Still seems reductively worded? Serious deficiencies like B12 impair sustaining any income. I wouldn’t risk cognitive health over ~$10/month
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Myopic calculating based on lifespan.. vitamins like B12, creatine, and omega-3 improve mental/cognitive health, especially for vegans and vegetarians
Google Shopping, Amazon, and AliExpress do not seem to support even the most basic constraints
I agree with your frustrations around those sites, but more structured ecommerce sites seemingly exist: https://mcmaster.com. Perhaps more common/valued in B2B than B2C?
considered joining the team at Metaculus or Manifold Markets
@DPiepgrass furthering this recommendation with Kalshi/Polymarket/ForecastEx/PredictIt/etc. Real money prediction markets address your growth theory concerns
Easter (April 20th this year) is another unique opportunity:
Likely less defensiveness addressing annual egg decorating/tossing/hiding/etc. than confronting daily diets
@VilleSokk created a similar calculator:
https://foodimpacts.org
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KLqAiKpMpBCLCH6x7/ranking-animal-foods-based-on-suffering-and-ghg-emissions
FarmKind’s donation call-to-action is a great add; you all should link up :)
Offsetting has multiplier effects.. people constantly make significant sacrifices attempting to marginally improve their personal sustainability, so publicly offsetting decades worth of personal impact with a weeks’ earnings seems worth the statement
NB: I’d consider them regardless, but offsetting’s a solid nudge
Offset objections narrowly focus on future behavior; most people are raised omnivore; I’m offsetting past consumption:
@James-Hartree-Law @Mihkel Viires 🔹
Meal replacement bars like Soylent (or Huel) seem healthier+quicker+cheaper than eating out:
https://github.com/purarue/exobrain/commit/5c8fab00a8d0c585cd83f4cbb9d74bb23a1f4a9b#commitcomment-151936193
acting president [...] unelected official
While Musk is influential, it wasn’t clear you were talking about him until your reply
Checked the 8 links in the first section and they’ve all been archived on the publicly accessible Internet Archive for at least half a year. There’s also browser tooling to access those archives quicker
Agree the bottom comment is significantly more complex than reactions. The top 2 could be reactions
Reactions seemingly serve that purpose better:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oZff425xLnikfxeGD/pat-myron-s-shortform?commentId=HsadBx85nAggb8Q5T
Robots cost ~$2k/acre (similar to annual landscaper hiring costs), so they’re cheaper than riding mowers or landscapers. Additional costs are for push mowers who don’t value avoiding mowing time. Adjacent neighbors without fences/walls/etc. could seamlessly share a robot
Many entities require mowing; rules must change before certain individuals can mow less
Injuries have been relatively steady for decades, are often male, residential, and involve riding mowers
While injuries are mostly residential, landscaping (and pollution and labor cost/time) mostly isn’t. Municipalities, parks, schools/colleges, sports complexes, golf courses, cemeteries, and farms regularly mow hundreds of acres each
Certain robotic mowers handle surprisingly steep angles (45°)
The latter: practical conditions rather than theoretical ideal environments, especially for installation site modifications where ventilation, tooling, and oversight is more limited
USA has ~85k annual mowing injury ER visits:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395756/
~44% of which are fractures and amputation:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30067452/
Lawncare’s also ~5% of USA pollution:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-21/lawn-mowers-are-the-next-electric-frontier
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-09/documents/banks.pdfAutonomous mowing robots eliminate most of mowing’s danger, pollution, labor cost/time, and noise
While quartz countertop sales grow, millions of people have silicosis from inhaling silica dust:
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-16295-2
Hundreds of thousands died in the last couple decades from the incurable disease.
Australia’s the first country to enact a ban:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/14/australia-will-become-the-first-county-to-ban-engineered-stone-bench-tops-will-others-follow
>100k fishers die annually:
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases-and-statements/2022/11/03/more-than-100000-people-die-annually-across-global-fishing-sector-new-research-shows
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2022/11/more-than-100000-fishing-related-deaths-occur-each-year-study-finds
even despite wild fishing plateauing for decades in favor of fish farming:
https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-aquaculture
That multivitamin-multimineral contains B12 and D3 btw