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KitDuncan··on Why do people mock vegans?
Well beef is heavily subsidized in most of the world as well. Protein is also not an issue on a vegan diet. I got like 5kg of Saitan (isolated wheat protein) for 10€. I cook with it regularly. It's higher in protein than meat and you can do delicious stuff with it.

I don't disagree that it's easier for most people to just keep the status quo, but it's definitely not impossible to change.

KitDuncan··on Why do people mock vegans?
I want to see stats, that vegans consume more drugs and go on vacation more than the meat eater of the same social status. Me and my vegan friends actively try to avoid flying as much as possible.

We probably eat more fruit, but it's still orders of magnitude more environmentally friendly than meat and dairy.

Also if you are concerned about work conditions in the drug industry, you might also want to look into the conditions of slaughterhouse workers. Many of them are psychologically scarred for life. https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/31/how-killing-animals-everyday-... Paywalled source: https://brill.com/abstract/journals/soan/21/4/article-p395_5...

KitDuncan··on Why do people mock vegans?
Most vegans I know are students that live on a very tight budget. The notion that it is expensive to eat vegan is so ridiculous. Sure if you want to eat only beyond burgers or something like that it might be expensive, but nobody does that. Beans, rice, veggies, fruit, there is nothing expensive about that. Sure you don't get heavily subsidized milk for pennies, but you don't realistically need any milk replacements.

As for c, you can do multiple things at once to approach climate change. Especially since they are completly unrelated.

KitDuncan··on The forgotten joy of soap
No. I had hair below my chest for 3 years without using shampoo or conditioner and it worked out great. Brushing was way easier and I always got compliments by my lady friends for how great my hair looked. There is also an entire subreddit dedicated to this: /r/nopoo
KitDuncan··on Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server
Very exciting. Definitely will give it a try then!
KitDuncan··on Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead
You can use Sapper with v3 already and could for a while now. It's RC for now though.
KitDuncan··on Terminus: a configurable terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
Etcher does have really nice UX for casual users though. It couldn't really be much easier to use.
KitDuncan··on Terminus: a configurable terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
It does on 19.04 I just installed it this week.
KitDuncan··on JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
How about [...array1, ...array2] vs Array.concat. Or does 1 just use 2 under the hood?
KitDuncan··on Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture
I've got a better tip for you. Only use soap in the shower, when you're actually dirty. Sweat washes off just fine with water only. Your skin will thank you.
KitDuncan··on The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea
I am sorry you had to go through transplants. I got my keratoconus cured with crosslinking, which I suspect is a much nicer option.
KitDuncan··on The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter
They are doing well, because they have resources that 99.99% of humans never will have. It's very hard to draw any conclusions here.
KitDuncan··on China’s Pig Pandemic
The vast majority of livestock isn't fed by pastures. We could cut back deforestation a lot by switching the population to a vegan diet...
KitDuncan··on What is nexus? And where did it come from?
Has anyone tried it? I tried running the make future, but something seems to be borked and I don't want to invest any time in debugging right now. Still this sounds very interesting!
KitDuncan··on Panic’s Next Editor
Do you have a link to some more?
KitDuncan··on Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
This is the best thing I've ever seen on Hackernews.
KitDuncan··on Matrix.org hacked
Matrix is a federated chat protocol. Matrix.org is just one server instance.
KitDuncan··on Nearly half of young millennials get thousands in support from parents
I don't know, but the situation here in Germany feels very similar.
KitDuncan··on DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers
My setup is similar. Pihole with dnssec and dnscrypt-proxy connected to cloudflare. Didn't see a reason to use the cloudflared package instead of dnscrypt-proxy.
KitDuncan··on They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929)
Did you do any blood tests before and are planning on doing some in the near future? I'd be really interested in hearing how they compare. Three months also might not be enough time to develop any serious deficiencies.

Weight loss isn't a really good metric. I also lost a similar amount of weight in the first few months of going vegan. Around 40 pounds after half a year and I feel great. My blood tests came back more than great even after 3 years now.

KitDuncan··on The rise of alternative milks
You consider yourself a vegan, but you drink milk? Am I missing something? Also why are you so excited about milk, you don't really explain.
KitDuncan··on The rise of alternative milks
I am not at all a medical professional and I am on my phone so I can't give sources, but consuming calcium reduces iron absorption? Don't know about side effects, but I know you want your calcium and iron levels balanced. Same with zinc and copper.
KitDuncan··on Flutter Desktop Embedding
... This is a good idea. I might do the same to try out flutter.
KitDuncan··on Iron is the new Cholesterol?
Isn't excess iron only not absorbed if it is non-heme iron? Not an expert or anything, that's just what I remember hearing somewhere.
KitDuncan··on World's first no kill eggs go on sale in Berlin
"No kill"... yeah they may not shred male chicks, but come on. The hens are still slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifetime, when they are done efficiently laying eggs.
KitDuncan··on GoDaddy is a scam
I just sold a domain on GoDaddy two weeks ago. Should I be afraid, that I won't get my money? I thought there was nothing to worry about, since it's such a big company....
KitDuncan··on Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl
Off topic, but it's insane to me, people in the US get opioids for small surgeries. Here in Germany I had a motorcycle accident resulting in multiple (around 12) face fractures and later I had to get an incredibly painful eye surgery and both times I was given large doses of ibuprofen for the pain (which didn't do much).

At the time I wished for better painkillers, but maybe it's actually better that way...

KitDuncan··on 8K is now being broadcast in Japan
When will we finally have 4 8k 20" screens in one?
KitDuncan··on What can I do about climate change?
Anecdotal, but I went vegan 3 years ago and in those 3 years, quite a few of my very close friends went vegan or vegetarian as well. It really does give me a lot of hope.

Even my parents started eating meat a lot less, basically only for big events and startet using oat milk for their coffee!

KitDuncan··on Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights
Very exited. Will install this on a Void VM and try it out.
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