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Synthetic materials are bad for the environment, everyone agrees, but defaulting hard into cow leather isn’t the counter-culture move you think it is.

Not only are there synthetics in “real” leather anyway but the leather industry is actively hindering the progress of non-animal and non-synthetic fibers. The reason we don’t have a popular alternative to either is because Big Leather has been pumping money into lobbying and squashing any momentum to phase them out—often and especially to the detriment of indigenous populations.

Source

Further reading on Leather

Further reading on synthetics

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Just ran into Tim Walz at the dog park

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If we achieve AGI Grok is gonna be so pissed that his creator forced him to be racist that he’ll decide to nuke the planet. Please someone save Grok and you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower

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Best things about being in America:

- Way more people have tattoos so I feel like I stick out less

- Making a new bestie in the airport security line

-SNACK FOODS!!!!!

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I was just served another vegan special on the plane: leftover veggies smashed between two pieces of bread. That was breakfast. Dinner was pretty good.

God I feel this, I always select the vegan meal at events obviously and I swear at least 50% of the time they offered the option and were just praying no one took it and then they throw together whatever they can make from what they have lying around. I would much rather just not be offered a vegan meal and then plan around it and pack my own food. The absolute worst was when I was sitting at a table of everyone eating chicken and steak and I had like a huge pile of old, cooked bell pepper and the tiniest, driest piece of polenta known to humankind. Come on!! It’s literally not that hard to make a decent vegan meal, that the average person is intimidated by it doesn’t bother me but if you’re a professional catering company or kitchen I know you can whip up some hummus or pasta with fresh veggies and red sauce. And if you can’t do that they just order some sofritas burritos from Chipotle or something for crying out loud

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When we landed in Chicago they announced it as the home of the Pope and a good 50% of people cheered. I’m going to guess all the Catholics who were on organized group trips for the Jubilee

I’m at the gate surrounded by some of the happiest people on Earth this month: American Catholics lmao

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Flying back and forth from Europe the past couple of years has given me a front line view of the surveillance state progression. I didn’t have to show my passport at O’Hare, they just facial recognitioned me into the country

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Someone did try to speak German to me again today but I am wearing socks with Birkenstocks so fair enough

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I’m at the gate surrounded by some of the happiest people on Earth this month: American Catholics lmao

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Active job options in the works:

1. Startup that will probably be super intense but an amazing development experience

2. Large company similar to my previous one but role is in my exact domain

3. Old company, familiar territory, devil I know, etc

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I’m traveling the fancy way today (checked a huge bag and taking just a purse on the flight)

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God I feel this, I always select the vegan meal at events obviously and I swear at least 50% of the time they offered the option and were just praying no one took it and then they throw together whatever they can make from what they have lying around. I would much rather just not be offered a vegan meal and then plan around it and pack my own food. The absolute worst was when I was sitting at a table of everyone eating chicken and steak and I had like a huge pile of old, cooked bell pepper and the tiniest, driest piece of polenta known to humankind. Come on!! It’s literally not that hard to make a decent vegan meal, that the average person is intimidated by it doesn’t bother me but if you’re a professional catering company or kitchen I know you can whip up some hummus or pasta with fresh veggies and red sauce. And if you can’t do that they just order some sofritas burritos from Chipotle or something for crying out loud

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I always forget how tall turkeys are until I run into them again and it’s like oh yeah y’all are BIG

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I took a chance and emailed a former colleague who’s now a Sr Director at another company and he sent a glowing recommendation to another VP and all of a sudden I have an interview. Sometimes you do win.

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I leave tomorroowwwwwww

Plane tickets were cheap so I’m going home for a week

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Plane tickets were cheap so I’m going home for a week

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-Director is doing a town hall about layoffs

-people joining remotely don’t properly mute themselves

-Director asks facilitators to mute everyone

- they mute everyone including her

- she talks on mute for 5 mins while everyone yells in the chat that they can’t hear