Jessica
@Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on my phone turning my headphone volume one notch from silent halfway through a song then telling me off for turning it back up 23 hours ago:
The phone manufacturer can only guess how loud it actually is to your ears. Every pair of headphones outputs at a different volume, and more expensive ones tend to be quieter for reasons I forget.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 5 days ago:
Ah so this is how Monster Hunter came up with the design of Deviljoe
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 1 week ago:
Okay so I think you are talking about getting caught by a copyright holder, and I am talking about getting caught by your Internet service provider. The alternative (free) solution to the former is just to use private trackers. The alternative (free) solution to the latter is to fully encrypt your traffic.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 1 week ago:
This is always such a stupid take. Just force fully encrypted traffic in your torrent client… No VPN necessary.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
I’m kind of shook how far down this was.
The picture is a bit ambiguous, but for me it’s not outdoor shorts, it’s pajama shorts and when I was younger it was boxers.
I am quite surprised most people sleep naked!
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad you linked this because it was my first thought as well and I was like damn I am going to struggle to find that haha
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
Here’s the original in higher quality and less cropping: i.imgur.com/XzgU9AS.mp4
The watermark in the bottom right corner says KLING AI 1.6
- Comment on I hate the modern web 2 months ago:
This is not a Reddit problem. A lot of websites throw a fucking hissy fit if you have a VPN turned on, and I’m also over it.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
Screw #8. Everyone here including OP missed out on the actual best Zebra mechanical pencil. The Zebra DelGuard.
It has this crazy mechanism that resists lead breakage by dropping a shield down if you press too hard.
www.zebrapen.com/…/delguard-mechanical-pencil?var…
They even made limited edition Hello Kitty ones years ago I imported. Best 0.3mm mechanical pencil I’ve ever used. Image
- Comment on I can't believe they did this 2 months ago:
Is that mustache just an upside down Reese’s cup?..
- Comment on I recommend you don't watch this 2 months ago:
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 months ago:
What about those of us who use our triptronic transmission? I manually shift down constantly to take advantage of engine braking to make my brakes last longer. I used to ride a motorcycle so it made sense to me. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumatic
- Comment on Low Budget Terminator 2 months ago:
Source with audio: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hK45ZscEolM
- Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein 3 months ago:
I didn’t want to get into the weeds so much deep in the comments on Lemmy, but here we are:
Responses
For example, they don’t count anything listed only as “protein” as protein because they don’t trust the manufacturer not to lie on the label.
I don’t think it’s fair to call this a bias. If it was real protein, they would proudly put what kind on the label so it’s likely something like textured soy protein.
Given that this site gets literally all of their information from the manufacturer’s label, I’m sure you see why that’s a problem.
As I understand it, she’s gotten a lot of her information from the data sheets sent to larger distributors like chewy.com as well, which are much more accurate and provide additional information not included on the packaging, such as the amount of ash and carbs.
Their information is also just plain wrong on some accounts, such as labeling Royal Canin as “significantly lower carbs than average” while most experts agree the opposite is true.
If you had actually read what was written, it says, “of 51 products, only 10 had fewer carbs than average”. Perhaps it is poorly worded, but the implication there is 80% of the products are actually higher carbs than average.
The reason they get these wrong is due to a flawed methodology.
Again, they got it right. You just didn’t read it correctly.
What to do next
With all of that being said, you should be using that side as a recommendation for where to start, and if you are taking your pet food choices seriously, you should do your own research by figuring out the most current dry matter basis values for the particular food you’re looking at.
Here is an article that explains how to do that: …blogspot.com/…/how-to-calculate-carbohydrate-and…
I personally use this handy online calculator to speed up the math a little bit: balance.it/convert
The catch is unless you know the exact ash content, which is almost never listed on the packaging sold to consumers, you have to guess, which greatly distorts the total carbohydrates. The best way I have found to get the exact ash content it to just go to chewy.com and look at the consumer questions because someone has likely already asked and use that value, or ask the question yourself and chewy will respond within a day or two.
Also, since at the end of the day these dry matter basis values are completely arbitrary unless you have something to compare them against, I recommend looking at data sheets put together by zoos where they have identified the dry matter basis of various prey species for use in feeding at zoos.
rodentpro.com/…/nutrient-composition-of-whole-ver…
semanticscholar.org/…/NUTRIENT-COMPOSITION-OF-WHO…)-Dierenfeld-Alcorn/9119b1ba4e298635227d69da95636d920eb4b6e9
My take on the subject is you want (in dry matter basis) a breakdown of something like 66-75% protein 25-33% fat and as little ash and carbs as you can get. Wet foods typically don’t have much ash. Dry foods have a lot more. Cats are obligate carnivores so they should have zero carbohydrates.
- Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein 3 months ago:
It’s legit. Her only fault is the data is always slightly out of date because pet food manufacturers are always changing their recipes, which change the dry matter basis values.
It’s all explained on her about Paige, but basically she has painstakingly built up the database by sourcing everything herself and accepting some community input. I personally have emailed to have things updated.
- Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein 3 months ago:
Royal Canine is a cat food horrible brand. catfooddb.com/brand/royal canin
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 3 months ago:
DayZ Standalone for you as well?
- Comment on **SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT** 4 months ago:
I’m gonna need you to elaborate on this because it sounds super helpful, but I don’t understand
- Comment on At least 1440p is good for heating my house 5 months ago:
What a blast from the past! It’s the, “Well isn’t that cute, but it’s wrong!” guy from two stupid dogs: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hspNaoxzNbs
- Comment on Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions' 5 months ago:
The same composer worked on both as well
- Comment on mama mia!! 5 months ago:
Those are regular jeans and Luigi is just that caked up
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 5 months ago:
Fuck I had to stop watching. That’s heartbreaking
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 5 months ago:
- Comment on Screw you, Apple. 5 months ago:
That I don’t recall. It’s just the only photo I could find online. I cropped an eBay photo
- Comment on Screw you, Apple. 5 months ago:
I recall having to buy it separately. I was pretty annoyed about that as a day one adopter. Here’s what the packaging looked like:
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 6 months ago:
Says Snopes: www.snopes.com/…/prehistoric-worms-woke-up/
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 6 months ago:
I personally have adopted a mantra of if I’m going to eat fast food it’s going to be as frugal as possible so I have all of their shitty mobile apps. I check them when I want fast food, and I generally won’t eat out unless I find a good deal.
