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Cake day: January 22nd, 2026

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  • The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.

    Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.

    But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.

    Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.

    If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).

    In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:

    • Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
    • Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
    • Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.

    And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.


  • They aren’t going to manufacture there. Chip manufacturing happens almost exclusively in Taiwan. That new building is just an office to design those chips.

    A lot of maths goes into designing computer chips. You need an army of highly trained mathematicians and engineers for that.

    And Israel is a really rich country that gets a lot of gifts and “investments” from people who want to show they aren’t antisemitic. They invest a lot of that money into the education of their citizens.

    Israel’s universities are some of the best in the world. While US universities are on a steep downhill.






  • They are missing out.

    When I started reading British books in their original language, instead of the professional translations, they got about 10× funnier. And that’s despite only having B1-B2 reading comprehension. Translations can never capture all of the connotations of a word or phrase.

    Your point about learning English might very well be true though. There is a high correlation amongst EU countries, between the average English level of adult citizens, and whether or not popular movies get dubbed or only get subtitles.

    YouTube introduced that horrible mandatory auto-dubbing recently. At some point, that might become viable, and that will probably severely impact language acquisition.