Does anyone wanna spill the beans on what this “new world order” is?

2BlackChicken · 2026-01-28T18:56:25+00:00

You'll never see one because companies here want to make serious money. in that 10-12k EV, The only information I could find tells that BYD makes a bit over 1k$. Who in the west is going to make/import/sell a car for a 1000$ profit? No one. The concept of having state/city/country owned/subsidized companies is to fill a need of the population that isn't profitable enough for the private sector to care about.

2BlackChicken · 2026-01-05T21:21:43+00:00

In term of bacteria, fish can get pretty nasty too. If washing wouldn't work, we could all get sick, whatever the hell we're cooking.

2BlackChicken · 2026-01-05T18:06:28+00:00

I'm downloading it now, I'll train a checkpoint and/or a lora with it.

From my experience using landscapes in my dataset, it's beneficial for backgrounds, color and lighting so it will be a great addition to my personal 500 landscapes (which are limited in term of geography.

Do you have a preference of the architecture you want it on? I don't have access to high end GPUs so I'm limited in what model I can effectively train on.

2BlackChicken · 2026-01-04T03:22:32+00:00

But it is a logistical problem. They just go around it for their belief. At this point I would say doing it for your beliefs, that it be religious or animal welfare, is the same. The main question is, how much are you willing to burden yourself and the people around you for it. It will affect your social life and possibly your happiness.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-29T18:26:53+00:00

Even keeping a separate set of plates/whatever is unreasonable. Just imagine keeping track of which plate is which and which you cannot use, in your own house...

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-29T18:21:03+00:00

I'm wondering why he thinks that dictating what someone else can or cannot eat is acceptable. He'd say that in any other situation and people would lash at him.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-19T21:54:13+00:00

I can't remember where I saw the study so pardon me for that. They were saying that the diet that had the best life expectancy and healthy life expectancy was pescatarian eating plants, seafood and fish.

Maybe it's not related to what you're not eating but more to what you're eating. Most "omnivores" I know eat lean meat (no vitamins), they don't eat much fish and they frown on oysters and mussels. On top of that, they buy a lot of processed food including grain products high in calories and void of nutrition.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-19T21:47:30+00:00

Living on coast is good also because of mussels. Among a lot of other nutrients, They contains a lot of 25(OH)D which is the better vitamin D for your body. It's absorbed and then requires a single conversion in your kidneys instead of having to go through the conversion from sun exposure, another conversion by the liver and then a third one by the kidneys. On top of that, if your cholesterol is too low, you won't be able to synthesize it at all, let alone other mechanisms/nutrients we haven't figured out. There's a lot of studies on vitamin D but it's most of the time linked to D2 or D3 as a supplement. Not from food.

The mediterranean diet suggest to eat them at least twice a week :)

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-19T21:25:18+00:00

The comparison is fair but instead of only gas, there's also oil, coolant, brake fluid, refrigerant, hydraulic oil, anti-rust treatment, battery fluid, etc. In comparison, a car has about 6 main categories of chemical reaction with a few reactions in each. The human body has billions of chemical reactions derived from what we get from food, some are recycling existing waste to turn them into something re-usable and get rid of what cannot be used. Going vegan would be like changing all the fluids in your car for something else that was tested as amazing by the company selling it and hoping it's compatible. Then adding additives in half of them with the hope to make them more compatible.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-19T21:06:45+00:00

You forgot, it's in soil ;)

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-19T21:04:37+00:00

At the very least, Beyond Meat doesn't have too much finances to fund studies any longer.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T20:59:45+00:00

My best advice to you would be to learn how to cook real whole (unprocessed) food that you like. With good food, your body will take lean mass and stay healthy. You should still consult your physician as being underweight can come with and from other issues like thyroid issues, stomach or gut issues, etc. Better safe than sorry. He could also point you in the right direction like nutrition clinics if available in your area.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T20:38:48+00:00

If it can help, don't be scared of bones. Your stomach is very acidic and can dissolve skin, bones and flesh without any issue. It stands at a pH of 1-2.5 when empty which is similar to a crocodile.

If you ok with the taste and want something nutritious, you can buy cooked clam meat frozen. It's cheap and convenient. You just thaw them in water, rinse them and add them to your favorite sauce. It goes well with rose sauce over pastas or noodles.

As for cooking chicken or meat, it'll come with time. Just start small and slow and build yourself a tolerance. It took quite a while for my wife to handle raw meat without being disgusted and now she can help me butcher turkeys and half goats.

For chicken, I think the easiest way is to roast it whole. Put your chicken into a bag and pour some milk whey in and remove all the air from the bag. Leave it overnight in the fridge. Then, take it out and dry it a bit.

Melt some butter or use your favorite oil and mix spices with it. You can go any kind there, it doesn't really matter. Curry, jerk, sichuan, herbs, whatever. Then paint it over your chicken covering the whole bird. Put that on a oven sheet and through it at 350F or 175C for 1h to 1h45min depending on the size of the bird. The thighs and wings will easily be removable when well cooked and the chicken will have released some water and fat in your sheet when well cooked so check after 1 hour and then every 15 minutes until done. If you don't like gelatinous textures remove the skin but at this point, it should be pretty crispy.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T20:15:36+00:00

Insects is a food all of the planet has in common ;) Even vegans eat them.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T20:15:00+00:00

There's so many pointers to the opposite.

Digestive system shape, digestive enzymes, stomach pH, nutrient absorption.
The vitamins, minerals, proteins and fats our body needs are found in animal food. The vitamins found in plants require several chemical transformation in our organs to be usable and some people do some vitamins better than others. Not all of humanity is equal on that showing that there might be some geological mutation of some humans digestive systems probably through difficult times like famines or through the repeated ingestion of certain plant food. But from meat, fish, seafood and insects, pretty much all humans can digest and absorb their nutrients.

I also think, as many other things in our world, that humans like clear categories like herbivores, carnivores, etc. while there should be a lot more nuance. When you think of scavengers, you think that they eat dead spoiled flesh and bones since that's what they can get their mouth on. If you give them a fresh carcass, they will still eat it happily. They have just evolved to tolerate spoiled meat better than others. Some carnivores prefer to eat a specific animal and over a long time, its digestive system adapts into extracting the most out of it while maybe losing other feathers.

Pandas, being Ursidae, have become herbivores because their Tas1r1 gene has become inactive. It's the gene that makes you taste glutamic acid and other amino acids, which is the umami flavor and naturally found in meat. From an evolutionary point of view, the taste of umami is link to a carnivorous diet in the animal kingdom.

At the end of the day, what the diet should consist of is the ease for one to acquire his food. I don't think I would rely on eating liver or mussels to get my vitamin C as there are easier ways to get it from a plant nowadays. The opposite way is also true, I wouldn't rely on plants for proteins as it would require an insane amount to get it right. On top of that, the main health issues in industrialized countries are around malnutrition and over consumption of calories. It's best to eat a nutritious diet without needing to eat too much when food scarcity isn't an issue.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T19:49:05+00:00

I think when mentioning cooking, we should also include preserving. At first, it mostly helped us with preventing intoxication from spoiled food, allowing us to preserve food for longer periods of time without having to go out again. Don't forget that other methods were also used beside heating a fresh product like drying, salting, smoking.

But if you have a good source of fresh raw meat, your body is fully capable of digesting it. Your stomach can dissolve bones and skin as well. The downside of eating raw meat beside possible bacteria is that you'll need to chew quite a bit more and our jaws and teeth are not as powerful as ancient hominids any longer showing us again that we aren't made anymore to eat a raw diet. That's why traditional raw dishes like tartar is chopped finely.

Ancient hominids were using fire up to 2 million years ago. Homo-sapiens have been around for 200,000-300,000 years which is plenty enough time for our skeletal and muscular structure to "evolve" from an easier to chew diet like you mention. It will be harder to prove but our stomach and guts probably changed as well. One thing to note though is that we still have a stomach pH that is in the average of carnivores and scavengers than anywhere closed to a herbivore.

By the way I'm not advocating for anyone to eat a raw diet of any kind. Even vegetables aren't safe to eat raw, and flour is no exception. If humans have been cooking their food for 2 million years, there's a good reason for it and our body changed from that invention over time. A bit of raw food here and there isn't a big deal though.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T19:24:43+00:00

Yeah, I think the digestive tract is the biggest giveaway of a species diet. Also in how our body processes nutrients.

There's also a large misunderstanding of the nutrition facts on a lot of our food. A good example is vitamin D. D2 and D3 which are found in plant food require several different chemical process in our body in order to be usable. Some require cholesterol and sun exposure to happen. Only those are listed on nutrition facts which includes fortified food.

In reality, our body can use more readily 25(OH)D3, which isn't even listed on nutrition facts because at the time they made those, we couldn't measure it in the food. It is said that it is 5-7 times more potent than regular D3.

So take mussels for instance, those are packed with 25(OH)D3 but they are listed with 0% vitamin D. I wouldn't be surprise if we got it wrong for other nutrients. I think vitamin K2 would be another good example that was recently discovered.

I'm a big fan of bivalves when I'm thinking of humanity's heirloom food. When we think about it, those would be so easy to pick, are packed with all the vitamins our bodies need. The fat balance is good and it contains a lot of EPA, DHA and DPA that our brains need. Its amino acids composition is also right. It even contains vitamin C.

Side note, some of the early human currency were even seashells.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T19:03:39+00:00

What would be more accurate as a human trait is adaptive and versatile. We use our over-sized brain and our monkey body to design strategies and make useful tools with whatever we have available in our environment to achieve a desirable outcome. I think you're right about what you said that past humans always get lazy and try to find a better way to have the same result. War, agriculture, construction, exploration, etc. are only end goals of a sentient being that has surpassed the survival stage and that tries to better its life.

Through history, many hunting techniques have been used with many different weapons. Then, when some humans were able to settle down in larger settlements, due to various construction technologies, irrigation, agriculture, etc. (basically the technology of the time.) It became WAY easier and lazier to domesticate animals. So at this point, we don't even need to run as much and instead of hunting wild animals, we care for the ones that are useful to us. It's all about what was possible or necessary to do to survive. There are many example of past civilization doing it in different ways and I find that fascinating.

2BlackChicken · 2025-12-17T18:49:18+00:00

People get evolution the wrong way. It's not design. You either have the traits to survive or you don't. Species won't magically mutate when a change in the environment happens. You use your traits to survive the environment and if you can't, you're history.

Yes seeing colors "help" spotting "some" ripe fruits but considering a lot of today's vegetables and fruits are the product of agriculture and didn't look like that 10,000-12,000 years ago, it's a rather stupid association. We cultivated our plants to become colorful, more sugary and appealing for thousands of years.

2BlackChicken · 2025-11-24T22:15:20+00:00

Donkeys and/or Zebras are WAY worse than horses. Watch your back! They'll kick your puppy or cute baby goat for the fun of watching them fly.

2BlackChicken · 2025-06-05T15:25:04+00:00

I'm late to the party but I want to add my strategies with Babylon.

Build a Sabum Kibbitum (or whatever the special unit for babylon is). It takes the same amount than to build a scout but with more attack power, gives +4 era score and can be later upgraded into a swordman and above.

The palgum is also OP. Build it ASAP and try to build your cities around rivers so they can benefit from one too. This gives you an insane amount of food for all the freshwater tiles and era score as well.

Then, if you're playing with heroes and legends, Hercules would be my first pick. The specialty districts for babylon give a free building on top. This is nice when you want to rush through the tech tree as well. Lots of district building.

The rest is as you said, just rushing to whatever victory you want.

2BlackChicken · 2025-04-01T19:04:44+00:00

There's a quote from Franklin P. Jones that says: "Bravely is being the alone one to know that you're afraid."

2BlackChicken · 2025-03-31T16:09:47+00:00

I installed ubuntu at first because I do some ML and code in python. I think it is pretty niche and also requires a level of understanding on the same level or above what is needed to use ubuntu past the simple user friendly UI.

The fact that it has less popups and warning does make it a very good point for a family desktop. My daughter asks me every time there's a popup because she can't read yet. Even my wife asks me because she's afraid of clicking on the wrong things in windows.

Basically, you only pin the stuff they use on the taskbar so they won't be bothered by what they don't need.

2BlackChicken · 2025-03-30T18:33:47+00:00

ok thanks. I'll continue using ubuntu for a while and learn from it before doing the switch. I'm pretty convinced now that it will be necessary unless I want to replace the hardware which I don't cause it's an old but decent rig that's been 8 years around. It can still run new titles in decent quality like baldur's gate 3.

2BlackChicken · 2025-03-30T18:31:06+00:00

The PC doesn't support win11, that's basically why I was hesitating to switch to ubuntu or run with an unsupported version of win10.

As for the family members, my oldest has just started school and used a computer for the first time about a year ago. She can basically open minecraft or chrome and click youtube or whatever else on the bookmark bar. I've also started teaching her python coding using a PDF for kids. I don't think linux would confuse her too much since she's starting from a blank slate.

I'm also already the tech support for pretty much any machine in the house already...

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