Olmesartanian? You live off blood pressure drugs.

I mean, I would do the same on the spot if their response to me being upset about their support of systematic torture and slaughter of baby animals is “mmm veal burger”. It also has more to do with being able to see things from your partner’s perspective. If they don’t get veganism, they probably don’t get other basic things.

Within 200m I had falafel from two different places. One tasted like woodshavings and paper towels (I kinda suspect a paper towel really did get in there, it’s usually just wood shavings), the other one was Lebanese, and it was the tastiest, most amazing falafel I’ve had in my life. Homemade is great, supermarket is ok when I want a quick wrap but kinda meh.

Now you got me excited! Going to try it out. Thanks!

I got two stainless steel ones and I love them to bits.

A bit off topic but my blender died. Can I make plant milks with a stick blender-powered chopper? It’s not within my budget to replace it right now.

Rather not say but across the border south, about 4-5 hours from Bucharest.

It was fun having to go to work yesterday morning. Nothing was cleared up, no way for cars to get to my house so I had to make a trek by foot. This morning was worse because some of the snow had melted during the day yesterday and it refroze. Everything is slippery now.

One thing outside observers need to know is how incompetent the municipality services are. They knew in advance that this storm was coming. There were warnings all week. It came a day late here so they had extra time. The municipality website showed no information, just some cultural events and an article from two days ago that “the municipality is ready for the winter”. At this point we have a saying for poor organisation during winter time when everyone knows it’s coming in advance:

“The winter surprised us again!”

My personal belief system is that no animal, regardless of how simple of a nervous system it possesses, deserves exploitation and suffering. It’s not so much about the animal’s feelings, which definitely also plays a role when we talk about the more “sentient” beings, but the effect that has on the rock we live on.

Keeping animals in captivity because “it’s cool” or for public amusement is not something I agree with. Keeping them in a sanctuary is one thing, capturing them from the wild, breeding them, and displaying them in enclosures far smaller than their natural territory is another thing. Animal breeding for profit is also something I have a problem with. Keeping them in cages is not ok. You do not have a reason to keep a living being enclosed because “it’s cool”. Invasive animal species often came to be because the said species are “cool”, not to mention the way they got into the breeding system in the first place.

The problem with consuming less sentient animals isn’t about the kill count or the pain they suffer. It’s about the way they’re “harvested” and the effects on the environment. A much larger portion of our agricultural output goes for the tier 2 animals than for feeding humans. (using your tier system for simplicity, I don’t want to lump animals into tiers myself). The emissions coming out of these animals amounts to at least 25% of our greenhouse gas output.

Farming insects is part of the above problem. You use more plant food for less calories. It’s much more efficient than beef, yes, but correct me if I’m wrong, I might be talking out of my ass here, escaped population can wreak absolute havoc on the local ecosystems.

And for clams and mussels, they might only be able to react to stimuli but trawling for them is an absurdly destructive practice that also needs to stop.

While it really does feel like it, as a person working in healthcare, I do see some change after the whole shitstorm from recent years.

• There are people who actually wear a mask, few, but they are around.
• A lot more people seem to be conscious of spreading their illness to other people be it a cold or COVID.
• People definitely wash their hands more often. I know we do.
• Some people started getting their annual shots when they didn’t intend to before.
• Local businesses open their windows and doors a lot more than they used to.

But also I also see some negative tendencies:

• Interest in flu shots has waned. That might have something to do with the govt introducing a free flu shot programme from your GP if you’re above 65 or with specific conditions (which is a great thing) But I definitely see a lot more vaxx-scepticism and fear of combining both shots (infant vaccination plans are a lot more intense and the vast majority are fine).
• People politicising a disease.
• This is country specific but food supplement companies aggressively promoting “immune system stimulants” to the point where in the beginning of The Plague™ they somehow managed to include them in hospital treatment plans.

This came out longer than intended but there were some things that I needed to get out of my system.

This is exactly what I’m doing right now. I play a game that I can play for 2 hours daily max and it’s fine, I can do without it easily. I also fell into the OW2 trap and I became unbearable to the people around me.

I feel like I didn’t word myself properly because I haven’t played WoW or any of the “problematic” games for 6 months now. I managed to keep myself occupied with cross stitching and books. It’s when I see footage/hear music that I get these feelings of wanting to play again.

I actually agree with you but the mental health communities on Lemmy haven’t caught up yet, and I figured one could find more people here that could relate.