For chickpeas, I’m fairly certain they sell them in 11 kg bags at store I visit.

Right, thanks for noting that. I remember working in grocery they’d often receive product in plastic wrap to keep it stable on the skids.

Mind you with my experience in the back of the store, while I never worked receiving, I’m fairly certain both the canned and dried beans both arrived to the store the same way, as it was usually an assortment of boxes rather than a skid purely of one product unless it was a feature or display.

Would you say this would likely still be the case if it was domestic? For reference if it helps I’m in Canada, and I can’t say I know where exactly in the country the beans I buy are grown and canned. Could be in Ontario for all I know which is essentially across the country for me.

I would probably call myself a purist. Then again, I think that’s fairly easy for me since off hand, the biggest source of waste I can think of in my case is likely food waste currently, and I’m trying to improve on that since I’m relatively new to regular home cooking, and am in the middle of a major diet change.

Worst case scenario if the recycling of the cans does have considerable emissions, I could also probably purchase carbon offsets, mind you I need to read more about those and how they work and that would be for when I’m in a better financial situation.

There are, but I’m in a unique situation with program I’m in where I’m only able to shop at a certain grocer as I currently get gift cards to assist with grocery shopping.

Would these be similar to the packages for rice you find at the store? I’ve heard about people bringing their own stuff to the bulk section, but I wouldn’t have a clue if that’s allowed where I live since I’ve only recently learned that that’s something people do. Growing up I don’t my family used the bulk section of the store so much as once.

Sorry, I should have made it clear. Yes they appear to be a non-recyclable plastic package for the brands sold at the grocers I visit.

I’m new to being vegan, so feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt.

I made a little bit of a controversial post asking how to be a “good vegan” probably a week or so back, and the replies I got were a bit interesting, and it has me thinking about how to approach this. I saw people saying not to claim “moral superiority” which I understand people can get frustrated by if it were to happen, but at the same time, it’s like, with the reasons I chose to go vegan, I’m taking my personal beliefs and bringing them to their logical endpoint to maintain consistency best I can, and I feel it’s fair not to feel “above” others, but rather feel more altruistic, as you’re being more selfless in not wanting animals to die for your personal welfare when that can be achieved otherwise.

That small rant out of the way, I find it hard it hard to engage with people regarding myself and veganism, cause on the one hand, I want to mention it where necessary, but on the other, I want to avoid coming across as inserting that fact about myself into every conversation.

However, if I were to approach things, I would personally avoid talking about animal welfare and more about the other benefits of a vegan diet. That might get me scolded, but the reality of the fact is that people know how their food is made and what it entails, but don’t want to be greeted with the graphic imagery that comes with that reality, and I think that’s fair cause it’s almost natural instinct to avoid that imagery. Sure, words don’t do justice to what happens to these animals, but while graphic imagery may help some to make the swap, that approach doesn’t work with everyone. My father showing me how hotdogs were made and us having them for years afterwards comes to mind.

Instead, talking about other benefits would likely sway more people over, and likely avoid the tiresome back-and-forth that vegans have with staunch defenders of meat. Whereas animal welfare can be seen as a more “abstract” issue (unfortunate as that is), talking about the health benefits, environmental impact, and economics of a vegan diet would likely sell more people over as it would defeat the skewed perception of vegans as the people who show graphic imagery to people in public and base their thoughts in emotions, and instead showcase them as people rooted in rational thought and absolute facts as those aspects can be backed up more with inarguable points backed by studies and paper evidence.

Anyway that’s my TED talk, hope my thoughts aren’t too misaligned with the general community.

I do like carbon capture as an idea, I just hate that it’s being seen as a cop-out by (mostly) conservative politicians.

I love the idea of carbon-capture soap especially. Think I’ll try getting a bar or two when I run out of the handsoap bars I currently have.

Reminded of the time I used the Yep search engine’s AI chatbot to ask how to use advanced search functions, and it prompted me to click an icon that literally did not exist.

I get that these things don’t have intelligence and work off of datasets, but you would think that companies would ensure people can at least get the correct answers on the sites the damn things are based on.

Okay, but which one is easier for diagrams?

I’d say use the left for diagrams, and the right for reference as to how things look on the inside.

Oh yeah, talking about non NC-SA tracks is completely fine, don’t even worry about it!

I gotta give Aphex Twin a quick listen sometime, I know buddy of mine listens to them a lot.

Don’t give rats a bad name, they be adorable pets (from what I’ve heard).

Y’all really coming into my community now to downvote shit because apparently anything that starts with naz = nazi.

Grow up, why did I even bother posting here?

You share a community, and get a solid 8 downvotes with people coming into your community to downvote the content you posted in the community you made and shared.

Thank God I have no other communities to share because genuinely what the hell. Why bother sharing a community you made if people that clearly aren’t interested in what you’re sharing only come in to downvote content they know doesn’t appeal to them?

This hits a sweet spot for me since it reminds me of the days I’d play games on the Sega Master System.

Not old enough for when the console was released, but Boys & Girls Club I went to had a console donated to them and it was great. Thanks for sharing!

Seems it should! Thanks for pointing it out!

Hell yeah! Been loving PieFed. It’s still got quirks here and there, but I also love submitting issues so it works out lol.

Perfect than! Thanks a million. I asked on another comment about stability of the other shelves being on the pins rather than directly attached, but I should be good to go once that’s sorted.

I appreciate this, thanks a bunch. Only question though is what if any risks I should consider in not having the shelves directly attached to the frame.

I don’t have kids, so no worries there for furniture tipping, though just want to know if there would be other scenarios at all where the shelve might slide out and fall from the frame. Planning on eventually getting some pet bunnies, so if there’s any risks of the shelve sliding out and/or falling over, wanna make sure I prevent that from occurring to begin with.

Thanks for this, just one question though.

The single shelve that’s already installed I see has has some wide screws in the bottom. I’m not a handyman by any means (hoping that can change), but I have put together IKEA furniture before and they seem to resemble these pieces I’m familiar with where you screw them in on the bottom to help hold the pieces connecting them to the frame in place.

With this said, would the shelf pins still be fine? Just want to ensure everything will be properly sturdy is all.