For those rare occasions when magic won’t get them out of a pickle, their melee weapon is a large cast-iron.

this had me actually cackling for a minute, thanks for sharing

For interesting, well-written, and in-depth articles I recommend:

The New Yorker Harper’s (not Harper’s Bazaar) The Atlantic New York Times Magazine

I’ve been using Notally for a while and I think it checks all your boxes.

I don’t get why you’d think it would be censored? If anything the movie skewers US capitalism, so the CCP would probably be happy for folks to see it.

I believe both of these questions have been thoroughly answered by the scientific community.

You’re right that meat is more nutrient dense than plants. But if we were to replace meat production with crop production for human consumption at scale, we would be averaging far more (I think on the order of 10x) human calories per acre.

When you replace a beef farm with vegan food production, you’re not just planting crops on the beef farm. Each of those cows eats for years–crops that humans generally wouldn’t eat grown on other farms specifically as livestock feed. You need much, much more land and resources to produce 100 calories of meat than you do to produce 100 calories of vegetables.

I’m a gig worker who delivers food to people.

I almost went into CS and consider myself fairly well-educated, so I think although I’m not in tech I share a slightly similar background and sensibilities with Lemmy folks. I just got on here a couple days ago and it kinda reminds me of reddit back when I joined (hopefully minus the racism and spez’s favorite subreddit)