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Fad diet? Until recent history, and coincidentally before the prevalence of vast diet-related disease, most of the world lived on a mostly vegan diet. You are welcome to cite some of this advanced scientific evidence refuting McDougall or suggesting protein deficiency is a concern anywhere in the Western world.

Flawed argument because animals still eat 10x the amount of plants vegans do. So if plant suffering was a legitimate concern, one would still be vegan, which is a lifestyle to reduce harm to animals.

A study by a pill manufacturer whose business is sickness, promoting a sick diet for more obedient consumer customers.

Adult humans require surprisingly little protein. So little, in fact, it's virtually impossible to be protein deficient eating an adequate isocaloric diet with even a modicum of variety. This is a very well cited page which explains most misconceptions and falsehoods about protein in diet https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/apr/protein.htm

Grabbing Dinner 3 years ago

False equivalence and other logical fallacies like it lead to all sorts of stupid and abhorrent human behaviors, two of which you just described.

Grabbing Dinner 3 years ago

You seem capable of looking up the definition of "survival" on your own. Anyway, this discussion is not worth having on this oppressive site, because any controversial opinion is just flagged and censored by the majority of fragile-ego dimwits.

Grabbing Dinner 3 years ago

I already said I agreed survival is justification for eating animals. But this is not survival, this is sport, because they have a choice to eat something other than animals and still thrive.

That is not by accident. The history of gun control in the USA (and mostly elsewhere) is deeply rooted in racism and classism. The very idea of an armed minority challenging the status quo terrifies individuals living lives of relative privilege and prosperity. Even if they don't consciously apprehend their bias (and most lack the emotional and spiritual maturity to do so), they are useful in promoting the false narrative of "only the State must monopolize power" as they are the benefactors of it.

Linux is not a "safe" operating system by any stretch of imagination. The only saving grace is the fact Linux users are not profitable to malware authors due to very low market share. Still, I think it's naive to view it as a secure operating system/kernel because it is not designed nor built for that goal explicitly. OpenBSD on the other hand is a worthy contender against a determined adversary and is developed by skilled and highly paranoid people.

Almost all happened in Latin America where individual rights, including to own and defend yourself with potent firearms, is severely limited (except for agents of the state). Without this fundamental ability and political right, lawful good individuals will suffer and fail. History is replete with examples of this basic and obvious fact. Armed minorities are more difficult to oppress.

I hacked macOS 3 years ago

I can't even tell it's crappy. Just a blank screen with Javascript disabled. Sites aren't worth visiting if they don't care about usability and accessibility, and promptly get added to my shit-list of domains.

Talos Linux 4 years ago

Actually I read the entire documentation and browsed the source code.

https://www.talos.dev/v1.0/learn-more/philosophy/ "Security" section makes no mention of independent audits. It just boldly claims "There are no passwords in Talos" as if that was a panacea for security.

The existing integration tests don't verify any assumptions about security, only that the configuration is valid. Please correct me if I'm wrong or missed anything.

If you're going to call something "secure" you need to prove it.

Talos Linux 4 years ago

Security: Talos reduces your attack surface: It's minimal, hardened and immutable. All API access is secured with mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication.

So, no actual threat modelling, third party audits or integration and unit testing is done? Yes, that appears so.

Everyone blaming "meat" for global warming is just a shill for the petrol industry, distracting from the real cause (fossil fuels).

Maybe because most of the petrol industry serves the animal agriculture industry and hundreds of billions of animals it needs to raise and kill annually? Or did you think they don't require any inputs nor produce any outputs other than a corpse?

How curious that we are so perfectly able to digest it and thrive from it! I wonder why so many other herbivores didn't get so lucky.

Humans can also eat and digest shirts, pencils and small pieces of plastic. And you didn't provide any evidence of any adaptations we have to meat eating. Check and mate.

Neither of these are bad for you, just don't be obese

Every nutritional authority in the world disagrees.

Every bottle of kombucha I have ever seen has at most 16g of non-added sugar from fruits, the same as a banana

Right, sugar from a drink and banana are identical, even though only one has fiber. What mental gymnastics!

Fake / trash science. More studies say the opposite than agree with this

Why didn't you cite them?

OSX and iOS have anti-malware tooling built in

You ever seen them notify users of detection and remediation? Yeah, didn't think so.

Malwarebytes, Norton, McAfee etc. don’t accept liability for what their scans find

Because they're not liable as not the authors of the operating system. Apple's position is "Macs don't get malware" and any contrary fact is quickly swept under the rug.