European guy, weird by default.

You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let’s see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.

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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • I’m laic.

    What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.

    Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.

    Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?

    Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.



  • Under pressure for what?

    It has already been stated that the import of food items, in detriment of the higher EU food standards, will not be negotiable.

    Two simple examples: chicken and beef.

    For beef, it would be as simple as stop pumping cattle with steroids and attest the origin of the animal, two things american rancher are unwilling and often unable to do. Argentina and Brasil sell meat to the EU. Isn’t the US as capable?

    Stop washing chicken with chemicals (likewise, eggs), treat the animals properly, with good sanitary conditions, no steroids, and it will be fine.

    But the real issue is that the EU already produces enough beef and chicken indoors. And meat consumption has been in a sharp decline. No one will buy what they don’t.

    Besides these two, it would make a difference if the US stopped using artificial food colorings, with proven bad effects on health.

    There are more issues.



  • Was that lamb properly cleaned? Sheep and goat have glands throughout the body that need to be removed in order to make the meat more palatable; it’s still edible, just unpleaseant and smelly.

    I personally prefer adult sheep or goat. The meat is very though and oily but slowly roasted, with strong herbs, it breaks down and becomes tender. The fat in the meat is superb to cook root vegetables in.

    Nothing against horse; unusual nowadays but it helped a relative of mine to ward off a serious malnutrition, leading to low blood iron levels. Game meats are game meats. I personally enjoy boar but not being a hunter makes it hard to source such meats.




  • We could just regulate tech companies and outright ban some practices but since we apparently don’t have time for rational solutions…

    Well thought out sabotage can be written off to causality or involuntary human error.

    Not giving notice of lay off is an abusive work practice and only shows how far we’ve allowed work conditions to degrade.

    And that practice itself can be highly dangerous, if we consider a person can be midway into a complex task that can turn extremely difficult to follow by another: waste of time, resources, energy and money.











  • I took it as a good humoured take ad I answered it in the same fashion.

    I could, in fact, draw the entire thing on paper. Technical drawing was taugh to me in school and I took quite well to it; I still like to draw today but more as an artistic expression.

    Although I wouldn’t consider what I make as artistic under any light.

    But my original still holds. Yes, I could. But I would have to make everything from scratch every single time we wanted to try an idea.

    Not really practical.

    I’m going to look into LibreCAD and FreeCAD. Seem to be the most promising solutions.