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Many native Americans have adopted the group name "Indian". You might not like it, but they do.

I'm sure I have seen the most radical anti-meat opinions here.

Like it's worth destroying the ecosystems that depend on large herbivores to ensure the carbon they would move from grass to air back to grass instead is liberated by fire when the grasses grow unchecked, possibly forever when the grasses are no longer fertilised by the animals they support

I'm all for ending the worst animal agriculture. Get rid of the factory farms, get rid of methods that don't last. I easy meat, but I pick my meat from the stuff grown in places they are a net benefit or at worst displace other herbivores that aren't as tasty as cows

Indeed. Atkins made me thin, then fat again. I think the problem was that it was too easy to eat too little, making it hard to stick to long term

More meat has fixed that for me. I have been successfully losing fat over the last two years just by making what I eat mostly meat

I don't think a protein shake will have the nutrients actual meat has though. It's really hard to get the nutrition you need on a serious weight loss diet and any food substitute isn't going to cut it. To add, I'm over 40 with a history of dieting (I have tried all them), so I doubt I started this with full reserves of a well fed 20 year old

I envy the people who can diet by just eating less. That for me is a path to intolerable hunger

Only limiting carbohydrates has worked for me, and I had to increase my meat intake just to ensure I have enough nutrition, with the little you want to eat on low carb

And, of course the seventh day adventists, but for ruttyness control

The Earth is in fact larger than a beach ball

Larger to us than a beach ball is to an ant (which can't perceive the curve of the ball)

The bus must stop at other stops, wait at an interchange for passengers, then drive in the same lanes as cars (though there are limited lanes on some major roads)

There are no dedicated lanes on the route in my example, though it also is an express bus which doesn't stop at the interchange between where I live and the town centre. Also it is speed limited slower than the rest of traffic on the main road of the route

My small city's main suburb to centre link is a 100km/h, two lane each way parkway, until it merges with a similar road from a different centre, grows to 3 lanes each way, and slows down sharply as it gets close to the centre

Between the last traffic lights and the spaghetti junction that merges it with a similar road it's free flowing and fine. The slow lane goes about 95, the fast lane about 100 to 110, with occasional slight slowdowns when a 95km/h car catches up with a slower one

But on that stretch there's about 300 metres of slow traffic due to a fixed speed camera. People going 95 who think their speedometer might be wrong the opposite way to which it is slow to 80; people doing 110 slow to well below 100, people following too close brake heavily, the fast lane ends up with a standing wave with a peak (or is it a trough?) of 60km/h

Then as you get past the camera it gets loud with even the slow cars rebelling against the slowdown give much throttle. That camera must cost so much CO2. I doubt it catches anyone except during the lightest traffic times. In even medium traffic you couldn't speed through that bit of road if you tried

You know what would work just as well, but without isolating people?

Mixed zoning and mass rapid transit

Let people work walking distance to their home, give those who need to go somewhere a way of going there quicker than traffic

It'd also be good to mandate easy availability of work from home for anyone in a job where that is practical

Suburban centres to city centres, in places where that's the traffic flow

My town wants to widen a section of road near me. It's the only part of the road with only one lane each way

I'm torn. I know widening the road won't help traffic (right now that narrow bit reduces through traffic, making it a nice bit of road to drive) but if they do widen it, they will also add cycle lanes.