cheese.

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Why bother with the reheat step? I'll happily eat refrigerated two-day-old pizza at fridge temperature.

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So they did. Apparently I've eaten enough pizza to impact my reading skills. Sorry about that.

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Looks like only available in one restaurant for now, but it's a start.

"For one thing, cultivated meat is not vegan or vegetarian." -> I know some vegans who would disagree with that, on the grounds that no animal cruelty or slaughter is involved. I suspect there will be a fair bit of debate on this as cultivated meat becomes more widespread. I would guess just like we've already got "I'm a vegetarian who eats fish" we'll end up with "I'm a vegan who does/doesn't eat cultivated meat."

You might want to cross-post this to https://beehaw.org/c/food too.

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There are some analyses out there that suggest cultivated meat will actually be worse for the climate than animals - for example https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-footprint-worse-beef

Of course the cultivated meat startups disagree: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/1138371310/a-taste-of-lab-grown-meat

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Yeah so far it seems to be battling experts. UC Davis is a big agriculture/animal science school. On the other hand I don't trust the lab meat industry's own experts either. Hoping at some point to see a credible neutral analysis.

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Looks like it's already under discussion (not surprising given that some of the cultured meat companies are in Israel: https://time.com/6251154/lab-grown-meat-kosher-israel-rabbi/ https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2293219/jewish/Is-Lab-Grown-Meat-Kosher.htm

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There are some of us here who are not part of the admin team and yet would prefer to discuss the original topic, not your argumentative posts about moderation. Well, at least one of us.

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Yes, and? I'm a moderator in a different community. That's different from being on the admin team (admins have many powers mods do not) and I'm not a moderator here which gives me no special options compared to any other user.

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