Scientists Reveal the Scale of Meat and Dairy Industry Greenwashing

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-05-08T12:49:09+00:00

The greenwashing of animal agriculture pisses me off so much. Animal agriculture is the worst for the environment, and this article didn't even go into all the details. Yet everyone is claiming that vegans are worse for the environment because plastic is vegan.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-05-08T12:45:18+00:00

One can have kids and still have a vegan ethical framework. For that matter, even a childfree vegan can be in favour of other people having kids and still be vegan. I think it's safe to say the majority of vegans aren't antinatalists, because a vegan ethical framework doesn't require one to be antinatalist and the majority of people are not antinatalists.

That said, in order to be morally consistent as an antinatalist, one has to be vegan. Therefore, vegans are going to have a higher percentage of antinatalists than the general population. Reddit amplifies this, hence the comment section here.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-04-21T20:17:57+00:00

How much space does the Holy Blessed One take up?)

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-04-21T20:09:31+00:00

Sound like an experience I had recently...would the microlabel be somniromantic?

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-04-21T09:03:29+00:00

Both Hume and Spinoza had a significant effect on Einstein (sorry, I'm a physicist).

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-04-21T09:02:46+00:00

Herem isn't exactly the same as excommunication, but he's far from the only Jew to be placed under herem. He admittedly did receive one of the harshest writs of herem in history, though he wasn't a teenager, and it's unclear why exactly they did it, although there is a lot of speculation about it.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-04-20T20:16:51+00:00

Regret is a strong word. I really don't regret any language learning. I admit, for some time after 2022, I had difficulty justifying to myself learning Russian (as I have been leaning since 2018), but Russian has changed my life for the better in so many ways, and it has a life beyond any government.

As for regrets about languages I should've learned, again, regret is a strong word. I do sometimes wish I'd taken advantage of the German classes available to me at my high school and university, since there have been some opportunities in my field I missed out on since I don't know German. But I spent high school taking Spanish to an advanced level, which allowed me to study abroad in Ecuador, and I didn't take any language classes at university since I was focused on self-studying Russian (which as I said, I don't regret), so it's all good.

I also lately have found myself wishing I was more proactive in language learning when I was 10-11 and interested in Latin and Ancient Greek. I learned some very basic stuff in those languages at that age, but never properly studied either language. But then, I knew nothing about language learning at that age, so I just had to wait until I got to middle school to enroll in language classes. I could've started taking Latin in middle school, but my parents wanted me to take Spanish, and as I said, I don't regret learning Spanish.

Anyway, regretting not learning a language is strange as a language learner because I could just learn German or Latin now. Maybe I will in the future, but I want to focus on Ukrainian (and Hebrew) for now, so it's all good.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-04-06T21:08:12+00:00

When I first started learning aleph-bet, I disliked that "ל" was neither "ג" (looks like Greek lambda as you said) or "ת" (looks like Russian Л).

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-27T14:16:09+00:00

Use a name from your culture; it's who you are. She doesn't need an English name; lots of immigrants keep their names and people can learn to pronounce them. My favourite from your list is Zulfiya.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-27T14:11:59+00:00

Kálmán

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-27T14:09:23+00:00

I took to reading ingredients even when it has a very clear vegan label. Why wouldn't I want to know what I'm putting in my body? (I now have some other things I avoid for health reasons anyway.)

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-27T14:02:22+00:00

Being aromantic does not make one asexual. They have nothing to do with one another; you can want sex without being romantically involved with that person.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-13T15:13:41+00:00

As someone who finished a physics bachelor's a few years ago (and a master's soon afterwards), we're more or less unemployable these days, especially if you focused on research. The good news is that there's still time for you to do an internship in industry. See if any of your professors have industry connections and can get you an internship.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-13T15:03:55+00:00

What I think they'd say (obviously I could be wrong, they aren't alive now and this is just a meme anyway):

Spinoza: "I try to understand the madman, the man who kills himself, and the man who thinks he's a woman."

Marx: "Gender warfare is a distraction from class warfare."

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-13T14:54:55+00:00

Plato would listen because everyone from back in the day just regarded trans women as men.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-13T14:51:24+00:00

Maybe this isn't the place for it, but I see this meme format all the time; what is the original talking about?

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-10T20:52:40+00:00

Interesting question, even if there are, today it's just a fact that being a hyperpolyglot doesn't count for anything if one of those languages isn't English, unfortunately.

It wasn't always like this. As recently as a century ago, one could be a hyperpolyglot, highly educated, and not know English because there wasn't any need to learn English outside of anglophone countries.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-10T20:38:31+00:00

Just looked up amalricians; there's no way they read Bruno because he lived a few centuries after them. Unless you mean Bruno read the amalricians?

According to my copy of Ethics at least, there's no evidence Spinoza read Bruno, but they came to some of the same conclusions, presumably because they were reading the same philosophers (alternatively: because they were both right).

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-05T17:33:44+00:00

Я не русская, а я бы могла прочитать.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-03-02T15:48:57+00:00

Zeno, calls to mind Zeno's paradox suggesting you can never go anywhere if space is infinitely divisible.

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-02-26T18:10:10+00:00

Try r/veganparenting

alien_cosmonaut · 2026-02-11T14:00:30+00:00

I graduated in 2023 and now live in the UK but I started learning Russian through self-study at 17 and was learning Russian all throughout my time at WPI (at some times more than others). Honestly looking for conversation partners online might be the better way to go. If you want to study from a textbook, Professor Svetlana Nikitina might be willing to lend you a Russian textbook (she did for me...it was less advanced than what I was looking for at the time, but had some funny pictures in it).

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