Syun

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Green's grandstanding doesn't impress me much. The guy's a rapist, and it takes almost nothing right now to look impressive compared to the rest of the democrats. There's almost no chance of this getting off the ground right now, and zero chance of it going anywhere. The dems' strategy of outreach while Trump burns everything to the ground will help them at the midterms in theory, but they don't actually need to do the outreach for them to do better in the midterms and they're probably alienating more people than they are poaching voters with their fecklessness.

Green choosing to become a creature of the press right now just tells me he's looking at advancing himself, maybe in the midterms for Cornyn's senate seat. Maybe a presidential run.

All that said, there's a reasonable chance that dems will pick up 2 seats in the house in april and another one later this year. If so, they could impeach, but Trump will weather that just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you talking about Animal free "meat", like impossible burgers, or are you talking about actual lab grown meat? I'm not aware of lab grown meat being on the shelves yet, and animal free meat options isn't the same thing as lab grown meat.

From what I've read in a few places, and this really does make sense, it's one thing to grow a vat of animal derived proteins, but all you have at that point is basically goo. That has to be processed into "muscles", which is a process of creating long chains of these proteins and bundling them. Then there's the question of fat: what is that process? You can't just add some oil and think it's going to actually be analogous to fatty layers, and lipid cells have to be arranged into, I dunno, rinds? Blobs for "ground beef", I guess, but you see what I mean.

I think this is as neat an idea as anyone does. And I can ask you the same question: any data to support the idea that I'm wrong? Everything I've read about this that goes into any amount of detail talks about the difficulties of actually processing this into something that resembles meat as we know it. I have seen absolutely nothing, and I've looked, to suggest that there's been any kind of meaningful success in making these protein slurries into anything we'd call meat. I'd imagine that ground meats would be the obvious first thing to come to market, that's gonna be the easiest thing to do. But a steak? Boy, color me skeptical. The other thing that I would imagine would be a difficult thing to replicate is going to be flavor. The animals we eat get their flavors in large part from how they're fed and raised. Chickens in the US haven't got the flavor of chickens in Europe, for example. Or a domesticated turkey vs a wild one. There are high grade steaks that you can get and when you see the fat caps, you can see a difference in color due to the cow's diet. How do they control for that? How do they create these proteins and make them flavorful? Will simple nutrient baths do that? Is there more to it than that? What will the B vitamin content be, and where will that come from? Will it be more bioavailable to the eater? Will it be premethylated, or will people with methylation problems in their livers not be able to effectively get those B vitamins from these meats? How will all of that effect cost?

Everything I understand about this is that while they can grow the proteins, the food engineering that it takes to make a piece of meat that will be able to compete with meat from the hoof is a way off, and that we're a long way from this being cheap.

I'd bet that the first lab meats we see coming to market are going to be gooey and bland. I'm imagining ground turkey but worse. And I'd be happy to be wrong, but I don't expect that making meats that are actually analogous to "real" meat is going to be a process of fast iteration. I was around for the beginning of the meat substitutes that came along in the 80s and they were DIRE. And there's nothing to suggest that the processes they've discovered for texturing plant based mock meats can be applied to this lab grown meat goo. Everything I've read, and it all makes logical sense to me, suggests that this is going to take a long time to become actually appealing to the masses just because of the pretty substantial food engineering problems that it presents.

My guess is that it's going to end up being its own thing, more like the "mock duck" and things you can get in cans. Bite sized pieces. I'll be happily surprised if they can grow a steak in a lab within my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I've degoogled and life is sweet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, this made me immediately want it, then when I saw the price, I kinda made a face...

But it's true that there's a logic to buying a new retro system rather than buying an original with all the gremlins that come along with that. It's one of the reasons why I got an X16. But at the end of the day, I was an Amiga kid who jumped over to DOS, so that's where all my fond memories are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me too! Yesterday was my first day here, and Nicole was the last thing I got before I went to bed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Please do. It was a good idea for the US to ban TikTok due to Chinese security law, and of course the worst man on earth granted it a reprieve.

Also, when are you guys going to denaturalize Musk? He cheated on his US citizenship, so I hold out a shred of hope that after his rampage is ended and it all wraps up, we'll revoke his citizenship as fraudulent and he'll have to return to a failed state that's following in Robert Mugabe's anti-white race war footsteps. Can't think of a better place on this earth for a Nazi to belong to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Well, an unpaid job that involves exercising power over others is always going to attract insufferable, self-important people. It's why I say they're the same people who run HOAs. Just petty little power trippers. I mean, if it ever gets bad, one can always start one's own instance, make competing subs, and make them off limits to the offending mods. Odds are good they'd be driving the members away as it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Honestly, that sounds like a blessing in disguise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Hehe, I actually joined my instance in no small part due to it already having taken anti tankie countermeasures. Don't need those people buzzing around like horseflies, I had a tankie father and my patience for that shit is basically zero.

Thanks for the recommends, neighbor!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Badge of honor, I reckon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I've gone through and did a bunch of subscribing and a little bit of blocking a handful of instances I know will flood my feed with stuff I find creepy. I actually spent a couple days deciding on the right instance to join. I'm looking forward to more people showing up, and it's nice that everyone I've interacted with so far has been pretty chill.

 

I just got a ban for "encouraging violence". Someone asked "what will you do to celebrate when he dies?" Someone else started talking about how they have a fantasy about getting the death note and how they'd put that to use. I chimed in with my silly fantasy of using a seance to end politicians' careers by getting them possessed by the ghost of GG Allin, and enjoying the mayhem that would ensue.

So, anyway, right after that, I found out that all the people who were so transgressive to have actually liked that comment of mine can, as of a couple days ago, expect punishment as well. How draconian.

And so that was that. No sense in being lorded over on the internet by the same people who run HOAs. It'll be fun watching Reddit flush itself down the toilet from over here, I expect.

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