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Back on my OG DooM bullshit. I gave Almalgoom a go and it inspired me to get back into mapping again after about 30 years.

Unrelated, but why are there two different styles of crosswalk? I'm not from the states and I've never seen either before.

Assuming these are trinary chips, something the USSR pioneered in the late 1950s and early 60's.

Sorry, can't help. I just ate a wedge of cheese.

Hi. This is my area. I'm about six months away from finishing a postgrad nutrition degree. While I'm not in the States so I can't speak to how things work there, I don't think it's a stretch to say it's probably similar to where I am.

Firstly, "nutritionist" isn't really a title that's protected in anyway like "doctor" -- you don't need any qualification to call yourself a nutritionist. There are usually professional bodies you can register with that have various requirements. You can put those on a resume and anyone who knows what they're talking about will recognise them, but the general public doesn't really know the difference between a Registered Nutritionist and someone who's just calling themselves a nutritionist.

Secondly, the field of capital-N Nutrition is generally very concerned with public health. It's a more population-level, research focused field than dietetics, which is more about individual cases. Not so much that one is more qualified than the other, more like the difference between psychology and psychiatry. Dietitians tend to be clinical and will develop meal plans for people with specific issues (dysphagia from cancer treatment, for example). Nutritionists are the ones developing the healthy eating guidelines, contributing to labelling regulations, building evidence bases for policy, designing food literacy courses for schools, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, rampant corruption and regulatory capture means when they do that, they have to sit down at the table with industry, which tends to lead to very watered-down public health advice.

Personally, I tend to stay away from mainstream socmed so I don't really have any recommendations. But the field as a whole is very aware that disinfo is a real problem. Unfortunately, bullshit asymmetry principle means it's very hard to get a signal through the (sponsored) noise, and socmed is notoriously poorly regulated wrt disinformation. It doesn't help that real nutrition advice doesn't tend to make for "fun" content. It's the same shit you've been hearing since you were a kid; eat more vegetables. Drink less soda. Nobody wants to watch that, it doesn't attract sponsors, and it doesn't feed the algorithm.

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Can I get mine with a side of plomeek soup?

I had to fart after reading this post so maybe

Neither. Try OpenStreetMap. Open source, non commercial, compiled from crowdsourcing and publicly available information. You can even contribute updates. Only thing it's missing is satellite imagery. Organic Maps is a pretty good client if you're on Android.

Ventilation. Probably depends a bit on what hardware you land on, but that era of case wasn't exactly designed with airflow in mind.

I'm one of those people who was made vegan by another leftie! It took literally years of patient, open, honest and non-judgemental conversations and a lot of self-criticism. I actually owe that person a lot, and I'm incredibly grateful to have had them in my life. So it can happen, and people can appreciate it.

I want to preface the rest of this by saying it isn't supposed to be apologetics, just my honest take. Food is kinda my thing, I spend a lot of time thinking about how and why people make the food decisions they do. Carnism is a brainworm like any other. It's heavily pushed by industry, widely adopted by society, and strongly enabled by governments. If anything it's probably one of the more resilient ones, just because of how deeply food ties in to identity through culture, family, history and memory. Everyone has a favourite comfort food, or a meal that brings back fond memories. That shit works on a biological level and the industry absolutely knows how to hijack it. Abandoning it all actually takes a hell of a lot of effort for most people, who can't even seem to manage cutting down on soda. It takes practical lifestyle change, psychological, and to an extent, physiological, rewiring. Logically, I agree with you; if you're a leftist, you should be vegan. People don't generally make decisions like that logically though.

It's also the hill I'm furthest from dying on with regards to my social circle. I've met enough vegans who see it as a shortcut to "being a good person" without actually doing any of the self-crit necessary to arrive at the decision organically. I've also been around enough otherwise switched-on, generally cool lefties who eat meat but get squicked out by even seeing it uncooked. And yeah, the secondhand cognitive dissonance hurts. But I know which one I'd rather hang out with.