it's actually been 121 months, and i just realized bc I was thinking about other stuff that was going on in my life at the time and it occurred to me that it was a whole ass decade ago.

not asking for praise or anything, just sharin. need to let you all know that

Hey there comrades, I'm so tired of trying to find toothpaste that seemingly doesn't exist. It really doesn't feel like I'm asking all that much. All I want is:

1. Vegan
2. Contains fluoride (is toothpaste, in other words)
3. Not "whitening" (abrasive)

I don't care what flavor, how much it costs, what other horrific cancer-causing compounds it might contain. I literally just want vegan toothpaste that doesn't contain hydrated silica or other abrasives and isn't pretend-toothpaste. Why is that so hard?

every day I make a vegan dish at work that ends up taking like 1/3rd of my time and every day maybe like 1/5th of it gets eaten, well guess what fuckers? I'm saving some of it from now on to give to the lunch shift vegan chef, saving her work and tricking potentially dozens of vegan kids into eating my delicious fucking leftovers

yeah, mm, yeah, tell me again how good my day old chickpea and potato curry was, motherfucker, you shoulda tried it last night

What the fuck is the 'authentic experience' of a chicken nugget that seitan is incapable of replicating, anyways? Also the burger patties I ate in school as a cringe baby carnist were 60% TVP soy to begin with, so if anything I'm being even more honest with my frozen slabs now

Where do I find cheap firm tofu online? Costco used to be $1.25 a block for the good stuff but now is like $1.60 for less than a pound of "firm" that crumbles if you look at it funny. Every other local store has even worse prices, even Chinatown. I am ready to just give up and buy 40 pounds online or something. I eat a block of tofu for dinner most days (or I would, if it was cheap and good again).

• Today - Artichoke Jalapeno Pizza & Pear Pie
• Tomorrow - Scalloped Potatoes, Salad, and bread
• Friday- Tofu Schnitzel mashed potatoes and gravy.
• Saturday- Tofu Chutney Chipotle Sandwich & Carrot Cake (carrots from the garden <3 )
• Sunday- Lentil Taquitos
• Monday- Sunflower Seed cheesy pasta, Cookies
• Tuesday- TVP Sausage Patty Sandwiches
• Wednesday- Lentils & Rice
• Thursday- Sunflower Seed Cheesy Pasta
• Friday-Red beans and rice

Add in potatoes & popcorn as snacks, we make big meals so i always have leftovers to eat the next day.

it's so hard being vegan eating delicious food every day :'(

If you want a tasty breakfast but, like me, you're a lazy asshole who doesn't want to put any actual effort into it, then this one's for you.

You will need: Sliced bread, vegetable butter, sugar, cinnamon

• Toast the bread
• Melt the butter on stovetop or in microwave
• While waiting on the above, mix 3 parts sugar with 1 part cinnamon
• Once the bread is toasted and the butter melted, pour it over the toast (this will help the cinnamon sugar stick)
• Pour on the cinnamon sugar
• Enjoy

Do not be decieved by anyone telling you to soak your beans and discard the soaking water to reduce gas. That water contains valuable flavor and fiber. Farting is praxis people!

I'm naturally quite cautious about things like this, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

vegan btw

Posting more vegan memes solely to annoy the non-hexbarian who wanted to hide the vegan comm

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I shouldn't have to put anything here, i put it all in the title. I'm vegan.

What is the hexbear vegan party line on animal plankton?

Posting here instead of /c/chicago since it's pretty dead. They've introduced an ordinance that would ban sales of new fur (not leather, not thrifting, but still):

https://chicago.councilmatic.org/legislation/o2023-0002983/

Apparently Gardiner said today he's going to co-sponsor this, along with some others not yet listed. Why the FUCK are Raylo and Gardiner suddenly champions of animal rights? It seems like it should be easier to get the succdems and progressives on board; I'm gonna ask mine tomorrow.

Basically title. I'm easing into my 1 year anniverary and wanting to come up with something that I can make and take to the in-laws since I don't want to put them out too much for my sake. They all eat omni and I don't expect them to cater to me. Last year I did tofurkey sausages and they were ok and they might be a fallback if I don't come up with something else. I was gonna get a Field Roast roast but it's $19 at Nat Grocers and yeah, I'm not spending that kind of money on something that only I am gonna eat.

I'd like it to be close to traditional but am open for alternative suggestions since, well, I love food. Right now I am thinking about doing vegan mashed potatoes since that is easy mode and I can scale it down to 1 or 2 helpings.

But other than that idk. Welcome to all ideas, so what you got?

Disclaimer: literally zero allergies or food aversions so I am open to anything. TIA.

Will check back after church crap...

Didn't see that coming, definitely an added bonus.

A few weeks ago Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said "We are fighting against animals", referring to Palestinians. The Ten Stages model of genocide puts "Dehumanization" at step 4 of 10. And of course we all see what is being done in Gaza. This can't all necessarily be placed at the feet of the ability of Israel (and its supporters) to dehumanize Palestinians, but I'm sure it helps it go down easier.

But being vegan I can't help but draw the obvious question: why does dehumanizing somebody, or saying they are an animal - not human - mean killing them becomes acceptable? This premise is not so easily swallowed by anybody who has given some thought to the practice of animal mass-murder. Would it be reasonable to say that the logic of capitalism, which in several areas requires dehumanization to function, is undermined by a veganism which rejects the premise that dehumanizing someone gives you license to maximally exploit them? More succinctly, does liberating animals help liberate all of us?

As said above, I don't think weakening dehumanization will really solve all problems as it's at most a salve of the conscience. I figure you all will agree with most of this stuff. Here's where it gets a bit more speculative, and I encourage you to ignore this next part if you think it's ridiculous.

So I think humanity will create real AI at some point, just as conscious as you or I. Maybe it'll be a product of techniques that are currently being used, just at greater scale, or maybe a qualitative breakthrough (or several) is still necessary, but I do think it will happen. We like to hate on LLM stuff on this site, often reasonably, but to think this is as good as AI tech will ever get is pretty shortsighted and largely (imo) driven by the knowledge that if this tech is developed under capitalism it will be used to oppress us, not liberate us. If you don't think AI is possible that's fine, I don't care, that isn't what this post is about. Argue about that elsewhere.

I watched Blade Runner 2049 a few years back. There's a scene where the human police chief is giving a speech to Officer K (a replicant) with the thesis being that there is a wall separating humans from replicants: humans have souls. At the time of watching I thought this was kind of ridiculous, given how secular society already is in 2023 and how there aren't any other elements in the world of Blade Runner indicating some great religious resurgence. Silly me for not thinking in material terms!

We already see great pushback from people to not compare human functions to AI techniques currently in use. This I think is justified for the same reason that people (reasonably) object to being dehumanized by being compared to animals: because under the prevailing paradigm, if you're dehumanized (whether by being compared to an animal or computer program), there is license to maximally exploit you. So of course people will redevelop the concept of souls as something they have that the machines do not, as a survival strategy under capitalism. Mirroring the veganism case, if AI is developed will the liberation of AI entities become joined with socialist struggle generally? Of course we are speculating. But I think it's an interesting angle to approach this issue. Will I be marching for AI labor rights in my lifetime?

Communism is the movement to abolish ALL oppressive systems, including systems that oppress animals and nature itself.

Yes, I am still watching the show, and even this episode is edgy, but it was edgy in a more scifi short story kind of way? if that makes sense. It's clearly based on some dystopian scifi stories like Soylent Green and Never Let Me Go, and there was a very obvious vegan message that impressed me.