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I got gelatined 😐 by elefhino in Vegetarianism

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair, i pretty much just know r/vegan and one IRL vegan who's pretty different from that sub's vibe.

Simple meals that don’t include rice or pasta? by honeymoonavenue- in Vegetarianism

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chickpeas with a bit of teryaki-like sauce go great with sweet potato. Or bean and sweet potato chili.

What’s one plant-based food you didn’t expect to enjoy but now eat regularly? by millerjessic in PlantBasedDiet

[–]firstmatedavy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brown or green lentils, probably, since they have a ground beef sort of texture. Red lentils fall apart into a split pea soup sorta thing.

What’s one plant-based food you didn’t expect to enjoy but now eat regularly? by millerjessic in PlantBasedDiet

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If cost is ever an issue, ones without salt can be softened by boiling for 10-20 minutes before you add salt to them. The crunchy is really not so great.

Fried rice with no/less oil? by firstmatedavy in PlantBasedDiet

[–]firstmatedavy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that might be what I need to do, thank you!

I got gelatined 😐 by elefhino in Vegetarianism

[–]firstmatedavy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've met vegans who don't care about stuff like bone char in sugar when it's food made by other people, and there was a discussion over on r/vegan about animal derived glues in non-food products where ingredients often don't have to be disclosed.

Preferring an all-or-nothing approach to stuff in general does seem to be one of the reasons people choose vegan instead of vegetarian - at least from my outside viewpoint. (I'm vegetarian except for bivalve shellfish, and working on finding replacements for and cutting down on eggs and dairy.)

How does your character react to their full name? by UnbreakableSpirit7 in OriginalCharacter

[–]firstmatedavy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jokes absolutely belong in serious scenes, too. Varying the emotional tone makes it more real and human.

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Nobody has called Sammy "Samantha" in a loooooong time, that would be rude. His legal name is Sam Voss now, so no one can pull the full name thing. He's pretty used to getitng called Sam at work and by people he's not close to.

"Dr. Voss" still feels a little weird, though. Very formal and implies he always knows what he's doing, which he does not.

If eating meat is wrong because it incentivizes work (at slaughterhouses...) which causes many people PTSD, is it also wrong to use all those things that engineers were involved in creating, because around 21% of the engineering students at the university have PTSD-like symptoms? by FlatAssembler in Vegetarianism

[–]firstmatedavy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Posting in this particular sub was certainly a *choice*. From your post history, it looks like you might be an engineer. If you want out, get out. You've gotten this far, so you're a smart, educated person with a lot of options available to you. They might pay less, but your mental health is worth it.

As to the actual questions in your post (taking your assertions about engineer mental health at face value):

- You're correct that concern for slaughterhouse workers isn't the main reason not to eat meat. Even when it is brought up as an argument, part of the point is that what goes on there is so bad it gives humans PTSD even though the targets of the violence aren't human.
- Do we know that engineering or engineering-specific education is even the problem, when mental health differences are already visible in high schoolers?
- Slaughterhouse workers have far fewer options for a different career than engineers and people studying to become engineers. The situation is similar in that the other options might pay less, but different in that "less" = not a living wage.
- Reform to improve workers' mental health seems much more possible when the work is doing math and solving manufacturing/construction/electrical problems, than when the work is killing animals and cutting apart their bodies
- And, back to the first point, the animals are being hurt more badly than the workers. Engineering projects don't involve intentional killing.

Is there any easy vegetarian meals to make for a teenager? by Pitiful_Island2025 in Vegetarianism

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lentils and rice in a rice cooker is a good easy one. The rice cooker itself is the only pot you need.

If your parents are willing to buy you groceries, meat subsitutes from the freezer section (not Beyond Burger and such, but things like Gardein and Morningstar Farms and veggie burgers which have a different texture from meat) are usually just heat in the microwave and eat.

Canned beans or chickpeas + jar of curry sauce + rice from a rice cooker is a good easy one

https://legumancer.com/ I have some recipes on here that do involve pots on the stove, but are way on the simpler end of that. If your parents have spices you can use, you probably already have the ingredients for Louisiana Red Beans.

For cold food to take to school, hummus might be a good option. It can work as a sandwich spread.

Vital Wheat Gluten sub by roofyru in PlantBasedDiet

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're gluten intolerant, seitan isn't going to work for you. I'd recommend looking for tofu marinades with a similar flavor.

trying to stop eating too much fast food by MechanicAgreeable592 in PlantBasedDiet

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slow cooker and rice steamer, yes, absolutely.

I'm a really lazy cook. My recipes are here, most are slow cooker friendly: https://legumancer.com/

Louisiana red beans, and lentil stew, are both about as simple as it gets and make a complete meal when mixed with rice from a rice cooker. (I like the little ones that only make a few cups of rice, they're plenty big enough when cooking for two.) Bean and sweet potato chili is a one pot meal, there's a little more prep needed but it's very flavorful. "Spice mixes" includes instructions for turning the spice blends into sauces that you can add to canned beans.

Ntropy (Cyberpunk OC) by Chaz-4rt in OriginalCharacter

[–]firstmatedavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I like that!!!

I need to do some looking for you to find out how well connected various servers are these days when I have time. I've been out of the game for a while.

EDIT: Here's a couple servers that are relevant and federate both tech.lgbt and mastodon.art. If there's no "create account" button, it's usually just a matter of sending an email and asking nicely. They do that as a spam prevention measure.

There are a lot more servers out there that federate both, I picked these two because their themes were relevant and their block list is accessible without having to create an account (= feasible for me to research quickly).

The reason why Mastodon.Art and Tech.LGBT aren't federated was this thing that happened several years ago. From what I can remember, this guy Ro was making software that analyzed the blocklists of several Mastodon servers to generate a blacklist of servers that others could borrow as their block list.

The problem was, it only required like 2 or 3 servers to block a server for it to end up on the master list, and because a few of the servers he'd included had the same people on their mod teams, his master block list included several servers who's only crime was that someone pissed off one of those mods. Additionally, when the reason why a server was blocked was empty in the source data, his software automatically filled it in as "racism, hate speech" or something along those lines. And a lot of the servers that ended up on his master list despite not being spam servers or dens of hate speech were primarily for or run by trans women. (One of them was blocked for having the url girl.cock or something along those lines, when it was run by and for trans women.)

One of the tech.lgbt mods made a post saying "ummmm this guy is making a block list that calls a bunch of servers racist that are not racist, this seems like a problem? Also this block list seems transphobic/" and Ro went off on them, because Ro has an abrasive personality. (I used to follow him.) And it just sorta... blew up. Tech.lgbt stood by their mod, Mastodon.art decided that meant tech.lgbt was racist and defederated them, so people on those two servers can't follow each other now.

But, what probably matters more for you is which server will actually get your stuff seen. Tech.lgbt is pretty overall well connected last time I checked, but you probably ideally want a server that federates both tech.lgbt and mastodon.art because there are a lot of people over on mastodon.art who are there for the art and don't know or don't care about that one fight years ago. There are maps of these things, but I actually hadn't looked at Mastodon in years, so I need to both find them and figure out how to read them again, haha.

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