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My cat was a nut. We had this game where he would immediately jump into the most interesting-smelling grocery bag when we got home, and then expect to be carried around like a furry watermelon lol
Lemmy. I thought about making a Mastodon account but didn’t see the need eventually, it’s not my style
I already kind of assumed cat kibble was made with plants or something lol. Meat is expensive.
As long as they’re healthy and nutrition is met, who cares? I’m sure that they actually tested this food before putting it on the market. Feels like most of the “discussion” was just people raging against veganism and vegetarianism again.
This is a real thing though; it’s called keeping an open mind and trying to reduce bias. Most people don’t get it because they’re basically running an operating system of biases and stereotypes and groupthink.
The hard part is resisting people putting you into boxes. Half my comments or posts on Lemmy, people try to force me into an extremist “take” or “position” so they can argue against me. But very often, there is no hard set belief here, I’m just stating my opinion. If I see information that convinces me otherwise, I’ll change it; but no amount of emotional arguments, name calling, or fallacies mean anything to me.
I didn’t go to the popular instance initially. I will say though that the onboarding process had very confusing UX and I didn’t really understand what was going on or what an instance even was
Also from that Wikipedia article:
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Official government announcements shortly after the event put the number who died at about 300.
The Swiss Ambassador had estimated 2,700, following a visit to Beijing’s hospitals.
Records from Beijing’s main eleven hospitals, compiled shortly after the events, recorded at least 478 dead and 920 wounded, though Timothy Brook notes that these figures are an undercount due to lack of information from other hospitals.
Jonathan Fenby puts the death toll at over 700 in his book
British Ambassador Alan Donald initially claimed, based on information from a “good friend” in the State Council of China, that a minimum of 10,000 civilians died […] Donald later revised his estimate to 2,700–3,400 deaths
While public discussions about the events have become socially taboo, private discussions about them continue to occur despite frequent interference and harassment by the authorities. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remained in China in order to speak out about Tiananmen in the 1990s despite the fact that he received offers of asylum; he faced constant surveillance. Zhang Xianling and Ding Zilin, the mothers of victims who died in 1989, founded the Tiananmen Mothers organisation and were particularly outspoken about the humanitarian aspects of the protests. The authorities mobilize security forces, including members of the People’s Armed Police, every year on 4 June in order to prevent public displays of remembrance, with an especially heavy security presence on the anniversaries of major events such as the 20th anniversary of the protests in 2009 and the 25th anniversary of the protests in 2014. On the 30th anniversary of the protests in 2019, the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wrote that “autocratic and totalitarian regimes fear facts because they have built their power on unjust foundations” and he also wrote that memory is important: “without it there is no such thing as a civilised society or nation” because “our past is all we have.”
Journalists have frequently been denied entry to the square on the anniversaries of the massacre. Also, the authorities are known to have detained foreign journalists and increase surveillance of prominent human rights activists during this time of year. Internet searches on “4 June Tiananmen Square” made within China return censored results or result in temporarily severed server connections. Specific web pages with select keywords are censored while other websites, such as those which support the overseas Chinese democracy movement, are blocked wholesale.
The actual numbers of deaths seems to be heavily disputed. In a country where the government heavily censors even discussion of the event and redacts all mention of it online, I’m hesitant to take the “official” numbers at face value. The truth is we’ll never know the true death count, we only have unreliable information; but I wouldn’t be surprised if the event was as bad, or worse, than what we know.
The only story I could find after googling “North Korea giant rabbits” was this:
BERLIN: A German farmer who sold 12 giant rabbits to North Korea with the aim of setting up a breeding program to alleviate famine has said he was shocked to hear they were eaten at Kim Jong-il’s birthday banquet.
Which I mean… they were sent as gifts to be breeding stock for meat production. It seems more like a mismanagement of charity resources than a sad story to me.
Have you seen Flemish giant rabbits? They’re bazooka bunnies
Damn bro here flexing on us with their actual dragon girl gf
The walk of shame to the stall after standing silently surrounded by confident urinators for 3 minutes
I hate ordering things online… but I think you’re right
Out of curiosity, did the exact same analysis results also show up? I don’t use Reddit anymore lol
It’s basically impossible to definitively say something is A.I. or not anymore. I like doing this kind of detective work though so here’s my analysis.
- At first overall glance, it gave me an A.I. generated “vibe” that I can’t fully explain. I know this doesn’t count for much, but it counts for me.
- If you zoom into the pelvis of the guy in the far back, it’s a bit fucked up. It’s like his body is angled to be walking to the right, but his legs are walking to the left. See attached image.
- The reflections on the floor aren’t quite right. The pot plant on the left is especially reflected at a strange angle, given the rest of the reflections. In general it’s like it’s rendered the reflections the way shadows would work.
- At that shallow angle, there should be more reflections of things in the background visible, like the men walking. These are completely missing and it’s just showing an empty sky reflection when there’s even buildings in the way.
4·1 个月前They still have a good export tool, that’s a reliable canary for enshittification in my experience. See: how Google butchered their export tools to be as annoying as possible for “security” reasons. The harder it is to leave, the more they care about trapping you via friction rather than keeping you via good customer experience
If you can get food addiction I think you can get porn addiction.
I get the distinction you’re trying to make between behavioral addictions and chemical (? I forget the name) ones like alcohol addiction. But behavioral addictions by definition can be almost anything. I’d wager a good portion of us are addicted to our phones, for example.
0·1 个月前No worries, sometimes when you come in guns blazing you accidentally shoot an ally 🙂
To be fair I do remember Spyro taking ages to load each level… N64 didn’t have as many loading issues due to the way the cartridges worked
I’m not walking it back. Initially I simplified it so that the average person could understand it, then you came in guns blazing and turned it into a scientific debate, making it seem like muscle density doesn’t exist at all as a concept. I didn’t want to make it complicated for people just starting out, all beginners care about is results, they don’t really need to know the science. You usually end up learning as you go anyway.
The fact is that muscle density, muscle size, and functional strength are all variables. Both muscle density and muscle size increase strength, which I think was our misunderstanding.
- You can have large size with low density, which is still way stronger than doing no exercise at all, of course. That’s what I was referring to before with my puffed up comment. Not useless muscles, just less muscle per muscle. Still muscle, still healthy and helpful.
- You can also have low size with high density. This is the “skinny strong” I was referring to.
- But best of all you can have high size with high density. The effects multiply on each other. I imagine this is the one you’re helping people create.
Of course, if you exercise, you will gain size, but depending on how you do it, you may gain more density than size per unit of time in the gym. You’ll always get a bit of both though. It’s a ratio thing.
To answer your anecdotal question, I do know someone who just cannot put on bulk for some reason. I suspect it’s either an undiagnosed medical disease, or very unlucky genetics. Anyway, they work out a lot, and are much stronger than me or many people I know, despite being “wiry” and smaller. Their arms are like corded steel. They continuously get better results every month, though I think they might be hitting some sort of upper limit in how much muscle that can be physically crammed per square centimetre of body tissue.
This reminds me of “out of context terrible WikiHow artwork” memes. Here’s one I found randomly on their front page