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AnimalsDream

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  • Vegan Tofu wrap

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  • It's more important to me to have a convenient, simple cooking process than to micromanage tofu's properties. I've tried freezing it and thawing it, and that is very effective at giving it a chewier texture, but I am done with going out of my way to press the stuff.

    Now days I just take it out of the package, give it a quick squeeze over the sink, and start breaking chunks of it into whatever I'm cooking. Chunks have more surface texture than squares, and hold sauces better. Other than that, it's just a matter of either pan frying it, or roasting it to get that golden brown sear. Roasting is preferred (on parchment paper) if you want to go oil-free.

  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • Okay, whatever, you do you. I'm just saying, "religion is bad" is, like, kinda useless, ya know?

  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • Oh edgelord I see. I got you covered, here's the one you can push.

  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • I get where people are coming from with a kneejerk, "religion is bad!" reaction, but honestly that's not very helpful. The world is always going to have a pluralism of beliefs, and many of those beliefs are going to be of a religious nature. You're never going to get rid of religion, so may as well be realistic about what can change.

    Being that virtually all of the most harmful things being done in the name of religion, in the United States, can be traced to a subset of Christian factions, it's more helpful overall to identify and promote the forms of Christianity that are progressive instead. A groups true worst enemy is their nearest neighbor.

  • Elon Musk demands Trump send US troops to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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  • I hope I'm wrong but I fully believe a crackdown on cannabis is coming.

  • kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the Internet

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  • Have they considered that they're just not a great channel?

  • Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

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  • No no, it's when you get circumcision and then rub Tylenol on the wound.. right?

  • Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

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  • I didn't say they were?

  • we did a little bit of branch fuckery

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  • At least twelve lanes on a single track. If I recall, the cool keytar instrument you could get for... was it Rock Band 3? might be able to make a song with that track in it. Not sure how many other games or instruments could do that though.

  • Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

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  • I banned Apple from my life a long time ago.

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  • Well, to some degree it might be possible to selectively breed plants to prioritize root production a little more. I'm not sure to what extent that's feasible though. You also have to understand, plants have evolved to actively want to be as big as possible. If you're a small plant, your neighbor is more likely to grow larger than you, which blocks the sun from getting to you, which will cause you to die. So trying to make plants smaller in and of itself has ecological risks. Or at the very least, such naturally short lawns would be a lot more susceptible to weed encroachment.

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  • It makes perfect sense. When the foliage is cut, it takes energy to regrow it. If there's not enough greens or sunlight for photosynthesis to account for the plant's total needs, it will draw those nutrients from the roots into the rest of the plant.

    And there's a whole lot of other things going on in the soil around roots as well. For example the interrelationships between plants and microbes has a tendency to start with the roots exuding sugars into the soil in order to attract those microbes. And that's just a start. I think it's really interesting stuff. If you wanna learn more, Regenerative Soil by Matt Powers is a fantastic book on the subject.

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  • As others have said, the size of roots is pretty directly tied to the size of foliage. Roots store energy(calories) in case something happens to the foliage or sunlight is low. The more energy they can take in, the more storage they need, as well as the stability that larger plants need from larger roots.

    But how do you keep feeding the larger roots if the photosynthetic engines have giving them energy have been damn near removed?

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  • Unless you have really sandy soils. Then the rain mostly passes right through (ignoring all the parts that are paved - insta-flood!), and it's just a situation with malnourished grass, probably more susceptible to "weeds", and not a lot of organic matter to hold all that soil together.

    That's the thing missing from this image - it's not just being more porous that makes larger plants retain water better, it's that they're a critical part in creating the conditions that produce more of that organic matter, getting that carbon (and a lot of other stuff) in the ground. It acts as a sponge, and in sandy soils that are too porous, it fills those gaps and acts as a binder.

  • Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

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  • Reality does not have a right-wing bias. Reality does not have a left-wing bias. But when the right has festered into such an anti-scientific culture as to be at war with truth and reality itself to the point at putting us all at an accelerated risk of a new dark age - then reality is maybe just a little more biased in favor of literally everyone else.

  • Scientists debunk claims of seed oil health risks

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  • If you're going to make claims, you need to prove them. Let's see real studies.

  • Scientists debunk claims of seed oil health risks

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  • Because it is the most well researched dietary pattern out there, and has proven beyond any other to have a host of beneficial effects, provide complete nutrition, and be most associated with reductions in all-cause mortality.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9710405/

  • Scientists debunk claims of seed oil health risks

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  • I'm so tired of this whack-a-mole game of one unfounded, usually dangerous and usually corporate-backed, dietary fad after another.

    From a purely scientific and public health standpoint, the Mediterranean dietary pattern - as defined by Ancel Keys - has been the gold standard for decades, and will continue to be so unless something fundamentally changes about the human condition. Every well studied, consensus-backed reference diet from every leading nutritional authority around the world promotes some variation of that diet. If there are better diets, or diets with optimizations for specific conditions, they are still built on that foundation.

    And while I tend to prefer to err on the side of no oil, if I'm going to use any added fats, it's going to be olive oil or canola oil.

    And also, there are more things to consider in diet than personal health. Go vegan.

  • Man buys used Tesla only to discover it's banned from Supercharger network

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  • Those don't take gas. So, like, to set it on fire?