But why male models?

As a vegetarian myself, I’ve thought about this a little bit.

I think it ultimately boils down to the fact that going vegan requires a lot more work from an individual. Avoiding meat might be a pain in the ass to implement at times, but the actual intellectual process is straightforward. You need to watch out for soup stocks, cheeses with rennet, and meat sauces basically. Everything else, at least in my experience, is obvious. Converting a recipe to vegetarian doesn’t require too much thinking. A lot of foods are just innately vegetarian and won’t be labelled as such: there aren’t “vegetarian pancakes” or “vegetarian pies” out there — they’re just expected to be vegetarian unless someone made a meat version. Only a small handful of pizzas will be labelled vegetarian even though most are or trivially can be made such. It’s easier to find/adapt recipes that are vegetarian compatible.

Going vegan is just a full extra process. Eggs, milk, butter aren’t visually obvious. Even bread isn’t certain to be vegan-friendly. The ingredients being removed from a recipe cannot be simply removed, especially with baked goods, without risking the entire recipe becoming a disaster. If you take a cookie recipe and remove the eggs and butter, you’re going to be disappointed; you need to find a recipe designed from the ground up to not use eggs or butter.

The extra restrictions on vegans mean they need to be much more specific about their foods than vegetarians.

I always hated that argument from people.

Even if they’re right — which we all know they are not — it wouldn’t matter. Climate change is going to devastate human life if we do nothing. If, somehow, the source of the warming wasn’t human-caused, we’d still need to find a way to counteract it. It’s not our fault doesn’t prevent it from being our problem.

Awesome, thanks for the help!

I’m hoping to relocate to the Boston area sometime Soon^TM and this is a great future resource for me!

With respect to rental agents — is this something where individuals have to seek them out ourselves, or will the landlord of any particular rental unit point applicants towards their preferred agent/agency?

Other than the nightly shows, you won’t be seeing the impacts of these strikes for months. Films and shows take a lot of time to go from inception to finished product. For movies I wouldn’t be surprised if the impact doesn’t happen until next year.

The DGA ratified an agreement last month. If they hadn’t, we would have three major video unions on strike instead of two.

Adding in higher priced housing also decreases the pressure on affordable housing.

If there’s 500 affordable units and 500 luxury units with 1000 people higher income housing seekers you’re going to see those 1000 people rent/buy all of the luxury units and all of the affordable units. In that scenario, adding 500 luxury units will remove the higher-income pressure on the existing affordable units.

Boston needs so much housing that this will not be a panacea anyway, but I think we’d be surprised at the relative (though not absolute, due to aforementioned) efficacy of that 20% requirement.

That’s the automod for the sub in question. It’s not a reddit wide bot in this case.

Of course, it could be that reddit’s admins are helping mods make these kinds of reactions. I’d believe that. But the account itself in question (automoderator) doesn’t tell us anything about how reddit’s admins feel.

Looks like no, it’s desktop only:

reddit.com’s traffic has decreased by 3.36% compared to last month (Desktop).

Interesting to note that if you scroll down further you’ll see that the #1 content referral to reddit is adult content at 20.6%, with second place being video games at 16.3%. A solid one fifth of the other sites pointing at reddit do so for porn, basically.

Ah, screw the whole the thing.