dat_math 14h ago • 100%
Thank you for choosing low-effort on this day.
dat_math 2d ago • 100%
oh for sure that was not the unfortunate part ^_^
I recently discovered I can just mix miso into my seitan mixtures with a bit of extra water to compensate and it's INCREDIBLE
dat_math 2d ago • 100%
Sure, though I'm going to omit a number of details and drastically simplify things.
I stopped eating meat very early in the pandemic because I could no longer intellectualize my way around the cognitive dissonance of having the contents of the IPCC reports/summaries in my head and the taste of the meat in my mouth. This was the a fairly easy transition because I like cooking and I was already eating lots of food with beans in it. I spent some time shamefully addicted to cheese, kinda-half-thinking that the vegans who bullied me on this site (and for my pizzaposting in the old sub) were correct but (because of a spiritual and intellectual laziness that I'm working really hard on) I refused to properly educate myself about why they were right. Around 2021 a good friend went vegan after a series of acid trips in which much of their spirituality and moral philosophy reoriented. I'm most grateful that they were willing to patiently bully me into confronting my own hypocrisy and accepting the discomfort in that kind of introspection. Once I did that in a serious way, it became undeniably clear that my convictions that all humans have the right to clean air, water, sustenance, shelter, medicine, education/information, and the complete product of their labor is really a corollary to a more general principal guaranteeing these kinds of rights to all living beings.
Actions/outcomes that helped push me in this direction:
-learning biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and maths
-taking lots of LSD, mushrooms, and some DMT over a period of years (I think this has made it easier to keep my mind open even when subconscious psychological machinery would reflexively close it to prevent discomfort and in tandem with the contemplation I've done on these substances has inculcated a powerful disgust for delf-deception, hypocritical thought)
-hiking and learning about wilderness/conservation
-seeing how hard the US national park service works mules and horses used to move supplies and do infrastructure maintenance in incredibly hazardous positions where a small misstep by a different animal that they're tied to could cause them to land a hoof wrong around a sharp chunk of rebar sticking up out of a poorly-maintained trail step/berm just a few minutes after talking about the negative impacts of motorboats and helicopters on the local wildlife
-practicing cooking (especially beans in a pressure cooker) as often as I could
dat_math 2d ago • 100%
I am 1/3 beanis
dat_math 3d ago • 100%
She was just getting into the later entries of The Killers' discography
dat_math 3d ago • 100%
The argument of viciousness puts us against "nature". The argument of torture and exploitation does not.
Do you not see humanity breeding chicks into existence solely to be shredded to bits as fundamentally different from having the bad luck of being eaten by a predator?
If I specifically had the choice of how I was terminated, I don't know if I'd choose being eaten alive by a predator over that.
Why are you arguing as though being eaten alive by a predator is the only alternative?
dat_math 3d ago • 100%
It takes no effort to prevent an animal from living a life of deprivation and torture, compared to preventing an animal from dying as a juvenile.
Unfortunately, in our economic system, I have to eat pounds upon pounds of seitan to offset the most minute fraction of needless animal deprivation, torture, and premature death
dat_math 3d ago • 100%
OP only mentioned "savagely murdering"
Do you know what happens to male chicks?
dat_math 3d ago • 100%
Holy Hell I need to become a vegan like yesterday, this shit is fuuuucked.
To you and anybody else reading this, I was feeling the same thing not very long ago. It's almost surely much easier than you think to be a vegan and it feels so much better.
Please message me or make a post if you want recipe recommendations or have questions about veganism
dat_math 4d ago • 100%
thanks!
you're welcome!
dat_math 4d ago • 100%
thank you
I needed the philosophical meditations
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dat_math 6d ago • 100%
Shouldn't the second y axis (on the right) be labeled "decades"?
dat_math 6d ago • 100%
what are the y axes??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
dat_math 1w ago • 100%
- Planet Caravan
- War Pigs/Luke's Wall
- Sweet Leaf
- Fluff
- The Wizard
dat_math 1w ago • 100%
Are they even close? Which numbers are being discussed here? Total hospitalizations?
dat_math 1w ago • 100%
Overall, it seems like humanity got out of this fairly well
We are on year 5 of a new pandemic. It is way too early to make any kind of conclusive judgement about how well we "got out of this" because we're still in it and will be for the forseeable future. If at some point, technological advances and economics conspire to meaningfully reduce infection rates to negligibility, we will still be watching the biological consequences of the last 5 years play out for the next several generations.
dat_math 2w ago • 100%
 
This is a massive improvement over the nazi shit I used to see there years ago o7 Kropotkin ~~main~~ beanis
>“I dabble, but not in the way that I used to before,” she said, adding the recent waves of anti-Israel encampments at Columbia and other universities prompted brief relapses. caseomorphins: not even once apologies if I missed a content warning or if this kind of article is inappropriate for the comm
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preprint version because scihub doesn't have it yet https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120732/ Abstract Transformer models such as GPT generate human-like language and are predictive of human brain responses to language. Here, using functional-MRI-measured brain responses to 1,000 diverse sentences, we first show that a GPT-based encoding model can predict the magnitude of the brain response associated with each sentence. We then use the model to identify new sentences that are predicted to drive or suppress responses in the human language network. We show that these model-selected novel sentences indeed strongly drive and suppress the activity of human language areas in new individuals. A systematic analysis of the model-selected sentences reveals that surprisal and well-formedness of linguistic input are key determinants of response strength in the language network. These results establish the ability of neural network models to not only mimic human language but also non-invasively control neural activity in higher-level cortical areas, such as the language network.
tastiest tepary beanis with a satisfying and chewy (but notably not creamy) texture with some tahini and spices it blends really nicely into a dope-ass hummus
Tubers and Beanis from the same faboideae!
Is covid-liberalism a bannable offense in c/covid? I'm getting really fucking weary of seeing sentiments like, "being upset about someone scheduling a non-emergency dental appointment in the middle of the second largest covid wave is deranged" or "you're a selfish asshole for expecting your loved ones to do the bare fucking minimum to protect you" in discussions on masking or vaccine uptake I know I'm not the only one disappointed in the growing anomie. Maybe we should operate more like c/vegan where everything from omnivore apologia to overt antiveganism (analogous to the above anti-precaution/anti-max/anti-vax-apologia) is forbidden, and posting/commenting as much gets you a ban?
>“Interstate 11 would decimate habitat for cactus ferruginous pygmy owls, who play a vital role in maintaining the health of the Sonoran Desert,” Russ McSpadden, a Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a press statement. “These small but fierce birds nest and raise their young in saguaro cacti and other desert trees that would be bulldozed for the highway’s construction. We’re fully committed to protecting these rare owls and their habitat from destruction.”  
 [it's gover, folks](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/8da7f968-b466-43b7-a30c-2680a2fe1a4c.png)
bring back good posts
seared flour tortilla rice hemp hearts homemade salsa (just a blend of random local peppers, an onion, garlic, a roasted tomatillo, lime juice) chili style multi-bean mixture (this one was a treat because we had a lot of fancy shmancy locally grown beans in the pantry, not just the usual bulk): red beans, black beans, pinto beans, tepary beans, vaquero beans, miso, random peppers, garlic, onions, carrots cucumber for extra crunch imitation mozzarella (not miyokos or daiya, but if anybody really wants to know I can check the fridge later) Tonight I'm making one with chili-bbq fried jackfruit.
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I am absurdly impressed at how good this album is. They did Haken better than Haken has since 2013 and somehow also wrote the spiritual successor to Metropolis Part 2.
