infinitesunrise

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Taurine and arginine are amino acids, building blocks for proteins, not proteins themselves. Animo acids are quite ubiquitous across life, not specific to any one type of life. eg Plants contain both taurine and arginine.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

meat proteins

Proteins are chains of amino acids. There are probably proteins specific to animal muscle, but misguided legislation notwithstanding it's the amino acids that are nutritionally required, not any specific protein configuration of those animos, and you can get those from a massive array of non-animal sources.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Before I was vegan I had a girlfriend who wanted an "emotional support cat". I was uncomfortable with the idea and resisted for a while but eventually we got a rescue cat. Then we broke up and I kept the cat. I love her and she's sleeping in her bed next to me on my desk as I type this. I'm one of probably hundreds of likely scenarios where a vegan ends up with a pet despite agreement with the ethical issues.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You know what's really conservative and "spooked"? Inturpretting a movement to respect the gender identity of other people as an attempt to control their speech.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lol I edited my reply to add mention of the odd racial qualifiers just as you wrote the same. Microblog format seems to encourage weird and inaccurate racial group roundup phrases like that. Black american men absolutely do this shit too.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The phrases (And the totally unnecessary racial qualifiers) may be but I'm pretty sure men are conditioned to suppress their emotions anywhere there's patriarchy, which is most places these days.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Aren't we all?

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

How the hell have we not taken PGE public? What the hell is wrong with us, why do we tolerate this self-harm? Almost all other electric utilities on the west coast are public, what on god's green Earth is our malfunction? I hate on PGE like anyone else but at the end of the day this is our fault as Portlanders and Oregonians for not organizing and taking control of our essential services.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

“It is both true that as a society our energy needs have increased and it is also true that Forest Park is a highly valued environmental resource,” Childs wrote. “This land use case however, is about facts, not feelings.”

...Did she really just paraphrase a thought-terminating cliche from Ben Shapiro in her decision...? What a clown. This isn't about facts or feelings, this is about PGE's refusal to just spend the money to route power transmission around protected land. This is truly fucking insane and if Portlanders actually care about their forest they need to keep escalating this up to and including direct action. Our residential power bills have gone up like 200% in the past few years in the name of funding a green energy transition. Hey PGE, why don't you use some of that cash pile we've been forking over to you on some concern for actual greenery??

For those of you who still use mainstream social media, the headline for reposting this should be "Portland hearings officer Marisha Childs paraphrases Ben Shapiro in decision allowing PGE to cut down Forest Park".

I'm not done ranting. It's shit like that you point at when you need glaring proof that we do not live in a democracy. None of us have any real legal say in this matter, despite living here, despite using and caring about the land that will be affected. PGE's desires here are wildly unpopular in the location those desires would affect, and despite the fact that this location is their main customer base, despite the fact that there are viable and obvious alternatives, they can still get their way. When the only way that a community can achieve the rational and desired outcome is to abandoned the institutions established oestensibly for that purpose and work outside of and in direct opposition to them, then those institutions are not democratic.

What the fuck is a "hearings officer"??? Where is the community vote on what happens to their park?

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The browser project dedicated to open web standards steered by a compromised non-profit or the browser project dedicated to undermining the traditional web browsing experience steered by the largest advertising company on Earth ... Let me think ...

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

I don't think they read Lemmy.

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