I love subsidizing these jackoffs energy bills in my own power bill /s. 17c/kwh for me, 3c/kwh for Bezos… From the same supplier.

To an extent they’re right but probably not in the way they intended to be. Government subsidies help ensure that animal ag can be profitable and incentivized regardless of consumption levels, and the ever-expanding amounts of land required for most animal ag and it’s support infrastructure (eg feedstock production, a byproduct of industrial soy oil) literal fuel and are fueled by imperial expansion in a cyclic self-reinforcing fashion. If people stopped eating beef today without also protesting it’s existence you’d probably see the animal ag industry continue to run on it’s own fumes for years.

The straw thing was a manufactured distraction.

It’s way simpler to just farm something other than cows. Plants, maybe.

As a bike wrencher, mad respect to car mechanics that make that shit work. Cars are 10x more complex than most bikes, 10x more proprietary, and sometimes 10x more expensive. Fucking nightmare land.

There are some types of bike parts I don’t fuck with for this exact reason. Most carbon frames, wireless battery-driven derailleurs, hydraulic brakes, some types of gearbox drivetrains (Pinion drives are cool as hell but not at all future-proof). Things that have a tendency to break in irreparable ways, aren’t serviceable at a normal shop or home repair stand, intentionally eschew cross-compatibility, and are coincidentally expensive more often than not.

Shimano and SRAM have been trying to leverage their market dominance into semi-proprietary standards for decades, but in recent years they’ve accelerated their pace with things like 12/13 speed cassettes, electronics, puzzling cable pull ratios, etc. I think it’s this trend that’s fueled the alt-bike / xbike and 26er party pace reactions in the opposite direction. FWIW I always look to underdog competitors like Microshift, Sunrace, FSA, etc first before turning to the big blase S-companies.

I monkeywrench at a bike coop several times a week and the bikes we get donated tend to be 20-25 years behind current trends. So we get a lot of 90s 26ers with canti brakes or skinny frames from the final era of steel race bikes and they’re usually a blast to work on, but we dread the coming day in several years when the disc brake models with hydraulic calipers start coming in the door. Yeah disc brakes are great if you’re an extreme rider (95% aren’t) but they’re over-complicated and a total bitch to tune.

What if they advocate for nuclear power and say leave the solar panels up?

I suppose it’s settled then, no more large trucks!

Don’t fuck around with Reddit, it’s become an unchecked consent-manufacturing machine masquerading as a web 2.0 forum and if you consistently speak your mind on there it’s only a matter of time until you get on some power-hungry moderator or admin’s shitlist with zero means to communicate or reciprocate. Save yourself the grief and leave it to die, it’s become literally what federated sites were created to make obsolete.

He’s gonna fire you anyway, leak harder.

“Went vegan to own the libs”

No I’ve literally been poor and living in a food desert and was pointing out that rice and beans are in fact usually more accessible than eggs in such a place, as the other user rested much of their argument on a belief to the contrary. Please don’t put words in my mouth, TY.

I’m just responding specifically to your argument that eggs are easier to find than beans and rice in food deserts.

You’re gonna find beans, soy and rice in a food desert a lot easier than eggs. The food desert I’ve lived in had at least two of the three in almost every bodega.

Aggravated Hank Hill voice: “Eggs being considered vegetarian doesn’t make eggs better, it just makes vegetarianism worse!”

US animal ag industry is battling cross-species avian flu right now in an attempt to delay it’s jump to the human population. When one chicken or pig gets sick it means you need to kill and destroy every single one of them. Hundreds of thousands of chickens get deleted every time. Usually doesn’t make the national news, and there are for sure political/economic factors at play too, but disease is absolutely influencing poultry prices.

I’m vegan and agree with your take here. We’re all in the same big stupid boat together.

There usually are vegan vaccine variants if you’re privledged enough to be able to access and demand them. It’s usually far outside my level of acceptable practicality to do so though, so I get the default version.

OP wants to claim both compassion and nihilism.

Yes, this is the grim reality of the issue. We’ll make animal ag even more inhumane and dangerous to humanity before we try moving to something more sustainable. Only catastrophe will force a switch.