This goes back to not voting in every election. Groups that invest (money, time, votes) on local races (city council, school board) have a greater variety to pick when one of these people goes on to higher office (state-level, county-level) and then goes on to federal office.

The primaries are already too late - it’s all about the local races.

didn’t lemmy.world just defederate from exploding heads tho?

https://lemmy.world/post/747912

For me the exciting part about bug farming isn’t really their use as food (for humans or animals) but more their potential to eat “real” waste (like things that birds and mammals shouldn’t eat) and then be turned into non-food items - like chondroitin or have other derivatives made out of their chitin.

Right now it’s not very efficient but with some selective breeding (or faster, GMO mealworm gut bacteria) they could start working on the landfill issue. Their poop would have to be incinerated since it would concentrate flame retardants and other toxins, but we might be able to get something useful out of them.

edit: i have a box of mealworms that I wanted to try feeding just styrofoam to to see how many generations it would take to have mealworms that thrive (not just survive and turn to cannibalism) on the stuff, but i felt bad, now they eat kitchen waste and shredded paper.

I think the “magic” of bugs is that they can eat things that would be inedible or unhealthy for other omnivores (like pigs). If we can convert some of our food and paper waste into protein and chitin, it might be worth the investment.

somehow I don’t see the GOP alternative performing any better on this issue.

from what I understand some men feel very uncomfortable around non-family women, and don’t have a third place that doesn’t involve alcohol.

It does seem to add a layer of complication, but perhaps that’s the point.

what’s a Men’s Shed?

or we can get cooperative model that is already present in a couple mastodon instances.

thanks, found those. I guess blocking an entire instance is still WIP

noob question, but where is the block UI

There’s also the option if user-owned cooperative (like social.coop) - https://blog.opencollective.com/social-coop-a-cooperative-decentralized-social-network/

There are also some masto instances that have their own lemmy instances, funded through their existing funding structures - https://merveilles.town/about

they’re also pretty open about this, it’s not some dark secret.

if you’re still on there, why would they leave?