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  • The latter, just to make everyone else in my organization question themselves. Whether it is correct or not is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the seed of uncertainty that I plant every day.

  • CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate
  • Would they really have the time to fact-check the gish-gallop Vance will ejaculate on them? That's just not even feasible to get through the more egregious lies. He already said he just makes shit up. This will be the largest public face-time he will ever have (hopefully) and it all but guarantees he will shamelessly dial the horseshit up, if not just for sound bites.

    And yeah, I decided to use that word.

  • Trump dodges question on pulling Mark Robinson endorsement
  • He sure seems to be ignorant of a lot of critically fucking important things within his own party/cabinet. I should want someone with slightly more curiosity and awareness if I seriously expect them to handle being the president of the goddamned united states.

  • Is Ryze Mushroom Coffee Just Another Craze?
  • It's pretty tasty, to me at least. But I like mushrooms so YMMV. That said, it's not overly earthy or eating a bag of shrooms. If you ever, as a kid, saw a tin that said Hersheys on it in the cupboard and grabbed a spoon; well, it's like that, but a little better. The cocoa in it is what gives you the caffeine bump IIRC. Assuming the ingredients are legit, then there is good stuff in it, but I think this is really geared toward another group of people than anyone trying to curb coffee. If it was cheaper, I'd drink it every day.

    To answer the question, sorta, you could grind a batch of lions mane and chaga and have at it. This has other stuff in it to for palatability, but like you said, you could make your own variety if you want. Again, assuming the ingredients are accurate, it would be good for you, as long as you can manage to choke it down.

  • People who were raised omnivorous but became vegan later in life, what are some alternatives you wish you discovered before you ever even went vegan?
  • I had totally forgotten about Veat. But you also reminded me about the Morningstar riblets. If those were around in the late eighties, early ninties, that would be my answer. It would have made me rethink the whole meat industry.

    Of course the barbarisim and inefficiencies of meat/dairy production as a whole should be enough, but I wasn't exactly the deepest thinker when I was younger.

  • People who were raised omnivorous but became vegan later in life, what are some alternatives you wish you discovered before you ever even went vegan?
  • That's a good question but hard to nail down. In terms of nutrition, I was in decent shape as an omnivore in my late teens, early twenties, but nutrition was miles away from any thoughts I had on my diet. And even then, back in the late 90s/turn of the millinea, most substitutes and otherwise interesting plant-based foods didn't exist, had limited availability or were pretty rough (cheeses, burgers etc...). Best we had was Morningstar corn dogs, boca and tofutti slices.

    I think Soy Curls were hitting the market up in Portland around that time (2k-ish), and that would have been mega when I was younger. But I was in Sac/San Diego at that time and distribution wasnt as widespread, or at least I hadn't seen them. Though, now that I think of it, you could get big tvp chunks in 16oz bags at Trader Joe's in that timeframe, so I guess that's my primary answer.

    That said, I suppose I would have loved to discover Sunflower Cafe in Fair Oaks (Sacramento CA area) earlier on before going vegan. The super nut-burgers are amazing and that might have driven me to joining the dark side a lot sooner.

  • Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war
  • She walked him like a dog. Flatly stated he could be easily manipulated, and proceeded to do just that. He could not even muster the courage to make meaningful eye contact with her the entire debate. She just stared him down and dominated him. How brutally emasculating for him.

  • The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest | Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse.
  • The amount of destruction logging causes here in Oregon is sickening. Just came back from the coast and where hundreds of acres of beautiful trees stood is now a desolate scar.

    I get that we have an addiction to wood products, but there has to be a better way. All you see are patches of land that look like Calvin's head when Hobbes cuts his hair, and monoculture "reforestation" efforts that ignore the amount of nutrition and fungal/floral/animal diversity that have been removed/destroyed. It just sucks. It reminds me of Costa Rica. I just hope we can choose, like much of Costa Rica, to try and embrace conservation and make an industry around that instead.

  • How Elon Musk’s endorsement of Trump may have backfired
  • He sure has been a big disappointment. I admired and even respected him and what he was driving, but once his PR team decided to not exist any longer, I guess, his behavior was instantly and incredibly immature and off-putting.

    I want to appreciate everything he has had his booger-hooks in for what they are (apart from Twitter), but I just can't imagine supporting them until he simply isn't in the picture at all.

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  • Absolutely. If you haven't seen Washington Crossing the Deleware in person, you simply haven't experienced it properly. You don't get the sense of scale on the internet. Same with the Louvre, d'Orsay or any other world-class museum. Even local museums like the Columbia Maritime Museum in Astoria OR has exhibits and stories that really require that intimate exposure to be engrossed in the information. It transforms your reception to the exhibits and cannot be replicated virtually.

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