It's a bit complicated - there actually is a storefront where we operate out of, and we'll soon be taking it over as well, so we'll be both brick and mortar and online. It would still be tight even if we were just a warehouse, margins for packaged food items are low, typically in the 20% range, so if a refrigerated order needs $40 to cover shipping, you can see how much needs to be sold. Also, margins shrink further as we try to be competitive with much larger chains who carry some of the same products, and carry much more volume.
We're doing pretty well all-said, but the free-shipping thing is a pretty big hurdle in our market. (You care barely find anyone in Canada who ships refrigerated items.)
We have two free pick-up locations within the city, so only have a handful of in-city deliveries a month, it's not an issue. I just gave that as an example - the rest of the province is about $12, and the next province over (Alberta) is in the $15 range, for the very same package.
Came across an article (https://www.fastcompany.com/3061686/free-shipping-is-a-lie) a few weeks ago that spells out part of the problem: Amazon loses around 45% of all shipping costs. They can take part of the hit because they have so much volume, but it also has to be paid for somewhere...and how they treat their staff is an obvious area in this instance.
Full disclosure: I also work for an online shop, and we struggle with the idea of 'free shipping'. Since we deal with food, our margins are already low, plus we ship a lot of refrigerated items, so a lot need expedited delivery. In the US it's not so bad (seems like $8 will get many packages just about anywhere in 2 days), but here in Canada, shipping fees are brutal -- even shipping in our own city is a minimum of about $10 -- and no doubt most people expect free shipping as well. As the article points out: it's just not sustainable. 'Free shipping' fees are paid elsewhere down the line.
Thanks for the clarification, you originally wrote: "Most people suffering from 'wrong gut bacteria' have gut bacteria that split fibres into digestable carbs."
Can you share more info on this? I've never heard of someone gaining weight because they ate more high-fiber foods, and literally only the opposite. Would like to find out more if this is true, thanks!
I'm a bit dubious: if someone is eating high fat, high protein and high fiber, then they're eating wrong (and likely too much.) A reduction in calories would more than compensate for whatever fiber was broken down into simpler carbs, if this is even actually an issue for many people. (And typically as fiber is increased, appetite is also diminished, hopefully aiding in a reduction of total calories consumed.) We don't need very much protein (vast majority of us eat too much), and even less fat. Something like 98% of us don't eat enough fiber, so I'm really doubtful what you've mentioned is problem in the real world.
I'm surprised this isn't the takeaway message.. Focusing on high-fat or high-protein diets is what's wrong. Instead, focus on fiber, or prebiotics - the stuff your good gut bacteria wants. Ironically, the vilification of carbs plays into this problem: most fiber comes with carbs. Brown rice, fruit, whole grains, etc.. People foolishly lump them together with processed carbs (white sugar, white rice, white flour) and then end up missing out on a lot of potential fiber. Whole grains, lots of veggies, pulses, legumes and fruit will support the microbiome you want. Some of the best advice I've heard: eat 80% 'healthy' every day, and you can slack a bit with the other 20% (although the more healthy food you eat, the less inclined you are to want the unhealthy food, as your gut resets itself.)
Very true, or any external speakers...should be possible in theory. Pretty much every laptop has speakers, and same with PC's - my box has a little speaker for the motherboard..kind of spooky when you think about it. (Note that the record quality worsens with the sound quality of the speaker, so one designed to beep and that's all is going to be able to pick up very little.)
This is a perfect example of why we have so many problems - people willing to straight-up lie, even when what they're saying can be easily disqualified.
Stern: "Are you for invading Iraq?"
Trump: "Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly."
You can say he was reluctant, but "Yeah, I guess so" is a supportive statement.
He didn't say 'find them in your already hacked files', he just said 'find them'. How does anyone 'find' emails they don't have? I think it's called 'hacking'. Even if he was referring to hacked emails somehow previously obtained by Russia (and how does Trump 'know this'?), isn't it concerning that a presidential candidate wants that information released publicly? He wants to LOCK HER UP because she was using an 'insecure' mail server, but it's okay for him to ENCOURAGE Russia to release that information? Will he then chant 'LOCK RUSSIA UP'? Oh, never mind.
What we need is more honesty and less people spewing lies like this, and less time spent in echo chambers. And the people and organizations who do this should not be tolerated.
I know you're probably joking, but bear in mind that with vegans, we fart ourselves. Everyone else has cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock farting on their behalf....so not really.;)
Doesn't say what proportion of that has to be seaweed, but even if it's just a pound a day, that's 100 million pounds of seaweed every day. 36.5 billion pounds a year.
Annual global seaweed harvest was 28,000 metric tons (61,729,433lbs) in '88 according to Wikipedia.
And there are lots more cows around the rest of the world (upwards of 1.5 billion).
People think *I'm* crazy as a vegan. But take note, according to this pro-meat article, livestock accounts for 20% of greenhouse emissions. Should be worrisome to anyone consuming cows or dairy...that's a lot we could cut out very quickly if the will existed.
Thanks - I was actually thinking about some safe models that will destroy the contents when tampered with...so it could be a bit closer as an analogy, but care less about the actual analogy and more about what precedents there are..thanks for the feedback on safety deposit boxes - are you guessing, or do you know this as a fact?
What would happen if there was suspected related papers to a case in a safe? Would the safe company have to open it, or was it left to the police to deal with? Or a safety deposit box - do banks have to comply? There's probably some precedent for this out there, would be interesting to see what it is..
Yeah, but how accurate were they in actually incarcerating the correct person? How many were mistakes? It could very well always have been closer to 60%, but with wrongly accused people put in jail (which we now know occurs with great frequency) who had much less means to defend themselves in the past. Even today's numbers (64%) are likely inflated with wrongful convictions. Fact is: solving murders is often hard work. (And how qualified are many of the people doing it? Often 'a conviction' is much more important for optics than 'a correct conviction', due to other perverse systems and influences in play.) Lots more to this.
Exactly. If we can survive space travel, we can make just about any event survivable here.
Also totally disagree with his 'fragile planet' remark. The planet isn't fragile, we're just a fucking wrecking ball of a species. If we could collectively curb our compulsions, we could actually live in pretty good harmony with the planet. Sadly, that's a priority for very few.
I had this problem with a previous landlord, who's wifi we were dependent on for a while, and it was really annoying on many levels, and surprisingly hard to work-around when most ports are shut down. It affects a LOT more than torrent clients, and with Blizzard games, it's not just updates, it's playing many of the games. I had to play Diablo 3 (it was in Beta then) through my mobile phone connection, for example.
Given how many people 'voted for change', the time might actually be ripe for electoral reform. Right now, only voices for Republican and Democrat will be heard at the highest level. That isn't going to change any time soon unless there's electoral reform. Something like proportional representation means your vote counts (at least a lot more than the US system), and 3rd party votes can actually get someone elected. Right now, the US is a two-party system, where *any* other votes are totally powerless and meaningless (other than being symbolic.) This is a fundamental problem of the system, and fails to embody the true sense of democracy.
I don't know it for sure, but I heard about it on the internet. I think Trump needs to produce papers proving he's not a KGB agent. (I believe he is their most tremendous agent - there has never been a better KGB agent than Donald Trump.)
Perhaps people who are "lazy as shit" are the ones who say people are lazy as shit. I'm not lazy as shit, and have been very happily working remotely for most of my adult life with ZERO complaints about productivity. Some people are lazy, sure, but their results are pretty easy to uncover. It's not a blanket statement however, but it does work better for some than others.
Is it really that much trouble to have an extra port or two on a phone? Especially nice if one pooped out for whatever reason...imagine if that became standard.
Google Hangouts is probably the only Google product without a search feature, so I stuck with the basic sms app on my phone...does this one have a search feature?
Did you even read what I posted, or visit any of the links? Because they are evidence against your claims. Please back up what you're saying.
Yes, I know that doesnt fit in with you 'I'm a vegetarian, so *I* am saving the planet!' worldview, but suck it up - its the simple
facts of farming.
Err...as a "meat-eater", you do realize that you're just as biased? Perhaps this is an opportunity to learn from a differing opinion. I grew up as a regular meat-eater, and as I learned more about what's going on, I changed my habits in response. I have a very strong feeling that, as someone who's spent a *lot* of time reading and researching this area, I've possibly learned a bit more about food systems than you have. However, I'm happy to have you inform me. Please find some US maps illustrating the land use of human crops vs livestock feed - I've already posted some, but go ahead and surprise me. Show me the studies from the US showing how livestock is lower impact (and I'm talking water, land-use, and other resources like oil and electricity) than crops. (Yes, there are a few exceptions, but these areas are in the vast minority compared to where most agriculture takes place, so please don't cherry pick an uncommon incident.) As for them 'drinking water', you do realize most livestock in the US are kept on factory farms, and they have immense pools collecting their waste...and it's not 'watering' anything - it's typically polluting nearby water systems. And yes, I've spent a fair bit of time on farms, although that's not necessary to learn about them. Most animal products don't come from the idyllic farm you've got in mind -- and if it began to, we'd run out of space to keep them in the US pretty quick. I don't think you appreciate how much space 10+ billion animals (the number in the US) take up. (And how much they eat, and shit and piss.)
Since 1990? Geez...that's setting the bar pretty low...let's go back a few hundred years, I bet it's more like 80%.
Sadly one of the main culprits almost sounds like a footnote - 'logging' is often done to clear land for livestock, just look at the Amazon. And most of the 'agriculture' is also to support that same livestock. In the US, 1/2 of ALL land is used for livestock - either space they take up, or for producing their food (and 70-90% of all corn, soy and wheat grown in the US is fed to livestock). XKCD has a stunning graphic showing the mass of all mammals on the planet.....and much is (you guessed it) livestock, followed by humans, with a sprinkling of wild mammals. NatGeo illustrates how much land there is on the planet, how much remains 'untouched', and how much we consume. We use up almost 40% of the entire non-ice land for 'agriculture', the vast majority as pastures, and you'll find much of the cropland is also devoted to this area.'Free range' is actually worse, demanding even more space than 'factory farmed'.
If you really care about this issue, consider what you're eating. When it comes to resource use (water, energy, space), livestock are at the top, or near. And it's a change we all can make. (And there's never been greater vegan options to choose from, give them a try if you haven't!)
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It's a bit complicated - there actually is a storefront where we operate out of, and we'll soon be taking it over as well, so we'll be both brick and mortar and online. It would still be tight even if we were just a warehouse, margins for packaged food items are low, typically in the 20% range, so if a refrigerated order needs $40 to cover shipping, you can see how much needs to be sold. Also, margins shrink further as we try to be competitive with much larger chains who carry some of the same products, and carry much more volume.
We're doing pretty well all-said, but the free-shipping thing is a pretty big hurdle in our market. (You care barely find anyone in Canada who ships refrigerated items.)
We have two free pick-up locations within the city, so only have a handful of in-city deliveries a month, it's not an issue. I just gave that as an example - the rest of the province is about $12, and the next province over (Alberta) is in the $15 range, for the very same package.
Came across an article (https://www.fastcompany.com/3061686/free-shipping-is-a-lie) a few weeks ago that spells out part of the problem: Amazon loses around 45% of all shipping costs. They can take part of the hit because they have so much volume, but it also has to be paid for somewhere...and how they treat their staff is an obvious area in this instance.
Full disclosure: I also work for an online shop, and we struggle with the idea of 'free shipping'. Since we deal with food, our margins are already low, plus we ship a lot of refrigerated items, so a lot need expedited delivery. In the US it's not so bad (seems like $8 will get many packages just about anywhere in 2 days), but here in Canada, shipping fees are brutal -- even shipping in our own city is a minimum of about $10 -- and no doubt most people expect free shipping as well. As the article points out: it's just not sustainable. 'Free shipping' fees are paid elsewhere down the line.
Would be curious to see a poll on this - do phones need to get any thinner?
Thanks for the clarification, you originally wrote: "Most people suffering from 'wrong gut bacteria' have gut bacteria that split fibres into digestable carbs."
I suspect you meant "Some people.." then, thanks!
Can you share more info on this? I've never heard of someone gaining weight because they ate more high-fiber foods, and literally only the opposite. Would like to find out more if this is true, thanks!
I'm a bit dubious: if someone is eating high fat, high protein and high fiber, then they're eating wrong (and likely too much.) A reduction in calories would more than compensate for whatever fiber was broken down into simpler carbs, if this is even actually an issue for many people. (And typically as fiber is increased, appetite is also diminished, hopefully aiding in a reduction of total calories consumed.) We don't need very much protein (vast majority of us eat too much), and even less fat. Something like 98% of us don't eat enough fiber, so I'm really doubtful what you've mentioned is problem in the real world.
I'm surprised this isn't the takeaway message.. Focusing on high-fat or high-protein diets is what's wrong. Instead, focus on fiber, or prebiotics - the stuff your good gut bacteria wants. Ironically, the vilification of carbs plays into this problem: most fiber comes with carbs. Brown rice, fruit, whole grains, etc.. People foolishly lump them together with processed carbs (white sugar, white rice, white flour) and then end up missing out on a lot of potential fiber. Whole grains, lots of veggies, pulses, legumes and fruit will support the microbiome you want. Some of the best advice I've heard: eat 80% 'healthy' every day, and you can slack a bit with the other 20% (although the more healthy food you eat, the less inclined you are to want the unhealthy food, as your gut resets itself.)
Very true, or any external speakers...should be possible in theory. Pretty much every laptop has speakers, and same with PC's - my box has a little speaker for the motherboard..kind of spooky when you think about it. (Note that the record quality worsens with the sound quality of the speaker, so one designed to beep and that's all is going to be able to pick up very little.)
This is a perfect example of why we have so many problems - people willing to straight-up lie, even when what they're saying can be easily disqualified.
Stern: "Are you for invading Iraq?"
Trump: "Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly."
You can say he was reluctant, but "Yeah, I guess so" is a supportive statement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - scroll to 1:39
"You want to go out for dinner?"
"Yeah, I guess so."
The sane response would *not* be "Okay, I hear you, you're opposed to going out for dinner."
Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 0:36 in.
He didn't say 'find them in your already hacked files', he just said 'find them'. How does anyone 'find' emails they don't have? I think it's called 'hacking'. Even if he was referring to hacked emails somehow previously obtained by Russia (and how does Trump 'know this'?), isn't it concerning that a presidential candidate wants that information released publicly? He wants to LOCK HER UP because she was using an 'insecure' mail server, but it's okay for him to ENCOURAGE Russia to release that information? Will he then chant 'LOCK RUSSIA UP'? Oh, never mind.
What we need is more honesty and less people spewing lies like this, and less time spent in echo chambers. And the people and organizations who do this should not be tolerated.
I know you're probably joking, but bear in mind that with vegans, we fart ourselves. Everyone else has cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock farting on their behalf....so not really. ;)
There are ~100 million cows in the US.
They each eat about 24lbs of food a day.
Doesn't say what proportion of that has to be seaweed, but even if it's just a pound a day, that's 100 million pounds of seaweed every day. 36.5 billion pounds a year.
Annual global seaweed harvest was 28,000 metric tons (61,729,433lbs) in '88 according to Wikipedia.
And there are lots more cows around the rest of the world (upwards of 1.5 billion).
People think *I'm* crazy as a vegan. But take note, according to this pro-meat article, livestock accounts for 20% of greenhouse emissions. Should be worrisome to anyone consuming cows or dairy...that's a lot we could cut out very quickly if the will existed.
Thanks - I was actually thinking about some safe models that will destroy the contents when tampered with...so it could be a bit closer as an analogy, but care less about the actual analogy and more about what precedents there are..thanks for the feedback on safety deposit boxes - are you guessing, or do you know this as a fact?
What would happen if there was suspected related papers to a case in a safe? Would the safe company have to open it, or was it left to the police to deal with? Or a safety deposit box - do banks have to comply? There's probably some precedent for this out there, would be interesting to see what it is..
Yeah, but how accurate were they in actually incarcerating the correct person? How many were mistakes? It could very well always have been closer to 60%, but with wrongly accused people put in jail (which we now know occurs with great frequency) who had much less means to defend themselves in the past. Even today's numbers (64%) are likely inflated with wrongful convictions. Fact is: solving murders is often hard work. (And how qualified are many of the people doing it? Often 'a conviction' is much more important for optics than 'a correct conviction', due to other perverse systems and influences in play.) Lots more to this.
Exactly. If we can survive space travel, we can make just about any event survivable here.
Also totally disagree with his 'fragile planet' remark. The planet isn't fragile, we're just a fucking wrecking ball of a species. If we could collectively curb our compulsions, we could actually live in pretty good harmony with the planet. Sadly, that's a priority for very few.
I had this problem with a previous landlord, who's wifi we were dependent on for a while, and it was really annoying on many levels, and surprisingly hard to work-around when most ports are shut down. It affects a LOT more than torrent clients, and with Blizzard games, it's not just updates, it's playing many of the games. I had to play Diablo 3 (it was in Beta then) through my mobile phone connection, for example.
Given how many people 'voted for change', the time might actually be ripe for electoral reform. Right now, only voices for Republican and Democrat will be heard at the highest level. That isn't going to change any time soon unless there's electoral reform. Something like proportional representation means your vote counts (at least a lot more than the US system), and 3rd party votes can actually get someone elected. Right now, the US is a two-party system, where *any* other votes are totally powerless and meaningless (other than being symbolic.) This is a fundamental problem of the system, and fails to embody the true sense of democracy.
Simple, just put some tape over the mic!
I don't know it for sure, but I heard about it on the internet. I think Trump needs to produce papers proving he's not a KGB agent. (I believe he is their most tremendous agent - there has never been a better KGB agent than Donald Trump.)
Perhaps people who are "lazy as shit" are the ones who say people are lazy as shit. I'm not lazy as shit, and have been very happily working remotely for most of my adult life with ZERO complaints about productivity. Some people are lazy, sure, but their results are pretty easy to uncover. It's not a blanket statement however, but it does work better for some than others.
Is it really that much trouble to have an extra port or two on a phone? Especially nice if one pooped out for whatever reason...imagine if that became standard.
Google Hangouts is probably the only Google product without a search feature, so I stuck with the basic sms app on my phone...does this one have a search feature?
haha.. Given cows aren't stacked, squared km would be more relevant..but then factor in that each one needs a certain amount of space to graze, etc..and then a LOT more space for their primary feed...as I already posted, livestock consumes about half the land used in the US. Here's another article highlighting many of the concerns.
Yes, I know that doesnt fit in with you 'I'm a vegetarian, so *I* am saving the planet!' worldview, but suck it up - its the simple facts of farming.
Err...as a "meat-eater", you do realize that you're just as biased? Perhaps this is an opportunity to learn from a differing opinion. I grew up as a regular meat-eater, and as I learned more about what's going on, I changed my habits in response. I have a very strong feeling that, as someone who's spent a *lot* of time reading and researching this area, I've possibly learned a bit more about food systems than you have. However, I'm happy to have you inform me. Please find some US maps illustrating the land use of human crops vs livestock feed - I've already posted some, but go ahead and surprise me. Show me the studies from the US showing how livestock is lower impact (and I'm talking water, land-use, and other resources like oil and electricity) than crops. (Yes, there are a few exceptions, but these areas are in the vast minority compared to where most agriculture takes place, so please don't cherry pick an uncommon incident.) As for them 'drinking water', you do realize most livestock in the US are kept on factory farms, and they have immense pools collecting their waste...and it's not 'watering' anything - it's typically polluting nearby water systems. And yes, I've spent a fair bit of time on farms, although that's not necessary to learn about them. Most animal products don't come from the idyllic farm you've got in mind -- and if it began to, we'd run out of space to keep them in the US pretty quick. I don't think you appreciate how much space 10+ billion animals (the number in the US) take up. (And how much they eat, and shit and piss.)
I welcome your research.
Since 1990? Geez...that's setting the bar pretty low...let's go back a few hundred years, I bet it's more like 80%.
Sadly one of the main culprits almost sounds like a footnote - 'logging' is often done to clear land for livestock, just look at the Amazon. And most of the 'agriculture' is also to support that same livestock. In the US, 1/2 of ALL land is used for livestock - either space they take up, or for producing their food (and 70-90% of all corn, soy and wheat grown in the US is fed to livestock). XKCD has a stunning graphic showing the mass of all mammals on the planet.....and much is (you guessed it) livestock, followed by humans, with a sprinkling of wild mammals. NatGeo illustrates how much land there is on the planet, how much remains 'untouched', and how much we consume. We use up almost 40% of the entire non-ice land for 'agriculture', the vast majority as pastures, and you'll find much of the cropland is also devoted to this area.'Free range' is actually worse, demanding even more space than 'factory farmed'.
If you really care about this issue, consider what you're eating. When it comes to resource use (water, energy, space), livestock are at the top, or near. And it's a change we all can make. (And there's never been greater vegan options to choose from, give them a try if you haven't!)