Finland also invented the sport of mobile phone throwing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_throwing

Check mate, USA!

Depending on the exact definitions, that’s also more than 100 years old.
The US is just THAT far behind on the topic.

Have you tried adding herbs and spices? Like stuff that actually tastes good. You didn’t even mention salt.

Imho, food that tastes good is more satisfying and keeps you fuller for longer. The downside is, that I tend to overeat, when it’s too good.

Any downsides to eating less meat?

I haven’t been eating meat for almost 20 years now. So my answer is No.

You need to snap out of your misanthropy.

It leads to solitude and darkness.

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying me-time and getting away from civilization for a bit, and ofc people can be annoying, especially when they’re just strangers. But not everyone is, and we all need our tribe of people to enjoy some company for some time.

Meet some people and try to see some positives about those encounters. You might learn a thing or two if you open your heart for others.

It also depends what drugs we’re talking about.

There are definitely drugs much more likely to cause problems, even if you didn’t have any in the first place. And not everybody who runs into problems with drugs used them to cope with problems they had. Careless recreational use can lead to addiction all the same. Especially when the drug can create a physical dependecy, like alcohol or heroin do.

But it’s also a lot easier to blame drugs than to pin down societal problems that might lead people to problematic drug use.

The thing about AI is, that this kind of concentrated control over a technology is more baked into it than with other internet things.

You need control over heaps of training data to get anywhere with it and you need a lot of computing power to train it and to run it.

Not impossible to do for smaller players, but a lot harder to compete with the giants.

And on top of that it kinda clashes with traditional open source code sharing. The code alone isn’t helping you much, if you don’t have access to the above.

Yes, you can copy and share a trained AI model, but that’s not the same as sharing code and it is fundamentally intransparent. So in a way it automatically violates some of the free software principles. Which might also rub the Lemmy crowd the wrong way, since many people here lean towards free software.

Absolutely this. AI slop is ruining everything I used to love about the internet. Easy access to information was its greatest strength, but it becomes useless, when you have to dig through heaps of AI generated bullshit, that is completely unreliable.

Can’t even google cooking recipes anymore.

You talked about a DIAAS (digestable indispensable amino acid score!) - you are my favorite person today.

Actually, I didn’t. I just realized, that I linked to PDCAAS, which is a slightly different method. But it didn’t really matter, as I just wanted to illustrate the concept. And I’m not too involved in the topic. I don’t know what you’re doing, that you’re whipping up tables about this stuff, but I’m just a layperson with a little knowledge about nutrition.

Allow me a few remarks though:

1. you’re referencing prepared meat, but raw tofu? In my experience, tofu is usually also prepared in some way, and with most preparations, it looses quite a bit of water content.

2. We don’t have to rely on mostly unprocessed plant food. There’s stuff like texturized vegetable protein, that delievers a more concentrated source.

3. While a table like this gives a good overview and reference, it’s easy to miss the fact, that we usually don’t get our protein from a single source. As I mentioned in my last comment, combining different sources can be a good way to enhance the overall protein quality.
   To reflect that, we’d need DIAAS data for prepared dishes, meal plans or a whole diet.

4. Can you even use DIAAS to calculate an amount of single protein source food, that you’d have to eat like that? I don’t know if it scales that way, and even if it did, for an incomplete protein source, you’d end up with a lot of excess for the abundant amino acids in that protein source, which I suspect would have to be excreted and I don’t know how your kidneys like that.

5. That table would really benefit from adding references to clarify what you base your assumptions on and where you get your data from.

But I think none of this is all that relevant for the underlying topic in this thread.

My only objection is when it comes to children being born from incest because of the higher risk of genetic diseases.

But that’s still not a 100% consistent argument and it leans into another morally complex topic: eugenics.

Because, if you argue that way, you’d have to clarify your stance towards people with genetic diseases/disabilities in general.

And if you follow the logic, we would also have to shun/abolish sexual relations between people with genetic disease or who carry the respective alleles, so that their offspring have a higher chance of inheriting a disease (in some cases way higher than with random siblings).

It might be the root cause, why there seem to be marriage rules in most human societies, that exclude intermarrying of siblings (especially considering that the risks increase drastically if you keep procreating that way for generations), but the current taboo is not entirely rational and seems more based on cultural tradition than current understanding.

producing them ourselves from plants like herbivores do

This bit is nonsense. I’ll give you a point for meat consumption being an easy source of protein that allowed for some developments during the evolution of humans, that are unlikely to have happened without it. But that is more a question of availability than nutritious properties. In todays surplus society, where we have industrialized agriculture and optimized crops, there is abundant access to plant protein.
And meat is not a unique source of protein either. First of all, you don’t even have to eat meat to obtain animal protein. Eggs and dairy have it too. And when it comes to the constitution of protein, eggs were even considered the gold standard for a long time.

Read the following wikipedia article to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_digestibility_corrected_amino_acid_score

The listed examples should be interesting to you.

While meats are indeed easily digestable and contain useful protein for the human body, so do many plant sources. Soy protein is even on par with eggs, while meats don’t reach the same score.
And of course we usually don’t eat a single source of protein, and combining different sources, their amino acid profiles can complement each other to form a complete source of protein.

This might’ve been a bit of a ramble on a side-note when it comes to discussing the ethics of fucking animals, but I’m sure the discussion benefits from getting the facts straight.

Same dude.
I’m a bit younger, married have a baby and some money on my savings account. But we currently live off my wives income, pay rent and lots of it. The appartment is barely adequate but we’re still stretching our means right now, because I can’t keep a job. After spending a decade to get a college degree and another decade in which I only managed to be employed for less than 3 years, I don’t feel like an adult who is in control of their life.

I still feel like the teenager I used to be, just with more experiences, more responsibility and less support.

Meanwhile, most of my friends are raising their families in their own houses, or those who spent time in academia to get a PhD are building one.

But to be honest, I feel like most people work on the same dynamics they learned as teenagers or young twens and are just larping being an adult.
They just do so, with a lot more self-confidence, than I can muster. I suppose it’s easier to build that, when you’re either raised with a lot more privilege or when you attach your self-worth to the status symbols you can afford with a solid income.

Or maybe that’s just my loser’s perspective, idk.

Regarding your situation: Yeah, you probably shouldve taken care of your savings a bit better. And your co-workers have the advantage of having made their investments earlier. The best time to invest is always 50 years ago or something. The second best time is always NOW!

I suggest you tackle the topic of your finances sooner than later.

The main issue is, that you have to know what the goals are, that you’re investing money for. Every strategy will have to reflect that.

And you can struggle feeling like an adult a lot more comfortably, when you don’t have to worry about the future so much.

I have trouble keeping up a reading habit, but I’ve read 5/6ths of the Lord Of The Rings over the last year. Just can’t seem to find the time/motivation to finish it, although I quite enjoyed it and I expect Tolkien to focus even more on the inner struggle of the ringbearer in the final book. That was the biggest advantage of reading the books thus far, over watching the movies.

Apart from that I’ve read the German Romantic (as in era) novella “Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts” by Eichendorff. But despite it checking the boxes for that era and adding to my canon of bourgeois education, it didn’t give me much. It was rather shallow lighthearted entertainment.

But I guess you could say I lean towards the classics. I don’t know if I’d recommend it, for finding stuff that is actually good. But skimming through modern books in my library, I’m often already put off by their covers.

I’ve seen this topic come up for the second time this week. i’m an engineer, so I’ve been trained to use maths as a tool extensively. But to be honest, I couldn’t even tell you. I don’t remember specific rules for it, I just do it without even thinking about it anymore.

Fix what exactly? Hard to answer, when the question isn’t clearly defined.

Not denying, that there’s a lot to be fixed. But regarding the means, that depends on what exactly you’re talking about.

Drop an m and this still holds up.

Or a weird generalization.

There are people who love to complain everywhere and in every age group, I’d say. But you don’t hear the ones who don’t complain complaining.

Perception is biased.

In light of some other replies: the same could be said about having kids.

well yeah. But most phones w/o a 3.5 mm jack don’t have an integrated DAC anyways, so the choice is up to you.

But the storage and the fact that it’s all in a light weight bundle, that’s indepedent of your phone is pretty convincing.

I remember having on, back in the day, that ran on a single AAA battery for a week an was marginally larger than one of these. Unfortunately I tinkered with trying to run it on an external power supply when I knew to little about electronics and ran a few too may Volts through it. Otherwise this thing would probably still work fine. I kinda never looked back since was content enough with my phone for listening to music. But I do have fond meories of those things, and I miss the 3.5 mm jack on my most recent phone, maybe I should reconsider…

What’s the advantage over a smartphone?

Might be helpful to know your gender, location (like country) and do you have autism by chance?

The first part is to taylor (lol) suggestions to you. The second part is out of curiosity and because that might be helpful to classify it as a medical necessity.