Have you considered applying for a sales representative at the company? The best pitch comes from the person that knows the product, inside out.

There is the cultural difference I can’t get past: yes, cooking may very well be a chore but I would more quickly change my entire diet than resort to substituion mixes.

Nothing replaces the contact with real food items. The smells, the textures, the colours, the flavours. The pleasure that comes from it.

I can be very pragmatic and utilitarian towards what I eat, borderline spartan, but a mix is not food and not even very sick I will consider it as such. It’s fuel, sustenance, not food. I could live off it but, again, I would hate every moment of it.

I sincerely admire your apparent indiference towards relying on that mix. I would rely on it to keep me alive, in a serious emergency, sure. But as a means to get to an end, not the end itself.

You mean that Game? Not the other?

I’m glad to know you lived a fullfilling life at the time and it is obvious after your reply it wasn’t about you or those like you I was thinking about.

Although I still lack the capacity to view Soilent as a good name for a brand…

Besides some cultural differences, I respect your view. It made your life easier (still does, if I’m understanding correctly), you don’t seem a person who enjoys cooking that much (fair enough) and it freed time for things you had higher in your list of priorities.

I can’t do that. If need be, I would, but I’d hate every single moment of it.

That’s hilarious!

Turn the volume to max and play this track and watch how every thing in line of sight shakes and vibrates.

I still licked lead pain in the craddle, ate too many food preservatives and artificial colorants, ate too much red meat, too much fat, got micro plastics poisoning…

And all I have to tell is bad breath, flatulence that could strip paint off the walls and a stupid sense of humour.

República do Vegetal?

I’m getting NFSU2 flashbacks from that picture.

Does it have neons also? Or is it LEDs nowadays? And the pop-up LCD?

Bourdain was a genius. Controversial but they all tend to be as such.

I agree with you. But please take a moment to consider this as well: people need time to eat. And by extension, to live. Something we are colectively slowly being drained of, through “work ethics”, “fashion trends”, “healthy life styles”, etc.

We need to live. To eat. To sleep. To be together. To get angry with each other and make amends afterwards. And we are being robbed of our humanity by not having it.

Some company actually markets a product under the name “Soylent”?

Scary.

When individuals reach, in my opinion, that point they are starving for more than food.

Food is the first basic impulse we get satisfied and it is intermixed with confort, closeness and bonding. Later it will upgrade into a communal moment and the sharing of time and exchange of experiences.

Again, in my view, to see eating as a chore says how lonely and dehumanized a person is. How little self worth they have.

Which is sad.

My two takes on this:

1. food is fuel

I can and do subsist on a basic and bland diet if necessary. Food is a way to preserve my existence, so I have to eat. And when hungry I will eat anything for the sole sake of keep myself functioning. Some exceptions do apply.

2. we’re biologically hardwired to seek pleasure from our food

That is why sugary food and more simply fruits and berries appeal so much to us: it’s sweet, it tastes good, it’s nice.

We actively seek enjoyement in eating. When this no longer happens, worry yourself. Even old people enjoy eating.

Relax. Relax.

It is just a typo.

Let us laugh together of it.

It’s staying as it is.

I followed the link of a video here on Lemmy just a few minutes ago and it opened in the browser.

Nothing shocking up to this point.

Then I get a prompt from the video saying “Ready to buy products advertised in the video? Log into the official app in order to.”

Direct purchase through the YT app is a novelty for me.

Newpipe all the way.

That’s bleack

True, I’ll grant you that.

You think the guy will live that long?!

Brazil is an independent country. The guy is a bit over the horizon on this.

Technically, unless adoption or donated eggs come to play, 50% of all of us attended the parents wedding, as an ovule inside our mothers ovary.

Then again, some couples never marry. So, there’s another exception.

To answer your question: 50% of me was there at the occasion.

Ambos sabemos que o eucalipto cresce a um ritmo que àrvores autóctones não crescem e por isso é tão cultivado. E não comparemos o cânhamo a uma árvore, quer porque cresce muito mais depressa, porque não requer as extensões de terreno que árvores requerem para produzir a celulose equivalente e porque pode conviver com outras culturas.

Consigo imaginar com algumas facilidade plantações de cânhamo de norte a sul, com os campos abertos do Ribatejo e Alentejo. Mesmo nas zonas mais montanhosas seria fácil de implementar a cultura em campos menos extensos, devolvendo algum interesse económico a pequenos produtores.

Quanto a esforços de reflorestação, sérios, não há.

Como vivemos numa lógica de que não se pode constrangir a livre iniciativa económica (treta!), o plantio de pinheiro não é restringido, porque cresce rápido e é uma madeira apta para o mobiliário e construção civil e com necessidade mínima ou nula de regadio.

Ignoremos que um pinhal é uma acendalha natural…

Isto deixa a Serra da Estrela e interior, zonas onde o pinheiro não pertence, à míngua de incentivos e apoio à reflorestação autóctone, que é sabido gera muito mais dinheiro por hectare e de muitas mais formas que a porra do pinhal mas só se pode extrair esse valor numa janela temporal acima dos 50 anos.

E toda a gente quer dinheiro já. Especialmente quem dele não precisa.

Eu vivo em zona de eucaliptais.

Sim, a árvore é um cancro e o plantio é abusivo, especialmente em zonas com escassez de água (que o último inverno inverteu mas continuemos) mas é uma fonte de rendimento para muita gente.

Como não temos os tintins para plantar cânhamo para produção de papel, até lá o que podemos forçar é que mais gente faça a devida gestão florestal.

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