tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

> _“Truly, mainstream #media is the great Mugger of Reality. Even when its individual stories are rock solid, it promotes a deeply false Big Picture of the world. And unless you have the intellectual steel to_ constantly _remind yourself, ‘This is a horribly misleading perspective,’ consuming media tends to make you believe this deeply false Big Picture.”_

— [Bryan Caplan](https://betonit.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-is-worse-than-silence)

If you are an #English speaker but not a #Spanish speaker, do me a favour:

Imagine that the word you use in your native language for hair that is yellow-ish and for people with that type of hair (“blonde”) were, by sheer chance, identical to the word that the inhabitants of Otherland use to refer, approvingly, to people who like to sodomise babies.

Now, when you are using your language in public settings (on the street, on the internet) with fellow countrypeople , there are often Otherlanders nearby, overhearing what you say or reading your content.

Imagine that many Otherlanders openly expressed shock and disdain every time you used the word “blonde” to refer to someone who happens to have yellow-ish hair. That Otherlanders looked at you as if you were an insensitive monster. That they sometimes even scolded you for using that word _in your own language_.

Wouldn't you be annoyed every time that happened? Wouldn't you feel the urge to say “you don't know my language, educate yourself!”

Let me introduce you to [the Spanish word “negro”](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/negro#Noun_8), which happens to exists also [in English as a loanword which gained different connotations](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/negro#Etymology).

> _“We are so conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unawares.”_

https://kentnerburn.com/the-cab-ride-ill-never-forget/

Go veg(etari)an.

3️⃣ Number of animals affected:

You could reduce quite a lot your carbon footprint by replacing all your beef and lamb with chicken and fish (big mammals emit far more CO₂ per kg of protein than poultry and fish). The problem is, then [you would be indirectly responsible for many, many more individual animals raised in industrial farms and killed in slaughterhouses](http://hannahritchie.com/meat-environment-welfare-tradeoff/).

2️⃣ Carbon emissions:

Think you can stick to your steaks and omelettes and at the same time manage to significantly reduce your carbon footprint by “eating locally”? Actually, [transport accounts for a very small fraction of carbon released in food production](https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local) (be it plant- or animal-based).

Also,

> _“most food internationally comes by ship. And, actually shipping is very carbon efficient. You're going to emit 10 to 20 times less CO₂ than trucks per kilometre and 50 times less than flying. Most of your soy or your avocados are nearly always coming by ship and shipping actually has a very, very small carbon footprint.”_

— [Hannah Ritchie](https://www.econtalk.org/hannah-ritchie-on-eating-local/#audio-highlights)

1️⃣ Land usage:

[Crops for human consumption make up only 23% of all agricultural land worldwide, and yet they provide 83% of all calories](http://hannahritchie.com/convergence-nutrition-sustainability/).

Plant-based calories (and proteins) are much more efficient and require way less land and water than meat and dairy.

I became a #vegetarian (aspiring #vegan) almost exclusively to contribute to reduce animal #suffering.

With time, I realised that the _other_ reasons to avoid animal-based foods are surprisingly strong, too.

🧵

#Japanese #kanji #noteToSelf

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/65/39/dd6539a9039021cf409e91f5e73616ba.jpg

https://app.kanjialive.com/

Sometimes, only sometimes, there is progress on the #equality front. Not that you'll read a lot about it on the news, or see politicians and celebrities praising this development.

And yet, if you call yourself a #feminist you should celebrate this, and advocate for more countries to follow suit (otherwise, what kind of logical and moral contortions are you making to justify plain old, ages-old, sex-based discrimination?)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-26/danish-defense-minister-calls-for-mandatory-enlistment-for-women

Since I left home and started working full time, I've lived in eight places (five cities, three countries, two continents, both sharing a flat and living alone).

For whatever reason, in none of those places there was a #dishwasher.

A month ago we moved to the ninth place (and sixth city), and now I have a dishwasher, and every day I"m like OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME THIS IS THE FUTURE.

#Pocket: what the hell?

Adult human males discussing in all seriousness whether some soccer player is very good or not so good after all, whether he got the minutes he deserved last night or not, each one so sure about his ideas and about the importance of his ideas.