If you want to make the arithmetic faster for any number, (n+1)*n / 2 is the closed form expression for summing the (whole) numbers 1 to n

So (8+1)*8/2 = 36 in this case

Yeah this is good context to put, I’m going to copy that to the text body because I’ve definitely seen people mistakenly think they aren’t eating processed meats when they are

I get that this is more tongue and cheek, but for some perspective it’s around ~21% of US adults that are functionally illiterate (in English) from 2024 stats

The technology for renewables is not the main limiting factor anymore. In recent years the economics have changed. Renewables are the cheapest form of power today and dominate (90-almost 100%) new global energy capacity because it’s so cheap. Grid scale batteries have become viable and are starting to be a significant portion of grid power in many countries

A number of countries did speed up their roll out of renewables because of that, though

The amount of oil supply removed is significantly larger this time. With the war in Ukraine there were also some more obvious places to get oil from instead. It’s less obvious this time

Don’t see a paywall on my end, but https://archive.is/VKgxt should work

high-quality, plant-based foods, low in animal products

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plant-based sources of proteins and fats were associated with about a 15% lower risk of CHD

Others in captivity, for instance: Chimps Are No Chumps: Give Them An Oven, They’ll Learn To Cook

In Germany, it’s limited to more like 800 watts (and I think some other safety regulations). As I understand it, it’s generally worked without this being much of an issue despite millions of plug in solar installs (primarily for balcony solar)

It’s still more chickens who still very much suffer a lot, just a little less in one specific way. It is not accurate at all to say that they don’t suffer while they are alive along with suffering while being killed. It potentially worsens a lot of issue by increasing numbers. From the earlier article

Our results indicate that, if raised in CAFOs, a shift to slower-growing Rangers may increase crowding and related welfare concerns including increased footpad dermatitis [7], jostling, conflicts and potentially infection risk [14], and thus may translate to a decrease in aggregate welfare at scale. A shift to individual better-welfare chicken breeds aims to lessen bone, heart and disease issues in present Ross birds, but even in non-CAFO production systems, slower-growing breeds may still experience other negative welfare conditions such as emotional and physical stress, disease, predation, injury and premature mortality, as well as distressing transport and slaughter practices

I am mixed about this. On the one hand fast-growing birds have tons of health issues and help to make the production cheaper which allows the industry to stay larger. On the other hand if consumption and production levels stays constant, the total number of chickens killed will increase. Slower growing chickens have lower slaughter weights which means you need more of them. From a study looking at the US:

Maintaining this level of consumption entirely with a slower-growing breed would require a 44.6%–86.8% larger population of chickens and a 19.2%–27.2% higher annual slaughter rate, relative to the current demographics of primarily ‘Ross 308’ chickens that are slaughtered at a rate of 9.25 billion per year.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.210478#d1e265

Not the person you originally replied to, but eating plants directly would at least be a sort of harm reduction in that case. It takes a lot more plants to raise non-human animals than to just use plants directly. This is also a big part of why the environmental impact is so high for meat, dairy, etc.

1 kg of meat requires 2.8 kg of human-edible feed for ruminants and 3.2 for monogastrics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211912416300013

Pockets of progress can still exist within broader repression. Based on your profile, I’m going to guess you’re from the US? If you want some hope:

US Senate Passes Bill Giving Children the Right to Plant-Based Milks in Public School Lunches and this ended up getting signed into law 9 days ago. It also overturned an 80 year old provision that prohibited plant-milks from being offered without special request from doctor/parent in K-12 school lunches. (Which I never would have thought would get overturned now of all times)

Clean energy is still booming in the U.S. despite Trump’s best efforts. Renewables still are going into place because they are just the cheapest option, and the Trump admin has had a lot of their attempts to target renewables paused in court for now. Not that it’s not impacting it at all (it obviously is), but that it isn’t enough to stop progress entirely

Minnesota’s Most Populous County Implements Plant-Based-By-Default Policy for Official Meetings and Events

NYC Set To Cut All Processed Meat In Schools, Hospitals, And Care Centers and is going to replace them with whole plant-based foods

I can keep going. There is a lot of focus in both traditional and social media about the bad news and very little about good news. But there are people trying and when people try you always have the chance to win

Don’t stop trying

And this is going on during a (one day) state wide general strike in Minnesota

Protests in Minnesota have been going on constantly every day in multiple places, the media is just hardly reporting on it. They are not small either. People have also formed entire network to monitor ICE and make sure that people can respond fast anywhere they go

Voting can stop you from going backwards, but voting alone is not enough. It will not fix the mess we are in by itself. It’s vote and take action not vote or take action. There is absolutely not time to wait for elections. Voting is important, but it has to be done with other action or the country will not survive

Minnesota is also in the middle of general strike today as well. Statewide, for the first time in almost 100 years. Economic power matter, and people are starting to use their leverage there in a real meaningful way

That difference seems a lot higher than most of the world. Were you looking at price per unit volume or price per whatever the container was? I’d be really surprised if there’s a difference that high

There is also the option of making plant-milks yourself. Price can be a lot cheaper that way by orders of magnitude. (Though may take some experimentation to get good tasting recipes, so don’t necessarily judge off of the first taste)

It probably won’t stop most people, but they’ll try to do anything they can to slow things down even if it’s on the margins

The goal isn’t necessarily to change how people speak (though they would if they could), but more to make the product name on the stores shelves look less appealing to reduce sales

Those are primarily just using the same the packing as they due to places that prohibit using the term “milk”. The dairy industry has lobbied quite hard for those bans across the world at all levels of government. Under the belief that “oat drink” or the like sounds less appealing that “oat milk”