angelated logs on to Lyrxo with Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" playing in her 10-yr-old kiniky CD player. Meanwhile, ALLCAPSification chills on his kiniky seat and eats kiniky chicken nuggets and a kiniky yogurt.
ANGELATED: Yo captain! The user interview for you is coming up soon! Are you ready??? :D I have a plan kinda laid out.
ALLCAPSification: Yeah, I’m ready :)
angelated has no idea how to proceed.
ANG: So how’re you doing? How’ve you been spending your summer thus far?
ALL: I’m doing great! I actually started school yesterday, but I’ve been busy all summer. I did a six-week-long internship with the Public Works Division of my hometown, working mostly at the waste water treatment plant (inb4 “That’s shitty”). It was a great experience. I really got to learn what goes into making a city function, and I got to meet some great people.
Apart from that, I’ve been helping my older sister move into her new apartment, and I started making plans with her boyfriend to start a business centered around sustainable food and affordable housing for low-income families. Hopefully that takes off the way we want it to. Other than that, not much, lol.
ANG: Woah, an internship and helping start a business to help the underprivileged? Hell no, that’s not shitty – you’re helping to improve the quality of life for your community and the environment.
It seems that you really care about the well-being of your area; what do you think is a problem that we face [in our society/the world] that doesn’t get enough attention?
ALL: Hmm, that’s a good question. I feel like a lot of issues are being given a decent amount of attention nowadays (although not all of that attention is necessarily helpful– I plan on making a thread on this later). If I had to state one issue that I think doesn’t get enough attention, it would be meat and diary consumption. While many people make their arguments against meat and dairy consumption from an ethics standpoint (which I understand), for me, it’s a sustainability thing. We’ve used up so much land to make room for animal agriculture, yet it’s arguably the most inefficient process for making food (why feed grain to a chicken when you can turn that grain into food for yourself?). Considering that hunger is a huge problem even in first-world countries and that plant-based diets are more efficient, more environmentally friendly, healthier when properly planned, etc., and I think it’s fair to say that we really need to reduce our consumption of meat and diary if we want to advance.
I’m a huge hypocrite since I’m eating chicken nuggets and yogurt as I type this, but hey, being a hypocrite doesn’t make me wrong lol.
ANG: I wouldn’t categorize that as hypocrisy, more like self-awareness, haha. I know that being on the internet 10 hrs a day is detrimental to my health yet here I am. I totally agree that animal products are causes of environmental issues, obesity, and animal cruelty (so i became vegetarian).
Nom nom nom, on the topic of food: if you could have an unlimited supply of one food, what would it be?
ANGELATED: Yo captain! The user interview for you is coming up soon! Are you ready??? :D I have a plan kinda laid out.
ALLCAPSification: Yeah, I’m ready :)
angelated has no idea how to proceed.
ANG: So how’re you doing? How’ve you been spending your summer thus far?
ALL: I’m doing great! I actually started school yesterday, but I’ve been busy all summer. I did a six-week-long internship with the Public Works Division of my hometown, working mostly at the waste water treatment plant (inb4 “That’s shitty”). It was a great experience. I really got to learn what goes into making a city function, and I got to meet some great people.
Apart from that, I’ve been helping my older sister move into her new apartment, and I started making plans with her boyfriend to start a business centered around sustainable food and affordable housing for low-income families. Hopefully that takes off the way we want it to. Other than that, not much, lol.
ANG: Woah, an internship and helping start a business to help the underprivileged? Hell no, that’s not shitty – you’re helping to improve the quality of life for your community and the environment.
It seems that you really care about the well-being of your area; what do you think is a problem that we face [in our society/the world] that doesn’t get enough attention?
ALL: Hmm, that’s a good question. I feel like a lot of issues are being given a decent amount of attention nowadays (although not all of that attention is necessarily helpful– I plan on making a thread on this later). If I had to state one issue that I think doesn’t get enough attention, it would be meat and diary consumption. While many people make their arguments against meat and dairy consumption from an ethics standpoint (which I understand), for me, it’s a sustainability thing. We’ve used up so much land to make room for animal agriculture, yet it’s arguably the most inefficient process for making food (why feed grain to a chicken when you can turn that grain into food for yourself?). Considering that hunger is a huge problem even in first-world countries and that plant-based diets are more efficient, more environmentally friendly, healthier when properly planned, etc., and I think it’s fair to say that we really need to reduce our consumption of meat and diary if we want to advance.
I’m a huge hypocrite since I’m eating chicken nuggets and yogurt as I type this, but hey, being a hypocrite doesn’t make me wrong lol.
ANG: I wouldn’t categorize that as hypocrisy, more like self-awareness, haha. I know that being on the internet 10 hrs a day is detrimental to my health yet here I am. I totally agree that animal products are causes of environmental issues, obesity, and animal cruelty (so i became vegetarian).
Nom nom nom, on the topic of food: if you could have an unlimited supply of one food, what would it be?
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