I saw this in a video about intentional spending, as the ultimate litmus test to separate genuine utility and personal joy from the trap of “conspicuous consumption.”
The “Invisible” Audit: Look at your recent orders. If you couldn’t post them on social media or tell a friend about them, which ones would suddenly feel like a waste of money?
The 72-Hour Rule: For any non-essential item, wait three days. Often, the urge to “be seen” with the item fades, while the desire for something truly useful persists.
Cost-Per-Use Thinking: Instead of thinking about the status a product brings, calculate its value based on how often you’ll actually use it in private.
These days I find myself eating less and less meat.
Not because I have some ideological aversion to eating meat but because it’s generally unhealthy and expensive during these inflationary times. It’s also hard to get quality, healthy meats compared to run of the mill vegetable proteins like legumes and eggs.
Most vegetarians have a strong ideological component to choosing not to eat meat. I’m not one of them – I don’t get upset about eating meat, I don’t have mythical views of forest or the farm. In the real world animals die, often in really unpleasant ways. I like bacon, as a special treat but it’s not a daily thing for me.
A lot of people eat much more meat then I do. But I worry a lot about the high levels of saturated fats that are part of a meat rich diet. Omega 6 fatty acids are particularly bad for the body. A combination of alternative proteins like beans and lentils combined with rice can get you most of the way with complete proteins along with dairy products such as geek yogurt and cottage cheese – plus nutritional yeast. And I like milk in my coffee.
Animal agriculture has a lot of benefits to the land, it keeps it working, undeveloped and returns valuable manure to the land. But just because there is benefits to eating animal products doesn’t mean your diet should be dominated by it – rather it should be a portion along side a much larger plate of vegetables and fruits.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that can impair babies’ brain development, internal agency documents show.
Some of the nation's leading defense lawyers have been trying to wrap their heads around what they consider abnormal behavior by the U.S. Department of Justice over the past year.
Now, they're debuting a tool to help track criminal cases that appear to involve irregular charging practices, including aggressive legal theories and possible political retribution against President Trump's foes.
"We created the Case Tracker because you cannot defend against an enemy you cannot see," said Steven Salky, a lawyer in the Washington, D.C., area who oversees the project. "The Tracker is intended to spotlight for the next several years the unusual cases being prosecuted by the Department of Justice."
The new database includes the federal cases against Sean Charles Dunn, who threw a sub sandwich at a federal immigration officer, and Jacob Samuel Winkler, a homeless man accused of directing a laser pointer toward the Marine One presidential helicopter. Juries in Washington, D.C., acquitted both men. Nekima Levy Armstrong holds up her fist after speaking at an anti-ICE rally for Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 19 in St. Paul, Minn. National Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church leads to 3 arrests but no charges for a journalist
The tracker, sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), also monitors cases where government charges of resisting federal law enforcement have been undercut by videos and eyewitness accounts from protesters.
