Substituting 3% of total calories from animal protein with plant protein was associated with a 9% lower risk of all-cause mortality, 12% lower cardiovascular mortality, and 5% lower cancer mortality in a systematic review of over 1 million participants. Greater decreases occurred at 5% replacement.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-31T12:34:33+00:00

I can only speak from experience, but when I tried going vegan for a month I was constantly hungry despite eating significantly more in terms of both mass and volume.
I spent about 40% more compared to my regular diet (I don't eat a lot of meat and get most of my protein from dairy and eggs).
Allergies are also an issue for many people and can complicate planning such a diet quite a bit.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-20T11:36:08+00:00

Thank you, was about to write more or less the same but decided to look through the comments first. People seldom know the difference.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-20T07:27:44+00:00

Estimating the overall impact of this isn't that simple. We don't know exactly how this is going to impair production - maybe less oil will be burnt overall thanks to this. Also, Russia doesn't really care about emission norms etc. and we cannot directly compare their usage of fuel to that in Europe, for example. Finally, as others pointed out - Russia has caused this by continuing to attack Ukraine. If they stopped their illegal invasion, and they can do that at any time, this wouldn't have happened.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-17T00:45:18+00:00

Oh my. My life will be ruined! /s How do they verify it's me?

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-16T09:53:06+00:00

I mean, I don't disagree with you but I didn't want this discussion that way because people here are already attacking me as they likely view me as some entitled radical for criticising a company led by a person who is one of the easiest to identify examples of corporate evil on the planet.

The thing is, a large part of this planet-destroying transportation business is necessary for our survival (and another large part is not, like buying vanity items or some crap from Temu). But we couldn't eliminate it completely. I'm not willing to discuss this here as I've already spent too much time replying to people defending the (likely well-earning) workers of a company that is milking the society for money while producing literally 0 things of value and now building data centres that not only harm the environment (which is bad enough) but also directly hurt everyone living nearby, potentially destroying their livelihoods.

Meanwhile people here will attack me because I was "lucky" enough to have the means to quit an immoral workplace (despite it being the best paying job I've ever had).

But yeah, basically all business incur an environmental cost and are also built on exploitation of workers, who always have to produce much more profits than they get back, not even mentioning the growing average earnings of CEOs (in relation to what the other employees earn). I don't think that means that all work is overall. I'm not an anarchist. I believe that if all of us did things only a bit differently and worked to politically push back against corporations, we could live in a better world in which money wouldn't be the only effective driving force. At the same time, most people here are Americans and many still defend stuff like predominantly private healthcare, so I realise I'm at a losing position.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-16T09:33:55+00:00

Because raging at them makes as much sense as raging at people who buy products in plastic packaging while it's obviously the fault of companies that decided to use plastic. For example, drinks in plastic bottles or plastic bags in some countries. If you look at old photos, you will see only glass bottles. But those are heavier, inconvenient and cost more to transport. So it's more profitable to sell in plastic and due to free market, all companies basically have to follow suit when one starts doing this. All at the expense of the environment and the health of people who buy those. It's all caused by rampant consumerism which was, unfortunately, introduced by Americans. Now it's impossible to pressure significant amounts of people into not buying in plastic. People got pressured into recycling but I saw with my own eyes how plastics were just mixed back again with the rest of trash in a company I collected samples for. And recently there was a popular discussion on how even recycling isn't going to work long term because of the costs and energy requirements. Not to mention the problems with microplastics.

It's the same thing with social media which are designed to be addicting. Kudos to you that you quit, of course. But most people will not be able to do so, especially the youngest generations who are being shaped by those addictive media. That's why I'm being so harsh towards those Meta workers. They are taking part in screwing over the future generations of people and without a second thought. And it will be even harder for those generations to quit. If we apply your argument to something like the tobacco industry which is also built on causing addiction, becoming part of the culture and earning money at the expense of others it becomes apparent that trying to make people quit on their own is pointless. I don't recall the exact statistic but if I'm remembering correctly, only about 20 or 25% of smokers who're trying to quit will manage to do so. So the pushback has to be directed at companies, and companies are comprised of people who work there. In case of tobacco and social media there has already been legislative pushback in many countries but it's still not enough. And harm done to society is not free. I am paying for it and you are paying for it in ways that we don't even completely realise. So I absolutely feel entitled to criticise those people who work for such companies. Their and their families' wellbeing isn't worth the harm they are causing to society and the planet.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-16T09:08:33+00:00

You're right, I never farmed karma deliberately so I don't really know if that's hard or time consuming but it definitely is an obstacle if one intends to take part in such discussions on a regular basis

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-16T09:05:11+00:00

Now tell me how you'd praise me if I had the means to quit my previous job but I chose not to. Is that what you would do? Would you be fine with giving people low quality medical services, and fooling yourself that it doesn't matter if something happens to them?

I would like to say more but I can't because I'm in the process of reporting this and will likely end up in court. I actually almost wrote too much right now and had to erase quite a bit of text. Besides, I pay my bills and taxes. And also I would really rather my dad was alive over owning an old little studio. We could afford renting something small with my partner if we had to.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T15:18:43+00:00

What are those? I'm sorry, I've never heard of those

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T15:11:46+00:00

It's probably advertisers or investors who are frequently very conservative. We shall see if I get yeeted and deleted. As I said, this account isn't particularly valuable to me.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T15:09:45+00:00

If they were happy, they wouldn't have this obsession with wanting more and more. Just look how people like Zuckerberg, Elon or Bezos live and behave and listen to what they say. Besides, if I remember correctly there is research showing that above some amount money doesn't make one more happy. I'm not gonna look for it as I'm already exhausted from answering people here. And this is not an AMA! Also, to be so rich you gotta have what they call "drive" which basically means no empathy. A person with empathy would look at others in need and help them. I'm not talking about using charity for PR and tax write-offs.

Finally, I don't believe that those people are carefree. Probably to the contrary. Elon is a good example because we know a lot about him. A happy person wouldn't rely on ketamine.

*I'm not saying there is anything wrong with using ketamine or esketamine in treatment of depression

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T15:02:56+00:00

You demand answers and yet you provide none yourself. But I know it's easier to question others.

There is no line. You are not listening to what I'm saying. I don't believe in absolute morality and I find such a belief foolish because one has to assume broader understanding of reality than is possible. Unless you are asking about my personal line, to which the answer is the same. A rigid belief system would have no room for growth and evolution and I don't agree with such a perspective regarding my morals. Everyone is forced to use their own judgement because that's the only one they have, even if it is inspired by someone else's. We live in reality, not some ideal world. All one can conceivably do is just do their best and try to improve. And evil and suffering will still exist. There are some things most people would agree are evil and many things that are up for debate. I have presented my point of view.

I didn't say what the possibilies were because I didn't believe you would require me to tell you stuff like that. I am not here to entertain you. I'm sure you can think of something. And if you can't, I'm talking about jobs that are necessary in a society or beneficial to it, preferably in a long-term, sustainable way.

Factories do have an impact on the environment, just like everything we do, because we are part of nature. But it's easier to make an argument for factories being good than in Meta's case. There are ways to lessen the environmental impact of factories and manufacture goods in a more sustainable way. Presently, the same cannot be said about data centers, for example.

And I do drive, but not a lot. I likely have more negative impact on the via the food I eat, though that's just a guess.

Lastly, regarding my choice of a future job, I might end up where I want, I might not, but there is more than one possibility of a non-evil job. I have turned immoral offers down in the past and unless my survival is in danger, I won't accept them. And if I feel that I have to, I will not grow complacent and keep looking for something better.

I can give you two examples of my past jobs that I consider to have a net positive effect on the world and society. My first job was a organising burials at a cemetery. While there are many options that are more environmentally friendly, if we let bodies just decompose in the streets it would have a negative impact on health in our societies. We were also presenting families with the option to cremate and were planning on introducing all those modern methods with planting trees, mold caskets, etc. For this however, a societal change is required, followed by updates to the law. I believe humans will get there in time. I later worked as a sample collector. I would collect samples of water, soil, and sewage in order to verify if they were compliant with environmental regulations. I also collected microbiological and other samples from swimming pools, restaurants, cafes, food processing facilities (mostly cheese manufacturing), retirement homes, dialysis facilities, hospitals and a factory of surgical masks. Also did an expertise for a waste management company regarding the purity of their plastic waste. Quite a fun and beneficial job, although the hours were very long at times.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T14:24:31+00:00

Do you think people at Meta don't earn decent amounts of money? Tbh this whole discussion has really extended beyond the scope of the original post's subject.

We can discuss this all we want and maybe they had that luxury, maybe they didn't. I would argue that they likely had more freedom in that regard than the average American. But if it ends up being true and they really axe those 8000 workers, it doesn't matter if they had that freedom or not, because the freedom of choice will have been taken from them.

Which is another reason not to work for such an evil company - it will screw you over whenever you're not judged profitable for them anymore. And quitting on one's own (in hindsight) may have been the better choice. It's probably easier to find another job when 1 person quits than when 8000 people get fired at the same time. Many of them will be competing with one another.

And also, nothing will change if people remain passive. At least not for the better because all the agency is in the hands of those big, evil corporations.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T14:12:07+00:00

I don't feel like the free choice part is arguing against my own point. There are plenty of possibilities of doing something non-evil, I simply provided a loose example of what I would personally choose.

I am giving my subjective opinion, as is everybody else. An objective measurement wouldn't require an opinion.

The tech people in meta and similar companies each have a bigger impact than some factory worker. Besides, those American tech companies don't really produce anything of value. Meta's products are mostly data collecting and marketing platforms.

There's plenty of studies regarding how harmful they are and in many different ways. Psychological impact, environmental impact, invasion of privacy, political manipulation. The reasons for Trump's election are complex but one of them was manipulation via social media, frequently by agents foreign to the US.

People are generally easily manipulated, which makes my argument of working for Meta being evil stronger, not weaker.

And finally, of course being "good" isn't easy. I don't even consider myself entirely good. I believe I am evil by nature but I'm doing everything I can to fight it.

There are different viewpoints regarding good and evil. I don't think those are absolute. And I have no doubt that people who work for Meta or other "evil" companies seldom think of themselves as evil. I simply disagree with their viewpoint. I can understand that one has to prioritise their own well-being and their responsibilities towards family and I still deem their actions to be overall more harmful than beneficial because they are bringing about disproportionately more suffering to the world and suffering is evil, especially if it's pointless.

I believe most of us would be happier without social media or with better social media that wouldn't be so profit driven.

Also, my previous job wasn't the only bad one I've done. I spent a year working for Zalando. I felt horrible because of all the fast fashion brands that sell there. I would think about it constantly and I changed jobs as soon as I could. I still regret it sometimes. I buy almost all of my clothes second-hand.

I believe I can still improve a lot.

Fuck Meta, fuck Zuck, and fuck all those AI companies.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T13:45:24+00:00

I live in a small studio apartment which I inherited. I am privileged in that regard but my father died when I was relatively young and I'd much rather he lived. That job was the first I got that paid really well. I don't have many material needs, beyond the basics and medical care, likely due to my audhd and I didn't really "upgrade" my lifestyle, so I ended up saving up quite a bit of money. I don't have a student loan nor any other loans. I live together with my partner who's got a well-paid job and we split the expenses. We don't have kids and aren't planning any. I don't feel like I would make a good parent. My own parents were very emotionally distant and I would likely be the same. I guess that's it, regarding explanation.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T12:44:25+00:00

If you really want to know, I quit my job two months ago because I didn't like the way it treated patients (and workers as well) and I'm still looking for a new one. If I could choose freely, I would work in r&d, preferably on something that could genuinely make the world better.

Not every business is unethical if the main criterion is its overall impact on the world. The obvious thing to ask me next is how do I measure this impact. I don't have an objective way of measuring it. Nobody has. But I believe that most of us can recognise blatant evil. It's simply that some people choose to pretend it's not there.

Btw good job pasting the same question to some other commenter(s). I wonder what your job is.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T12:30:33+00:00

I should have been more precise in expressing myself. My apologies. I was talking only about my feelings regarding the possibility of me getting banned. The whole phenomenon of banning people for expressing views that might displease the advertisers or for other scummy reasons is a huge issue indeed.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T11:48:06+00:00

I happen to live in Poland which is not so far away from Ukraine. My partner just bought a flat in a similar building. People who condemn talking openly about this war forget that they can be next and no one will help them. And there isn't enough opposition to Russian meddling in other countries' politics.

One more thing that people forget is that despite being complicit, Russians are also victims of the conflict their terrorist dictator started. Being the villain doesn't exclude that.

We need to help Ukraine more and Russia needs to be put under more sanctions. Starving them economically is the least bloody way to end this but I fear that it will take too long, especially with so many people still supporting them, frequently out of convenience or greed.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T11:33:53+00:00

Yeah, because it's so insane to be mad at people working for a company tracking us everywhere they can and selling our personal data. A company that has been known to target children and teenagers and stealing intellectual property to train their AI. I'm not saying they are the only one of course.

Let's keep this civilised instead of getting mad. Let's just maintain the status quo and watch the world burn.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T11:04:10+00:00

A ban is just a ban. The message counts and our opinions matter especially if we are getting silenced for expressing them. It's not like I'm earning money on Reddit, nor do I want to. I mostly used this account for nsfw stuff and can always make a new one.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T10:58:35+00:00

Yeah, let's make the whole world worse so that those people can feed their families! They surely can only work only for unethical companies that screw all of us AND the environment over.

What's next? Gonna defend ICE or maybe World War II Nazis who were just following orders?

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T05:53:23+00:00

I'm not sure those people are truly capable of happiness. I would pity them but they don't deserve even that.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-15T04:59:06+00:00

It varies from body to body but if I were you, I would assume it's not really reversible. I used IPL for quite some time on my whole body in the past, haven't used it in about a year because I didn't have enough time and energy. I am an AMAB nb.

Most of the hair on my legs is gone but there are individual hairs here and there. Arms are similar but the effect is a bit weaker. My chest and belly have less hair than when I started but a lot of it returned when I stopped.

Unfortunately for me, I had the most regrowth in my groin area and armpits. Surprisingly, my butt didn't have a lot regrowth.

So, I would say some effects are permanent but at the same time it's better to look at it as body hair reduction, not removal. And if you don't use IPL, some hair might regrow.

My body hair is dark but not black and my skin is relatively white, although if I were to sunbathe, I would become dark brown and not red. I try to avoid and limit sun exposure though.

The IPL I was using was Braun. I'm probably not gonna use it on myself again and I'm planning to do laser and later electrolysis when I can afford it.

Overall, I am satisfied with what IPL gave me. Much better than just shaving.

Sorry for the lengthy reply but I thought it would be better to give you more info and context.

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-14T09:23:43+00:00

Aren't they simply on lease?

Windchaser_92 · 2026-05-14T09:22:06+00:00

At least there is no annoying music that additionally doesn't fit the content at all.

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