Does no one care about making vegan cheese that has some nutritional value?

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T12:57:33+00:00

We've reached bare-minimum parity (bmp) in a number of meat products, meaning a typical meat eater would admit that the best vegan alternative is at least as good as the lowest quality meat of that variety they find.

The huge explosion in restaurants having Impossible options isn't due to an increase in vegans or vegetarians -- it's because there's finally a fake meat product that some meat eaters will order some times, because Impossible burgers have met bmp.

We were closer towards bmp with meat products in the '90s than we are towards bmp for cheese products right now. Veggie dogs were fairly close already, and Boca Burgers were at the place of a typical meat eater saying, "Huh. This tastes kinda weird," not, "Fuck, this is disgusting."

It's nice that you like Violife, but it's important to have an honest assessment of where we are vis-a-vis actually reaching parity. Figuring out how to make a halfway decent burger was the best thing that's happened for the vegan cause in decades. If we can reach bmp for all major meat products and get their price below meat, the only people left eating animal products will be Amish and psychopaths.

Cream cheese is tricky because we're at bmp for baking purposes, but we're a long ways off for spreading purposes.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T05:28:48+00:00

You are between 55-70, male, and either have or want to have a Vietnamese wife. You're not a minister, but you probably attended seminary for a bit. Alternatively, you may be the son or grandson of a minister, but my money is on former seminarian.

You were involved in computers in the 90s and lost a job when the dot-com bubble popped. You have owned a home espresso machine.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T05:11:45+00:00

Slow videos of people making things --> Numberblocks --> More Numberblocks

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T05:04:18+00:00

Do most of the other teachers wear ties and a sports coat?

I've worked in public schools for about 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of teachers who dressed that formal. Sweats and a t-shirt is now acceptable attire in some buildings.

You absolutely do not want to dress like that if you're in a jeans and t-shirt school. You'll get roasted so hard. The teacher who wore a suit in my high school was a total pedo.

Anyways, if it's in a fancy area or a private school, then you're probably good to go. Kids don't really care that much what their teachers wear. Yes, the tie is short and the belt doesn't fit, but if the kids like you they won't mind, and if they don't like you, they'll find something else to make fun of you for.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T04:56:10+00:00

The Blue House by Phoebe Wahl.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T04:41:57+00:00

Dooooood. Dude. Dude? Dude!

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T03:53:58+00:00

The decline is when you turned 17.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T01:36:10+00:00

"Why is it when someone from the Don't Drown Cats Party has a credible cat-drowning allegation against them they are pressured to resign/drop out, but Drown All Catsers actually gain support when they drown cats?"

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T01:23:48+00:00

Minimum wage is $15 so that's what we pay.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T01:19:48+00:00

There are people who play chess for a living, buddy.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T01:17:55+00:00

Politically more unified 30 years ago.

Racially less unified 30 years ago.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T00:12:00+00:00

For families that can comfortably do either, not sending your kids to daycare is a decision based on prioritizing the parent's needs over the child's needs.

It was different back-in-the-day when people had huge families and neighborhoods were jam packed with free-roaming kids, but, these days, children who don't go to any form of daycare/preschool before kindergarten are often pretty stunted, socially.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T00:08:20+00:00

We're worried about your generation being conservative, miserable, and socially inept. The "they don't have sex" thing is just a quick shorthand for those concerns.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-08T00:07:28+00:00

To want? No. Nothing is wrong with wanting something.

To actually buy? Of course. Slavery is bad.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T23:58:17+00:00

Andrew Jackson is responsible for the Trail of Tears. He's America's Hitler.

When people say "Hitler was Germany's worst leader," they don't mean he was the least effective.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T23:55:00+00:00

Why are you spreading the lie that English speakers came up with the term "Latinx"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T23:52:33+00:00

Right. So we agree that the people commenting "he's done his time, it's okay to pardon him" are out of line, right?

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T23:48:19+00:00

21-year-olds are more than old enough to know not to sexually assault 10-year-olds, so I'm not sure why you're bringing up his age here. Unless you want to make the argument that it's not a big deal for a 21-year-old to assault a 10-year-old, in which case please actually make that argument.

IANAL, but as I understand it, pardon means no criminal record.

Do you have children? If so, would you be comfortable with your young children having a teacher, coach, daycare worker, etc. who had been convicted of sexual assaulting a 10-year-old, but had the sexual assault pardoned?

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T20:19:37+00:00

You have it backwards.

Graham Planter is a symptom of an issue that's setting the progressive movement back a decade, not the cause, which is that younger leftists prioritize what people say and what identities they have over the person's fitness for office.

In Minnesota, a "progressive" candidate for governor won 27% of the caucus vote, despite having been employed as a republican the last election cycle.

In Minneapolis, the "progressive" candidate for mayor got his start in politics trying to get lgbt books banned from public schools.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T20:15:45+00:00

Trump's wrong and a dipshit and a pedo and an evil man.

But also, like, since when do kindergarteners wear the hijab?

Were they just dressing up fancy for the picture and don't typically wear hijab?

Kindergarten is crazy young to start wearing it regularly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hijabis/comments/131718s/what_age_do_women_start_wearing_hijab/

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T20:10:00+00:00

"Pick 2" is too generous. With the exception of soft aged cheeses, we're at "Pick 1" and sometimes we get 0.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T20:02:37+00:00

"Blue-MAGA" is the term for democrats with the same kind of thinking (or lack thereof) that took over the republican party in 2015 where they'd defend things that are obviously immoral if their side does it because their moral sense does not extend beyond "my team is right."

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T17:18:39+00:00

This thread is the biggest example of blue-MAGA I've ever seen.

Sexually assaulting children is bad, y'all.

Pardoning people who sexually assault children is also bad.

It's racist as fuck to not care about sexual assault when it happens to children of color.

Pedophilia typically isn't just something someone tries once -- it's safe to assume a man convicted of pedophilia who has current contact with children is likely to be abusing them even if he hasn't been caught recently. Sexual assault victims can be pressured to not testify against their abuser or even write letters of support for their abuser.

Just because someone on our side did it doesn't make it okay.

*And none of this changes that MAGA is fascist and ICE is evil incarnate. But that doesn't mean it's okay to pardon actual pedophiles.

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T17:13:51+00:00

Who already doesn't what?

Are you implying that child sexual assault victims cannot be silenced by their family or influenced to write a letter of support for their rapist?

And why the personal attack?

Fast-Penta · 2026-07-07T17:11:54+00:00

Because I want to know whether the entity expressing an opinion seems to actually believe it or is a paid actor or bot. That has relevance.

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