Empathy sucks.

I think we're the only predator that cares about the food we kill

I wonder about efficiency. If the meat I get is from 30km away on grassland that couldn't grow crops it's grown on land that is otherwise useless for food. How does using an otherwise useless piece of land factor in? Compared to tomatoes from the other side of the world they came on the most efficient cargo ships

I'll definitely agree with you that animals raised on food humans can eat are terribly inefficient. I also think the meat from those doesn't taste as good as the ones raised on grass

Likewise the river water cows drink is returned in their urine, delivered to the ground not to waterways, reinforced with extra nitrogen which the plants want

I don't believe the efficiency calculations are straight forward except in until most extreme cases

Also if you had gotten a cracked "no key" version it would have come with malware

I edited my comment

Was that about energy percentage from fat by O2 to CO2, or ketones?

I expect CO2 to show near 80% fat 20% ketones presuming they can differentiate those

Edit to add LLM search result on RQ

Substrate Oxygen Equivalents and Efficiencies

Substrate Oxygen Required to Yield 1 kJ of Energy Energy Produced per Liter of oxygen Respiratory Quotient CO2/VO

• Carbohydrate (Glucose) ~0.0476 Liters 21.1 kJ (about 5.05 kcal) 1.00
• Ketones (Acetoacetate / beta-hydroxybutyrate) about 0.0488 Liters 20.5 kJ (about 4.89 kcal) 0.89
• Ethanol (Alcohol) ~0.0498 Liters 20.1 kJ (approx 4.80 kcal) 0.67
• Fat (Palmitic Acid / Triglycerides) approx 0.0505 Liters 19.8 kJ (about 4.74 kcal) 0.71

Did I get it right (only skimmed the summary) they were measuring excreted ketones? In breath?

Surely the low result is due to them being fully adapted and not making more ketone than they need

My food for today is around 300g. It's dried. Were it fresh meat and fat instead of pemmican it would be 500g lean beef and 150g fat

200g of pemmican pictures below on a 20cm plate for scale. I'd have this and another half of a piece that size

The bitter end isn't loose, it is bitten to (tied to) the windlass. Let the line out until there are no turns left on the windlass

I looked it up, English used to use it for strep throat or tonsillitis. Then 'angina of the chest' was used and since we have other words for strep throat and tonsillitis angina came to exclusively mean heart pain

Perhaps you ought avoid it

Yes Grey Area is called meat fucker by the other ships

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The spider scene

I wonder whether the two words are related, whether English took a Latin word from generic pain and repurposed it for a very specific pain

Anyway it's a commonly known word in English because the common diet causes heart disease so we hear about angina from elderly relatives

Emacs isn't too bad, it has a menu

No the joke is that it's bad luck to wish good luck to an actor, so you wish the worst luck

Indeed. The western diet is remarkably like what is fed to farmed animals to make them fat

Doughnuts are also zeros

Not all of the carbs, fructose (half of cane sugar) is converted to body fat

Yeah, the common diet isn't good for your heart

My local fried chicken place has a heart foundation tick for their low salt deep fried chicken sandwiches. I think the heat foundation isn't up on the latest heart health research

She did ask what I meant by sugar, and I said "fructose is the worst, and really sugar is half fructose, but I didn't see any benefit until I cut out all carbohydrates"