@kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml because they were the first to reply to this post, then replied to themselves AND @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml replied despite their rule of not engaging in discussion here that could affect the game.
You should look up Dr. Michael Greger. He runs a website and youtube channel called nutritionfacts.org that aggregates information on dietary science, focusing on the health benefits of eating whole-food plant-based (WFPB) (which specifically does not include cooking oils). He has also put out two books (with corresponding cookbooks), one titled “How Not To Die” and the other “How Not To Diet”. I have only read the forward to the latter’s cookbook, which condenses the information into just a few pages. I have also used some of the recipes which I thought were some of the tastiest recipes I’ve used out of a book. However, I will say that recipes feel a little redundant for WFPB since every dish is essentially a variation on legumes + grains + leafy vegetables + starchy vegetables (+ broth for a soup/stew/chili).
Regarding you question about calories and protein:
- In general, if you eat a balanced WFPB diet of equal parts of the above, you will not have a protein deficit; however, I don’t know if this applies to trying to bulk up at the gym where you would need more protein to build muscles. Legumes have some of the highest protein per mass of any WFPB food (as do some seeds/nuts), but the highest out of every food is seitan which if I remember correctly is 90% or above protein by mass since it is essentially the gluten sifted out of regular flour. (Seitan is not quite WFPB but it should still be very healthy unless you are gluten intolerant or you eat so much that you get protein toxicity.)
- In general, WFPB foods are calorically dilute (with either fiber or water) compared to either junk food or animal-based foods. If you are switching to WFPB from something else, you literally have to eat more than you are used to or you will have a calorie deficit. If your food intake is truly WFPB with no processed oils you should not be able to gain weight above a certain level because of the amount of fiber in your diet and the physical volume constraints of your digestive system compared to the low calorie-density of WFPB foods. (Always eating WFPB is extremely difficult because you can basically never eat out at a restaurant. I also don’t exactly follow WFPB since I eat bread/tortillas and eat out sometimes, but I use it as a starting point for when I am cooking at home.)
- Personally I find whole grains to give me a stronger sense of satiety and energy than any other food type, since they are high in carbs and fiber but low in water mass. They also have some protein. If you are feeling hungry/low energy/like you are not intaking enough calories, I’d probably recommend increasing your intake of grains. In comparison, making a soup/stew/chili dish will give you a sense of fullness but you will consume significantly fewer calories because the physical volume of you stomach will be filled with more nutritionally empty water—so great for weight loss but not for gaining or maintaining weight. Similarly, you can lose weight on a diet of white potatoes (no added oils) since they are so satiating that you will end up with a calorie deficit.
- The most calorie dense WFPB foods would be anything with oil, which would be nuts, seeds, peanut-butter (I think it is still WFPB because the processing is very light and does not discard anything), and avocados. If you are worried about maintaining or gaining weight with a healthy WFPB diet I’d recommend increasing your consumption of these foods.
- WFPB does not include cooking oil for essentially two reasons. First, oils are highly calorie dense when they are not in a whole food bound up with fibers and other nutrients, it is easy to gain weight. Second, there are some negative health effects (especially for the circulatory system) of eating too much processed oil (even olive oil), however oils that are solid at room temperature are worse. If you’re extremely worried about your weight being too low, you could include a small amount of olive/canola oil in your diet to gain some weight without too much risk.
As a disclaimer, you should not take this as medical advice (I am a non-professional operating from memory). There are also different schools of thought in nutrition so different health professionals may give different answers based on when they learned nutrition and how in-depth their studies were. You should look into the people on which I am basing my suggestions and see what you think yourself. In addition to Dr. Michael Greger, some other proponents of WFPB (or something similar) I can think of off the top of my head are Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and Dr. Dean Ornish.
I’m by no means a skilled pirate, so these may be available elsewhere. They aren’t really art films either. Them! (1954) and They Live (1988) are two I’ve been interested in seeing for a while but haven’t come across. Another thing that would be interesting would be recordings of Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock or any Kurt Weill stuff, though those aren’t films. I do enjoy art films, though I don’t have a list in mind of ones I would like to see but haven’t been able to find, so I’d enjoy seeing what others suggest in that area.
Excellent recommendation, I thought the soft ending was very effective and well executed—a nice contrast to the typical bombast. It is a shame that Scheherazade is pretty much his only piece that gets programmed considering his other masterfully written pieces. He also wrote several very good operas, though I’m only acquainted with one of them.
If you think you’ll ever become a public figure, even a minor one, it could easily become grounds for discrimination or worse. I think you could not mention it for low-level stuff like university admission or getting a low-level job. On the flipside if you end up doing anything important I doubt you could really hide it.
I’ve been reading a biography of the famous conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. He was that kind of neither Moscow nor Washington “progressive” (aside from maybe participating in some Society for Soviet Friendship kind of organizations during the 30s and 40s when it was relatively acceptable) but seemed to be sincere in the good stuff he did, for example he held many fundraisers, e.g. for the Black Panthers or the Derrigan brothers (anti-Vietnam activists) and some other things. I think he also wrote or scheduled a piece that would make a big anti-war statement at the opening of the Kennedy Center for which Nixon was supposed to be present.
Even this pretty tame stuff though prompted a lot of FBI surveillance and they have a lot of files on him. He was blacklisted for a while due to the actions of HUAC (prompted by the publication of “Red Channels” in Counterattack, which I believe was a newspaper) and put on a the list of the Emergency Detention Act that called for subversive public figures and labor leaders to be rounded up into concentration camps were the president to declar a state of emergency (this was repealed in the 70s). The FBI kept him under surveillance and recommended that Nixon not attend the aforementioned concert to avoid public embarassment. Bernstein lived longer but I haven’t finished the book yet. And despite this hardship, Bernstein still managed to have a very successful career. I can’t speak so much to his personal life since this biography is focused on his public facing side and politics specifically.
I think you should just be aware of the potential hazards. This stuff kept going on after HUAC and McCarthy, and it seems like we may be entering a new McCarthyite era to make things worse. But don’t let this stop you, instead you should never forget that the US Gov is your enemy and you should always be aware of what your enemy can do so that you can be better prepared to defend yourself.
Artists, and I mean this more broadly than just the visual arts, often dedicate their life to their work. There isn’t necessarily a free time after work because most artists have to cobble together multiple freelance and part-time incomes to scrape by. You missed their broader point that programmers are speaking as an authority on a field they know very little about.
I’m sorry that all your responses have been programmers calling you a luddite and implying that artists are either hopeless amateurs or petite-bourgeois profit-seeking dilletantes. People seem unaware that existing and historical socialist countries have usually provided better support for artists and a more socially beneficial outlet. As some have rightly pointed out, high art under capitalism is little more than a physical NFT, a plaything for the bourgeois. In comparison, the DPRK is well known for its artists and sculptors who are hired around the world to create public art such as statues and monuments. AI-generated art represents the maximum level of commodification for art and specifically in the case of art this produces something deeply unsatisfactory to many, myself included. The reason is that art is at its base a form of communication between the artist and their audience, and in the case of performing arts this relationship is mediated by an interpreter. As a human being with subjective experience, what we find fulfilling in all art is this communication: we are experiencing some meaningful idea, emotion, through the artistic logic of its creator. The artwork also exists as a snapshot of the historical moment around its creation. And the act of creating art is as important as the role of the audience. Art does not really have a practical use value outside of this deeply human, subjective, irrational case, and so when AI is used to generate a finished product, or it is the primary source of the idea, the commodified artform that results is stripped of any historical context around its creation, and there is no one trying communicate from the other side, trying to express something from within. There is only the consumer and infinite stream of indistinguishable pseudo-art.
Yes, that I know personally. I’m glad that other comrades are also interested in classical music, though I don’t think I know any myself. There is some very interesting history in classical music leading up to and during the Cold War; I am planning on reading The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders soon, which I hope will go into depth about this. There were a lot of “communists” that I think were funded by the CIA through the Congress for Cultural Freedom. From what I have read Aaron Copland may have been closer to ML, though I don’t know the details—there’s a biography that I’d like to read at some point. Of the course the USSR seems to have had an incredible musical culture but for most it is flattened into Shostakovich alone. That is a deep dive I’d like to get into as well. But I might need to know Russian for that one lol.
Woops that was a typo. I just meant comrades and those interested in classical music. I think most young people I know that are into classical music are radlibs, though I could have read them incorrectly. Older than 30 or so there may be a strong Trotskyist streak, especially if they payed attention during their music history classes. But it is hard to know from my vantage point.
Although companies like Google and Apple are now deliberately rerouting virtual assistant responses from their once-passive defaults — Siri previously responded to user requests for sex as saying they had “the wrong sort of assistant,” whereas it now simply says “no” —
Now I’m picturing these voice assistants turning into Susie Green from Curb Your Enthusiasm if you get weird with it.
Sick of Mac OS and been thinking about switching to linux, but the software I need to use on a daily basis does not run natively and I don’t think I could use the FOSS linux alternatives. I’m not sure how it would work with WINE/Proton because I’m not THAT tech savvy unfortunately. Maybe I will try to get my hands on a beater laptop and muck around to see whan happens 🤔
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I didn’t know of this specific event, so I’m glad you shared. So often the genocide of native americans is elided from history. The part about settlers calling it a race war of extermination reminded me of a quote I saw recently of some late 19th-century US politician who was talking about the oncoming acquisition of overseas colonies. They described manifest destiny as creating living room for white settlers (and that was a good thing), and I was struck by the fact that (1) these people were just admitting that they were waging a genocidal conquest despite all the hemming and hawing of my US history classes and (2) this makes it pretty clear that the US is/was the “intellectual” (not really the right word?) predecessor of Nazi Germany. I mean, I had seen people say that was the case, pointing to Jim Crow laws and the 1-drop rule vs. Nazi race “science”, but I thought it was more general and not Nazi Germany literally copying the US to the letter.