Saw these advertised and had to make a trip to Lidl just for these as I am a person of sandwiches*, like many around these parts are and these vegan "deli cuts" are great. We make all our own sourdough bread (been doing it from well before covid) and sandwiches are a pretty big part of our diet as a whole. This weeks bread is spelt & oat sourdough.

These faux deli meats have all been pretty expensive so it's nice to find a more affordable version. Definitely going to be consuming this from now on.

These are made from and peanis.

(*This does not mean subs, burgers, toast or anything warmed up, but open sandwiches with some type of cold cuts, veggies & a spread. These are eaten for breakfast, as a snack, meals, they are also a part of festive foods. The bread is often rye bread. We basically grow up on oatmeal and various kinds of open sandwiches between meals.)

Had to go get stuff from Ikea, so got myself a treat and ate plant balls and got a few bags of them to take home for easy meals. Still think Ikea does the best plant balls around, at least where I live.

I like it how this plate of food is now cheaper than the meatball version.

They contain lots of soy- .

Edit. Remembered the plant protein wrong, it's peanis (pea protein) not beanis.

A Western person shared this "bombshell" Shein video to me and maybe I'm dumb, but the conditions look pretty ok to me considering the industry?

It has the ominous music and all the commentators send her wishes for "being safe" in true racist westoid fashion. I kept looking to see some grave bad conditions, but only thing she has there is uncited and unverified text next to pictures about the warehouses that don't seem any different to something like Amazon.

I am not saying fast fashion is good, but at the end of the video she concludes that maybe these working conditions are behind the manufacturing boom in China, so the video has a pretty clear propaganda angle. I am also not saying there isn't issues with labor rights in China, just like everywhere.

But do a video of a sewing factory in Portugal next? Or one of the places in the Med where immigrants do farm labor. Or let's talk about how berry pickers were basically trafficked in wholesome Nordic country Finland and forced to live in inhumane conditions and never got paid.

The youtuber has other videos about "how to get rich". This one has a million views in two weeks, she clearly found her angle for getting rich on grifting for the West.

A simple oven-cooked oat "risotto" with black , red bell pepper, onion, garlic, olive oil and fresh basil.

The oats are "cooking oats", very delish and one of my favourite things to eat.

Vegetable soup with lots of pan-fried chick- , peppers, shrooms, onion and basil.

Spices: ancho-chili, black pepper, garlic & salt.

Yet another horrible case involving violent SA that has been ongoing for a long time. Content warning for descriptions of what he had done to the victims.

The part where it states how this monster re-enacted his victims trauma is something I can relate to from my own experience of SA.

Freedom = capitalism

Democracy = capitalism

Public opinion = opinion of capitalists

By the two year point:

This meta-analysis shows the presence of post-COVID symptoms in 30% of patients two-years after COVID-19. Fatigue, cognitive disorders, and pain were the most prevalent post-COVID symptoms. Psychological disturbances as well as sleep problems were still present two-years after COVID-19.

“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

As a long time sourdough baker and a lover of all things fermented, wanted to share this one here.

It's by degrowth peeps who can do everything, but say socialism/communism. But it was still worth the read imo.

This is a terrible story so please proceed with caution in reading it.

I don't really even know what to say about this, but think it is important it is discussed and circulated. SA culture is a pervasive as ever and just now online groups on Telegram have been exposed that circle fully around how to SA women.

It's all men because this is cultural.

I was personally sexually assaulted as a teenager by an adult man who drugged me and then I was blamed for it. Almost everybody I know has these stories, we are never safe.

In my everyday I meet a lot of folks who suffer from substance use issues and what bothers me is how little I know about where these modern substances actually come from and who is making/trading them. The reason I wish to understand this is the way I think drug trade is tied to capitalist exploitation and hightens it on all levels. The way these substances make people vulnerable to be exploited is the end of this that I see every day, but I never see the other end.

I am talking about stuff like alpha-pvp that does incredible harm to people and seems very potent. Every search I do leads me to Western articles that blame China or name China as the origin of these. But is it really?

If there us any good non-propagandized sources you could share, I would really appreciate that.

"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street.

We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word.

It couldn’t last because of capitalism. This isn’t some glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be fulfilled. Because such promises required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don’t want shifting."

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