AnimalsDream
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- Comment on The night water 2 days ago:
I dunno, hearing him talk makes me feel like I’m being cursed.
- Comment on The night water 2 days ago:
Almost. Kind of more like:
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- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Yeah, tough call. It’s all just fucked.
- Comment on Gelatine 1 week ago:
Lol, nobody is eating candy for the calcium, and there are better sources.
- Comment on Gelatine 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
If the way you live causes harm, I will tell you how to live all day everyday.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
Pretty easy to sidestep this issue by just not eating heart-clogging foods. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 week ago:
Raisin.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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" 1 month 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.
- Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy 2 months ago:
Joke’s on Nintendo, they already lost me as a customer back in the 3DS days, and I do not own a Switch for them to brick. 🖕
But if any Switch games look interesting enough to play, I’ll be happy to emulate them on my Steam Deck or PC. 🙃
- Comment on Vitamin technology has advanced so much over the years 2 months ago:
Oh, and lifehack I guess: Just keep a supply of frozen veggies and add those to your ramen.
- Comment on Vitamin technology has advanced so much over the years 2 months ago:
I had to stop eating ramen. I tried my hardest, but I could not for the life of me find a whole grain ramen that was affordable (the whole point of eating ramen). So instead I use whole grain spaghetti noodles and veggie broth. I miss the squigglies. 🥺
I have learned that even whole grain noodles can be microwaved though, so that’s cool. Works a lot better for penne, cause spaghetti noodles tend to clump together more.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 2 months ago:
It started roughly around the ps3/360 era, when corporate devs began prioritizing turning their games into skinner boxes that were designed to motivate players to keep playing, so they would be more likely to engage in microtransactions, see more ads, or continue paying subscriptions. Of course gacha garbage is a fuller expression of this kind of manipulation now days.
Still plenty of great games out there, and in some cases we have a real renaissance.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
That was somebody else’s point. I just chimed in with my own take. :D
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
On my laptop I switched from Debian to Fedora and that had a distinct impact on gaming performance, though I think it had more to do with how I had it set up previously. For instance I used full disk encryption for Debian, but skipped that on Fedora, because it does seem to impact games noticeably.
But it also might be because Fedora is more bleeding edge, so the OS itself might actually play a role here.
On my desktop I’ve been running Bazzite and that’s been pretty great so far.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
The tariff situation makes it a bad idea to release or even announce new hardware right now. What they should do is finish Steam OS so they can officially release it for all platforms.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
I prefer the symmetrical sticks, calling it outdated is just cult of inevitable progress vibes. Also the touchpad is hardly a gimmick when we’re talking about PC as a gaming platform. If anything a touchpad should become standard on all controllers.
My biggest complaints with the dualsense controller is that the shape of it starts to feel uncomfortable after long game sessions, the ds4 was better. Also the dpad sucks.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
We all, all of me. I don’t have to care about what others are buying, because Steam and Linux is an amazing gaming experience and they’re the ones missing out. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 2 months ago:
I am looking forward to playing the Remaster. It sounds like they’ve fixed pretty much everything I didn’t like about the original Oblivion - like the awful level up system. Hopefully they rebalanced the “difficulty” in a good way too. Last time I played Oblivion I remember higher difficulties being boring because it mostly meant even the weakest enemies would take a billion hits to kill.
Skyblivion will be fun to play too.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 2 months ago:
This will never happen.
15 or so years ago people were saying the same thing about decentralized social media. Yet here we are.
The problem with decentralized stuff is that anyone can put anything, so piracy will be omnipresent there
This isn’t unique to decentralized platforms. Piracy is omnipresent. Yet people still buy stuff. But to address your question more concretely, imagine the store system is designed to be federated. Any instance owner can decide to what degree they would enforce anti-piracy measures. DMCA law requires a good faith effort on the part of a site owner to stop piracy, so any instance owner who wants to run a legitimate shop must properly vet game submissions to make sure they aren’t infringing copyright, and aren’t plagiarizing. They would also have to defederate from all pirate instances, but they would not be responsible for instances that have nothing to do with their own. People who choose to use the instances for piracy would be off on the margins of the internet, just like they are now.
why would you pay for a game when the seller next store is giving it away for free (or much cheaper)
Good question, since you already have that option for virtually all games, why do you pay for them? My reasons are because I generally do want to support the creators I like, as well as because a lot of pirated content is questionable in quality (ie., potential malware). Why do people pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux when they can get the same OS for free, even legally? Continuing support in that case. Point is, people buy because they believe the value of buying is greater than what’s available for free, whatever reasons those might be.
and how would you distinguish between “EA” selling the Sims 1 there and “TheRealEA” selling the Sims 1 there for the same price.
I dunno dude, how do we do this now? A stupid checkmark? There’s gotta be better ways than a stupid checkmark. PGP signatures would probably be a good start. Maybe incorporate a web of trust implementation? How does Valve do it? I’m not an expert on the subject, here’s a Wikipedia page about the topic.
Also decentralized card information is a bad idea, so you would either need a centralized paying hub, setup your card with every seller, or only be able to use crypto to pay, all of those are bad in their own way.
Yeah, let that be a problem for the person who wants to decentralize payment systems. A more practical solution? Just include the popular payment methods that already exist. Except crypto currencies, that shit can fuck off.
You gave all these explanations for why a decentralized game shop couldn’t work, but all of them are not only not especially hard to solve for such a platform, but are also just common challenges for all of the internet. It’s like the 90s all over again when people insisted that open-source software itself couldn’t work. Yet, again, here we are.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
Lol. All I’m trying to say is that Vi at least tries to adhere to the Unix philosophy, and knows it’s a text editor. Emacs is more of an Eldritch creature.