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  • Did you actually read the article? Cause I did and here are some highlights from the article regarding felines specifically:

    Sample sizes are tiny

    3.2. Feline Studies-Meta-analysis was considered if more than one study presented the same outcome data. However, meta-analyses of these data were not possible due to (1) differences or lack of a comparison group, e.g., a meat-based diet comparator or (2) no presentation of a measure of central tendency or dispersion to input into the model.

    Hypokalemia is: a low level of potassium (K+) in the blood serum.[1] Mild low potassium does not typically cause symptoms.[3] Symptoms may include feeling tired, leg cramps, weakness, and constipation.[1] Low potassium also increases the risk of an abnormal heart rhythm, which is often too slow and can cause cardiac arrest

    3.2.1. Hematology/Biochemistry-Only three studies [27,29,30] have carried out hematological and/or biochemical analysis of blood in cats that were fed vegetarian diets, and it is worth noting that sample sizes were low. Cats on a high-protein vegetarian diet exhibited hypokalemia which accompanied recurrent polymyopathy [29]. There was also increased creatinine kinase activity, likely reflecting the muscle damage caused by the myopathy, and reduced urinary potassium concentrations.

    Myopathy is: a disease of the muscle[1] in which the muscle fibers do not function properly.

    3.2.3. Clinical Findings-In cats fed vegetarian diets that were supplemented with potassium, a myopathy was seen within 2 weeks of the dietary change [29]. This was characterized by ventroflexion of the head and the neck. The cats also showed lateral head resting, a stiff gait, muscular weakness, unsteadiness, and the occasional tremor of the head and pinnae....... Weight loss and poor coat condition have also been observed in cats fed vegetarian diets [29,30]. However, most cats in another study had a normal coat condition and no obviously diet-related clinical abnormalities picked up by clinical examination [27]. Clinical signs of lethargy with altered mentation, dysorexia, and muscle wasting, along with gut signs of bloating and increased borborygmi have also been observed [30].

    These are guardian based reports which means there is significant bias from the owner to report positive effects and look over the negatives

    3.2.4. Guardian-Reported Health Effects-Guardians generally believed that the transition to a meat-free diet had been positive. These studies are valuable, as large sample sizes of respondents (animals) are generally employed. Some guardians did notice an increase in stool volume but noted no issues with consistency [27]. When considering other aspects, coat condition was shinier [27], there was an improved scent of their animals (particularly relating to breath odor) [27], there was a tendency to be at the ideal body condition score rather than being obese [28,31].

    This is about as close as you can get to justifying it , IF you fixate on ONE aspect and ignore everything else in the journal article:

    Dodd et al. (2021) [31] collected dietary information for 1026 cats, of whom 187 were fed vegan diets. The latter were more frequently reported by guardians to be in very good health. They had more ideal body condition scores and were less likely to suffer from gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders than cats that were fed meat. No health disorders were found to be more likely in cats that were fed vegan diets. The reported differences were statistically significant.

    So please explain to me how myopathy setting in and causing tremors after only two weeks of transitioning to a non meat based diet is good for cats?

    So for the record you are dead flat wrong by your own damn source because you didn't read it or you ignored all the bad parts.

  • reproduction studies

    What the hell are you talking about, what is a reproduction study?

    You either mean a reproducible study or a study specifically on something reproducing which is irrelevant. Again you don't even know what you are talking about and 3 from college, I work in industry now so I don't publish. We also directly collaborate with a large university and a national laboratory, so I know a thing or two about how grant funding is acquired from both an academic and industrial side(industries such as mine actually fund studies that do get publicly published). There are absolutely issues with politics in academia, it just isn't what you are describing.

  • You are right that 45 is still pretty decent all things considered. My mentality on it is: if they didn't piss off the player base with broken update after broken update AND didn't have the PSN fiasco AND didn't constantly nerf every decent weapon, then the player would have naturally declined but it wouldn't have been near as fast and I think they could have landed in a top 15-30 spot instead.

    Of course no one actually knows but all of my group of 8ish people playing stopped a month after we bought the game for one of the above reasons.

  • The jab uses messenger RNA (mRNA), similar to Covid-19 vaccines, and works by presenting the immune system with tumour markers from NSCLC to prime the body to fight cancer cells expressing these markers.

    Tumor markers have traditionally been proteins or other substances that are made at higher amounts by cancer cells than normal cells. These can be found in the blood, urine, stool, tumors, or other tissues or bodily fluids of some patients with cancer. Source: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/diagnosis/tumor-markers-fact-sheet

    I am not a MD or anything but from what I can tell based on the tumor marker described above it sounds like it would work pretty much the same as the covid vaccine? Maybe the proteins build up like plaque and the mRNA just stops the protein production gene expression? Again I do not know a ton about cancer.

  • Oh yeah these people don't ever ever ever give actual solutions on how to achieve any goals. They just constantly criticize and then act like the victim when you call out how absurdly outside reality they are.

  • True?

    Jump
  • I switched to mint 2ish months ago and a friend of mine switched to fedora at the same time. Both new from windows, I have had no issues with mint but he has now switched to Debian cause he was having issues getting discord to work properly.

    OOTB experience with mint is it works, it kinda feels like cheating having a distro that works easily without tinkering. Like I don't feel like a real Linux user haha, but I would 100% recommend it.

    The meme is very accurate imo, the text would definitely be "hello fellow linux users!" instead of youths haha!

  • Other comments hit on this but I'll add a little more. There is a good bit of trolls/trolling, some extreme views, and authoritarian government praise. Things like that.

    Lemm.ee (my instance) is still federated so I see hexbear post/ comments. It's definitely a more problematic instance imo.

  • Other nations struggle with those issues too

    I agree with you but other nations is vague. If by other nations you are comparing us to other very developed nations (Ex Europe) I would counter that the US has these issues to a way more extreme degree.

  • As an organizer in my free time it's hardly unrealistic to suggest other people do the same.

    Im sure as someone who does it everyday you do think that

    God forbid political power take work and time. Better to be ineffectual and rhetorically entrench the sociopathic status quo, eh

    This is the largest point I'm trying to make the time and effort it will take cannot be completed before the election. I mean you even agreed:

    Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it

    Your response was No.

    Yes. This is how it has been for hundreds of years. People with less time and means did far more than this

    Do you think every American agrees and will just jump on board?

    And to defend the status quo.

    No defending it I hate it but stop acting like it can change before the election, it is not enough time which is my point, not a defense.

    How much time do you spend on social media, for example? Why not spend that time organizing meetings?

    Couple hours after work, 10 mins before work, and while shitting. Drive times alone wouldn't be meet with this time.

    How on earty could you ever take credit for anything?

    Don't know what I took credit for but sure

    Do you even live in a swing state?

    Do you even live in America?

  • Nah it's easy just rewire the whole government in your free time, that's what I don't understand about these people. They have all these great ideas about organizing and starting this and changing that. The suggestions they give are just not realistic in our society currently, but they act like you're the problem for voting.

    Y'all understand that your little suggestion of starting a whole ass movement with the only resource of "unified voters" in one of the most diverse countries in the world will take a ton of time right ?

    I'll even play let's say we:

    If you care how you vote, you should be getting organized with likeminded people to create a voting block that makes demands

    Do you think this can be organized 1 before the election, 2 before the election with enough time to actually change things in it, 3 by people working full time jobs and probably living paycheck to paycheck 4 while being fought back against the entire time by media oligarchy? No it isn't realistic

    What is realistic is trying to save the country from a centralization of powers into the executive branch (project '25) that will almost surely lead into fascism, which will then in turn fuck the rest of the world even worse.