Vegan

Just FYI, Sunshine@lemmy.ca used to be Beaver@lemmy.ca who deleted her account when she made everyone mad about vegan pets as the mod of lemmy.world/c/vegan and is an abusive person who misrepresents me and this community. They use their alts across instances to manipulate votes and do things like pretend to be your friend then when they have a disagreement with you they go on weeks long attacks against you by posting to drama communities and smearing people.

This person is seriously unhinged and should sign out of Lemmy and get therapy.

Enjoy their low effort spam across all your communities!

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Questions of the week: (Feel free to answer one, both, neither, or posit your own!):

What’s a recent book you’ve enjoyed reading?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other; however, please keep in mind: vegans only, and we abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct.

Be kind to all Earthlings! 🌱💙

Between 3000 BCE and 1800 CE there were more than sixty ‘mega-empires’ that, at the peak, controlled an area of at least one million square kilometres. What were the forces that kept together such huge pre-industrial states? I propose a model for one route to mega-empire, motivated by imperial dynamics in eastern Asia, the world region with the highest concentration of mega-empires. This ‘mirror-empires’ model proposes that antagonistic interactions between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturalists result in an autocatalytic process, which pressures both nomadic and farming polities to scale up polity size, and thus military power. The model suggests that location near a steppe frontier should correlate with the frequency of imperiogenesis. A worldwide survey supports this prediction: over 90% of mega-empires arose within or next to the Old World’s arid belt, running from the Sahara desert to the Gobi desert. Specific case studies are also plausibly explained by this model. There are, however, other possible mechanisms for generating empires, of which a few are discussed at the end of the article.

No article to link, so let me explain:

Turchin, who studies history in a more data-science way, found that empires in the past 4000 years seem to pop up in pairs, likely as a result of the escalating arms race between agriculturalists and pastoralists. Pastoralists are used to mobility and trade (using animals for transport); agriculturalists use less land, but still have the tendency to expand for land and to secure trade routes. Obviously, expanding trade means more capital accumulation, and that applies to both. Pastoralists tend to rely on trade as they don't live off a "carnivore diet", but raise the "living stocks" as capital to grow wealth via trade.

The conflict is ancient and ongoing in many parts of the world, usually found as "farmer-herder conflict" in the literature.

Unrelated to the article, this is how I'm interpreting the ongoing war in Sudan, for example.

Source.

Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Questions of the week: (Feel free to answer one, both, neither, or posit your own!):

1. What questions should be asked for the future weekly megathreads?
2. What fun projects have you been working on lately?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other; however, please keep in mind: vegans only, and we abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct.

Be kind to all Earthlings! 🌱💙

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Questions of the week (Feel free to answer one, both, neither, or posit your own!):

Which genres of music do you most enjoy listening to?

What was the last concert you went to?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other; however, please keep in mind: vegans only, and we abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct.

Be kind to all Earthlings! 🌱💙

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Questions of the week (Feel free to answer one, both, neither, or posit your own!):

1. Which fields of science are you particularly fascinated by, and can you tell us a niche or exciting tidbit relating to it?
2. What is your favourite vegetable(s)?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other; however, please keep in mind: vegans only, and we abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct.

Checkout some of our underrated communities:

Vegan Circlejerk

For vegan memes in general as well. New community, so it might not be federated yet!

!vegancirclejerk@vegantheoryclub.org

The Bee Hive

bzzzzzz.... bzzzz

!the_bee_hive@vegantheoryclub.org

Be kind to all Earthlings! 🌱💙

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Question of the week:

What are you doing to stay warm if you are in the northern hemisphere? What are you doing to stay cool if you are in the south? Any seasonal activities you're getting into?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!

We abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct

Vegan Home Cooks Discord

Vegan Theory Club Discord

EDIT: Nevermind. I found the homecooks community here. Plenty of good eating to be had there. I should have explored around before I posted here. That and the vegan cheat sheet in the side bar pretty much answers my questions. I'll keep this post up just in case other newbies come here. (unless mod wants to delete)

Hey guys, sorry if this is a stupid question.

I plan on doing my research too, but thought I'd ask here since I just signed up.

I'm new to vegan lifestyle. Was meat eater most of my life, until turning vegetarian 6 months ago.

Now going full vegan. I'll eventually go to raw vegan, but that's gonna take some more planning, so I'm baby-stepping.

Anyone have a go-to meal for workout days?

I'm naturally skinny, so getting enough calories to grow is a bit of a pain. Back in my meat days, it was pretty easy.

Now I'm having a harder time. I have Huel-brand Vegan options, so I've been working with that. And it works, but just wondering if you guys had any fun ideas.

And if you fuckers permaban me on my first day for asking this, Imma be pissed! (kidding! Ok, not really)

Kinda interesting stuff, yet more evidence that non humans engage with the world in complex manners. Although they seem more interested in the real than the abstract.

Neat.

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Question of the week:

What is your favorite uncommon fruit? Also what are some good megathread questions?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!

We abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct

Vegan Home Cooks Discord

Vegan Theory Club Discord

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Question of the week:

What do you think is the most effective form of vegan activism? Food Not Bomb's feeding people? Truth Cubes? Shitposting online? Let us know what you think and what you've been involved in!

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!

We abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct

Vegan Home Cooks Discord

Vegan Theory Club Discord

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Question of the week:

Any New year resolutions or plans for the new year?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!

We abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct

Vegan Home Cooks Discord

Vegan Theory Club Discord

Leather gloves are ubiquitous in the world of welding/forging/casting etc.

Any alternatives that have long sleeves? I've seen some short sleeved kiln gloves which I've used, they're better than nothing but not as safe (especially welding with UV) and tend to be less puncture resistant which is bad in some cases.

We’re a confederation of friends who are vegan and want a place online for us to post and enjoy. We are all leftists of various types from Marxist-Leninists to Anarchists. There is no required tendency contribute other than being vegan and leftist. Non vegans are not welcome.

We’re vegans. This means we are the voice for the voiceless. Our common trait is a respect for life and animals and a desire to end the injustice of human oppression of them. This is what unites us above all else even above human politics.

What isn’t the Vegan Theory Club? It isn’t a place for non-vegans, drama, tension, nation state politics, elections, promoting wars, meta posting, screaming about "tankies," or any form arguments.

This isn’t a general purpose instance, this is a small community for friends. If you want to be friends, great, sign ups are open and for now we are keeping federation enabled if you live on another instance. If you are vegan and want to be nice and positive you are welcome to post in our communities. If you want to post on drama communities, fight about US politics, be a debate pervert, criticize peoples cooking or act immaturely; Please simply block this instance and move on with your life.

[Image is of two lobsters. One of them holds a human baby above the pot of water.]

Lobster 1: I hate the way they scream when you boil them.

Lobster 2: It’s not screaming… that’s just the air escaping!

https://www.veganricha.com/1-hour-masala-vegetable-pot-pies/

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Question of the week:

What are you doing for the holidays?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!

We abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct

Vegan Home Cooks Discord

Vegan Theory Club Discord