Also this plate was $10 which is the same price for a 4-pack of ethical vegan liquid.
1600 calories that meets 80% of my nutrition goals
Versus
.... Whatever this single serving of noodles and rice with bits of pork equates to...
I may be vegan but plenty of stuff is gross to me. What you see below is not what vegans eat. These are brightly colored vegetables. This is not a diet, it's just visual marketing on a plate. There is nothing sacred about broccoli. There are more plants in the world than vegetables.
Veganism is about ethical decisions. It's about supporting industries that care about the earth and about people.
I did not purchase this meal. It contains meat but it was gifted to me. I will never turn down a free meal but I will eat around the parts which I do not like.
In this case I ate rice and noodles which contained bits of meat.
I did not contribute to animal suffering. I also tried my best not to contribute to food waste. I hope my boss will eat the vegetables because they are soggy and gross.
Looking forward to Soylent later.
Until next time.
"if you can't beat em, join em" and all that
Chiming in on this, I have always thought there could be value in aggregating tag data from every user and displaying the most relevant. I think a big problem with tagging is that users must remember to tag ahead of time. It's something you must do as you're making a post or reply. I think it's very robot-like behavior.
There is two problems:
1) Tagging can equate to higher interaction, therefore more tags is essentially always better. This creates an endless well of tags by design. Expect lots of tags. The question is how to handle them.
2) Tagging shouldn't be dependent on time of posting.
Not sure what else to say about it but that's my two cents.
Lol all of them have an asterisk. I would leave it blank seeing that it's technically allowed by the form.
"I brought him into this world, you figure out his pronouns if you care so much" 😂
We are the universe experiencing itself subjectively.
Whether or not you care is merely 1 opinion in an endless universe.
I care and I think others should care.
That is the power of free will granted by our alleged gods.
We are those gods.
We choose the design.
By your logic, I should kill someone today because I feel like it. But someone will care because humans are so precious. What makes us so special? According to you it's nothing, and I'd agree. So perhaps I will kill today, because I feel like it. Then I'll post about how the law should favor my decision because all life is equally worthless.
Will keep you posted.
Not every vegan is malnutritioned and that's why this article sucks and celebrity gossip sucks.
Diets should be based on facts. There are plenty of well-supported facts backing whole food plant-based diets. Ethical consumption is a choice.
You choose murder but I do not.
I have been mostly meat free for almost a decade.
If I can do it, you can too.
I try to see some way that humans have benefitted from the current system of meat production.
At the very least, there is a chance that harvesting meat saved us from a path of trail and error in terms of global factory plant farming. I mean, we could have possibly wrecked the world in a way that was more destructive than animal production.
I don't know enough to say one way or the other.
Factory farming of animals is quite destructive ecologically so I hope we can deploy ecologically-friendly and ethical farming of plants in a reasonable timeframe. We should aim to restore nature to its own order instead of intervening at every level. We prey on each other more than anything. We should be preying on our oppressors.
Fuck celebrities, meat is murder.
Green hearts are my favorite 🦫
The only reason I didn't is because by choosing to live, I can do more for cows in the future.
Today I must let them be herded to the grave.
The white cow was my favorite but it was also in a cage by itself and was having trouble standing up with the motion of the trailer. It breaks my heart to see animals suffer while people blindly march forward.
I wish I could have stopped to pet the cow, but the systemic destruction of nature doesn't allow for that.
We are not free.
If you are tired of your Nostr feed being similar as your X (formerly known as Twitter) feed (#Bitcoin), I highly recommend creating a list with different follows here. There are some pretty cool notes here that don't always break through.
Here are some unique accounts I recommend following:
nostr:npub1ejvhdkt8ppefezgz0sgnwdqrn8l4z8muws2k8dz2tv0a57ac2z9st56q8x (dad jokes)
nostr:npub1cd0l3s6qgj0s6690rtkys39mgj5upwxpm4856nhmce0pyqu6xj9qh7xlvx (biz/vc)
nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz (escaped TikTok, doesn't seem she's going back)
nostr:npub14a234n82fqsqp0wvkd9a83fp2k8p7dfhww3u4mvr59rey8pkn6sswh0dfz (get her to stay)
nostr:npub1el3mgvtdjpfntdkwq446pmprpdv85v6rs85zh7dq9gvy7tgx37xs2kl27r (drinking tequila tips)
nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs (self help version)
nostr:npub1a6c3jcdj23ptzcuflek8a04f4hc2cdkat95pd6n3r8jjrwyzrw0q43lfrr (quality replies)
nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 (dank memes)
nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk (follow just to secure free drinks for next IRL meet)
nostr:npub1ewe0qgak4gykym236t6w4x06jyuw4q8v040lmn5lamude434yqcsz7uqlw (#cookstr)
nostr:npub158mxap4gsexqeutj5sws2pfkngyq3lh726gex8wa7flt28tzhytq4jy85z (wisdom)
nostr:npub17amtesfzwxl8nlr3ke2l8jl7kw52z60n8msnxh7vps3g9xgpmf9qx5nldk (#photostr)
What accounts would you recommend to make your Nostr feed more unique?
Literally nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz and nostr:npub12r0yjt8723ey2r035qtklhmdj90f0j6an7xnan8005jl7z5gw80qat9qrx for the meme sir is this a joke
They were here before we started eating them, so of course their prolonged existence depends on having an ecosystem to thrive in. Most factory farming doesn't take up the amount of land available on earth. There is plenty of room for cows to thrive alongside civilized humans. They are just as much a part of Earth's ecology as the butterflies and the birds and the bees and the beavers and vultures and snakes. We take them for granted.
There is no humanity in killing. 😔
Do you look at the cows?
You probably don't have as many near you as I do.
There are more cows than people in Oklahoma.
I see them cramped together in long trailers every day.
Today I looked them in the eyes and I felt their confusion.
I wept, because I too am confused.
They wait in line to die, the same way I wait at the traffic light on my way to work alongside them.
Neither party is free.
Would it be wrong to end their life?
I could swerve in front of the driver and cause an accident.
Would that be less humane than slitting their throat?
Would I be causing fellow humans to go hungry?
Why is only some death justified?
Would I be missed?
I hope they have a better day at work than I do.
I'll miss the cows.
Gm Vitor.
I have been considering this for a very long time, of course how it relates to Nostr I have only been considering for the two years that I have been a part of the ecosystem.
I see two problems that are very noticeable on Nostr. The first being a lack of "organized friend lists" and the second being a lack of "managed communities".
Both of these properties are enhanced with a centralized database of course, while Nostr is enhanced with the emergent properties that are derived from the "all seeing relays" model encouraged by Blastr.
I actually like the Blastr model if it is applied in a way that creates value and incentive structures. It's just that no one wants to host everyone's bloat notes (for free) if the cost is compounding upwards. Relays lose incentive. Instead of proliferating, they become constrained.
So what I suggest is a forking of Nostr.
Our npubs can be shared across different forms of Nostr which can become frameworks for different network relationship models.
In this way we can manage "Other Stuff" without being a slave to the kind 1 note and NIP-02 Follow List format.
I think a fully "decentralized" Nostr would be a fully distributed Nostr. That means every user would have incentive to host their own relay. This makes sense if we can reduce the footprint of "Nostr A" to something microscopic. If Nostr's identity layer can proliferate to become a standard that is built into every home router, then we can maximize the proliferation of npubs.
nostr:npub1w4jkwspqn9svwnlrw0nfg0u2yx4cj6yfmp53ya4xp7r24k7gly4qaq30zp suggests hosting data in clusters of friend groups. He wants friends to share encrypted data between themselves directly as a form of redundant personal security. I like this model and think it could also serve as a model for relays. Relays need to organize. In this way, we can maintain different frameworks for standardizations of data interoperability without being committed to any single organizational structure.
The thought here is that I should be hosting my own personal relay to host my own notes. If I cannot, then I should be able to find a public relay which would likely make sense to be a decaying type of relay. Do we have relays that decay yet? I would love to publish to a relay that guarantees my note will decay in 1 year, for example.
Then I have the authority as a user to determine how long I want to host a note, or how long someone else should host it. It can proliferate and be guided by social peers, but in the end I shouldn't be writing permanently to anywhere unless I want it to be there forever. Which is not everything I say, necessarily. And most of my "thoughts and celebrations and memes" don't really need to proliferate across the internet, so much as they need a home to exist upon until I decide to delete them.
It makes sense to have small personal relays and it makes sense to have totally open relays.
What doesn't make sense is confining ourselves to "one Nostr". Even if it is open, it is still constrained by its organization. The employment of Nostr is dependent on its structure.
So, "relay organization" is not set in stone either. But at first we should have a simple Peer-to-Peer relay authority structure.
A relay would either be open to everyone, or it would federate with a group of other relays.
Because these federated relays would all be sharing the same goal, they would not be less decentralized than Nostr is now. Instead they would provide authority structure within this decentralized ecosystem. This would allow parent/child relay relationships. The point is that relays would communicate but they would only do so by grouping and agreeing to read/write to each other. By Blasting events to each other.
You have "relay networks" which are totally decentralized and stand alone
You have "hybrid applications" which employ caching to aggregate data from relays
And you have "social networks" which are unique in structure and dependent on user input
What we don't have is trustless relay organization.
And then we need a new Nostr for Blastr-enabled Nostr and this one can become testnet Nostr.
Or inbox/outbox/gossip Nostr.
Why aren't there already like 5 versions of Nostr? All models are valid, it's a question of application and incentive and structure.
I am not sure how well I can format these concepts but I hope this comment is helpful in some way. I believe Nostr is attempting to do something that money cannot solve. Developers must break through to innovative ideas instead of relying on traditional fundamentals. We are in emergent territory. Light speed connectivity. There are new rules to be written.
With that, I also want to suggest Graphstr, which would be "the beginning of Web of Trust or as I've taken to calling it, Web of Confidence". Graphstr would be a relay backend powered by Blazegraph with a Rust wrapper to communicate Nostr events across a decentralized protocol of Blazegraph relays. This would enable concept graphs to proliferate across a Nostr-enabled ecosystem, which could serve as a model for a future decentralized Web of Trust.
Heck if I know. nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza I want Listr to become a protocol and not just a Nostr application.
nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz ok honestly can I just @cornychat already
nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza how do we @cornychat I need communities or friends lists or SOMETHING BRO WTF IS THIS SHITCOIN ASS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I'd sell it on r/hardwareswap personally but Nostr is an option of course