That’s why I used the phrase: “if leather were a by-product”

I was simplifying the sake of the example.

I didn’t think about it before, but plastics might be a “fairer” material than leather. Depending on how you look at it.

This is what makes it hard as a consumer to be conscious of our choices. Sometimes, it feels like a Dirac equation. For the sake of this example, let’s say that we only have a choice between faux leather and leather coats. We can also say that suffering is a constant.

If leather were only a by-product of an already existing industry, should the environmental cost of rearing be included in the impact? If the chemicals used in tanning have a greater immediate negative environmental impact than faux leather, should that weigh heavier than the plastics’ impact over time?

Let’s say faux leather has a lower immediate and long-term impact. However, it’s less durable, even with proper care, resulting in needing to be replaced every year instead of once every 5 to 10 years. But then we have to take price into account. What if leather costs significantly more even with replacements factored in? Would that require more labor? Does the means of generating capital itself produce a worse environmental impact?

I sometimes struggle with choosing tomatoes.

The example was not to argue one over the other, but to explain what I meant in my initial comment. It doesn’t feel like a given that recycled plastics are the best choice for the environment. My assumptions might also be completely wrong.

This is not meant as a jab, cause I’m honestly curious. Wouldn’t abstaining from plastics altogether, even recycled, be more enviromentaly friendly? Like using wood and organic textiles. I mean microplastics found in basically everything now even embryos. As an example I have no idea what’s worse faux leather or real leather.

It feels like recycled plastics should be better for the environment than new, as long as the recycling process isn’t so inefficient that it pollutes more. But is it? Maybe using natural materials instead of plastics isn’t feasible for this type of application.

Anyways have a great day.

That’s one beautiful Abyssinian.

Sweden,Lituania,Denmark, Norway, Poland, that I know of, off the top of my head. And for the dystopian feeling you have, consider that its required for banking, tax filing and things where you would otherwise have to prove your identity with a government issued ID or passport. So no more dystopian than being required to show Id when taking out a house loan.

One of my friends from Uruguay told me that in spanish his name is pronounced Juan Poroto.

If you clear app data for Advanced Privacy, it solves the glitching. Had that same issue earlier this week.

Well since I’m located in Sweden I’ve initially focused on how to set up a non profit organisation here. And the process is pretty straight forward. Until you get to taxes, salaries, expences and such. Even if you are a non profit you still need to pay employer fees, taxes on salaries and pensions, if you have employees or any salaried personnel or consultants. If they are volunteers but have expences well they need to be declared. But all that would be normal business for an accounting.(I’m not an accountant)

Basically to get started you need to have a charter, voted on at the first board meeting. After that your organisation is born. Then comes registration, getting an organisation number, setting upp tax accounts, bank accounts, seeking grants and subsidies, an office(for lack of a better word) if needed. Also the non profit needs to have a mission that is to the benifit of society, a bit of a open interpretation here, but it can’t just be “let’s have a we three men go on fishing trips non profit”. Oh and yes it needs to be open for anyone to join (there are exceptions here. But that needs to be stipulated in the charter. Think a historical society, excluding history revisionists, or that dude from ancient aliens).

Well we can organise, set up a non profit (this also lets us bypass CC2 if its ever enacted). I’ve been thinking about this for a while and already have a framework for statues and a draft for a mission statement. If done correctly there are country and EU grants that can help (yes, I spent some time looking through grant processes). What I mean to say is; you have my axe

To quote Adam Savage; The one skill to focus on, is how easy you are to work with. People will always take the less skilled but easy to interact with person, before the “full of them self” savant.

I’m using the word quote here in the broadest of sense. Cause I know I’m butchering the quote. Only remember the gist of it.

No, I mean I might have ADHD, and I do sometimes fixate on very specific things. But this time I was just out in the woods and thought hey that Tree throw might be meme material.

This is probably true. That treeworkers make up the vast majority of casualties seem more than reaonable.

People sometimes dies from the trunk falling back down. This can happen if the decomposition of the tree has come far enough or the forces eventually make the tree snap.

App images, love the fact that they exist thou sometimes graphically jarring. Sure… ever only used them for two different applications. Both pretty niche. And not available in my distro repo or flathub. Not advocating for it to become something universal,or anything but they seem pretty distro agnostic. Which I’m guessing is easier to maintain? Or not? Not a developer.

You can use pgp encryption with mailbox, there is an option for it in the settings.

When I was looking for European alternatives to google I came a cross an insightfull comment regarding E2EE mail providers. Basically the person made the point that unless whom ever you are emailing is also using,E2EE then you aren’t really gaining anything from having it on your end.

In my case I felt I needed a provider, with CALdav and he ability to use an email client like Thunderbird. So I landed on mailbox.org

So, some curiosity for you. Now I’m not sure if this painting specifically depicts the Caroleans death march. But it wouldn’t surprise me. After the fall of Carl XII year 1718 all Swedish troops where ordered back to Sweden from norway. General Armfeldt ordered his men about 6000 men, to take the shortest route back to Sweden(10 000 initially, they had already been battered, after the seige of trondheim). These men were exhausted, starved and had worn and torn clothing and lacked a lot of supplies. The route took them over the mountains. Thou the winter had a so far been mild and the ground mostly free from snow, they got caught in a blizzard and over 4000 of the 6000 men froze to death. Plenty of those that survived got crippled for life. This coined the expression 1700s froze to death. Which today is used to refer to things that happened past centuries.

I always stop and offer pets and scratches for cats. It’s the correct thing to do.

The law makes an exception for corporations, law and military, government officials and … Here is the kicker organisations. So we can just create a non profit organisation with the goal of free and secure communication for all it’s members and we would be exempt from it.

I do believe they are sister diagnoses.