Definitely! If you want nutritional food, focus on the stuff that’s really cheap and easy to grow and makes the best use of land anyway, whether you’re doing it or consuming it after other people have done so: fresh veggies. Greens, squashes, tomatoes, various tubers, etc. (varies depending on your region, of course).

I was just talking about the focus on protein. It is absolutely not the thing to worry about if you’re interested in “nutritious”. You’re being completely counter-productive if you do that. It leads opposite to the goal you just described.

Just grow and eat veggies and grains. If you’re worried about protein, you’re worried about the wrong thing (you should instead be worried about getting vitamins, minerals, and a generally varied diet). Everything that made people worried about protein on vegetarian or vegan diets is based on a study purposefully misinterpreted by the meat-and-dairy industry, where that misinterpretation was parroted for decades and disowned by the original author of the study. Just because you can fulfill the same protein profile as meat using plant proteins doesn’t mean you need to. The human body evolved to allow us to eat meat opportunistically, not to require it.

Unless you’re on an all-fruit diet, you’re getting enough protein if you’re getting enough calories (literally no matter your exercise regimen). And if you’re not getting enough calories, you’re starving and protein is one of the last of your concerns anyway.

Only thing I’m going to (have to, unfortunately) buy today is a round in a couple dryers at the laundromat, because I’ve put it off too long already and the clothes line is currently a no-go due to weather. sigh

I mean, yeah. Not only do they have all the people under them doing all the actual work, but the fewer authorities you have over you and the fewer peers you have, the less you are accountable. CEOs have no peers, and the only authorities over them are the board of directors and the capitalists (major shareholders). And a CEO who is also one of the capitalists circumvents the board, has no authorities above them, and has only the other capitalists (if there are any) as peers. Its a great position to be in…if only the people doing the actual work could share that position (socialism) rather than being victims of it (capitalism).

Elon can literally do nothing. He should do nothing. Everything he does do simply fucks people over. And that’s true in general of CEOs and capitalists. Their only real job is to discipline the labor they are exploiting under them, in order to maximize that exploitation. Everything else can (and generally does) take care of itself.

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Illegal anti-union actions are a problem for the Democratic party coalition.

This guy doesn’t know Democrats very well. But generally a good article.

Bonus points for the best bit:

If the most-clever users got to run Twitter, then Dril would be Twitter CEO!

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I know. Instead of doing what we know needs to be done, let’s come up with an over-complicated geoengineering solution that we absolutely do not have the capacity to manage or even predict the outcomes of!

LOL. That was hilarious. Poor idiotic propertarians accidentally invited a real anarchist, when they probably thought they’d invited one of their fake ones who thinks he’s going to abolish the state by creating a private one.

Paywall bypass on the linked article: https://archive.ph/bRBjE

Flat taxes are regressive and a really, really, really bad idea. We have too many of them as it is.

REVOLUTIONARY!!!

I know a guy who made his own thongs out of the treads of old tires and some simple straps. He said they were comfortable as hell and had lasted him like thirty years. I wonder if we can extend that to more complicated designs with creative, alternative, recycled materials (and corresponding methods of construction) to do something between that and the masterfully crafted boots in the OP.

Leather is obviously a very physically suitable material and has been used for millennia. But I’d like to come up with stuff that’s inexpensive, easy, and doable by folks without a lot of wealth, intensive years of practice, apprenticeship, etc. Who cares if they can’t be used to climb the highest mountains, withstand a monsoon, and last for a decade? If we can build it out of stuff you can find in your garage, a thrift or fabric store, and a recycle bin, and put a good few hours of work into making something that’ll protect you without being monstrously uncomfortable or otherwise destroying your feet, I’d be good with something that’d last a year or so (maybe even a few months) and be usable for walking down the street to the store. Then a pair of normal, commercial shoes could be worn for fancy and important stuff and would undergo less wear.