bluewing

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Running an animal to death is just one method. Useful on a hot day when your prey is far more susceptible to heat exhaustion/stroke than you are. And the calories gained from the animal outweigh the calories expended to gain them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Yahoo, like all home pages and web news sites are aggregators. Just like most websites these days. There are few original sources for international and national news reporting anymore. And the vast majority of websites simply buy the news they want.

It's one big circle jerk with everyone citing pretty much the same sources all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They try and use google, which doesn't tell you anything about the information contained in the book. Or they complain about not being able to find the page they are told to look for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You are going to need to go beyond vegan and need to learn how to live on air and love only.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yep, students these days have no idea about the back of their books and how useful the index can be and the citations after that.

Even after repeatedly pointing it out, they still don't make use of it. Despite the index being nearly a cheat code in itself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As someone who has taught math to students in a classroom, unless you have at least a basic understanding of HOW the numbers are supposed to work, the tool - a calculator - is useless. While getting the correct answer is important, I was more concerned with HOW you got that answer. Because if you know how you got that answer, then your ability to get the correct answer skyrockets.

Because doing it your way leads to blindly relying on AI and believing those answers are always right. Because it's just a tool right?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Eh, such products minimize the waste of things that would otherwise be thrown away and lost. Us humans have been processing the scraps and leftovers of our food into other edible products for as long as we can remember - Waste not, Want not.

The problem is the disconnect modern urbanites have from their food and not knowing how it gets made. If you like deli ham eat it! (in moderation as all things should be), it's not all that different in processing than a hot dog, sausage, or hamburger. Or even cheese.....

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So you think a low payed adult worker will either?

Ain't none of you people ever been inside a packing plant have you?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Yes it is.

When processed, the meat bits, (and yes they are leftover meat bits), are ground into a paste with water added, (nearly all ham you buy has "Water Added" listed on the tag - exception would be something like "country ham" or prosciutto ham), then pumped into a carboy, (the paste is then called babbit), seasonings are then mixed in and then molded by machine into a glorious block 'o ham! To be sold at your local Deli as part of a delicious sandwich for which you happily pay your "hardly earned" monies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Never let ideology get in the way of practicality. I like your MIL.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Do you one better - My mini-desktop is plugged into a monitor with no microphone or camera.

 

These "critical fire" danger warnings from NOAA are really starting to wear on me. Living in drought conditions for 2 years is killing everything. I watch the radar and there is rain falling all around me, but very few drops for this area. And living in the middle of a forest makes for uneasy sleep.

It might be our turn to burn like Canada.

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