joostjakob

It may not be cruel in principle, but it is usually cruel in practice. Still, I like the the guiding principle to try to not let minor benefits to myself (e.g. an easier way to a nice meal) go above vital benefits of other creatures.

These are all part of the solution. There is no magic bullet.

The mapcomplete.org/notes theme does that, and has some other fun features as well

IIRC, this actually happens. When the balance is disturbed, the mushrooms go wild and destroy young sapplings. Could be I recall incorrectly and it's actually other species. I cannot recommend The Mother Tree enough, it goes into great detail of the history of research into this

It's pronounced 'guy'

It makes me so mad we don't just tell the flight industry that by date X no planes that use traditional fuel can be produced, and by date Y that they won't be allowed to fly. Doesn't even need to a global agreement, if the European market is closed, than that could be motivation enough. And it would focus innovation on efficiency instead of frivolous stiff like this.

They're really pretty easy to find. But it's just basic physics. A cow doesn't eat to turn food into meat, it eats to stay alive. The business of living (and not in the least, that means farting lots of methane) consumes 90% of the food, only 10% is turned into meat. This varies a lot of course, depending on species and feeding regime.

The organic stuff itself, maybe. But there's a lot of carbon involved in driving tractors and transport. All of which is vastly reduced by eating 1 plant instead of growing 10 plants to grow one steak.

OpenStreetMap offers so many new things to learn :) Here's an example overpass query for myself: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1FG7 Just move the map to you area of interest, and in the code change the "user" to your username. Then click "Run" (or something similar, depending on the language). You can change the "way" part to "node" or "nwr" to extract different types of data. Or you can add ["building"] to just show buildings you last touched. Minor warning is that this shows things you were the last to edit. So if someone else is active in your area, your edits will disappear. If you've been active for a while, but only see your recent changes, we can add (newer:"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z") near the username.

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr is really pretty self-explanatory. It is similar to Google MyMaps, but built by the OSM community. A beginner's guide is available here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap/Guide

Heh, I get it. I don't really want flying cars. I want walkable cities and cycling highways. But I do feel a bit nostalgic for a future we didn't have where at the very least we would have some serious exploration of Europa by now (and some other likely candidates for alien life).

Don't judge me for wanting a nuclear flying car!

You could manually draw polygons in a umap to do this. Or you could use an Overpass Turbo query to show all the ways you edited recently to have a visual of where you have and haven't worked. I can give you some queries to start with if you like.