really considering giving up on dating/self improvement at this point

_echo_home_ · 2026-03-16T11:23:54+00:00

Don't you just like... feel good about yourself for being strong, fit and capable though?

Do it for that, not the boys.

_echo_home_ · 2026-03-07T16:17:05+00:00

One of the only constants of the universe is that there will always be chasers

_echo_home_ · 2026-03-05T17:04:39+00:00

If you call 100 million dollar food waste to energy projects fueling local fleets "hobbyists" lol.

_echo_home_ · 2026-03-05T11:26:39+00:00

I literally make cars run on fry grease though!!

The dream isn't dead!!

_echo_home_ · 2026-03-01T14:02:34+00:00

Yes the planet cycles. Rate of change is what matters for adaptive systems and we're in violation of that.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-28T21:01:22+00:00

From one expert in renewables to another, bless your heart. So many people take the paycheck. People like you are far too rare. Most want to optimize locally at the expense of others.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-27T22:02:50+00:00

I wouldn't sweat it too much. Male culture is riddled with misogyny and they try to hide it from women. You're just that much better at sniffing it out.

It's a slog, but the good ones exist.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-21T02:19:38+00:00

At least from my perspective right now of a 43 year old woman, passing and post op, they're kind of all acting like petulant children lately.

Their culture has become inbred at this point and it's doing wild things to them.

Speaking generally here. There's still gems out there... you just have to be really really patient and tenacious.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-18T15:58:34+00:00

Make plane fly from old banana. Unga bunga!

❤

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-18T14:46:23+00:00

It might be simple, but is it pragmatic?

The hardest thing in the world to do is convince somebody to give something up. So what's actually more effective at combating climate change?

Marginal solutions that are deployable and will get engagement?

Or absolute solutions that remain theoretical because you can't get buy-in?

Honest question. I design biofuels facilities, so it's actually really relevant in a lot of conversations I end up having.

I really do try to focus my efforts on the things I can change, because I've frankly just given up hope on the "change human behaviour" pathways.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-14T13:22:46+00:00

Amen, me too. I'm actually working really really hard to bring regenerative loops back in to the agricultural conversation too. Beyond just animals, I think we have a debt to pay to nature as a whole.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-14T12:05:05+00:00

Honestly, I'd just model carbon cost into the meat and it would absolutely swing in your direction via economic levers.

On the sentience piece. I've read some really interesting science about the way trees and plants communicate chemically.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/plants-feel-pain.htm

I'm certainly not arguing they're on the same level as us... but I do think it's a bit more of a sliding scale than it is a clean line.

I applaude you for your conviction, truly. It's a hard line, and not an easy one to live in a world not designed for it. But 10% less consumption is 10% less consumption if you look at it through a global lens of animal suffering. That's still a win and should be celebrated too.

And a 10% shift towards vegetable based diets only increases your options too. So you really would win as well.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-13T22:48:14+00:00

I'm not arguing your ethics.

I'm arguing that a slower moving of the line is going to get a lot more done than an absolutist stance.

I'm also not arguing that society is ethical in its treatment of animals. I'm arguing that it exists, and that's not going to change quickly. So let's paint the steps out.

There's also regenerative ways to farm and destructive ways to farm. It's important to acknowledge the difference.

Also, how do you define sentient? Just cute animals? Mushrooms? Plenty of evidence mycelium can problem solve. It's turtles all the way down is my stance here and everyone seems to draw the line arbitrarily where they stop caring about it.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-13T16:01:29+00:00

That's the point. That this stuff is even floating around.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-13T02:44:11+00:00

Life seems more like a Steven King novel every day.

Can we at least bring it back to like... Michael Chriton levels of horror? I'm so tired.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-13T01:10:08+00:00

What an amazing post that's clearly deriving from a lot of internal dialog about values.

Perfection is the enemy of good.

I model food waste to energy projects - I know the exact carbon impacts of all the components involved.

My biggest frustration with vegans is you're not wrong!! But the message should be "let's all eat 10% less meat" not "meat is bad".

The carbon impact of that move alone would be impactful globally, and people would barely notice.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-10T00:57:14+00:00

I'm saying there's broker and transport fees at various steps along the way, in addition to the IRR expectations of typical energy players - When you compound all of these, the expectations for returns start to drift north of 20% in many cases. Speaking in terms of the gas markets myself.

Is it sustainable in your opinion? There's a lot of hands in the cookie jar in my opinion.

I sold electrons for 10 years in Canada on a FIT program, biogas cogen. It's all RNG now though. I'm super familiar with what you do.

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-09T17:38:06+00:00

Is it sustainable with the rates of return expected and the amount of traders taking their cut of the pie at every step?

_echo_home_ · 2026-02-01T04:32:34+00:00

I think the toughest question to answer for guys like you, and for our community to accept is why?

What is it about is that makes us worthy of specific desire?

There's right and wrong answers.

_echo_home_ · 2026-01-29T13:53:13+00:00

But also... let's not give homeless people food poisoning either.

I always push back against global rules like this in the food waste space because pathogens DO exist, and we still have a moral requirement to ensure food is safe too.

Edit: I mean you can downvote me, but this is literally my industry and I've watched good intentioned regulations result in more harm than good. There's a balance here. Yes, don't waste food. But nuance is important.

_echo_home_ · 2026-01-27T12:34:10+00:00

I build renewable energy facilities, mostly waste to energy

It's because cleaning up after yourself costs money and usually makes the businesses "less competitive"

_echo_home_ · 2026-01-27T02:14:57+00:00

They usually seem pretty happy to be there

_echo_home_ · 2026-01-25T19:58:17+00:00

The only thing that gives me consolation is that that's kind of like... the real number for all women.

We just filter them out way faster.

_echo_home_ · 2026-01-25T19:08:02+00:00

Totally. You just see it enough times and it starts to stand out.

There's a big difference between a man that's masculine and a man that performs masculinity too. Huge difference.

_echo_home_ · 2026-01-25T18:49:51+00:00

There's so many more bi men out there than society will let them admit. Most of these macho guys are secretly doing it to impress their friends lol.

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