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  • If you don’t see any insects on the leaves or the soil, I’d just give it some time. Water it every 2-4 weeks. If it’s a large pot of soil do it every 4 weeks with ~0,5 liters, in a smaller pot do it more often with a smaller quantity.

    In general, it’s better to water rarely, so the top layer of soil is dry most of the time. That way, you’re making the life harder for small flys to lay eggs and nurish from the roots.

    If it keeps losing leaves, don’t panic. Mine had a severe sunburn once and dropped all the leaves. After some weeks it started to recover and grew new leaves.

    I would say, the worst thing you can do is overwater. Mine is in a pretty huge pot (80 liters) and I give it (round about) 1,7 liters of water every 6 weeks in summer and 2-3 months in winter. That way the plant has to grow deep roots to the very bottom to reach the bottom and the top layers are rather dry.




  • Always appreciate any work spent on any FOSS stuff out there but currently I’m a bit afraid that Gecko disappears into unimportance. So I’d prefer more contributions towards that one project rather than opening new ones.

    The issue with browser engines is that it always requires work from two directions. The browser engine must be optimized to render websites as good as possible. And websites must be optimized to be rendered by all the different browser engines.

    And (almost) no one is willing to do the latter for engines with a <1% market share. Already now, more and more commercial and non-commercial websites are only working properly with Chrome or its derivates.


  • rbn@sopuli.xyztovegan@lemmy.worldLike honestly get over it.
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    Based on scientific evidence, animal products are not necessarily unhealthy for individual humans. As far as I know at least, the coronary deseases you’ve mentioned are mainly caused by red meat and saturated fats.

    Even though an average vegan diet is healthier than an average omnivore diet, you can eat perfectly healthy as an omnivore. Likewise, you can live of only junkfood as a vegan.

    Veganism from my perspective should be about stopping animal abuse and protecting the planet. If humanity keeps going as is, climate change will be what will lead to insane suffering to both animals and humans. Veganism is a key part to lower the impact of what’s ahead of us.

    Despite the importance of the topic, we should stick to the facts. Comparing every non-vegan diet to drinking anti-freeze is absolutely ridiculous.


  • rbn@sopuli.xyztovegan@lemmy.worldLike honestly get over it.
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    societal pressures and the difficulty in finding variety

    Are there specific things you’ve missed? And are you more referring to cook yourself or eating out?

    Sometimes, it’s just a lack of experience. Obviously, ‘all vegan food in the world’ is less variety on paper than ‘all food in the world’ but in my personal diet the variety of stuff I eat dramatically increased compared to the non-vegan past.

    In arts there’s the concept of creative limitation and from my perspective that is 100% applicable to food. Restricting yourself to plant based fosters your creativity to break with traditional recipes, try new combinations, replace X with Y or Z. I feel like I barely eat the same thing twice anymore.




  • Ey, stop putting so much pressure on these hardworking people! They already had the intend once to send out an invite for a brainstorming session to create a first draft of the concept of the plan! But then they got distracted by all these important people tasks that you folks don’t have any idea of! Be more patient and show some respect! Like Trump when he visits a cemetry.


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    Don’t underestimate the mid and long term effect of small changes. If there’s vegan options in supermarkets, restaurants and at festivities, then it’s much easier to be a vegan. The lower the hurdle, the less restricted people feel in their everyday life, the more people will adapt. So that one restaurant owner who doesn’t change his own diet, might still foster the journey of other new vegetarians and vegans.


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    You clearly have different ideas about the direction the community should go.

    I’m reading and commenting in this community for more than a year (had a different user before this one) and there was a dramatic shift of this community in the last couple of days. And from my perspective, in the completely wrong direction. It felt like the place I liked before was burnt down violently.

    This thread exactly hit the nerve for me and I think it was written in a respectful way. No one said ‘fuck off crazy mod’ but rather ‘we welcome you to stay as a member but we feel you shouldn’t have the extra privileges of a moderator anymore’.

    in the direction you want this community to be moving in

    Of course, I can only speak for myself but if the community would have continued in the way it did over the last week I probably would have left and blocked it. I don’t want to have a community with passive aggressive content in my feed and I don’t want to spend time on answering comments if I have to fear them being deleted slightly after.

    Us vegans are a part of society and a pretty small part to be honest. As such, we shouldn’t build up a walled garden of moral superiosity, pointing fingers at these ‘stupid, evil carnists’. I already hate these terms. If you want to change the world for the better, don’t think of ‘them’ as the enemy but potential future allys. Especially, If non-vegans are motivated to read and engage in this community respectfully, then that’s a success already.

    Even if they’re not going veggie or vegan themselves, they might at least get some positive insights on veganism. That vegans aren’t just freaks but just normal people that eat plants and you can still talk to them and be friends with.

    Maybe they own a restaurant IRL and after reading here for some time in /all, they add a vegan option to their menu. Maybe they’re a team lead in IT and thanks to this community, they’ll check with their employees if someone wants a vegan option on the christmas party.

    If you ban the ‘evil carnist’ and post insulting memes, you will neither hurt them nor change anything for the better.


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    I think that’s an adequate reaction. Thank you for taking action and being transparant about it.

    As a member of this community for quite some time, the past couple of days felt really weird to me. Instead of peaceful and (from my perspective) valuable communication between vegans and non-vegans, the mood changed to a radical, almost war-like athmosphere. I was not among those being banned but I had several discussions where suddenly loads of other, completely normal posts were deleted.

    I think this community should be open for other opinions. Everyone who’d like to engage in a respectful way - vegan or not - should be welcomed. I think the target should be to have a ‘pro-vegan community’ and not a ‘hardline anti everything that is even remotely non-vegan’.





  • rbn@sopuli.xyztovegan@lemmy.worldWhen I tell people I'm vegan
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    I always struggle with Happy Cow and its filter options. You can either filter for ‘vegan sites’ or ‘vegetarian options’ but not ‘vegan options’.

    Option 1 will only show restaurants and cafés that are fully vegan, so this will bring the list down to almost nothing in most smaller or medium-sized cities.

    Option 2 shows all restaurants that serve also vegetarian food but not necessarily vegan options. So this leaves me with a huge list.

    I’d like filters like ‘has at least two vegan options declared in the menu’ or ‘offers vegan options on request’.



  • Does anyone know how they define junk food in that guideline? Is it based on calories / fat / sugar? Or do they have a specific list of products that are now forbidden in ads? Or a list of companies? Does the ban include product placements (like a kids movie where a family goes to McD? What about ‘normal’ content about fast food (like SpongeBob making krabby burgers)?

    I really appreciate the law but I think it can be quite challenging to draw the line between legal and illegal.