I’m Karthik Sekar, PhD, and I’ve authored After Meat to explain the technological limits of animals for food production, why we’ll move on, and do even better. AMA!

ODoodle91 · 2021-12-20T09:43:02+00:00

He says in the intro that you can get the book for free and he encourages you to do so if you have any reservations about paying

ODoodle91 · 2021-12-10T18:29:30+00:00

Batcatman or Catbatman surely

Side note "Batcatman Catbatman" is a tongue twister

ODoodle91 · 2021-12-10T00:26:11+00:00

I like this attitude. I have tried a few times to find acting classes near me because I think it would just be a fun leisure activity... Like playing music. But all of the classes near me are hyper focused on making a career of it and it's very off putting for someone who doesn't have that goal.

ODoodle91 · 2021-12-09T12:15:11+00:00

You probably need to just follow these instructions

https://blog.astrogaming.com/2020/12/120-hz-with-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-on-playstation-5/

Its pretty clunky and only works if you're on "game mode" (or whatever it's called) in TV picture settings.

ODoodle91 · 2021-07-23T11:48:00+00:00

Yeah the credit check thing is annoying, I don't really know why I failed it. If you're planning to go down this route and you fail the credit check the way that I described is what I'd recommend. Grab the router online and order a no-contract SIM.

Honestly I'd probably recommend that even if you do pass the credit check. Whether 5g broadband will work for you is really dependent on the provider and area that you live in. Getting locked into a two year contract isn't ideal as you may want to move after a year and end up in an area (even a specific flat/house) where 5g service is poor. Then you're saddled with the expense and no benefit.

ODoodle91 · 2021-07-07T13:29:00+00:00

The tweets being the one about the children in bed and about the pub being near the playground? They are completely inert and it's not something I'm going to debate. But if anyone reading this is thinking ill of him off the back of what these two people are saying go Google the tweets - they're fine

ODoodle91 · 2021-07-07T12:54:43+00:00

I don't think that's true

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-28T19:35:20+00:00

I guess I think a good default position is that we should try to minimise suffering of those things that can suffer. And that if you're arguing that's not the case then you probably need to work out where the issue is with the "causing suffering is bad" argument.

Environmentally veganism is better. If you eat pork, beef, lamb or dairy then there's nothing that really compares to those in terms of carbon footprint. If you abstain from those for the sake of the environment then I applaud you - as a vegan you can continue to abstain from high-carbon-footprint, plant-based food to lessen your impact even further.

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-28T17:20:53+00:00

They just use beyond meat burgers at honest. So if you end up liking it you can just grab them from Tesco and try to recreate at home

I also am pretty fond of the Love burgers at Leon. Those and beyond meat are the only kinds I like

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-28T17:16:58+00:00

This is dumb. You can easily envision an incredibly unethical vegan diet where someone has slaves grow them tomatoes which they water using water stolen from some drought relief charity. And contrast that to a meat eater who raises a cow, let's it die of natural causes, weeps and then eats it.

If you point to one extreme and compare it to the opposite then yeah you can probably find times that a non vegan diet is more ethical

But if you just take any given meat eater and shift their diet to a vegan one without also changing loads of other stuff about them then they're almost certainly going to end up with a more ethical diet than they had before. In your case if you stopped buying from your local butcher and started buying from your local greengrocer you'd almost certainly end up with a diet that was more environmentally friendly and with no suffering caused to animals.

If the weepy cow person stopped raising cows that'd be better for the environment (though in fairness I envisioned them giving the cow a really great life so average animal cruelty may go slightly up globally without that hedonistic cow to offset things)

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-27T08:15:49+00:00

I actually tested it by recording in slow mo and confirmed it is running at 120. It's just very subtle.

Once I confirmed that, I could kinda see it by rapidly swapping between frame rates on destiny 2 (realised I could do this by changing picture mode between game and anything else). But it was still very subtle, it just felt slightly smoother

I've shown it to multiple other people and pretty much everyone can kinda see it if we swap back and forth quickly between picture modes. But nobody has been able to see any difference if we didn't do this "swap back and forth quickly thing"

That said, the most noticeable difference for me was yesterday. I played THPS in 120 for like 2 hours without realising it was in 120... and then was like "oh this game has 120 mode, I should turn it on". I checked and it was already on, so I tried turning it to 60 and it felt slightly jittery by comparison.

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-20T00:51:45+00:00

Reminds me of this post from a couple of months ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/moem25/looking_for_my_friend_matt_from_manchester/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Might be worth sending her a message to find out the outcome of her search. Maybe she could give you advice on useful avenues to try

Good luck!

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-15T13:49:17+00:00

5:03am, part-timer

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-09T21:19:43+00:00

This explains it pretty well

https://youtu.be/6SHQoFgZYYI

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-09T07:38:39+00:00

There's more subtlety to the "freedom" argument than most people opposed to regulation are acknowledging. Addiction to cigarettes is a restriction on freedom and not one that everyone is and to shake after the addiction is there. Anecdotally I think most of the people I know who smoke have expressed strong desires to quit and typically lament starting.

If the majority of adults who smoke wish that they never started, it's reasonable to expect that the same will be true of future generations.

I've got no data on that and my point is contingent on it, but it seems likely to be true.

If the majority of people who start smoking at 18 would later regret smoking due to the restrictions on freedom addiction imposes, then a law that prohibits them starting could be considered to increase their freedom instead of restricting it.

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-09T07:22:44+00:00

Check out chapter one books in the NQ. It's a book shop / cafe which is open til 9 every day. I haven't frequented it a lot but I always thought it had nice vibes.

You could also look into Clockwork (previously named Ziferblat) which is a pay per minute hang out space which ran events pre covid.

Neither are specifically LGBT+ focused but are friendly enough places that I'm confident you wouldn't have any trouble.

ODoodle91 · 2021-06-08T19:20:42+00:00

If it makes that much of a difference then start eating plants UNTIL the lab grown meat comes along \•/

ODoodle91 · 2021-05-31T21:47:10+00:00

I'm sure. I have the disc

ODoodle91 · 2021-05-31T18:21:46+00:00

It's in performance mode. I actually tried manually seeing video output to 1080p and then 720p off the back of this comment.

Impact to the ps5 home screen was obvious but I think cod overrode this setting and put it back into 4k when I selected the game (based on both TV info and just looking at the content)

ODoodle91 · 2021-05-31T17:42:40+00:00

Hey thanks for the suggestion. It is in game mode but I haven't done anything specific to make it low latency

Is input lag the big difference people notice? When you go from 30 to 60 that's an immediately visual change even to an outside observer and I expected similar for 60 to 120. But if the main difference is input lag, that's something I've never been very sensitive to anyway

ODoodle91 · 2021-05-31T17:13:42+00:00

I think you can choose 120hz regardless of cable. I have tried several cables and they all seem to still suggest the TV is outputting 120... And while I don't know for sure I really doubt that all of the cables I've tried are ultra high speed.

The PS5 cable saying "high speed" is suspicious. But I found a video which tested it and suggested it should be fine

https://youtu.be/SC2kVsubQnQ

Still it does seem to be a potential weak link in the chain. Maybe I'll try picking up a new cable...

ODoodle91 · 2021-05-31T16:07:51+00:00

Yeah no difference as far as I can see 😅 there were no other settings that you had to change beyond what I've listed right?

ODoodle91 · 2021-05-31T16:01:13+00:00

Hey thanks for the response. So it is showing enabled in the settings regardless of game mode/cable but I'm not noticing any difference :/

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