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    1 day ago

    I think I heard recently that one of the mushrooms that is popular as a vegan meat substitute lives off of some sort of living creature like insects or something.

    But realistically, it’s all the circle of life. Animal life is part of the circle. Probably all plants have consumed nutrients that came from an animal in some way.





  • That said, I’ll rather not ask someone to cut their hair because of the job position they uphold unless it is a public facing role.

    My point is more that he’s a charlatan. Here’s a paragraph from his Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsef_Levi

    Levi is a critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and mRNA vaccines, and a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic. He has published papers on the mortality rates of COVID-19 vaccines. He wrote on Twitter in 2023 that “the evidence is mounting and indisputable that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially among young people". On June 11, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that he appointed Levi as one of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). However, Levi did not have medical, epidemiological, or immunological training, experience, or background.

    If he’s going to be a charlatan, he can at least try to be a good charlatan and groom himself. It would be different if he was actually a subject matter expert.







  • I heard somewhere that people who think they’re good at multitasking actually work slower than people who think they are bad at multitasking.

    The reason is that when you switch between tasks, there is a mental penalty each time for that context switch. People who believe they are good at multitasking switch between tasks more often and so they pay the penalty more often.

    Because although most people can multitask, vanishingly few can do it effectively.







  • I’ve had incompetent managers and I’ve had malicious managers. And in just about every case, I quit the company soon after.

    The only type of incompetent manager I’ve tolerated for any amount of time was the absent sort of incompetent manager. They don’t interfere with your work, but they also aren’t there when you need them.