Unfortunately not only a problem in schools. Where I work at there’s already a pay per use system that bills the department, with an entire system with separate codes to identify where you belong financially. Now they’re debating adding a fee for the ability to print.
It’s true that two women have failed, but I’m not convinced their gender had anything to do with it.
This. In fact, many people were driven out to vote for Hillary because she was a woman, despite being a pretty terrible candidate. Let’s not forget, she won the popular vote by several million/several percent.
The sword cuts both ways, so I would rather put gender and ethnicity by side and look at their actual policies.
Minced meat on its own is processing the meat of an animal until it is unrecognizable
Not quite. It’s to use the leftovers, and also to preserve them to a certain extent. The leftovers can often be tough, so it’s ground. What doesn’t change is that the flavor of the meat is still very present. It’s not trying to taste like something different, which the vegan “sausage” is.
For decades - but they were much rarer than nowadays. You wouldn’t find them on store shelves like you do nowadays. And sausages have existed for centuries.
For me that comes down to the same argument as “didn’t you read the fine print?” If I spent time researching the due diligence you’re expecting, I would have time for nothing else anymore.
And I didn’t order wrong, they misunderstood me, because it was so confusing.
Fair enough. I guess it just often bothers me that I’ll be somewhere, and the choice I get is between meat and something that tries to be meat. I’ve tried the latter a number of times and always been disappointed. Which often ends up preventing me from reducing my meat consumption, because if I don’t want something masquerading as meat, well then there’s nothing other than meat.
Traditionally, yes, it is that it is made from meat. Even most dictionaries will back that up. Even vegan “sausages” will try to make the contents taste like meat (the keyword is in my experience “try”), which kind of proves the point.
And yes, most sausages aren’t made from intestine anymore, but if you want a really good one - it still is, and there’s an argument to be made that it isn’t an authentic traditional sausage if it isn’t. To be fair, though, the intestine isn’t central to the taste, it’s more of a functional thing. The filling isn’t.
And I’m not sure you understand what Grützwurst is, then - the base is still meat.
I actually did have vegan “fish” by accident once. Ordered normal fish and chips, but they called the vegan stuff Vish, so it was easy to get mixed up. It was quite the disappointment (I immediately tasted that this was not fish).
I don’t understand why people keep insisting that it has to be called a burger or a sausage. With a burger - OK, I kind of see that we’ve already muddied the waters on what can be called a burger, but a sausage? That has just about always been with meat until recently, and obviously for many people that’s part of the definition. Why can’t we just call it something else if the core element of what makes it a thing is absent? (And why do we even have to try to recreate meat by processing vegan stuff until what it used to be is unrecognizable? There’s so much more to vegan coming than that…)
I tried to find the article on it, but it was a while ago that I read, so I honestly don’t know 100%…
But I doubt it would be illegal, as a company they’re not small enough to fly under the radar and not big enough to flagrantly break laws and get away with it. Two possibilities that come to mind (and both may be true:
they did it via black box reverse engineering. That has less issues legally, since you’re not trying to decompile someone else’s code, but looking what that code does and trying to recreate it
the Linux Kernel’s GPL gives them certain rights in that area
Yes and no, Fairphone has actually managed to reverse engineer some of the drivers for its old phones to provide android upgrades years after the component manufacturers have dropped support. The Fairphone 2, for instance, received a little over 7 years of support and 4 major version upgrades, skipping one on the way. For the Fairphone 5, they’ve promised 10 years of software support, and judging by their track record, I believe them. They also open source as much as they can and even give instructions on how to build the OS yourself.
Of course, open source drivers would be better, but that doesn’t exist at the moment, unfortunately. At this point, Fairphone is one of the companies that comes closest (with Shiftphone being a close rival).
Oh for fuck’s sake
Yes, let’s condemn him for realizing his mistakes, apologizing, and trying to better himself. I’m absolutely sure that will encourage others to do the same.
I watched the first 10-15 minutes of this and have to say, while I agree with him on principle, he’s either misinformed or exaggerating the anti-circumvention regulation. There are a number of exemptions in anti-circumvention laws in the US for personal use. How far this goes was made clear in court, Apple took the creators of an iOS jailbreak to court and lost, making it clear that jailbreaking is not illegal, even though it clearly circumvents the “protection” system in place. Similar applies to circumventing DRM for backup copies of media, for instance.
Of course, I would rather see no anti-circumvention legislation whatsoever, but the way he misportrays the situation makes me question his credibility.
Interesting back windshield wiper that only wipes half the windshield.