If you want to make the arithmetic faster for any number, (n+1)*n / 2 is the closed form expression for summing the (whole) numbers 1 to n

So (8+1)*8/2 = 36 in this case

Yeah this is good context to put, I’m going to copy that to the text body because I’ve definitely seen people mistakenly think they aren’t eating processed meats when they are

I get that this is more tongue and cheek, but for some perspective it’s around ~21% of US adults that are functionally illiterate (in English) from 2024 stats

Fertilizer prices going up aren’t going to cause that dramatic of an effect. What we’re looking at isn’t unprecedented since a lot of fertilizer is still made elsewhere from other sources

The fertilizer production decrease is not as bad as you are suggesting. Fertilizer prices are up, but not at an unprecedented level. Fertilizer production is not that dramatically centralized as to have no supply left, just less

There is a silver lining to this, it’s going to push everyone to do the things we should have already been doing for climate change at a much faster pace

Renewable energy, especially solar, in recent years as already become the cheapest form of power per kWh. It’s made up 90+% of global new electricity capacity in the last year. New instillation will likely go even further. The war in Ukraine already helped ramp up renewables in many countries and the oil supply shock here is far higher than that.

This doesn’t have to come solely from the top down either. Besides the roof-top solar setups you think of, plug in solar is becoming available in more locations which also allows it to exist for apartments, renters, or just someone who wants a smaller but plug and play install. Outside the US, it’s already a thing in Germany, Austria, France, Lithuania, etc. More states in the US have been looking at approving plug in solar which makes small setups easy to install and possible on balconies. Utah has approved it a few years ago, Vermont just approved it earlier this year, Virginia seems set to do so.

It’s also going to lead towards more electrification. From last week

Induction stove sales on Amazon India have jumped more ⁠than 30-fold, while rice cookers and electric pressure cookers are up fourfold, a company spokesperson said.

Kitchen ​appliances maker TTK Prestige (TTKL.NS), opens new tab said demand for induction stoves had surged far beyond supply.

“There is a threefold ​surge (in demand),” CEO Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/induction-stoves-fly-off-shelves-india-gas-shortage-fears-spark-panic-buying-2026-03-12/

https://youtu.be/bAF35dekiAY?t=74 for this being acted out

Not a member or anything, but there’s some stuff like that on Lemmy

!veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

!veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works

Plus some recipe websites are really good like Nora Cooks

Don’t see a paywall on my end, but https://archive.is/VKgxt should work

I don’t imagine they were talking about being eaten out by other turkeys, but I can’t really say for certain

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If dogs didn’t want to be eaten, why is Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat so delicious? /s

Seems a little difficult to eat an entire country, idk

Yet when I make that argument to the court, they say “what” and call me a “cannibal”. Smh /s

Myth: Turkeys are killed by the industry for that purpose

Truth: Turkeys just mystersouly show up dead after falling into the big killing machine that the industry had nothing to do with

high-quality, plant-based foods, low in animal products

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plant-based sources of proteins and fats were associated with about a 15% lower risk of CHD

The author added the entire text in the alt text if you click on the image and then the ... to see the full thing. Can easily copy and paste from that or read it there instead

Fair enough that the guy has been able to do a lot of other problematic others things

Was more so intended as hyperbole given a lot of the stuff he’s done lately with the bizarre inverted food pyramid, taking part of dairy promotion campaigns, promoting of raw milk (which has a ton more health risks, but is cheaper for the industry to produce), attempts to paint beef tallow as somehow healthy, claiming to “end the war on saturate fat”, etc.

Uh the UK supreme court also prohibited Oatly from even using “post-milk generation” as a slogan. It’s 100% dairy industry pressure because they hate competition rather than because they actually care about labeling

There’s so much interesting history with plant-milks! For the west, almond milk has an especially long history. Here’s an article about how there was a whole sensation around it in medieval Europe

Outside the west, soy milk has a very long history too.

A tofu broth (doufujiang) c. 1365 was used during the Mongol Yuan.[1][2] As doujiang, this drink remains a common watery form of soy milk in China, usually prepared from fresh soybeans. The compendium of Materia Medica, which was completed in 1578, also has an evaluation of soymilk. Its use increased during the Qing dynasty, apparently due to the discovery that gently heating doujiang for at least 90 minutes hydrolyzed or helped to break down its undesirable raffinose and stachyose, oligosaccharides, which can cause flatulence and digestive pain among lactose-intolerant adults.[14][15] By the 18th century, it was common enough that street vendors were hawking it;[16] in the 19th, it was also common to take a cup to tofu shops to get hot, fresh doujiang for breakfast. It was already often paired with youtiao, which was dipped into it.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_milk#History