The article doesn’t say /when/ someone must become vegan to benefit. If someone eats meat regularly their whole life then goes vegan at 65, is that too late to make a notable difference?

Also a bit interesting about the gut health. I would have expected meat eaters to be getting bigger doses of gut bacteria.

If you require something that couldn’t be used over CloudFlare, that cedes a whole lot of power to what they choose to support

Power is excessively unreasonably ceded when Cloudflare is in the loop. To avoid CF is to put power back where it belongs. Cloudflare-incompatible tech ensures CF does not wield inappropriate power.

any networking could, in theory, be run by proxy.

Indeed, and this frustrates sigsec. Connecting to someone requires trusting them not to do something stupid like hand their keys to a giant centralised corporate overlord. At least avoiding Cloudflare is low-hanging fruit. It’s usually easy to detect when CF is in the loop, apart from a few rare shenanigans where CF uses some IPs that are not in CF’s ASN records.

Cloudflare is not a host. It’s a reverse proxy and governments use it.

I love to get in a hot tub and gradually turn up the temp to dangerous levels. It’s not painful… it’s dangerously comforting. I only read the article not the study, but I wonder if the study examined the effect of slow boiling (like the euphamism “boiling frogs”).

The article has this:

This is awful, but what can we do?

The first step is acknowledging that these animals might experience pain similarly to how we do.

With that understanding, industries and regulators can work towards implementing more humane methods of handling and killing crustaceans.

Restaurants and home cooks alike can adjust. Rapid chilling at 32 °F for 20 minutes puts many crabs into torpor; specialized devices such as the CrustaStun deliver a quick electrical jolt that ends consciousness in under a second.

So it makes sense that a restaurant would use a commercial device to do it quickly. And I guess most home cooks are buying dead crustaceans. But some grocers have a tank of live ones. I have never bought seafood like that. Do they give it to you live or do they kill it in the store before purchase?

The ultimate question is whether consumers “need” to toss these animals into boiling water, or if they can put them in moderate water and slowly bring it to a boil. Or if the research shows that it’s relatively painless.

Consider posting specific details in !modabuse_powertrip@lemmybefree.net. That’s more for abusive mods in the fedi but Reddit is still w/in the scope of their rules.

Corporations certainly would bend to consumer demand if consumers were wise enough to boycott and make demands. But the question is whether consumer wisdom would ever advance on a scale to make that happen. I think I have little hope of seeing it in my lifetime.

There are 35 million Mexican adults (38%) without a bank account. So living unbanked is at least an option, and more than ⅓ find it viable.

Nonetheless, it’s interesting to hear that all banks in Mexico are digital and that not a single one offers offline service. And that not a single digital bank offers logins w/out 2FA, or 2FA by SMS (which includes feature phones), or 2FA by using a card reader. If all that is true, consider posting about it in !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org.

This is extremely reductive and oblivious to the actual realities of banking in various countries.

I think you will be hard-pressed to find a country that does not have a single bank that can serve those w/out smartphones. If you find such a country, plz post about it in !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org and send me the link. Then we may be able to make a case for ppl in that specific country not being boot-lickers, if at the same time being unbanked is illegal.

If you think it’s easy to be “unbanked” then I would suggest that you try it yourself first.

I have been simulating an unbanked life for years now. 5 creditors are threatening lawsuits for non-payment after refusing my cash. One took me to court and it was an easy win for me. I just appeared without a lawyer and pointed to the law.

It’s also worth noting that unbanked is more extreme that simply choosing a bank that does not require a smartphone.

It’s banking:

https://slrpnk.net/post/28294479

The army of corporate boot lickers in the mobile phone context is largely composed of people who think banking on a smartphone is wise, despite the attack surface and despite the bank being empowered to monitor their customers more closely. Banking apps are the most significant culprit for gluing people to Android.

We may never see the day when more than 5% of the population realises the importance of FOSS enough to shake free of their addiction to convenience.