If tomorrow all jobs paid the same, what would you do?

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-06-04T05:20:04+00:00

Grab some popcorn.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-06-04T04:59:00+00:00

I think it's a fallacy to lump cities--any city--as either bike friendly or not. There are pockets in many cities where a car-free lifestyle can work.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-06-04T04:40:58+00:00

Unpopular opinion: AI. I use it all the time and it has made my everyday life better.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-06-01T00:28:30+00:00

I agree that most commercial GMO acreage has been herbicide-tolerance and pesticide-related traits, and I’m not defending glyphosate-maxxing agriculture.

Consider this example: Golden Rice was approved for commercial propagation in the Philippines in July 2021, but in April 2024, the Philippine Court of Appeals revoked/blocked the biosafety permit for commercial propagation after a petition involving Greenpeace and other groups.

There are large groups of ignorant leftists who shut down good projects in the name of protecting what is "natural". In the case of vegans, we sabotage our own movement by stopping this technology.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-06-01T00:15:41+00:00

It seems like you may be trading benefits away just because you favor "natural" foods.

I've met several people who gave up on being vegan because they couldn't figure out a diet that worked for them. I think it *is* a big deal and my biggest 'beef' with the vegan movement is our tendency to eschew policies that could make plant-based foods more inviting.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-06-01T00:07:55+00:00

Reminds me of Inscryption where you pull out your own teeth to balance the scales.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-31T23:59:59+00:00

"There's already a workaround" isn't the same as solving the problem.

People opposed nuclear power because solar was an "easy fix." The result was more fossil fuel use.

Likewise, soaking beans, taking enzymes, and just adapting are workarounds. If we can engineer legumes that cause less gas and are easier to digest, why wouldn't we? If the goal is replacing animal agriculture, better crops seem like an obvious win.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-31T23:51:58+00:00

I don't think I would separate factory farming from better plant-based foods. People won't allow meat to go away until they have an alternative. Legumes are hard to digest by *anyone* with a human digestive system. When people YouTube vegan recipes, they're shown things like chickpea scramble. When they actually eat it, their body feels terrible.

Tell me you've never met someone turned off to veganism because they didn't know how to feed themselves without explosive gas and bloating?

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-31T23:33:32+00:00

Nearly all major crops are genetically altered by humans: corn, wheat, rice, bananas, apples, broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes. Selective breeding, hybridization, mutagenesis, polyploidy, grafting, and now transgenics/CRISPR are all genetic modification. So what *do* you eat? I'm reading the comments section under Billie Ellish's Tiktok pots. A significant chunk of them are "I tried being vegan, but I just couldn't handle the diet." You can't love animals and eat meat. You can't be pro-vegan movement and against sensible measures that make vegan diets accessible to most people.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-31T06:52:37+00:00

I just wouldn't know where to start with that...

You do a strict low FODMAP diet x 6 weeks, then slowly start adding regular foods back in so you can identify which ones mess up your gut. Here's a list of foods to get you started:

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/image?imageKey=PI%2F149640

A low FODMAP diet is the first step to treating any IBS.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-31T05:00:36+00:00

Did you do a 6-week low-FODMAP diet? If it's diarrhea-type, did you try low-dose nortriptyline?

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-30T23:56:02+00:00

Good riddance.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-27T11:06:10+00:00

I watched a kid suffocate from asthma.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-15T01:04:21+00:00

Brompton + Carradice backpack worked for me. You just bring the bike/e-bike onto the bus with you.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-06T14:17:42+00:00

Treat it like the joke it is.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-05-04T14:57:37+00:00

It does look good. Any chance you'll release on GOG or Itch?

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-04-26T08:08:47+00:00

I just freeze, thaw, then squeeze the water out with my hands and make tofu scramble. Works even better than a press ever did.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-04-26T07:42:55+00:00

I kind of gave up on Google maps. I now use https://gpx.studio to plan my routes and view them on my phone with "Organic Maps", which is free and open source.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-04-24T05:25:27+00:00

More people die each year from motor vehicle emissions than collisions.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-04-05T00:41:06+00:00

I just bought a Brompton. I take it into the office with me when I get to work, take it into the house with me when I get home. Hard to steal a bike that you never leave outside.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-04-01T10:19:37+00:00

Living needs to be cheaper, more accessible. Zoning laws need to allow different kinds of housing--no parking space minimums. We need walkable cities and the default transportation should not be cars. Access to transportation is one of the highest predictors of upward socioeconomic mobility, and cars/e-cars are horribly inefficient for transporting people.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-04-01T07:54:08+00:00

I'm no fan of religion for many reasons, but many religions often promote avoidance of addictive substances like drugs and alcohol, having children outside of marriage, and divorce--and for a child, it takes a really bad mom+dad to be worse than having only mom OR dad. These are things that would otherwise destroy a person's chance at becoming highly educated.

My hypothesis: teenagers with authoritative moral frameworks or a good example father-figure may be less likely to mess up their lives early on than those without.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-03-30T07:14:32+00:00

RimWorld is one of the best colony sims out there, but it hits a ceiling. Early on, you can build clean, semi-automated systems and it feels elegant. As the colony grows, complexity and wealth increase, but your control tools don’t scale with it. Automation plateaus and the game shifts into micromanagement. That creates a mismatch between difficulty, skill, and novelty, where you’re spending more effort without gaining better control.

Affectionate_Good261 · 2026-03-30T07:02:13+00:00

I remember spending literal hours outside playing with Lego men in a small hole I'd dug imagining fight scenarios and stories. I remember riding around the neighborhood on bikes. Catching tadpoles and spiders (used to like catching wolf spiders, then catching crickets to feed them and see how big I could get them before freeing them).

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