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Why is that relevant to their argument?


Because some vegans tend to be militant about their food preferences, and incapable of having a conversation about food choices without turning it into a moralizing mess.


Animal rights is a moral issue


This is exactly how the data binding APIs in Fyne (another Go GUI toolkit) work. And it's also an optional feature, so if you want to handle things by registering callbacks and calling setters yourself you can do that too.


If you're a news site and you want Google to have a link like "News on Inflation", then just give your article the title "Unpacking the latest inflation data" and save the actual info for the article itself. A lot of internet publishers have already figured this out and it's why you see titles like "These 3 states have the most affordable homes" that just entice you to click on the link.


the problem is, they also want the headline to entice people to buy the paper. Contradictory desires.


That's their problem, though.

The solution shouldn't the world where you can't say that newspaper X has published the article titled "Y".


It's the exact same desire - to get people to request the whole article.


But in this case with slow speed, it's the massive (literally) amount of mass of the cargo ship that gives it an un-intuitively large amount of energy.


8kn isn't super slow


It's 10 mph which is pretty slow as speeds go.


Slow-but-irresistible force meets movable object.


All objects are surprisingly movable when they encounter enough mass.


To your point, it is mass. Most people don't understand mass on water. At 1 knot the ship would do the exact same damage, topple the support and drop the bridge.


Motor control and rudder control in a momentumous frame of reference.


sqrt of 100K times weight of a car is 300 cars worth.


Not to mention that eating undercooked meat is a bigger infection risk than living with a pet cat, especially an indoor-only cat.


I drink coffee every morning and have for pretty much my entire adult life. People might be better off for it because coffee in moderation is healthy and has various bioactive compounds in addition to caffeine that can reduce risk of some diseases... but I don't think the caffeine itself has any cognitive benefits for me at all compared to if I were to never drink coffee. It's just an addiction I'm completely adapted to, and skipping a morning coffee just means I'm a bit extra tired and sluggish through the day. Maybe dopaminergic stimulants are different, especially for people with true ADHD, and they can maintain an effect over time even at a dosage plateau.


Have you tried my client (github.com/dweymouth/supersonic)? I started this for a similar reason last year - I'm curious to hear your feedback, and if you were interested in contributing I'd love some more help!


Ironically, the two main legal drugs (excluding caffeine) - tobacco and alcohol - have some of the worst long term effects. Others can have long term effects though, like MDMA is somewhat neurotoxic but not to a degree that matters with infrequent acute use, but it becomes very relevant if someone were to use it regularly.


Speaking technically, methanol isn't produced during distillation, it's concentrated. Since it boils at a lower point than ethanol, it disproportionately comes out in the "heads" of a distillation run. The source wine/beer/mash already has all the methanol in it, it's just it's not a problem when present in the small quantities in a non-distilled drink, alongside with a much greater amount of ethanol. (Ethanol can actually act as an antidote to methanol since your body processes it first and can then excrete much of the methanol unmetabolized)


https://squabbles.io is the best alternative I've seen. The Fediverse is a cool idea in theory but I think at this point in time it's not ready for primetime. It's too complicated for casual users to figure out, plus federation invites drama all of its own - e.g. Beehaw, a major Lemmy instance, has defederated with lemmy.world


Uh... I'm just went there and the first thing I see is "Welcome all sinners! This is a place to talk about your sins in a braggadocious way. Repent if you feel like you have to but no judgment shall be made here about the crazy shit you've done." What the hell? So, it is basically dropping me into the equivalent of one of Reddit's more trashier subreddits, but on the front page?


The homepage shows activity from basically the whole site, so kind of. With an account you get to choose which topics (i.e. subreddit equivalents) get included on /home.


The best part of reddit, for me, was that it focused primarily on the content, which had to be able to stand largely on its own. Usernames were attached to content, but they were secondary.

Other social media platforms are largely about the individual, the personality. The content, while present, seems to be secondary. Influencers run amok and are an advertisers wet dream.

Squabbles, self-admittedly [0], tries to combine these approaches.

When I look at their home page, as well as a few communities, the only thing that really stands out on each post is the "title bar" with someone's name and a follow link. There's no quick way to see what the content is about (unless it's an image), without actually diving into the meat of the content. I can't make a quick judgement call of whether I want to read the content or not, unless I base it on the person's name.

For some, that may be great. For me, it misses the mark and falls too far on the Twitter side of the hybrid approach.

If people find it a useful format, then I hope the site thrives. But I don't think it's the right fit for the niche that made reddit great.

[0] - https://squabbles.io/about


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