#plus a bunch of research

[ardinwriter]

A particularly annoyingly evangelizing vegan colleague of mine got me wondering what exactly the end plan for these people is.

Presumably they want everyone on the planet to go vegan.

Okay, did the math and growing the world's densest (most calories per acre) crop, potatoes, on every acre of the world's arable land you could more than achieve the majority of the nutrition side of things.

You'd still have to deal with the B12 issue (the required human nutrient that potatoes lack), which depending on your level of veganism could be a problem since there are only three sources of B12: meat, dairy, and pills and the contents of the pills is bacterial cultures so that might be a no go, I don't know. Maybe that's fine.

We'll ignore for the moment the distribution issues of getting those spuds to people in non-arable areas.

So say you've completely solved the nutrition problem of being vegan.

How do you plan to open up the arable land currently used for animal production (roughly 75% of currently arable land is currently used for grazing) and what do you plan to do with the existing animals? Being vegan, you can't kill them or harm them in any way, so you can't sterilize them either. So they're just going to keep breeding with no culling other than natural deaths.

In the US alone, we have an estimated 308 million commercial laying hens. Each producing roughly an egg a day. At the moment, with the majority of those eggs going to stores to be consumed as eggs, the US has a fertilization rate of 13%. Even if that didn't climb after egg eating was stopped, that means 40 million fertilized eggs a day. If even 5% of those hatch, that's 2 million chicks after the first 20-21 days of this.

If we aren't eating or killing them, that's a problem.

And since the larger the predator, the longer the gestation time and smaller the number of offspring in a breeding period is a general reality, we are hosed on chickens alone if everyone just stops eating them because there won't be enough predators in the food chain without humans to stem the the chicken tide.

And that's just one livestock animal. It'll be a problem with the others as well.

And all this is ignoring all the other non-food products we get from animals. What are we replacing those with? And don't say plastic (or vegan leather or it's equivalents, cuz those are just plastics), I'd say relying even more heavily on fossil fuels isn't a good strategy here.

So, really, what's the end game here?

[squeakadeeks]

moodboard for this past week ❤️

[blu3berrydraws]

sometimes i wonder if it'd ever be feasible to like.. Make a few bucks with art. Selling prints or stickers or smt.

[girderednerve]

one of the fruits of once again having a job that involves a lot of slow periods in proximity to a computer is that i have had some time to click around on g*ogle scholar, which has revealed to me (to my deep embarrassment) that there is an open-access edited book about medieval coinage & currency put together by r. naismith (more or less the guy for early english coinage) that came out in 2018 (!!!), which was sort of my blank year for paying attention to this stuff. anyway if anyone else is interested in medieval currency & coinage, check it outtttt (& then talk to me!)

[a-world-in-grey]

Do Prompto's parents know about her health issues? Or did she manage to hide it from them?

Oh, Prompto's parents are fully aware of her health issues. The issues don't develop until at least a few years after she discovers her magic, so probably when she's ten or eleven, but even with how often her parents aren't around it's just not possible to hide that from them. Partially because her babysitters notice and tell her parents, but also because before she's taken to various doctors her health issues are obvious enough that her parents would have to be blind and dumb not to notice them.

Prompto's parents, of course, are really fucking concerned about Prompto's sudden health issues. They take her to doctor after doctor, but no one can figure out exactly what's causing the issues or how to fix them, which just leaves mitigation and coping strategies. Unknown to Prompto, Prompto's parents figure that her health issues are inherited from her biological parents and debate asking Cor or the King for more information. I haven't decided if Prompto's parents know she's a clone or not, but Regis and Cor, who do know, probably figure Prompto's health issues are a result of the cloning process when they hear about Prompto's health problems.

Meanwhile, Prompto - and by extension Noctis, Ignis, and Gladio - never really think too hard on the cause of Prompto's health problems. Her health is what it is, they don't really put much thought into it beyond helping her cope. Which, they probably should, what with Prompto's health noticeably improving after they start training her magic, but dumb teenagers will be dumb teenagers and they're more focused on hiding Prompto's magic from anyone that might report it back to Regis. (Might even have Prompto's doctor put her on a new drug around this time, so Prompto's improvement gets attributed to that instead.)

[waugh-bao]

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[marnz]

Part I of this logging story is done

[notevenghosts]

anybody else have emotional support internet tabs on your phone that you keep open for months because they spark joy whenever you happen to scroll past them? currently I've got the screencap of will graham saying "slick as hell" and the google image search results for "borzoi."

[ninjaaa-go]

do you ever just

[enekorre]

The new way of viewing a picture when you click on it in the app sucks. In the old version you could tap the image once more and all the ui stuff would go away (so you could read the text). Swiping slightly sideways didn't make you see a random unassociated image.

To no surprise going to @support the link they want you to click is broken. Do these guys even do user tests?!

[airenyah]

how to turn thai bl into a scientific research topic for my bachelor thesis

[echidnana]

doing an art history group presentation over last supper by da vinci and uh. some people have interesting perspectives

[stupidusernamerequest-blog]

My daughter only just recently connected the dots that the fan fic I read could be smutty stories and she was simultaneously horrified and also tried to ask what exactly I'd been reading.

[fluffghostrp]

Updated some of the statistic stuff on Crown's profile page, since we (finally) have actual confirmation of her species. and i can more accurately move forward with how to portray any animalistic and potentially societal-related traits. Not that it's going to help me much, since we still don't Have Much on her, though given the CN teasers, it sounds like there's a high chance we'll be getting some actual crown lore soon enough. so her muse is still dormant, at least until i have more information. but perhaps once any possible Lore drops and i have something more concrete, i can move forward with what could be done with her.

[squareanon]

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[arolesbianism]

We did it boys we got our first game crash in oni 🎉