TheTechnician27 @ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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I'm just waiting for Denny's Applebee's Max.

https://codeberg.org/

Nah, next time I would probably just report communities like that to instance admins to hopefully have a better effect. The broader point is that engagement with disinformation doesn't work; it amplifies it. It's why the far-right has surged globally: negative engagement with disinformation is engagement and fuels its reach, and disinformation is an order of magnitude easier to create than it is to debunk.

Yes, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Hi, Jet. I didn't see this until now since maybe pings don't transfer between instances? Yep, I mass-downvoted the posts in those communities you run (I read every one of them before downvoting looking for anything even vaguely medically sound), because everything I saw existed solely to spread health disinformation in the form of the so-called "carnivore diet". It's interesting you didn't mention what those three communities are: a carnivore community you run, a community for "metabolic health" you run, and a ketogenic community you run. What you also failed to mention is that all of the posts were yours. Only you post to these cesspits; they're your own little microblog wall instead of a community, and they exist solely as a platform for you to spread known health disinformation. Meaningfully engaging on those communities would only add fuel to the dumpster fire you've created, like how engaging with other types of crackpot only amplifies their message.

The carnivore diet is widely debunked pseudoscientific nonsense which directly contradicts the continually strengthening scientific consensus that reducing animal products promotes better long-term health and which is well-known to considerably elevate the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer compared to a typical omnivorous diet. Full disclosure: I'm a vegan, and obviously I don't like this on ethical grounds, but what you're doing ethically to the animals or the environment isn't all that much worse than a typical western omnivorous diet; I care, but if this were about my pro-animal activism, I would post on /c/vegan and have 10x the impact for animal ethics than I could downvoting niche communities. No, what this is about is that you're slowly killing yourself through your delusions (fine) and then trying to trick other people to follow suit by couching your claims in half-truths and the medicalese analogue of a sovereign citizen's legalese.

There is no clinical evidence that the carnivore diet provides any health benefits.[3][17][18] Dietitians dismiss the carnivore diet as an extreme fad diet,[3][4] which has attracted criticism from dietitians and physicians as being potentially dangerous to health (see Meat § Health).[15][17][18]

It also raises levels of LDL cholesterol, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.[4] While carnivore diets exclude fruits and vegetables which supply micronutrients, they are also low in dietary fiber, possibly causing constipation.[4][7][5] A carnivore diet high in red meat increases the risks of colon cancer and gout.[7][31][32] The high protein intake of a carnivore diet can lead to impaired kidney function.[33]

Hilariously, this is a generous summary: Wikipedia is almost too brief about these health problems (and excludes some), and as more people like you follow this fad diet, information is likely to keep coming out about how badly it wrecks your long-term health. Unlike you, I'm a vegan for ethical reasons, and so I take health information about my diet as it comes: B12, iron, and zinc deficiency substantially more likely in vegans? Cool. Vitamin D and calcium? Cool. More likely to fracture a bone? Cool. Harder to get a good daily intake of protein (~0.8–1.0g/kg)? Cool. Harder to get lysine for a complete protein? Cool. Dairy fat intake may lower all-cause mortality? Cool. I recognize these, try to compensate for them in my own diet, and also recognize the numerous health benefits of a PBD (especially with whole foods), but I loudly advertise pros and cons to people looking at veganism for their health. I almost always recommend the Mediterranean diet and DASH alongside a plant-based one if someone is concerned only about their health. If I can be intellectually honest about the science in spite of a deeply held ethical philosophy making me want a plant-based diet to be near-universally followable, I expect you to be able to do the same for your fad.

What's especially troubling is that sometimes you're taking real public health problems – ultra-processed foods, refined grains, hyperpalatable foods loaded with sugar, etc. – and using that to manufacture opportunistic FUD: "Oh, this isn't the fault of imbalanced diets full of trash; my fad diet is the only way to fix it". I would've done the same thing if someone started /c/smokingsaves and talked about how smoking a pack a day is great for your health and in fact the decline in smoking is what's elevating cancer diagnoses. Your trash is federated to Lemmy.World, where Rule 8.1 prohibits health disinformation; it's also just completely disgusting to spread it in the first place. You're more than welcome to downvote all of my posts in /c/vegan (if I try to run to the LW admins claiming harassment, link them to this comment), except unlike you, I do my best not to platform pseudoscientific horseshit.

PS: Sorry for linking to your mortal enemy, the American Heart Association.

They should end in the style of the author's notes from the fanfic My Immortal instead.

For comparison, if you had a deck of 52 playing cards and shuffled them into a random order, then checked a year later to see if they were in the same order as when you opened the box, reshuffled if they weren't, and repeated another year later, and so on...

We can use the cumulative distribution function of the geometric distribution 1 - (1 - p)^k, where p is the per-trial probability and k is the number of trials, to find the chance that you'll find at least one correctly sorted deck from now until the time in this paper. There's a... Well, SageMath failed because of the exponent, but Wolfram Alpha tells me, uhhhhh...

Yeaaaaaaaaah, we're not going anywhere any time soon.

blame will still be placed on the war.

Yes, it will, and to a large extent rightly so. I'd hope you understand that this insane fucking whiplash means the following:

1. Logistics have been made more complicated and therefore expensive.
2. Some companies have probably already made expensive changes based on this that can no longer be turned back.
3. Companies (especially small businesses) now feel like they have to "make hay while the Sun shines", i.e. make money while Trump isn't tarrifing our biggest source of imports at a gajillity-billion percent. This way they don't go bankrupt the next time Trump decides to collapse the economy from his phone on the toilet. (EDIT: And to be clear, Trump himself is explicitly saying he will 90 days from now. No remotely stable business is going to say "oh, okay, we'll just make all of our financial decisions based on this three-month window of quasi-normalcy and not account for the indefinite period of fuckery that's all but certain to follow.)
4. Consumers (correctly) being worried over this means they're (correctly) less likely to buy product. If businesses want to stay in business, they either need to downsize or sell each item for more.
5. EDIT: China also isn't our only trading partner. Exorbitant new tariffs on other countries still exist and still massively impact prices.

I'm 100% certain there are things I'm failing to consider here. Trump moved past the point on the curve where deformation can be considered elastic.

9gag-ass meme tbh

The original AP article so you don't have to use the slop site it's syndicated to.

Maybe my farmer's market is really lax, but I've seen people sell young plants there (also mushroom starters, which I thought was super cool but had no room for).

Transvestigators: "Trans X will never be real X!"

Also transvestigators: "Trans X are apparently so functionally indistinguishable from biological X that you can't tell the difference from thousands of hours of footage (including their voice) from public appearances and paparazzi voyeurism taken at almost every possible angle over dozens of years, including childhood pictures. Instead you need to resort to convoluted, pseudoscientific, irreproducibly arbitrary, per-person diagrams of what you allege is their skeleton. This applies to dozens of celebrities. But they'll never be a real X tho!"

Transvestigators are scum, but I feel if I were trans that these "investigations" of obviously and openly cis people would make me feel more affirmed than basically any other form of external validation.

Laptop keyboard at 10 o'clock took it from "heavy vibes" to "definitely" for me.

Your brain turns into AI slop?

It’s a job that only exists in capitalism

Not true. Government-sponsored propaganda campaigns need advertisers ("ads" are just corporate propaganda), public works projects need to be advertised for awareness, politicians will need people to advertise their candidacy, political movements will advertise their positions, and unless this is a command-control economy where one thing is delegated to exactly one entity, you'll probably be advertising some service or product you do or make.

Outdated on Windows? Because on Linux, the LibreOffice UI is great, imo.

Lee-bruh is definitely the way to go since it fluidly connects to the first syllable of "office". If you do "lib-ray" or "lee-bray", you're forcing a ton of unnecessary annunciation on yourself.

Nah, should've been prior to the gender-affirming surgery.

We're not under the administrative control of any of Lemmy's developers as far as I'm aware, unless you're suggesting that Lemmy's federation is a facade and every instance's administration is secretly a tankie puppet government who are just really, really, imperceptibly subtle about it.

because that’s crypto bro talk.

Fungibility is a basic term in economics to describe interchangeability. 💀 Fucking hell. I'm using it at all because I'm having to get basic enough to describe the microeconomics of how giving money to human beings is inherently donating to everything human beings do, not just specifically what it's nominally being used for. That you've only ever heard it in terms of cryptocurrency isn't my fault.