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YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • If you could voluntarily STOP your taxes going to these wars, you would, right? That's what I'm doing when I stop buying meat, literally stopping the sale of meat.

    But hey, good luck with your preaching for mass suicide I guess. I'll keep being based here on earth while you waste yourself.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • I'm guessing this is your alt account huh. Because your last one got banned? Still speaking with the same monosyllabic single sentence "no-u" I see.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • That's relative privation - appeal to worse problems. It incorrectly assumes that we can or should only care about the current worst suffering and that moral concern is zero sum.

    There's very little I can do to end the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran etc. But I am directly funding and maintaining the meat industry every time I buy meat.

    Also don't kill yourself, that's cringe. Be based, fight on.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • Yeah currently the difference doesn't amount to much because we're still eating livestock, BUT if we stopped eating that livestock, we could return to a more natural Australia where shooting our national animals isn't a requirement.

    As I said, you're right, eating roos is definitely better, but your argument is an appeal to futility, "I won't be able to convince everyone to stop eating meat, so I'll continue doing moral failures". You could use that argument to continue all horrible injustices, right? "I won't be able to convince everyone to vote for Labor, so I'll vote Liberal as well".

    It's much MUCH easier to convince people to drop meat when you've done it yourself, I've converted 5 of my friends over the course of my 6 years, two of which are from rural NZ.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • Hahaha why do people just spout complete bullshit like they know anything.

    A Poore and Nemeck 2008 meta-analysis covering 38,000 farms in 119 countries found that food systems contribute 26% of the planets GHG emissions, of which ~57% comes from animal ag. Meaning this study found ~15% of the entire planets GHG comes from animal ag.

    Don't forget, 70% of the food we grow is fed directly to farm animals instead of humans.

    Stop spewing bullshit and look up the data?

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • Why would the industry continue if no one was eating the meat? What a peculiar argument...

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • A Poorer & Nemecek meta-analysis (2008) found that beef uses 20x more land and produces 10-20x more GHG than alternative meat (like impossible meat or classic fake meat at the supermarket). Lean beef is 26g of protein, plant meat is 25g (plant meat does have half the kilokalories)

    I did the research for you! All I ask is that you forever go vegan forever thank you (or maybe just try impossible mince in your spag bol next time, either or)

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • If everyone decided to stop eating meat today, 10-15% of the entire planets GHG gasses drop, an area the size of all of the Americas can be rewilded (animal ag uses 50-100x the land per kilo of food over plant based), we stop wasting 70% of our antibiotics on animals, the plastic left in the ocean drops by half.

    Most things in life you have little control over: you can't easily stop driving to work, you can't easily remove all your plastic usage, you can't easily cut back on your electricity usage.

    But you CAN easily cut out animal ag. Like, today. You can just look up plant based recipes for dinner instead of the meat ones. This is entirely consumer choice driven, entirely.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • Roos are culled mostly because they compete for pasture availability and water access for livestock, especially because we reduced their predators (again, to protect animal livestock).

    It's certainly better to eat roo than cow, but a diet that doesn't include killing animals at all is objectively better.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
  • The entire worlds cargo ships emit 3% of the planets GHG emissions.

    Animal agriculture is 15-20%. It's equal to the ENTIRE transport sector (cars, trucks, boats, planes etc).

    As a consumer you can't easily change your cargo ship usage, or cars or planes, but you can absolutely change your diet, literally today.

    I did! And I grew up on a dairy farm in rural NZ.

  • Taskmaster New Zealand Season 5 drops from this Friday
  • Ah that's Abby down the bottom left! I was in the Dunedin Capping Show with her, she was recently on Conan - and Conan said they had to delete like, 15 minutes of A-Roll material because she was just so funny. Neat!

  • I tried lab grown meat today

    Mrs and I tried lab grown fois gras quail, apparently the first in Australia. Amazing to be able to buy this in a restaurant, after hearing about it year after year.

    It was certainly meaty, a flavour you simply don't get with any meat-free chicken, really pungent and distinct (not that I've ever had dead quail).

    A place called Bottarga in Brighton, Melbourne. Wasn't cheap, but I'd pay top dollar to support the transition.

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  • I ain't organising to hate her, like I said, I don't care about any of the circlejerk. And I can use meaningless buzz words too if you like. "It's pretty fucking authoritarian to silence criticism of art. Just don't look at my comment, I'm living in your head and you need to figure out why"

    See, fairly pointless rhetoric.

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  • Ooh, my opinion is my own here.

    I was completely out of the loop with who this creator was when I one day scrolled through /r/comics/top, wasn't aware of the drama, the circlejerk, you name it.

    Her comedy is bottom of the barrel, obvious, decades old takes, that appeal to an era of the internet when comedy was written by those who had the technical know-how to engage with the internet - i.e., unfunny people.

    Panel 1: she's eating airline food, followed by 3 panels of silly "yucky food" faces. Final panel "you expect people to eat this stuff??".

    Panel 1: "honey will you take out the trash" followed by 3 frames of a guy beating up trash. Final frame, pizza cake self insert looking exasperated at the mess.

    Panel 1: she's excitedly buying stuff from the bargain bin, followed by 3 panels of all her purchases falling apart. Final panel - the "bargain" sticker falls off of "bargain bin". She has exasperated look with hair pointing out.

    Panel 1: she's sleeping awkwardly, followed by three panels of different awkward sleeping poses. Final panel, husband is waking up refreshed, she says "maybe we need to swap pillows"

    All of these are technically jokes and/or observations, but just know that if you think these are worth illustrating and sharing, what you consider good comedy is about 15-30 seconds of effort, or the absolute first thing that came to my mind.

    People don't like PC because her comics sit amongst others who exert effort to - at the very least - add a second layer to their comedy. It's unearned accolades given to the undeserving.

  • 'It was a cult': Mothers seduced by freebirth movement describe trauma and exclusion
  • I'll scoff at every moron who trusts pseudoscience over medical professionals.

  • Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say?
  • I'm a big gimmick guy, I LOVE a good gimmick. I liked my Surface RT with the flat touch keyboard, I liked my Surface Book with the kooky hinge and detachable screen, and I like my Samsung Fold 6.

    I flip it open all the time, I like using the GameSir controller on it and turning it into a super emulator, I like watching YouTube on it with the kickstand while I cook, I like actually having one app on the left side, one app on the right.

    My god phones got boring, so many dull slabs of glass, it's just nice to have something EXCITING again.

  • AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water
  • I hope you're all morally consistent and don't eat beef, which requires 15,000 litres of fresh water per kilo.

  • Total lie
  • Cringe take, sorry bro

  • Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak
  • But the word can and IS being used in other circumstances, so clearly context matters. I think quoting is fine context.

  • After 8 years of development, I'm releasing my first video game today: Game Over - A Musical RPG??

    Back in 2017, with no prior coding or game development experience, I decided to learn Unity and started work on Game Over.

    Up until the pre-release reviews were giving it 10/10, 8.5/10 & 8/10 (Pizza Fria, Checkpoint Gaming, Thumb Culture respectively), I was dead set nervous that the game might be no good.

    It comes out today on Steam (in half an hour, feel like I'm gonna barf). I've met some of my best playtesters here on Lemmy, so I'm happy to announce it here specifically!

    Steam Link Trailer

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    After 8 years of development, I'm releasing my first video game today: Game Over - A Musical RPG??

    Back in 2017, with no prior coding or game development experience, I decided to learn Unity and started work on Game Over.

    Up until the pre-release reviews were giving it 10/10, 8.5/10 & 8/10 (Pizza Fria, Checkpoint Gaming, Thumb Culture respectively), I was dead set nervous that the game might be no good.

    It comes out today on Steam (in half an hour, feel like I'm gonna barf). I've met some of my best playtesters here on Lemmy, so I'm happy to announce it here specifically!

    Steam Link Trailer

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    Made a book lamp

    Pieces required. Three books from a thrift store ($6) pretty books are everywhere it seems! Australian lamp fitting with switch from AliExpress ($11), 3w LED bulb from AliExpress ($14).

    Things I needed to buy: 40mm drill bit to drill through the books to fit the lamp socket ($12). Clamps to hold the books down during surgery ($20 for two).

    Things I already had: PVA glue to attach the books together and seal the pages. Drill and 8mm drill bit, to feed the wire though and out the back of the bottom book. Soldering iron, I had to break open the light switch and snip the wires off to feed JUST the power cable through the drill hole I'd made (power plug too big)

    I'm no DIY expert, and this was a fairly easy project. No major hurdles, and it looks great on my homemade ladder shelf.

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    Changed car insurance, saved a massive headache

    Was originally with AAMI, and noticed they had quietly dropped my covered rate to $7,500. If I was willing to pay more, I could be insured for $10,500 max. This is for a 2008 top spec Nissan 350z, which you couldn't look at for anything less than $17,000. My premiums for comprehensive were about to go up to $141 a month (despite being with them for 5 years with no claims) so I checked with Shannons, and they covered to $20,000 for $146 a month. Always pays to check how much you're covered, as if my car was written off, I'd be getting less than half it's worth. Outrageous.

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    Shifted my Superannuation to Future Super

    After watching a lot of Some More News and Climate Town, I made the shift from Hesta (which has $2,000,000,000 invested in fossil fuels, and most recently in the new Woodside gas plant) to Future Super.

    Yes, the fees are significantly worse, but if I'm putting my own financial gain ahead of the planet, I'm no better than all the banks investing in fossil fuels.

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    I complained about an Australian website asking for tips, so they removed the tip function.

    I pre-ordered a pair of Jennen shoes (elevator shoes, so I can be a big boy) from their online site (they no longer have the shopfront on Johnstone street) and got asked for a tip at the end. For basically changing a stock allocation assignment. I had a whinge on their contact forms, and they replied "the tip function is optional".

    2 years later I emailed again, saying "I haven't bought a replacement pair of shoes, all because of the audacity to ask for a tip. I get that it's optional, but so is a cashier going 'hey give me that twenty from your wallet', and when the customer goes 'wtf??' the cashier replies 'oh lol it's optional'. You may have thought 'you know, a tip screen could give us free money! What's the harm?', and I guess this follow up email is proof of that harm. Don't bring tipping culture here please!"

    I get this reply a day later, and can confirm the tip function is now gone. Loverly! Whinging may be one thing, but persistent whinging made the difference.

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    Game Over - PC trailer

    "Lemmy at em!" says some wisecracking character in my video game maybe, in a referential nod to a relatively niche community in an attempt to appeal.

    For the past six years I've been working on Game Over, a Comedy Rhythm RPG, and maybe you'll like it?

    There's a little demo on Steam and also one on itch.io which you can play free of charge! What a deal! What a sweet treat for yourself and friends!

    Also I don't have a complaints form, so if you have any, please comment below and I will angrily defend myself and take potshots at you.

    Call now!

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