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maybe it's meat overall, and not exclusively processed meat? i was vegetarian for many years though and don't trust myself to make guesses anymore on this. I do think there's gotta be a bunch of bad stuff that comes from eating all the unhappy animals/eggs from them/milk from them.

i bet it'll end up that eating animal flesh or drinking their secretions messes with the body quickly, compared to eating the plant proteins directly.

"milk" is a cow eating soy and grain, intended for a baby cow, but it's mostly made out of the same plant that the cow ate.

"meat" is cooked animal muscle that has been built more slowly than milk, but is also built out of the plants ingested by that baby animal.

virtually all 'meat' is made out of animals that could be easily considered to be babies of that kind of animal. :(

anyway, that doing bad things like this is bad for everyone who does it is not surprising.

i saw the strava mention and I clicked through - this is a super cool project! The maps + visualizations are beautiful.

Something about strava and the data we get from it is really special to me. It's a fun step into a deeply physical thing (moving our selves around the surface of the earth) and renders it in this digital space - a website, an animation.

I write for me, or the me of a few years ago.

It sounds like you think I use more self-citation than you would expect, for someone writing only for themselves.

Are you saying I'm wrong about police originating as deputized slave patrollers?

I suppose I'd refine my statement from "political authority is not real" to "political authority _is not legitimate_."

That someone holding the fantasy of political authority is willing to murder someone else because of that fantasy doesn't make political authority legitimate, though it's obviously 'real' from the POV of the oppressor/victim.

My first claim was that 'jaywalking' is a propagandist term that actively harms every subsequent part of the conversation. It's a slur ('jay'), and supports a narrative supporting, basically, vehicular homicide.

i write for me.

I don't find most people in the USA to be worth taking seriously, either. Liiiike if someone thinks the primary purpose of police is something like "protecting and serving" vs. being deputized slave patrollers.

How could I take that person seriously?

If I don't think political authority is real, and 90% of the us population does think it is real, and votes, I'm already out of sync with all of those people.

And I've got at least one or two additional hot takes that could alienate another few percentage points.

race and gender are constructs of supremacy thinking, the US government commits 100x more acts of terrorism than the next most terroristic group, evangelicalism is a cult, all religion is self-and-other harming, monogamy is way over-rated, marriage is harmful to everyone...

honestly, I'd be concerned if it seemed like lots of people agreed with me, especially lots of people in America! One doesn't get a nation that did 400+ years of chattel slavery without most people being pro-slavery.

if a group of people (deputized slave patrols) is harassing and kidnapping another group of people (anyone perceived to be non-white), and I am talking about it, is it _me_ who is stupid, malicious, and detracts from the discussion, or is it the slave patrollers and their supporters who are stupid and malicious?

I think it's the latter.

wow! Thanks for this link to the junction in Bodmin! I didn't know there were more. I'll save this and add it to the traffic bean post.

Indeed, the junction can be a bit unfamiliar, and it looks like the one in Bodmin could be less confusing - I think delinieating the inner space and keeping cars to the edges (to make it more of an actual roundabout) would improve things for everyone.

Maybe I should call it a 'traffic doughnut' to highlight the difference between the inner/outer space of the junction.

American road networks were designed to be impervious to the opinions of everyone who uses them, so I'm very pleased with myself to have gotten so close to the permission I need to do a novel junction design.

the junction in it's current form is like a wild, light-controlled, two-or-three lane hybrid between a roundabout and a standard junction.

If you can do UK-style traffic circles, you'd be fine on this junction.

My proposal to to shape down all inbound lanes of traffic to a single lane, then connect them all to the inner circulating channel - it's a little lumpy, thus 'bean shaped' instead of 'circle shaped'.

But as far as using it, from the POV of the driver of a vehicle, it's identical to a roundabout.