Vegetarian here. I like Beyond products, such as their chorizo, and eat them all the time. I don’t eat animals not because I’m trying to “eat healthy”, but because I’m trying to opt out participating in a system that is brutally cruel to sentient beings.
I'm in a similar boat and have to give up cheese since it's part of the chain. It's a bummer, I'm pretty addicted to it, and plant-based cheese is just nothing compared to a good young cheese
I tell myself that in the long-term the pros outweigh the con, if you value being on the right side of morality
My wife developed lactose and gluten intolerance both right around the same time. Dealing with gluten free alternatives has been annoying, but manageable. Milks and butters I can easily sub in recipes to good results. I no longer use dairy butter or milk in any of my cooking. The vegan cheese stuff has been so gross that she's basically dropped it altogether. The texture and taste are so wrong and they basically don't melt. I'm sure it'll be "solved" eventually but a cheeseless pizza is better than a pizza with vegan cheese at this point in time.
I want to do what you're doing, but if I can't do it well, why bother? If had the whole "cooking at home for yourself" thing down, maybe I could buy only beyond (not-meat?), but when i cook for myself, I don't even like cooking meat. I use eggs but that's about it.
A lot of the meat i consume is from restaurants and fast food, it isn't easy to get a meat alternative, that isn't part of a "veggie" item that has different ingredients (if available at all). For example, a "beyond cheeseburger" that uses the same sauce,buns,prep as a regular cheeseburger would be nice, but usually it's under a "veggie burger" with vegetable centric things with it.
Tangentially, indian food is awesome for avoiding meat, but restaurant ordered indian food isn't healthy if you eat all the time (a couple of times a month is ok, if you're fit).
I'm not sure what motivates you to write a comment like this, but maybe you should reflect on it.
The person you are replying to is consciously trying to make the world a better place, and probably succeeding in a small way. Are they perfect? No. But they are literally sacrificing something for the good of someone (or something) else. This is the definition of altruism.
For some reason, you felt the need to criticize them for not being more altruistic?
Finally, if you really want to live cruelty free and 100% sustainably, the only option is to throw yourself off of a bridge because any time you interact with modern society you are producing CO2 indirectly and potentially harming animals, no matter how careful you are.
Who says they eat dairy and eggs? “Vegetarian” isn’t such a simplistic label like that. It doesn’t mean “I eat exactly these things”. For all we know, they eat only eggs and from a local farm (or have their own chickens).
Furthermore, it’s a bad argument to imply vastly reduced complicity with a system is the same as full complicity.
Yes that's what vegetarian means, 99% of the time.
Where did I say "full complicity"? But yes, animals who are farms for milk and eggs are treated just as badly, sometimes worse, than animals that are farmed for meat.
> Yes that's what vegetarian means, 99% of the time.
What’s your source for that claim? I know plenty of vegetarians and there’s not a single one where I could assume they eat both dairy and eggs. I don’t think any of them drink milk (oat drinks and the like are common), only some eat cheese, in very varying quantities (from regularly to almost never), same with eggs.
You are assuming what your parent commenter does.
> animals who are farms for milk and eggs are treated just as badly
Again, you have no idea what your parent commenter does. With eggs in particular, there are different tiers related to the animals’ conditions. It is possible to make more ethical choices.
I bought an EV on December 18. On December 19 I took my family on a 2400 mile road trip up the US east coast and Canada, with multiple days of all day driving.
It worked out fine! Driving the car was also much more enjoyable than driving our loud gas car. Yes, we stopped to recharge every few hours, but I also needed to give my mental focus a break from driving, too.
an instructor’s solo sign off is only valid for 90 days in the US, and there are a bunch of restrictions as to what a pilot is operating under the instructor’s sign off can do.
They solved an open challenge problem, Protein Structure Prediction, with AlphaFold, which has been nothing short of revolutionary in the structural biology and biochemistry fields. I do scientific research in these fields and the capabilities AlphaFold provides are used now everywhere.
Yes, many research papers have been written, and many CVs have added lines which include the word "AlphaFold". But has the human condition been improved one iota from the "discovery"? Has anything real actually happened? Not at all. Only "maybes" and "possibilities" after more than 5 years of work. "Revolutionary" at padding researcher CVs indeed.
Man, with al respect why your “hate” with the good guys working at DeepMind? Everybody loves and respect Demis Hassabis, he is truly a genius. He really wants the best for the world/humanity and that takes a ton of time, so let’s wait and see.
I am in a lab that does similar research on resistance to cancer therapeutics but using different computational modeling methods. This is really interesting stuff, as kinetics as a method of resistance has been something that we know is important from a biological perspective but hasn't yet been incorporated much in resistance modeling.
I just turned 35 and my situation is very similar to yours, with the exception being that I am married. Partners and family do give one's life a lot of meaning. That said, I'm glad you asked this question, as these topics have been occupying much of my thinking lately as well. I don't have the solution, but just want to let you know others feel the same as you (as you have probably already seen in the comments!)
Early evidence seems to show that AlphaFold has trouble with single point mutations that change a protein's shape, so completely de-novo proteins will be a challenge:
I would not expect any program to reliably predict the effects of single mutations that massively change the protein's shape unless there was enough high quality structural data and sequence data for both substates and enough signal to predict which substate the protein would adopt after mutation.
Fortunately, evolution already encoded robustness against this sort of problem into proteins and the vast majority of single point mutations are tolerated (the resulting enzymes are often nearly as active and stable as the originals).
The point of AlphaFold not being able to predict the impact of small changes is probably more about having only seen the "right" way those protein sequences usually look. Many point mutations will result in a fitness reduction and therefore the difference would not make it into the training set.
No, this is absolutely not true. For example scientists have made hundreds of point mutations and probed them, even if the "fitness" was lower (not clear what that even means in this context).
Don't forget that you can replace the three residues in the serine protease catalytic triad and still see significant proteolytic activity. Everything we know about protein activity is wrong.
This is my experience as well building and running .NET core stuff on Arch Linux all the time. You just have to know what you're doing, and the Microsoft documentation doesn't make it easy to take the minimalist route.
Microsoft could do a much better job onboarding new developers.
Visual Studio Code only needs to be good enough for a Cloud IDE kind of scenario for Azure workloads (it started that way as Monaco anyway), anything beyond that is a gift so to speak.
I get a flu shot every year, getting boosters of these vaccines doesn't bother me at all. There will be other vaccine "implementations" (Novavax, for example) that will get better over time.
I agree it's good news that the project complied with the original court order from 2018, which was to block the works on German IP addresses that are still under German copyright law. Why would American copyright law apply in Germany? It's a bit disingenous of Project G that, instead of blocking access to just these books in Germany, they blocked access to the all the books. That was project G's, and not the German court's, decision. I'm glad they've changed their minds.
> Why would American copyright law apply in Germany?
It doesn't. Project Gutenberg is an American entity, and operated entirely in the US. This is like asking why should American free speech laws apply in Thailand in regards to Thailand enforcing lèse-majesté laws on an American website.
The problem is that it sent copyrighted files to Germany (outside the U.S.). The court order only demands to stop this.
I doubt that the order is enforcible on U.S. soil. But if individuals associated with an uncomplying organization set foot in or have assets in a territory where the order could be enforced, they risk real consequences.
It is unreasonable that an individual who is neither a German citizen nor within German territory would later be subject to "real consequences" from the German legal system for actions which were perfectly legal in the time and place where they were performed. Even if they do later travel to Germany. This concept of extraterritorial jurisdiction needs to stop before we end up with a dystopia where either (a) no one can travel anywhere for fear of arrest based on something they did legally elsewhere, or (b) everyone is forced to comply with every law in every global jurisdiction at all times (even the conflicting ones which are impossible to satisfy) no matter where they happen to be or what the local laws may permit.
Even if Germany should decide to be unreasonable and claim global jurisdiction, it should either bar the offending individuals from entering altogether or grant them immunity under German law during their stay for anything done outside the country beforehand. Knowingly inviting someone in only to prosecute them would be a gross violation of the basic principles of hospitality.
If Germany doesn't want certain data coming in to their country they are welcome to erect a firewall at their border, at their own expense, to prevent their own residents from accessing it. Of course that still infringes the natural rights of the German residents, but that is an internal matter between the German government and those living there, who presumably would be permitted to leave if they so desired. It is not the place of non-German server operators to enforce German censorship laws, including but not limited to copyright.
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