Please don’t reach out to the phone number. This might be as well some kind of obfuscated bullying where someone on purpose shares someone else’s phone number in weird contexts. The owner of the number might not even be aware of this post.

I think cows are adorable (in a positive manner :D) but yes, completely agree. Being a vegan shouldn’t require that you passionately love being in contact with all kinds of species. I mean - despite them playing a role in the ecosystem - who loves ticks or mosquitoes?

I think it’s a difference if you joke about someone close to you or some stranger. Also joking about ‘vegans’ as a whole group is fine for me. But if you’re aiming at specific people with that kind of jokes, it feels more like bullying to me.

I guess even if you didn’t know her before, we learnt in this thread that being vegan seems to be a (the?) part of her identity and that she’s pretty sensitive about it. To me that feels a bit (!) like laughing about trans person for looking unauthentic or having the wrong genitals.

she should at least occasionally eat some meat

Even though I don’t share her point of view, that part of your comment is totally inappropriate and rude.

Veganism is in its core a boycott

Yes, it’s about boycotting animal products and abuse of animals. But from my perspective, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you must boycott everything that is indirectly related to it. Of course you are free to do that but if your moral compass only considers 100% vegan restaurants acceptable, wouldn’t the same rules apply to supermarkets, hardware stores, workplaces, service providers, friends, family etc.?

If you cut all ties to the non-vegan world, you’ll… a) find yourself pretty isolated and b) will be having a hard time to inspire non-vegans to jump on board

offensive to me as an anarchist. I strongly dislike businesses, business owners and I like to do things for myself

That’s fine and I’m also on board with many of these things. Still, being an anarchist or anti-capitalist isn’t a prequisite to become vegan. IMO also Donald Trump can (and should!) become vegan, independent of his political world view. I guess we both agree that his other political world view is pretty fucked up but that should be seen independent of his veganism status.

I think adding meat dishes to a vegan restaurant and still calling it vegan is offensive and anti-vegan.

100% agree. But from my perspective, neither myself nor any of the other commenters did call that restaurant vegan. That was never up for debate.

I don’t think you’d be a good fit for a community of radical vegans and anti capitalists

If the community was called ‘c/radicalanticapitalistvegans’ I’d agree. But neither the title nor the description nor the community rules imply that ‘c/vegan’ is adressing only this target audience.

There is no debating on the side of allowing a restaurant to serve meat on a vegan messaging board.

In an ideal world I’d love to have only vegan restaurants and everyone being vegan globally. As this is not within my power, I am looking for a way that benefits veganism the most.

I think the easier it gets to be vegan, the more people will get on board. If you get vegan options only in specialized places in big cities, that will make it hard for anyone not living close to that or being part of social cycles not 100% vegan.

If a purely vegan restaurant survives economically, I am more than happy. But if they don’t, I definitely prefer them to add a few omnivore dishes rather than closing completely and getting replaced by another steakhouse.

I don’t think having this opinion makes me any kind of bad vegan or fake vegan but I’m happy to hear your points if you think otherwise.

I don’t know about this and I also don’t know if she is the one who deleted the comments and triggered the bans. In general, I appreciate her content. She is posting lots of interesting articles (not only in the vegan community) and I guess Lemmy needs people like her providing content to debate about.

Just if debate is not desireable, then I don’t think it makes sense to post it to a social platform. Social platforms without interaction and different opinions are just dead link lists. Then I can also just set up a RSS reader on the news sites I’d like to follow.

Tofu Linux when? 😟

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

Guess you gotta drink now!?

Sorry man but I have to side with your wife here. We have even one such junk drawer per room.

• In the kitchen with scissors, jar opener, potato peeler, nut cracker, sticks, tooth picks…
• In the living room with matches, candles, coasters, birthday decoration, fertilizer for house plants, …
• In the bedroom we even have one per person with protective gear for sports, single socks that have their partner missing, scarves, baseball cap, luggage straps, …

Could go on with bathroom, laundry room etc. Junk drawers for the win!

Personally, I’d consider myself rich. I live in Germany which is already among the richer countries in the world giving me access to an insane amount of infrastructure and opportunities. Furthermore, I work for an IT company and make more money than average and more than I need to satisfy my immediate needs (shelter, food, transportation etc.) and pay for my hobbies (mostly outdoor stuff). I might not be a millionaire and I can’t just retire tomorrow but still I’m very aware of what a huge privilege I have compared to a vast part of humanity.

Personally, I think already my taxes are too low. Not to start about millionaires or billionaires.

As far as I know despite being a single-use item, these vapes mostly contain rechargable battery cells of type 18650. Even though they are probably rather cheap and low quality cells, they still have around 2300 mAh at 3.6 V current. This gives us 8250 mWh per cell. One million of them would be 8250 kWh, enough for 100-200 electric cars. Every day. In a full year that’s 3011250 kWh or around 3 gigawatt hours of storage capacity.

3 gigawatt hours is the capacity of the number 1 biggest battery-based energy storage system in the world: https://www.energy-storage.news/moss-landing-worlds-biggest-battery-storage-project-is-now-3gwh-capacity/

Tossed in the trash. Only from single use vapes. Every year. And only in the UK.

I hope there’s no major flaw in my calculation but if it’s not, that’s really a crazy figure.

Why not use the strong tag?

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_strong.asp

Then, I think your best chances of survival would be being as invisible as possible. Only react to urgent issues, don’t address systematic issues and if you’re forced to give a statement, remain vague and unclear. It’s not great for society in the longterm but I think any disruptive change will make people confused, annoyed, insecure or angry. Even though they get used to the change quickly or even like it, instant voting will be your death sentence.

Another strategy may be to distract people from issues. Sport events, drugs, parties, censorship. Keep up the illusion of everything going well while the world goes down the drain.

How often do these vote cycles occur? I would argue that most distuptive changes will make things worse before they change to the better.

Ending capitalism, forgiving all debt etc. will lead to huge chaos in the short and medium term. Even thought in the long term, it might turn into a much better system, you’d need a lot of time to rebuild society and people to see the positive in it.

I think that’s also an issue of today’s democracies. If you’re elected, you have just a relatively short period of time before the next election. If you aim for big reforms, you might be still in the ‘make things worse’ phase after the first legislation period and people will vote for an opposing party. They undo everything you did, again making things worse without ever achieving their own vision.

I know it’s probably a bit exaggerated on purpose but also in European countries it’s definitely not zero. We are in a significantly better situation than the US, that’s fot sure. Our problems aren’t remotely comparable. But also here, it can happen that certain treatments aren’t covered, also here there are (few) people without health insurance and also here people can lose their job or never find a job in the first place due to illness related issues or disabilities.

As said, much better but also definitely not 0.

I’d love the UK to rejoin the EU one day. Obviously, participation shouldn’t be hop on / hop off but as long as all prequisites are met I would say the bigger the better.

Even if someone tried it, you wouldn’t know that the rest of it is just as good. Maybe the other half is slightly burnt, too dry or still raw.

One person can only nominate the best croissant ever eaten individually.

Also never had an issue with urinals. I can also talk to others while peeing. But I’m also used to be nude at the sauna. If there’s sufficient urinals available I keep at least one free but if someone stands next to me, I don’t care.

Oh, where is that? As an inspiration in case I decide to emigrate one day. 😄