Akareth

@Akareth@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding your second point, you also cannot guarantee that small animals like rodents are not harmed in the process of harvesting plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that eating fish doesn’t count as eating meat…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One reason why I love btrfs is the ability to add (and remove) arbitrarily sized drives to the disk array while maintaining multiple redundant copies of my files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of trying a bunch of different conflicting methods for weight loss from these comments, I would recommend you instead first understand the science of it with:

  • The Aetiology of Obesity
  • Solving the Two-Compartment Problem
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. For me, the big one’s my bank that requires its users to use Chrome, else it won’t let you log in. I got around this by using an agent-switcher extension in Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The study that your article references is a mouse study, so the relevance to humans is questionable.

  In addition, fiber is shown to be beneficial to humans primarily when comparing the standard American diet to a high-fiber diet. This is likely because fiber is mostly non-digestable by humans (as we’ve lost the ability to digest fiber more than 2-million years ago unlike our closest living great-ape cousins), and acts as a physical barrier to the absorption of sugars and starches which also helps to lower insulin spikes.

  If you do not eat a high-carb diet (such as a ketogenic diet), then eliminating the undigestable matter (i.e. fiber) from your diet is probably beneficial because you’ll be able to absorb more nutrients and get rid of constipation-related issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time doesn’t have to be 1:1 between a host and a simulation. The host can take as long as it wants to render the next step in a simulation, and any observers within the simulated universes would not be able to discern the choppiness of their flow of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your Fighter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always loved chickens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because:

  • Ruminants like cows repair our depleating topsoil via regenerative farming (our current approach of using petroleum-based fertilisers is not sustainable)
  • A single cow’s life can feed a human for 1 to 2 years, compared to the many incidentally killed animals (insects, rodents, frogs, birds, etc.) during the growing and harvesting of crops, plus the destruction of entire ecosystems to create the mono-crop farms in the first place
  • Humans need to eat lots of fat to be physically and mentally healthy, and beef provides lots of fat (the low-fat high-carbohydrate diets recommended by various agencies — starting with the US’s department of agriculture in the late '70s via the food pyramid — are making us sick, with once-rare diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and dementia now commonplace)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From a non-American’s perspective, I think part of the mistrust comes from Americans have been through high-profile lies perpetrated by government agencies.

  For example, a more recent one in the last few decades is the Food Pyramid/MyPlate that was/is promoted by the US government’s agriculture department. This has led to Americans in the late '70s/early '80s to start a war on saturated fat and cholesterol, and the rapid adoption of carbohydrates in the average diet. What has happened in the decades following is a rapid increase in metabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and mental illnesses — all of which were rare in human history prior to the '70s. While I’m glad Americans are waking up to the realisation of the mass brainwashing of what constitutes “healthy” food, I’m still upset that — due to the influence of America on the global stage — my own country has followed suit in adopting the US’s dietary guidelines to the detriment of our own health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only it was like that⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I’m from, 12:00 a.m. (00:00) is the middle of the night (we call it midnight here), and morning begins when the sun rises (and we say “good morning” during our mornings).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only it was like that⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I’m from, 12:00 a.m. (00:00) is the middle of the night (we call it midnight here), and morning begins when the sun rises (and we say “good morning” during our mornings).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise | Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about Syncthing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  at its* finest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For some reason, I'm doubtful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  • My family’s* first computer
  • with its* insane modem sounds
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sea between Denmark and Sweden, Kattegat, can be translated to "a fishes cloaca on a cat" from danish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  a fish’s* cloaca on a cat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  • Its* symbol is Mg.
  • A metric ton is a tonne