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The Vegan Filter: Overcoming the Leading Barrier to Veganism

I'm not sure whether these have been improving a lot over time but I feel like they usually miss a lot of items that are vegan? I was shopping with Ocado every week up until October last year and I never found the filter to be very good so I'd still check ingredients myself.

How much do you (actually) work?

Answer by LuziaOct 16, 20254

This is an old post but I found it super helpful reading through these so I thought I'd add my current work hours. I track 25-minute pomodoros during which I'm actually focusing on work. I'm a PhD student in economics so I have very flexible hours and my only regular commitments are attending seminars.

My goal is to do at least 50 pomodoros a week, excluding seminars. In the last half year or so, I managed 52.3 pomodoros per week excluding seminars so that's roughly 22 hours per week of actual focused time.

On days without other stuff going on, I often work 9am to 3pm with a one-hour lunch break to do my 10 pomodoros so that would be just under 70% efficiency.

Should There Be Insect Farming In The UK? (Deadline April 1st)

Luzia10mo1

Great, I'll just write something myself then :) Thanks for the quick clarification!

Should There Be Insect Farming In The UK? (Deadline April 1st)

Luzia10mo1

I was just going to fill this out but got a bit confused: I thought this was about insect welfare but the guide you linked basically only talks about environmental impacts and risks to humans. Is this just a strategic choice because you expect the government to not take responses talking about potential insect welfare seriously?

Gabe The Ape

10mo

Feel free to include welfare concerns. The UK government has been moving in that direction so regulations that require a welfare assessment could be impactful. The reason why a welfare argument is not included is honestly a mess up on my end. Originally I thought the welfare argument, while the most convincing personally, is the least politically viable. I still believe that but another advocate argued it should be included and I ended up agreeing, and planned on adding it. I ended up forgetting to add it however.

Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims

Luzia2y34

Kat, I appreciate you responding in detail to Ben's post. I haven't had time yet to look at all the evidence but will hopefully do that in more detail later. One thing that stood out to me from the appendix:

False, questionable, or misleading claim: “The staff they hire … live in the house with them.”
The other side: False. We no longer do this, and haven’t since Alice/Chloe left ~1.5 years ago. Despite having lived with many employees in the past and it being a good experience, we’ve decided that in the current climate of EA (high amounts of assuming i

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Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️2y20

Hi Luzia. We did acknowledge that we're no longer living with employees for exactly the reasons you expressed. You can see our "lessons learned" section here. And it's not going to show up as much in the post, but I have probably spent a full month of full-time work analyzing what happened and what I can do better in the future.

I think we had reason to believe that living and working together would be fine. I've done it with many employees in the past and me and Emerson had been doing it for years. However, I do think it's risky and it's not worth th... (read more)

Questions for Reflection on Gaza

Luzia2y34

I have definitely spent a lot of time thinking about the situation since the 7th October and have felt the urge to do something. The one thing I actually ended up doing is email a German MP from the Green Party who is the main person responsible for foreign affairs to ask what the German government is doing to improve the situation for civilians in Gaza.

I generally think that not everything I do has to be effective and that there are lots of things I care about besides EA motivations. I also think political action can be effective and I've been to some cli... (read more)

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and honest response, Luzia. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. Did you get a response from the German MP you emailed? I have felt much the same in terms of feeling the urge to do something, but not being sure of the best course of action. The footage and information from the ground in Gaza seems to get more and more horrific each day, making me feel more and more helpless. But at the same time, makes the urge for me to do something even stronger. My main reason for reaching out to MPs to call for a ceasefire and sanctions on the Israeli government is that I don’t think the way in which the Israeli government is conducting itself is acceptable. There is absolutely no justification for what happened on October 7th. It was truly horrific and should never happen again. It should not be condoned. It makes me sad to see the number of people who are justifying what happened. The presence of reasons for acting in a certain way doesn’t automatically make it acceptable to act in that way. There is also no justification for the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza, and it bothers me that there doesn’t seem to be this parallel drawn for the Israeli government’s actions (at least to the same extent in mainstream media). I have heard a lot about Israel having the right to defend itself. While that may be true, I think the way in which it chooses to do so is paramount. Perhaps this won’t be accomplished by an outright ceasefire, but by sanctions on the IDF (which have also been part of my emails to MPs). I have also read that the IDF has highly sophisticated intelligence capabilities, which makes me wonder why indiscriminate killing is even necessary (let alone morally permissible)? I have also felt similarly in terms of the protests and will be completely honest and say that I have not yet attended one. Perhaps people like us, who think along the lines you have mentioned (supporting civilians in Gaza and critic

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