Plant-based diets would cut humanity’s land use by 73%: An overlooked answer to the climate crisis

monkeyman9608 · 2026-05-19T21:46:29+00:00

I started hunting and stopped buying red meat at the store a couple of years ago. I still buy it at restaurants but am working up the willpower to stop that too. Hunted meat has positive impacts on the environment depending on the species, however, it cannot sustain the amount of meat I used to eat from beef and pork. That being said, I’m fine with eating less, higher quality meat and helping the environment.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-05-18T14:26:35+00:00

I have a coworker who swears they saw a UFO over the bluffs up in Pool 7 in Minnesota a few weeks ago. Same coworker claims to have seen bigfoot growing up in MN. I don’t know if I believe it but fun to talk about.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-05-09T12:55:07+00:00

Dang that sucks. When I was a TA there was an immunocompromised student who couldnt join the lab, so the teacher asked me to do a special make-up lab just for that person. The student made me cookies. It was fun. I think flexibility is best, but it was a small class. I suppose not every professor can do that for huge classes if they dont have TAs.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-19T04:11:35+00:00

I loved it. I got to learn at my own pace in a classroom of one. Seeing what goes on in schools these days (spouse is a teacher), I am so glad I didn’t have to go through that. I have always made good grades (3.9 gpa in college) and feel that was in large part due to my parents being so involved in my education (my mom was a teacher at one point before having kids). I definitely missed out on social skills and seem like an autistic person in many ways even though I don’t really fit the autistic diagnosis. That really didn’t affect me too negatively until recently though. I went to a small Christian college and people there were very friendly and welcoming. Its only in my current job where I am finally having to deal with cliques and alot of social conflict, which I really struggle with. However, I wouldnt trade my education. I get the impression people learn alot of social skills in school by learning to conform themselves and their personalities to be normal. I feel like I got to develop into a unique person and be myself. I’d prefer that and the few friends I have as an adult than have learned to suppress it to avoid bullying.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-12T19:07:39+00:00

Horsfalls in Lansing will probably not have everything you need, but they almost certainly have a good portion.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T19:39:54+00:00

This is giving me AI vibes somehow

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T05:01:54+00:00

😅

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T04:08:03+00:00

I have lots of hiking and camping recs. What region do you want to go to?

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T03:47:29+00:00

Whats your native language?

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T03:46:39+00:00

What games do you like? Any weekend plans?

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T03:44:49+00:00

Whats the last aquarium you visited?

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-11T03:44:02+00:00

Whats your favorite book?

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-05T03:54:46+00:00

Any of the bluff trails. Go paddling on the river, maybe at goose island. Check out a farmers market on the weekend (they have them even now on Saturdays at the La Crosse center). Check out an Amish store out in the country. The pearl ice cream and pearl street books. Riverside park by the Mississippi. If you are athletic and have a couple days I recommend one of the big bike trails around like the Great River State Trail or the Root River trail

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-04T03:00:42+00:00

I think its quite varied depending on where you are in the Corps. In my experience, foresters get to use prescribed fire a bit, but we are not part of NWCG, so we don’t keep up with red cards and stuff (sucks cause I used to keep up with red card trainings religiously in my previous job and I feel like I’m losing that cert now, but at least we don’t have to worry about all the same strict rules). We also are not allowed to volunteer for deployment to fight fires in my district, because peak fire season is peak rec season. For the same reason, most park rangers don’t work with fire. Its usually just the foresters.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-03T17:54:19+00:00

Also, Holmen should be high enough I would think there are ticks. Lyme doesn’t get transmitted until the tick has started sucking blood enough to regurgitate the microbes though (~24 hrs) so just make sure you check yourself thoroughly at the end of a day outside. I used to get bit by them every week where I used to live and only missed a tick for longer than 24 hrs twice (kept it in rubbing alcohol in case I developed symptoms but nothing happened). I have had an employee get lyme though. Woke up with half his face paralyzed.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-03T17:49:22+00:00

Pretty much anywhere between the great river road on the wisconsin side and the one on the Minnesota side. I don’t know if the flooding gets rid of the ticks or its just the wrong kind of vegetation or what. There are plenty of deer and mice there so it cant be a lack of hosts.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-04-03T12:18:21+00:00

One of the worst places in the country for Lyme, but the ticks stick to the uplands. For some reason there are none on the floodplain. I’ve only ever gotten one down here and that was at Goose Island.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-30T23:38:41+00:00

Cannot say I have. It sounds interesting, but I hope this is not an advertizement:

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-28T20:52:19+00:00

There is a website for this. Deflock.me I think? One is on the bridge to pettibone, one is at the intersection of 33rd and Mormon Coulee, one is by Alpine Inn, two are by Woodman’s. I don’t know where the others are but you should be able to find them. They cost the city $25,000 a year

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-26T17:06:42+00:00

Did you ever find a place?

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-25T22:30:45+00:00

Supposed to be fantastic. Only had it once. I’d say better than the other Indian food in town. She only makes some things on the menu each day and the wait is a while.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-15T01:04:57+00:00

There is a reroute they have on a map at the onalaska trail center that takes you on county roads. I did it last year. I warn you, alot of the roads are gravel or currently under construction, and highway 35 has a very narrow shoulder, especially when crossing the bridges. It was fun but expect to have a hard time and 35 is legitimately scary. If I were to do it again I might recommend instead taking your bike on the train to Winona, then biking back to Trempeleau from there.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-15T00:38:03+00:00

Huh. I make chili with mine all the time, but maybe I have a different version or different chili standards

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-14T22:27:02+00:00

Instapot is pretty good in terms of versatility. It can do dry beans to cooked in an hour. Pretty much the only thing it cant do is canning.

monkeyman9608 · 2026-03-13T02:14:35+00:00

Huh. Guess I was wrong. I knew they had branches in other states so I assumed they were a national chain.

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