Evkob (they/them)

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Are we talking '70s prog rock Peter Gabriel Genesis, or '80s pop Phil Collins Genesis? I’m down for both, I just want to plan my outfit.

    I hope it’s not Bible Genesis, my Sunday-best is worse for wear.

    I wonder if Garfield is happy for Nyan Cat’s success or if he derides the new generation of viral internet felines that have dethroned him from atop the pillars of celebrity cats. Likewise, do you think Nyan Cat sees Garfield as a trailblazer for cartoon cats in popular media, or as a has-been, a relic from times past?


  • I mean, he’s not wrong that many of Halifax’s residents don’t care for bike lanes; it’s an inevitability of how Halifax is made up.

    The Halifax Regional municipality is huge, clocking in at 5475.57 km^2. That’s almost 10% of the entire province of Nova Scotia by area. Here’s a street view picture of a random spot I picked in Halifax, this is what most of Halifax looks like:

    (Of course, most of the population lives in the urban core. Density drops from around 1500 inhabitants per km^2 to just 64 when looking at the whole municipality)

    This is just one of the many reasons urban amalgamations are a scam, one often proposed by conservatives to (among other reasons, like subsidizing suburbia) drown out progressive voices in cities that support things like bike lanes. Toronto is a great case study in this, where the surrounding suburbs have been choking the city proper and slowing progress since 1998.

    It’s frankly ridiculous to entertain the notion that someone living in Tangier (location of the above street view) should have a say in how streets and neighbourhoods are organised in downtown Halifax. Let them decide what happens on the road in Tangier, and let the people who actually live in the neighbourhoods of downtown organise them to their wants and needs.

    In conclusion, Tim Houston is an absolute fuckwit. And his coffee and doughnuts suck.


  • No worries, one can never overemphasize the grossness, unhealthiness, or stupidity of smoking cigarettes.

    I have no plans to quit in the immediate future but that doesn’t mean I won’t tell anyone who’ll listen how much tobacco sucks.

    I will say though, avoiding smoking indoors or inside cars goes a long way to avoid reeking too much. I’ve had non-smoker friends confirm this to me. I do however usually still reek from carrying butts around 'cause my momma didn’t raise no litterer!


    • my electronics are all designed to break by themselves way before smoke damage would have any effect

    • wait that’s not the point? then why do they advertise so on the packs? checkmate, healthy-lungs

    • I only smoke outside

    • I only smoke outside (and don’t have pets)

    • I only smoke outside

    • I am extremely careful about making sure I don’t leave any lit embers around (I almost lost my apt in a fire years ago due to a negligent smoker)

    • yeah I admit I am trash

    • again, they advertise it on the packs! is it not the addiction that makes you cool?


    This post is satire, don’t smoke kids. If you won’t do it for your lungs, do it to not constantly smell like an ashtray.



  • I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we’d call it “pot” or perhaps “herbe”, both of which don’t translate to “bad grass”.

    Unless overseas “herbe” translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with “gazon” (which just means grass)








  • Tomatoes would be odd, I’ve never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.

    But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don’t have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P


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    2 days ago

    To add to idiomaddict’s great points, the animals don’t eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): “the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes” (SFMCA).

    This includes “cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins” as per that same source.

    I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.

    I’ll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can’t scale to meet current meat consumption.