AnimalsDream
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- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 3 days ago:
It’s weird to me that game devs don’t experiment with alternative organizational structures more often, kind of like Motion Twin; or how they’re only just beginning to unionize in some places. The “capital” in game development is a little bit computer hardware, but otherwise the vast majority of value in a game design studio is the human beings and their talent and skills.
I cannot think of any other industry where the workers are more essential, and management more superfluous and replaceable.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 5 weeks ago:
Came in to say this. Bean chocolate!
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 month ago:
Part of an overall concerning trend, but as someone who decided to stop buying consoles years ago: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
Show me where any vegan has ever argued that these deaths are okay? Your argument is both a strawman and bad faith. It’s the equivalent of when people claim anticapitalists are hypocrites because they have no choice but to participate in the existing system to survive. Cheap.
Why are vegans in particular given blame for crop deaths, when it isn’t vegans who are doing the farming? We have veganic forms of agriculture that we advocate for, and practice in the case of veganic farmers and gardeners. But until that gains more traction all anyone can do is the best they can, with what they have access to - which is far less harmful and destructive than omnis.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
No, they’re really not. What is wrong with you?
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
See the problem is the same as people who think it’s still funny to joke about abusing women. Even ignoring the offensiveness, we’ve heard it already. A million times. It’s old, really old, really uncreative. Boring.
Just like the shitty, thoroughly debunked crop deaths regurgitation. If you’re going to try debating vegans, at least take a few minutes to do some basic research, cause you have no idea how repetitive this is for us.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
No animal-burgers are definitely disturbing if you can see past your own bias.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
Same. Plant-forward veggie burgers are great. Seitan is a revelation.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
Because the animal ag industries are some of the biggest sponsors of the republican party. Eating animal products is a great way to directly support fascism.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
Some do consider it vegan, same as the “freegan” subset. There’s even at least one influencer who is a bit infamous for it But there’s also a few problems with this line of reasoning. It still normalizes the idea of the consumption of animal products, so it’s a slippery slope at best. It’s also not scalable, as soon as probably even a modest proportion of people would adopt such a diet, demand would quickly start to surpass supply which would incentivise the artificial production of more road kill.
And then there’s just the why? of it. Like if we’re talking about extreme situations like starvation and poverty where there is literally no other choice, okay that would make sense. But otherwise, what is so wrong with eating plants that someone would go out of their way to eat carrion instead? With the likely putrefaction involved we are talking about literal self harm to avoid eating some good ol grains and beans.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
About on par with usual omni mental gymnastics.
- Comment on NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone 2 months ago:
The main issue I’ve had is trying to share memes in that format via mms.
- Comment on The night water 2 months ago:
I dunno, hearing him talk makes me feel like I’m being cursed.
- Comment on The night water 2 months ago:
Almost. Kind of more like:
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- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
I don’t have plant-based grease, because I don’t eat foods high in saturated fats plant-based or not, and I almost never cook with oil (except for rare occasions like the popcorn with olive oil I had last night).
What exactly is unhinged and overdone about my comments?
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
It’s a little weird that anyone still thinks a joke that was overdone 30 years ago, would do anything other than make you sound unhinged today. “Tell me not to do a thing that causes suffering, will you? Well what if I cause even more suffering then?!”
I dunno, cartoon villain isn’t a good look in real life.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
Yeah, tough call. It’s all just fucked.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
Lol, nobody is eating candy for the calcium, and there are better sources.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
It’s less macabre than that.
“Ferdman found that one single McDonald’s patty can contain the meat of up to a shocking 100 cows.”
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
It is so disturbing that so many companies have been macabre enough to slip powdered bones into a product marketed at children.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
No, it is not being debunked. People are just being fooled by the constant onslaught of industry-backed disinformation. The role of high saturated fat to unsaturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease is one of the most thoroughly tested areas of nutritional health, and the consensus from real experts is that saturated fat intake absolutely progresses cvd.
www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/…/saturated-fats
“There’s a lot of conflicting information about saturated fats. Should I eat them or not?
The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fats to less than 6% of total calories. Saturated fats are found in butter, cheese, red meat, other animal-based foods and tropical oils. Decades science has proven that saturated fats can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease.
The more important thing to remember is the overall dietary pattern. Saturated fats are just one piece of the puzzle. Eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains is a way to achieve an overall healthy eating pattern.
When you hear about the latest “diet of the day” or a new or odd-sounding theory about food, consider the source. The American Heart Association makes dietary recommendations only after carefully considering the latest scientific evidence.”
…harvard.edu/…/the-truth-about-fats-bad-and-good
(…) “Is saturated fat bad for you? A diet rich in saturated fats can drive up total cholesterol, and tip the balance toward more harmful LDL cholesterol, which prompts blockages to form in arteries in the heart and elsewhere in the body. For that reason, most nutrition experts recommend limiting saturated fat to under 10% of calories a day.”
(…) “Eating polyunsaturated fats in place of saturated fats or highly refined carbohydrates reduces harmful LDL cholesterol and improves the cholesterol profile. It also lowers triglycerides.”
And I’m choosing to focus on meta-analyses here to highlight the sheer volume of studies that have, and continue to be done on this subject.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39523824/
“Results: Fourteen studies were included in the systematic review and seven in the meta-analysis. Our results showed an association between OO consumption and reduction in all-cause mortality (HR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.80-0.91), cardiovascular mortality (HR: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.76-0.93) and cancer mortality (HR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.86-0.93). Conclusions: Consumption of OO particularly reduces cardiovascular mortality (16%), followed by all-cause mortality (15%) and cancer mortality (11%) in the adult population. However, further studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanisms.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30006369/
“Fifty-four trials were included in the NMA. Safflower oil had the highest SUCRA value for LDL-C (82%) and TC (90%), followed by rapeseed oil (76% for LDL-C, 85% for TC); whereas, palm oil (74%) had the highest SUCRA value for TG, and coconut oil (88%) for HDL-C. Safflower, sunflower, rapeseed, flaxseed, corn, olive, soybean, palm, and coconut oil as well beef fat were more effective in reducing LDL-C (-0.42 to -0.23 mmol/l) as compared with butter. Despite limitations in these data, our NMA findings are in line with existing evidence on the metabolic effects of fat and support current recommendations to replace high saturated-fat food with unsaturated oils.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27434027/
“This meta-analysis of randomised controlled feeding trials provides evidence that dietary macronutrients have diverse effects on glucose-insulin homeostasis. In comparison to carbohydrate, SFA, or MUFA, most consistent favourable effects were seen with PUFA, which was linked to improved glycaemia, insulin resistance, and insulin secretion capacity.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35866510/
“The results of this review suggest that CO consumptionhas beneficial effects on LDL-c, TC, and LDL-c/HDL-c ratio compared to OO. Therefore, its replacement with OO can have cardioprotective impacts.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37968628/
“Our findings indicate that a shift from animal-based (e.g., red and processed meat, eggs, dairy, poultry, butter) to plant-based (e.g., nuts, legumes, whole grains, olive oil) foods is beneficially associated with cardiometabolic health and all-cause mortality.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36343558/
“Prospective studies supported a beneficial association of olive oil consumption with CVD, T2D and all-cause mortality, but they did not show any association with cancer risk.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32428300/
“The findings of this updated review suggest that reducing saturated fat intake for at least two years causes a potentially important reduction in combined cardiovascular events. Replacing the energy from saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat or carbohydrate appear to be useful strategies, while effects of replacement with monounsaturated fat are unclear. The reduction in combined cardiovascular events resulting from reducing saturated fat did not alter by study duration, sex or baseline level of cardiovascular risk, but greater reduction in saturated fat caused greater reductions in cardiovascular events.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25995283/
“Palm oil consumption results in higher LDL cholesterol than do vegetable oils low in saturated fat and higher HDL cholesterol than do trans fat-containing oils in humans. The effects of palm oil on blood lipids are as expected on the basis of its high saturated fat content, which supports the reduction in palm oil use by replacement with vegetable oils low in saturated and trans fat.”
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 months ago:
Raisin.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 months ago:
Okay, so more World Economic Forum, less Electronic Frontier Foundation?
Sounds like we need more EFF’s of video games then.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 months ago:
My question is, what is this group as an entity, and why does their opinion matter? Are they an ngo-style advocacy group, or an actual governing body of some kind?
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works. 2 months ago:
Came in to make a similar comment. Giant machines like this are a huge part of the problem in a number of ways. Their rigid design limits the kinds of environments that you can farm on, if you’re trying to run at competitive scale. It also limits you to monocropping as you said, whereas a complex polycultural system would both more efficiently build soil over time, but naturally deters pests if properly designed and maintained.
They also contribute to soil infertility by overly compacting soils due to their mammoth weight. And they are not at all cheap either, and one of the contributing factors to so many farmers ending up hopelessly in debt.
The bottom line is that industrial farming is not sustainable, and like it or not, homescale and small community agriculture is going to have to play larger roles in our lives if we want to have any hope of staving off famine as resources become more scarce.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 3 months ago:
I don’t think that’s true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don’t work, or at least don’t support newer usb drives, so it’s only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.
- Comment on Grieve with me 4 months ago:
I was happy when usb c came out because it looked like it had to be a significant improvement over micro usb, in terms of longevity and reliability.
It’s looking like it’s only a slight improvement though, which sucks.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 4 months ago:
Yeah, the way to make it happen is adding it to my wishlist and waiting for the price to drop to at least $40.