If it looks like a duck

And it swims like a duck

And it quacks like a duck

Then it’s probably the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

It’s pretty insane to me that someone would trust their life 20 meters above the water to a rope swing put in by some rando. What if the rope snaps or becomes detached from its anchor? What if the rope is way too long and you dislocate your shoulders hanging onto it on the way down? Or if you let go midway down because you realize it’s too long, if you belly flop into the water, pass out, and drown? What if the rope wraps around one of your limbs?

I wouldn’t trust this thing 3 meters off the ground. This is just begging for a hospital visit, and that’s if you’re not too unlucky.

(This isn’t really close to terminal velocity, by the way.)

piece of shit incestual paedophilic rapist

Pro tip for concise writing: this can be simplified to the word “cop”.

The NYT operates on a limited-article basis, making it so you have maybe three articles a month before getting the boot.

If you ever need to bypass this, there’s an extension for Firefox, and additionally, there’s archive.ph or one of its sister sites like archive.vn and archive.is (they all feed into and read from the same underlying database).

Just clarifying that animal agriculture in Europe still represents unthinkable cruelty on an unimaginable scale even if specific practices are outlawed there.

I love this idea that veganism is a grift by the big Vitamin B12 supplement industry (???) despite literally zero evidence and in fact evidence to the contrary, unlike the notoriously corrupt and gargantuan animal agriculture industry. God, please be a troll or someone who was out sick when their class learned critical thinking in 3rd grade as well as every single period of science class.

Oh yeah? Name them. Name the specific one. Every single one of these has a statement on potential conflict of interest and/or how it was funded. Go ahead. Tell me.

Hi, Europe! Four years ago, Denmark systematically killed 2.84 minks for every one person living in Denmark.

Oh, and how’s that whole banning live exports thing going? Not at all? Cool!

Oh god, oh fuck, we need to get the word out to these highly educated nutritional scientists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, pulmonologists, oncologists, bariatricians, and nephrologists that “it’s the opposite, actually” as soon as possible. I’ll bet they’ll feel like idiots when they need to retract the dozens of meta-analyses and systemic reviews they’ve meticulously authored both showing that plant-based diets tend to be healthier than omnivorous ones and giving explanations for why.

True. I believe B12 is the other big one, although that is trivially supplemented to my recollection.

Cats need meat or they don’t

And yet this binary assumption that you’re taking completely for granted for some reason is fundamentally flawed. Cats need amino acids from meat that they cannot produce themselves. The scientific research being conducted is over whether these amino acids can be artificially produced and vegan cat food fortified with them in such a way that the cats can properly absorb them. If yes, then voila, you have healthful vegan cat food.

FYI, SponsorBlock isn’t just for skipping sponsored segments. SB gives you granular control over the sorts of sections you can skip, and it only auto-skips sponsors by default. However:

• There are several categories of section, including intro animation/intermission (“an interval without actual content”), preview (i.e. where the information already exists later in the video), sponsor (a segment made in return for payment from a third party), unpaid/self-promotion (e.g. “buy my merch”), interaction reminder (e.g. “remember to like and subscribe”), and endcards/credits. (There’s also “filler tangent/jokes”, but I haven’t tried this one.)
• For each of these categories, you can choose to disable altogether, show in the seek bar, prompt to manually skip, or auto skip.

So even if you would never want to skip a sponsored segment in your life, the extension still saves a ton of time if you have no/limited interest in watching even just one of the above-listed categories.

(The secret ingredient is archive.ph)

… Oh no.

Naturally develop an understanding of where different news sources land instead of letting an inherently biased left–right ranking system pigeonhole them for you.

Oh, cool, it’s MB/FC, which is based on US-centric left–right ratings that ignore the fact that the US political center is right-wing among developed countries. Nice day to block a bot.

I don’t know what makes you think this would be a “free tier”; it’d just in all likelihood be an even more enshittified, slightly-less-money-flushed-down-the-toilet-for-an-inferior-product tier. https://archive.ph/mwfWY

Your daily reminder that by paying for streaming services, you’re receiving a worse product than the alternative.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

And anyone would complain even more if they’re paying much more and getting less.