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by seec 10mo ago
Yes, if you cook everything yourself, it can definitely be less expensive. But not really if you use tofu or any other ready-made meat protein replacement. In my region, tofu is actually pricier than many animal meats. For example, it costs
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by seec 10mo ago
I have had silken tofu that was pretty decent. But I would only eat it if there was no other option. The vegan restaurant I talked about had an excellent bean/chickpea-based burger that was actually wonderful. That I would like to eat,
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by seec 10mo ago
I do agree with most of what you say (acid reflux is inherent to smoking in general, though; it's not specific to weed), but the point is that it's only problematic if it becomes a habit. It doesn't have to. If you were drink
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by seec 10mo ago
Yes, Germans have a nasty superiority complex, and that's really not funny at times.
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by seec 10mo ago
Exactly. There are some “rules” that are perfectly valid, like “don't kill anyone,” but those make perfect sense and don't need much debate. Plenty of rules are actually retarded and sometimes harmful if you follow them blindly. T
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by seec 10mo ago
Yep, it's just that the world is extremely competitive, and you are constantly forced to think about your “productivity.” If you are not hustling and generating some value, you are “wasting time.” Of course, that's nonsense. You a
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by seec 10mo ago
Pretty much. People seem to think progress is linear and need razor-sharp focus on a single thing at once. I don't think it's the case at all; in fact, most good things seem to have come from mistakes or luck.
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by seec 10mo ago
Well, if it's just for entertainment, then books don't have more value than any other medium or way to spend time to entertain yourself. People have a book fetish because they imagine books are necessarily better quality, but it i
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by seec 10mo ago
Yes, to me it looks like they are now primarily selling placement in search results (or just space on their various properties). I never really understood the rationale behind click-based prices; someone following a link doesn't necess
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by seec 10mo ago
Most people who do not have the ideological inclination are against tofu. Not because it is imported or anything, but because it doesn't taste good and has a terrible texture. Even the people who originally ate it in Asia are switching
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by seec 10mo ago
> not eat meat and live healthily Extremely debatable and seems very dependent on your personal genetics/ethnicity. Just because you don't drop dead doesn't mean it's ideal; people can live underground too…
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by seec 10mo ago
It's obviously vegan propaganda, but of course it corresponds perfectly to the type of people working those fields. It's absurd to make kids believe a wolf can stop eating animals and become nice and friendly.
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by seec 10mo ago
You probably do, but you don't count the calories, and instead of everything being in the salad, you have a few ingredients outside (bread, nuts, cheese, whatever). Salads being a healthy, low-calorie thing is an idiocy; it's only
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by seec 10mo ago
What you say is contradictory. If fees and prices are increasing on Amazon it means more potential for the competition if they can operate with lower margins. Amazon is winning because they toe the line, not because of an innate monopoly.
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by seec 10mo ago
That's nonsense. People actually choose to use Amazon because their service is impeccable. The argument about Amazon requiring cheaper prices is true in theory but in practice not strongly enforced. I just bought a kettle on Amazon ins
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by seec 10mo ago
For some reason you seem to believe that the old-school solution of just walking into the neighborhood and picking something that looks good has completely disappeared. It is not the case and, I would argue, is still restaurants primary bus
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by seec 10mo ago
Yep, you have to suffer the various effects of the system to understand it. Which is why there are actually hardly any people of the lower class that are actually socialist. They know firsthand that the only thing you are doing is replacing
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by seec 10mo ago
Well, that's basically the template for your average socialist. They are so privileged that they argue for things that make no sense to your average commoner. It is some sort of signaling for the wealthy “intellectual” class. They gain
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by seec 10mo ago
Well, that's because most vegetables are water in an organic structure with some nutrients. Until recently, fruits and vegetables were largely something that was available only to the richest. They don't make sense from a caloric
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by seec 10mo ago
Yes, I lived in a rural area in my youth (not too bad, very close to the city), and I had friends who were sons of farmers. Much of the work was mechanized, but still there was plenty of boring, tiring work to be found. I am always amazed b
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by seec 10mo ago
Now that there are plenty of Chinese tablets that are excellent for the primary use case (media consumption) at a very good price for the hardware quality, iPads are definitely overpriced. And the "Pro" lineup fails to be a true l
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by seec 10mo ago
Yeah, living to old age at the cost of overoptimizing every little thing in your life does not seem like a worthwhile endeavor. You'll only add years that won't be terribly useful or pleasant anyway, because anyone has to deal wit
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by seec 10mo ago
Software, manuals, books, and knowledge in general are fruits of labor. It is not physical labor but labor nonetheless. Otherwise how would you reconcile software developers getting paid (as well as pretty much any intellectual profession)?
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by seec 10mo ago
It's not specific to the internet. It's just that basically everyone came into the internet when it became cheap and easy enough to use. However, previously it was only a subset of people who were willing to put in the effort beca
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by seec 10mo ago
It feels like a repeat of a situation that wasn't that long ago.
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by seec 10mo ago
Yes, the problem is the boomers who keep getting richer for no good reason, under the premise that they are entitled to massive pensions because they have been promised that much by politicians. Of course, logically it makes no sense, since
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by seec 10mo ago
If that makes you feel any better, this is also very much the case in France, actually, it's probably worse. But I think it's a general trend in Europe and much of the western world who went all in for socialized everything/g
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by seec 10mo ago
Well, they tout altruism, but they don't actually practice it. It's all fake; if they were true altruists, they wouldn't need to argue all day about people needing to share their stuff. In altruism, there is the concept of no
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by seec 10mo ago
Potato, potahto. I mean, I appreciate you putting in the effort to argue about precise categorization, but it is not terribly relevant to my perspective. The fact is that he is just one more type of asshole who spends most of his time argui
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by seec 10mo ago
I don't have much time to expand, but this is not at all a cheap shot. It's how I see him now that I am more cognizant about the world. Since I first learned about him when I got interested in Linux back in the late 90s, the only

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