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I don’t tend to post news or politics, I think those posts are rather saturated on Lemmy.

It’s pretty ironic my most recent post is a political post, and here’s another political news article post I made … So to say I’ve “never made a single news or politics post” I think is factually wrong.

Either way, I was hoping to appeal to your conscience here.

I’m not sure I understand your moral argument - you say that there are moral problems with every news source, and if we held moral standards to the sources we used, no posts would be permitted on Lemmy, but … you know, there are better and worse places to drive traffic, better and worse places to use as a source. It’s not all or nothing, you have to know this right?

So, reading between the lines, what I’m hearing from you is that it’s not a deal-breaker for you to drive traffic to a website that perpetuates conspiracy theories and seeks to deny people like me healthcare, that these are morally tolerable positions.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot since reading this article on free speech about how often people will side with “free speech” until it’s a topic they don’t actually tolerate - e.g. very few “free speech” advocates continued to defend Milo Yiannopoulos after he started to advocate for pedophilia.

Here’s the salient point I think the article makes:

The truth of the matter is that there are two types of speech or expression: those that we (either as individuals, or as a society) are willing to tolerate, and those that we do not. (This is explained compellingly here.) You may cherish a particular word, idea, expression, or identity. But if enough people collectively refuse to tolerate it, well . . . you can shout “free speech!” at the top of your lungs all you want, but it isn’t going to protect you.

In the end, what I’m hearing is you are willing to tolerate a news source that peddles far-right conspiracy theories that aim to strip people of their rights and manipulate people into rejecting science, that these ultimately are tolerable views, ones you are willing to indirectly support by continuing to link to Newsweek and drive traffic there.

Maybe you would not feel the same about linking to a neo-Nazi website directly, or to a Holocaust denial website, or maybe a website that hosts child pornography or advocates for pedophilia - I assume these are views you probably wouldn’t tolerate and wouldn’t want to be associated with or support even indirectly.

It’s OK if my attempt to appeal to your conscience failed - I assumed from the start that we were more likely to be on the same page on this, but I guess I was wrong. Sorry for wasting your time.

In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had “taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders” since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine’s elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer’s opinion section and podcast.

Newsweek in particular is vile and horrible, and you are driving traffic to them. The argument that there are other news sites with problems is whataboutism, it doesn’t address that this news source has a serious problem.

Besides, here’s an easy alternative and less problematic source: https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-bill-migrant-workers

(it’s not that hard)

newsweek is a conspiracy peddling right-wing rag, please stop driving traffic to them

he has been obsessed recently with explaining how “beautiful little girls” can just live with fewer dolls :-/

All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).

Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.

One billboard said:

Avoid student debt, learn a trade.

or something like that. It jives with the general opinion. I do live in a very conservative place, so maybe like you’re saying it’s a matter of where in the South you are. I’m sure in a major city like Atlanta that’s not a common attitude, for example.

huh, I would guess that the majority of people where I live in the South think this way. It’s repeated dogma from teachers, parents, etc. - there are literally billboards along the roadways talking about how useless university degrees are and advertising for trade schools and certificate programs.

those instincts will keep you alive

you should visit the Southern U.S., lol

Policies inform how the law and system works. The DOJ can change that policy, but since it is essentially under the control of the sitting president, that won’t happen.

I think you misunderstand the power dynamic, the president controls the military and if he starts to arrest SCOTUS justices, I don’t think the SCOTUS rulings will matter any more, they won’t have any way to enforce their rulings that will stand up to the de facto power the president has.

The SCOTUS rulings are already being ignored by this administration on other decisions that were made by them, so you could say we’re already past that.

only Congress has that authority through impeachment, a sitting president is immune to indictment

sure, but there’s more or less unethical consumption - I think it’s good to be aware that as a single consumer your impact is minimal (read: irrelevant), but participating in collective action like a boycott can and does drive change

to that end, engage with those collective actions and don’t fret too much about “ethical consumption” - this is just one tool among many (i.e. not eating Oreos isn’t about being ethical or a good person, it’s about participating in a coordinated boycott and achieving certain political ends)

and even if you don’t think GMOs are an issue, Oreos are made with palm oil linked to rainforest destruction and human rights abuses.

The reason they refine the protein is not for health reasons or to avoid sugars, the reason is that the carbs in the mung beans cause the resultant mix to cook into a consistency more like pancakes than eggs. The protein isolated from mung beans (i.e. without the carbs), however, behaves a lot more like chicken eggs would naturally - it scrambles nicely and has a texture and quality like eggs.

So the reason to buy Just Egg instead of mung dal is mostly because it actually has a texture like eggs. (I’m not sure there is anything inherently wrong with isolating the protein from mung dal, when we make seitan that’s what we’re doing with wheat after all - “processed” is usually meaningless as to what we should think about it.)

If you’re flexible with your concept of eggs and are willing to eat that pancake texture, then mung dal works great - I still like to use it on occasion, esp. for a scrambled egg substitute for a breakfast (so I might do mung bean pancakes with hash browns and vegan sausage, for example).

The main reasons for me is that mung dal is shelf stable and much cheaper than Just Egg (and chicken eggs). I find it at Indian groceries, but you can also buy it online.

Realistically because Just Egg is a protein isolate and doesn’t have the carbs in mung beans. They don’t have the same texture, essentially. But I do think more people should know about using mung dal in addition to Just Egg, as it is much cheaper and works in a lot of use-cases where you would otherwise use Just Egg. I actually switched to mung dal for a while because it’s so convenient to have a shelf-stable Just Egg, I didn’t have to worry about planning my use, I could make vegan eggs more spontaneously that way.

True, the texture is not eggy. But you can make mung dal taste pretty eggy overall, and the convenience & price of mung dal makes it worth it in some contexts.

I soak split mung beans with the husks removed and then use a blender to blend them well. It’s basically like a pancake / carby version of Just Egg. Add black salt for the sulphur, and I like to add some other things for flavor like nutritional yeast, garlic powder, asafoetida, a little turmeric, etc. and it’s not half bad, esp. for omelettes, quiches, and other cases like that.

nuts also go rancid, not exactly “non-perishable”

Spaghetti is pretty popular, maybe pasta and pre-made / canned pasta sauces would be welcome additions? I wouldn’t overthink the nutrition, focusing on what is desirable / pleasurable is more relevant esp. with how fortified foods are these days. Maybe canned chili, boxed mac-and-cheese, hamburger helper, and other easy and tasty meals would work? Honestly I would just ask the people there what they like to eat and then stock that, if possible 😅

Who are the main consumers of the food pantry? That will tell you a lot about what kinds of foods will or won’t work. If a person has a kitchen, for example, it’s a different situation than being on the street.