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Floey

@ Floey @lemm.ee

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  • Most people I've talked to, which is mostly nonvegans, think it is unethical to let cats outside because they will kill wild animals. This is a more hypocritical stance than the reverse (a vegan who lets their cat outside) if you understand veganism.

    You're also throwing around the word forced. People force choices on their pets, children, and even fellow adults all the time, but there are different levels of force. Putting down food for a cat that gladly eats it is a far cry away from shoving something down their throat or leaving it out until they have no choice but to eat it. I'd argue that it's often very appropriate to make food choices for a cat you live with, if a cat begs for some lasagna or a donut you probably shouldn't give it to them.

    Edit: Also when people talk about forcing cats onto a vegan diet you have to realize the alternative is forcing livestock to suffer serious trauma for their entire life and then die. It's not hard to see that one of these is a more serious abuse of our power over other animals.

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  • Humans are good at pulling nutrients from all sorts of sources but those sources have to actually contain the nutrients in the first place, we don't have some magic ability to just eat one thing with no supplementation and get all our nutrients.

    Dogs are omnivores.

    Supplements are already in the livestock (that we feed the cats) feed and animal based cat food. Yes it's harder to get most cats to take a pill than a human adult, but that really isn't necessary it can just be put in the food itself, and it is.

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  • Do you have a problem with the word chud? Because you sure sound like one.

  • TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.

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  • The brain doesn't do so well in isolation of stimulus for a long period of time.

  • Eating Meat Is Linked With Diabetes Risk, New Studies Suggest

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  • Yes, the foods that are high in omega 3s and 6s like fish, nuts, and seeds tend to be low in saturated fat and high in unsaturated fat compositionally. So it is not necessary to consume a lot of saturated fat in our diets, we should avoid coconut oil, palm oil, butter, and lard wherever possible.

    Eating refined sugar is bad for you, we should avoid things like sugary beverages for example. But this does not mean that whole fruit is bad for us, and definitely doesn't mean that whole veg and grain is bad for us. The fiber in fruit blunts the effects of the fructose, interestingly fiber also blunts the effects of saturated fat from whole coconuts.

    People love telling this mythology about how the low fat guidelines made us sick, but it's pretty much bunk. People didn't follow the guidelines for the most part as macro ratios have hardly varied over time in the US. Corporations also leveraged the idea to sell junk foods as healthier alternatives by lowering the fat content, but keeping or even raising the amount of refined carbohydrates.

    Nobody in this conversation is saying sugar is good for you. I was just pushing back against the OP of this chain who said that meat is of no concern to diabetics, and said sugar and other carbohydrates are the main culprit. Other carbohydrates would even include fiber which would be quite beneficial to diabetics. But also from the studies I've seen I'd be more worried about someone who puts a spoonful of coconut oil or butter in their coffee than someone who puts a spoonful or two of sugar, and not just because of diabetes but cardiovascular disease as well.

  • Eating Meat Is Linked With Diabetes Risk, New Studies Suggest

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  • It's funny to me that people are upvoting your misinformation because they can't be bothered to look something up themselves when it only takes a second, bullshit dietary science spreads so easily on the Internet.

    Those are not saturated fats, and omega 9 and not all omega 3s and 6s are essential fats. Specifically alpha linolenic and linoleic acid are essential.

    Edit:In case it comes up later I do not want it to look like I'm shifting arguments so I'll add this. Even if it were essential, something being essential does not mean it is harmless at any quantity, and something being unessential does not mean it is dangerous. I also did not say raw dogging glucose was good for you, it definitely isn't. I said saturated fat was worse than refined sugar, so the broad category of "carbohydrates" is definitely not some boogeyman.

  • Eating Meat Is Linked With Diabetes Risk, New Studies Suggest

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  • Saturated fat is a stronger culprit for metabolic syndrome than even refined sugar, but yeah, "carbohydrates" are to blame. 🙄 You aren't getting diabetes because you ate too many sweet potatoes.

  • Advantages of being conservative

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  • It triggers me that this is a pie chart. First of all it implies there are advantages even if they aren't keyed in. But most importantly pie charts only measure the weight of something within within its own context as a fraction of the whole.

  • Generative AI hype is ending – and now the technology might actually become useful

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  • LLMs don't "know" anything. The true things they say are just as much bullshit as the falsehoods.

  • Fans

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  • Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

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  • Who's labor?

  • TIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.

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  • Margarine these days is mostly a mix of either palm or coconut oil with something like soybean or canola oil. I wouldn't be surprised if butter had more naturally occurring trans fats.

  • Paris mayor drops f-bombs on anti-LGBTQ+ critics of Olympic opening ceremonies

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  • I don't need the acrimonious screeds of a racist incel to tell me how language should function. I communicate daily, in English, both on and offline, and have yet to witness this breakdown of communication you're decrying.

  • Time to start an internet war!

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  • Call me crazy but I mess my fries up and eat them with a fork.

  • Meh burger

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  • I wouldn't judge a book by its cover. Following aesthetic trends is just being savvy, it's not necessarily compensating for something.

  • Adam Britton: British croc expert jailed for sexual abuse of dogs

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  • Unless he paid for it I don't see how the two things are remotely equivalent. I'd take someone having thousands of vile images on their computer over someone who abused a child or animal even once.

  • Borderlands is failing already.

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  • Played the first two, cringy and tedious. And this is coming from someone who loves plenty of pulp and grindy games.

  • Paris mayor drops f-bombs on anti-LGBTQ+ critics of Olympic opening ceremonies

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  • Prescriptivists try not to be weird challenge.

  • Statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti for a second time

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  • The majority of Republicans, both voters and lawmakers, held the same beliefs as the rioters about the credibility of the election. I doubt the majority of people who are pro Palestine have much against Anne Frank, but you're free to do some of your own polling.