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> The only problem I see with this is that then meat becomes the food of the rich, which is unfair.

Truffles have become the food of the rich. Too bad because I like truffles, unfairness is a moot point. I have no "right" to truffles. You should be much more concerned that decent housing or access to housing are becoming privileges than any particular food product.

>> similarly as some vegans are saying that oysters can be eaten since they're sustainable and clean the oceans

Never heard that argument, but it seems like a misunderstanding. Peter Singer made the point that oysters have no nervous system and are therefore as plant-like as animals can come and probably non-sentient. The fact that oysters clean the oceans would also be a pretty strange argument. That's why there are so chock full of contaminants and pathogens in most places and many countries have special allowances to make them street legal when virtually any other food with the same toxin contents would be banned.

Good times for said countries to start weaning themselves off imported cereals and go back to their own traditional crops. I can understand how Egypt got into the mess of being so dependent on cheap foreign wheat, but Nigeria and Indonesia?

Things have improved significantly over the past few decades. Once you have a prescription, you can independently buy your glasses from a discount seller or on the Internet. Most opticians also offer very decent pairs that are fully covered by social security, or that cost €1. The pain point these days is getting that prescription renewed.

Epson actually has a line doing this, the Epson EcoTank series. They're excellent. The fact that Epson is playing both games clearly means that many consumers are not taking the long-term view here.

Lasers have quick print times, even better in volume, much more serviceable, don’t dry out, ink lasts ages, etc. → all these problems have been solved by the Epson Ecotank series as far as I'm concerned. Laser printers are terrible in terms of interior air pollution and idle current.

Laser printers are really bad in terms of energy use if you don't turn them off (the toner is kept warm at all times) and interior air pollution, two problems inkjet printers avoid entirely.

Have you tried Wise? I've been using the service (based in the UK, created by Skype's founders). The exchange rate is always shared upfront, extremely cheap with various options provided, many free or dirt cheap, some faster but slightly more expensive. Not too sure about the rest because my use case is very specific. Excellent for international business payments and remittances, I can assure you about that.

Penang, the other key constituent of the British Straits Settlements, provides an excellent counterfactual. Besides location, population, ethnic mix, colonial history, etc. were extremely similar back. Though Penang isn't a poor city by any means, Singapore blows it out of the water. Give LKY credit where credit is due.

[Project drawdown](https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions) lists a large number of ranked solutions to fight climate change. A good way to find sectors you might easily become passionate about but hadn't considered. The [80,000 hours](https://80000hours.org/) website also has a job board and provides a lot of excellent resources. All the best in your journey :)

WeTransfer doesn't belong to Alphabet — it's an independent Dutch company. Netflix doesn't either.

How do you know? Did you see the metrics that were used and compare them with your bloodwork? This reads as low-effort anecdata.

Actually, the government banned synthetic fertilizers with a view to improving the country's highly negative trade balance. It was an extreme measure improvised in a rush by a country on borrowed time. Sri Lanka isn't even being supplied in oil now, nothing to do with the ban.

to leech ~ to drain (from the animal) to leach ~ to lose soluble constituents

Meiji leadership Buddhist? You seriously need to remove your blinkers. The "Meiji Buddhist Reform" was sweeping and extremely violent and 40,000 Buddhist temples were lost to riots or repression over the period. The new syncretic state-sponsored religion of Shinto was made to replace Buddhist and cut Japan from its Chinese cultural ties and demonstrate to the West that Japan could belong to their club.

Eating mostly polished rice or wheat is not optimal from a health perspective, so quite logically people transitioned from eating miserly diets to eating enough they started becoming taller, etc. That has very little to do with the meat itself and much more with the fact that people would previously mostly eat enough carbs to get by and children would never receive the best share in nutritional terms. Solve that and you probably can explain almost all of that effect. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e... gives some insight on how primitive prescriptive dietary approaches were around the Meiji period. You can see the same magical thinking around the power of rice and meat in contemporary Madagascar and it's not pretty.

It's worth mentioning that users of TiddlyWiki can use https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/ to a similar effect. Nice seeing more initiatives in this space.

I doubt your explanation. Mine is that individuals who tend to travel in groups are more likely to be uncivil.

I was hoping your figure would be wrong and it is, but the situation is actually worse than than. 1.4 billion hectares of arable land divided by 7.9 billion people yields 0.18 hectares per individual, which is actually a 18×100m plot per person, 5 times less than your figure. And that's before conservation areas, wasting arable land to build suburbs, etc. Looking into national figures is interesting, showing that China has less than half than amount, but also shows that something is off with the figures themselves. Extremely arid and sandy Niger has more than 5 times the global average, which doesn't pass the smell test. I was personally shocked by the sheer unsuitability of the land for growing crops in the most fertile regions of that country, much unlike the lush southern areas of Mali for instance. Forested areas don't count as is clearly seen from low-ranking Brunei, which is 98% primary forest with extremely luxurious landscapes. Papua New Guinea is mostly self-sufficient and yet also extremely low, clearly demonstrating that agroforestry systems aren't accounted for at all. I'm sure other absurdities are to be found. Lies, damned lies, and statistics…

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Agriculture/...

Are you trolling or is this mood affiliation? Have you even really looked into the impact of the food miles of the ingredients you're using relatively to the rest of their carbon footprint? Spoiler: your food miles aren't going to make much of a difference relatively to the rest. Obviously, you can imagine a strawman vegan eating only your proverbial plane-flown avocado and compare that to a perfect locavore eating only grass-fed meat, and sparsely so. But how about compare the real average "locavore" and "vegan" and seeing how that goes. The BBC published a nice piece [1] (n=3) that gives a few pointers to help audit the impact of your food miles. Mileage will vary but even in the UK, with its heavy reliance on imported food, food miles weren't that big a deal compared with opting to eat less meat.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-bene...

Pure Meiji anti-Buddhist propaganda. Read up.

Sure (and in Spanish…), but it isn't pronounced the same way.

I've had pretty much the same experience as you. Some devices had excellent standy power use, others were really bad (the speakers on my sound system being the worst offenders and using exactly as much power when on standby than when operating and more than my fridge…). The key takeaway here imho is: n=1, monitor your own installation and devices and don't expect there to be either an untapped pool of savings or a well optimised system based on blog posts by other people.

Not his fault. The Champs-Élysées were almost pedestrian back then.

It's an animal welfare nightmare. Many of these animals are growing too fast to support their own body weight and can barely move by the time they're sent to their deaths.

One thing I haven't seen stated here yet is that WebP is apparently a low resilience format: lose a few bytes and your image is dead.

Still, it's extremely light and is much better than JPG for photos and PNG for simpler visuals. You can easily shave off an extra 50% file size off a standard optimized PNG image without any incurring any significant loss of quality, and even more if you're ready to accept higher losses.

For Linux Mint users out there, the OS doesn't ship with an image viewer for the WebP format. qView is a really nice open source option Mint users may want to look into. You can also find Nemo file manager right-click actions on Github (Linux Mint Nemo WebP Converter Actions).