I would LOVE to know where this is?? If it's more walkable that JUST the school.
I have lived in suburbs near enough to schools that you can walk on 2 occasions in both NC and AZ but this was a very lucky quality, not the norm AT ALL, highly desirable, and you could walk to practically nothing other than the school. Leaving the neighborhood on foot was not a good place to be walking.
Know that the reason why it's illegal in so many places to begin with is because of the US. Weed wasn't really an "issue" anywhere. Until the US drug war began and spread to other countries thru international narcotic treaties.
Obviously there are outliers and certain cultures where domestic policy was also heavily at play (Japan). But many European countries didn't view weed as particularly problematic.
Where do you see "the profile was created 2024-04-26"?
Is the instagram linked on the profile also faked or is that the real guy?
How do we know it was deleted back in 2022? Because there's a single web archive snapshot where the page shows as "Not Found" in that year? That could happen for other reasons. The guy could also be re-instating his own substack.
I'm not doubting this but want to know how to detect it. If the instagram is the real guy someone should tell him lol.
The Instagram link is not the real author, it's just some random person with the same name.
I'd rather not share more about this person's pattern, but I've sent it to Dan and Substack. If you look closely at the links I pasted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077 (and profiles), you'll spot most of it. I'm sure they'll get better next time, though.
This is all but impossible to detect unless there's some pattern/tell. That's why I say to be somewhat skeptical of Substack URLs for now, unless you know the person giving it to you (or are otherwise sure the blog wasn't deleted). The real solution is for Substack to not allow people to re-publish on URLs already used by other accounts, so you and I don't need to try to figure this out on a case-by-case basis - in general, that's not possible.
Agreed. This fake meat movement is so weird to me and is not feeling any gaps for me personally. Apparently it does for others, which is good I guess. Veggie burgers are delicious: black bean, wild rice, chickpea. Why the hell would I want you do make it "bleed" lol.
My gut feeling is there's a spectrum of people wanting meat replacement, and I'd expect very few to be at the extreme "it must look like meat, feel like meat, taste like meat and smell like meat" (I actually don't expect these people to ever give up meat if they have a choice)
We've been through this for other foods: we have artificial vanilla, "I can't believe it's not butter" butter, half cheese, fake crab meat etc.
There's probably a large number of people who'd settle for a white tofu if it actually tasted like delicious meat.
Yet the alt-meat section of the grocery store grows every year, and novel alt-meat foods constantly try to enter the market.
> it must look like meat, feel like meat, taste like meat and smell like meat
As someone who does buy these alt-meats, you're mischaracterizing the consumer behavior. It's not "It must emulate meat". It's "it's nice that I can have a non-meat burger that satisfies my taste for the burgers I grew up with from time to time".
People buy a whole range of products from Costco's tasty bean burgers to Impossible meat patties to everything else.
> There's probably a large number of people who'd settle for a white tofu if it actually tasted like delicious meat.
I doubt it. The more we understand about food and what makes food good, the more it seems to be a combo of all sorts of things including look, smell, and texture. Adding the perfect meat-tasting drops to some white tofu isn't going to cut it. Though it seems like an odd speculation from from someone who doubts the appeal of alt-meat that actually does look, smell, taste, and feel like meat.
You're right that there's a lot of personal viewpoint and I'm mot fully understanding the people buying alt-meats at their current state. I sampled a bunch that were touted to be good, and they tasted really meh to me.
They sure are hitting some "this could be meat" points, but not the good meat that would be a guilty pleasure, and more around the deadest and cheapest meat I'd find to make sure I get my protein count of the day. That's were I see the connendrum of paying premium for meh food by sheer guilt, it doesn't feel like a growing market (the elephant in room being that meat will never fully disappear, including ethically sourced meat like meat from wild species' population control)
In decades, perhaps. But as you point out the nostalgia part is strong, and nostalgia dies, so will it ever work out at some point ?
> look, smell, and texture.
This is cultural though. For instance looking at bread, historically brown, round, starchy and compact bread was the standard in europe. But the US moved to square, white, uniform, light taste and more processed white bread. Same with fish sticks, nuggets, meat balls, hash potatoes：we moved from a complex and close to the natural form, to heavily processed, standardized and geometrically shaped presentation, and it's widely accepted.
That's where I see focusing on taste instead of shape and texture to be a viable way forward in the long term.
I'm loving the grocery store price map/compare stuff lately.
Oh how I wish it was easier to collect that data and watch items.
Especially at Costco, Whole Foods, Publix.
When things like this happen I always think that the more important problem is the fact that he chose suicide.
This sort of thing cannot be gotten rid of entirely. It's impossible. They can always be lured into another messaging system that doesn't track or analyze data at all.
I know this would be extremely embarrassing but it is far from life destroying (or at least it should be). Within a year life would've moved on and no one would even care. We all need to better come to terms with this reality and neutralize its impact and the shame of it.
I'd say Rural folk are fine in the grand scheme of damaging the environment thru land use. Tho it is terrible when people own incredibly large swaths of land and then proceed to fence it all off disrupting migration patterns.
The Suburbanites are the real problem. Urban Sprawl.
And of course it isn't the people themselves who are at fault. They have no choice. It's the idiotic way we've developed around cars. This was only ever considered a good idea to begin with because the Auto/Oil industry pushed it thru propaganda and lobbying; and now it's sunken into people brains.
Suburbs became popular because cities became too expensive, cars were just the enabler. I’d rather have cars than horses and deal with mountains of horse crap and the diseases that come with them.
How about we make suburbs pay for the infrastructure they use? Most suburbs have urbans level of infrastructure with a tax base that is not enough to maintain it due to the lower density, and end up being paid for by city centers. Is that also fine?
Suburbia's ability to exist is currently funded by all of us.
Small cities across the US are literally just sitting in a ponzy scheme of debt.
The basics:
1. When you develop new stuff like a suburban neighborhood or one of those roads that has fast food restaurants and gas stations on it that are copy pasted all over our country, you get money from various different sources.
2. Federal > State > Local all fund this based on the idea that it's an overall good thing to develop stuff. So the Local cost is a small fraction of the total.
3. Cool. It's built now and once stuff is built then that's it right? No.
4. Maintenance. This doesn't rear its head until around 10-15 years later. Federal, and maybe State, have nothing to do with this cost. The Locals are responsible. OK! Well lets take all that month the new development made us and maintain it... But wait... the taxes don't even cover the costs. That McDonalds doesn't actually generate that much for the Local gov due to the ENORMOUS amount of space it takes up with a parking lot. Those Suburbia taxes won't even replace the roads.
5. Ponzy. Welp we gotta get money from somewhere.... So we build MORE Suburbia and MORE giant parking lot fast food restaurants, take that lump sum from Federal/State funds, use part of that to maintain our existing debt, and kick the can.
This is who pays for Suburbia.
The only places that generate a net positive for a Local gov are city center-ish types. You know that nice little shopping area that has lots of different food/shop options that people flock to to walk around. That's probably net positive. That downtown Main St zone of a small city that's mostly dead now? Believe it or not even THAT is probably still net positive.
The ugly road littered with nothing but shit food and gas stations? Paid for by the above.
The asphalt hellscape with dots of corporate feed troughs (Applebees, Longhorn, Olive Garden, etc)? Paid for by the above unless they circle a shopping mall that covers them.
*The other guy seems to have deleted his post that this was responding to
Dates.
Would be nice to have some sort of date info. Be it when the newsletter started or, more useful, the date of the latest issue.
Yea it's a short search away but I'd like to know if the results I'm seeing are even relevant as I see them.
Sometimes I wish folks would put as much effort into asking "how does this cost so little?" as they do with "why does this cost so much?"
Also don't you dare compare Hershey to an actual Truffle and say "But they use practically the same ingredients". NO THEY DON'T.
You're comparing an edible chocolate flavored preserved emulsification to actual chocolate.
Imagine the process that food item went through to get to your mouth. What you should be concerned about is wtf is in Hershey's and how it's so cheap.
I have lived in suburbs near enough to schools that you can walk on 2 occasions in both NC and AZ but this was a very lucky quality, not the norm AT ALL, highly desirable, and you could walk to practically nothing other than the school. Leaving the neighborhood on foot was not a good place to be walking.