I get that you have hope, but magical thinking isn’t going to fix this unless you are literally capable of magic or you have a time machine powered by positive thoughts or something.

We are already globally over capacity on fresh water. Crops are already failing. The earth is already at heat storage capacity. Carbon emissions are still rising. Population numbers are still rising. Capitalist industry is still posting record profits.

Most people won’t even consider a vegan diet and campaigning for community gardens and bike lanes isn’t going to magically increase the heat storage capacity of the oceans.

So I am genuinely asking you, mitigation of resourse depletion, works how? Mitigation of thermodynamics works how?

What type of hard work do you think can fix this?

It’s only going to take a few more years as hot as the last two, for the ice mass at the poles to be depleted enough that the Earth will be absorbing more heat from the sun than it reflects.

This is called the Blue Ocean Event and it will set off the Clathrate Gun.

Once those happen (and they’re going to, soon) the planet is quite literally going to be cooked in it’s own atmosphere. Not much survives being cooked.

And while we’re on the topic of apocalyptic and yet fully foreseen disasters that most people are still somehow oblivious to:

Did you know that we’re going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water globally by 2030?

And that when this drought reduces humanity’s numbers by several billion (and if the BOE doesn’t happen first), the rest of us are still going to starve to death anyway, because 90% of top soil globally is at risk of depletion by 2050.

You might want to look all those things up, and maybe book a therapy appointment or something.

Depending on how organised you are, and how much soup/boiled root veg you eat, soaking your rice over night and steaming it over soup/veg you’re boiling the next day, is going to be much more energy efficient than probably all other methods.

I think brown rice only takes about ten minutes to steam once it’s been soaked overnight, but I have never actually tried this method myself as I don’t eat that much soup or boiled root veg, and I have a bad habit of forgetting things if they’re not in my direct line of sight.

I cook all the rice I eat in an enamelled cast iron pot, on an induction stove hotplate.

(I am hella poor these days and have metered electricity, this has been the cheapest way I’ve found so far that works for me.)

• Add 1 part washed brown rice into the pot

• Add 1.5 parts cold water into the pot

• Add salt or stock cube/seasoning if desired

• Bring to a rolling boil for 2 to 3 minutes

• Cover pot with foil and lid to trap heat and steam

• Reduce heat to the lowest it can go while simmering continously

• Simmer for 15 minutes

• Turn off heat but do not touch or move the pot.

• Wait 15 to 20 minutes for the rice to steam cook the rest of the way.

This method works great, unless it is the dead of winter and cold enough in my kitchen that the pot cools too quickly to finish steaming the rice through. In which case I add a little more water and bring it to a boil again, and cover, lower the heat and steam it again for ten minutes, while hovering over the pot shivering and debating whether or not to just eat it as is, or wait for it to be both mushy and crunchy.

But hey guys, don’t panic, we can still fix this!

If every country aside from the US just massively overshoots on their Paris accord agreements for the next decade, we will stop climate change in its tracks and save the world! And you won’t even have to give up animal products, fast fashion, or your car.

So just stay positive and keep recycling everyone! Team effort, amirite?

I use rdx.overdevs.com to read reddit still as it has a lot more fashion, art and vegan content than here, but the only places I interact online in that way anymore are the Fediverse and Fragrantica, but the latter only really for perfume related stuff.

Always has been.

The unbelievably massive amounts of heat, pollution and environmental destruction from war is not currently ‘great for the climate’. Ww3 and bombing oil and gas infrastructures is not going to change that.

On the plus side (/s) resource depletion, climate collapse and ww3 will probably get most of us by 2030. So there isn’t too much longer to wait.

Enjoy the last of the abundance and don’t reproduce, there isn’t really anything else we can do now.

Pretty sure Kbin is dead and gone, might want to update your tree.

I’m starting to feel ableist for laughing at you. This is no longer fun for me so I’m blocking you now.

Hopefully you can become a better person on your own. Good luck wanker.

Even an ounce of self reflection would go a long way my dude. Here’s hoping one day you’ll be able to get over that ego of yours and give it a go.

Have you seen the what does halal mean? youtube short by therealsamalkhatib? It’s a cute little sketch and whenever I make/eat falafel now it’s become a bit of a meme.

Nah fam, what’s ironic is that you’re the one being the dick here.

Do you think the non-vegans in this thread respect you and like veganism more now after your behaviour here?

Or do you think that they also think you’re a massive gaping asshole of a vegan?

Who would consider joining this movement after seeing you trying to be the vegan morality police over a joke you didn’t like made by a fellow vegan?

The standard for veganism that you’re trying to insist on setting here is socially controlling, demanding, manipulative and just plain unlikable.

You’re really not helping the vegan cause with this behaviour.

So you promote this good thing by shitting on other vegans and acting as if you make the rules? Lmao, you’re really making us look so great infront of the meatheads.

I’m not sure you’ve thought this through tbh.

So in order to placate the meat eating masses, vegans should never talk back to the meat headed trolls?

Bruh a vegan having good comebacks to trolling isn’t going to tank the cause and my putting a troll in their place with a good quip isn’t going to make the meat eating bigots hate vegans any more or less. They’re going to hate us anyway, so why not let some vegans enjoy fucking with them back?

Or you know, just get the fuck over yourself and stop trying to control people.

If you have less respect for vegans because you saw a vegan once took the piss out of a carnist troll on an internet forum… you do realise that’s fucking pathetic of you right?

So you think vegans should passively put up with bullshit from trolls and never poke fun back? Why?

What makes me an asshole here?

Did you mean to reply to me?