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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • beef, corn, and almonds

    beef takes up an incredible amount of land and water per ‘unit’ nutrition and has a profound impact on the local and global environment. it has an artificially low cost due to subsidies and cheap grain (corn) feed.

    feed corn isnt really consumable by humans and takes a large percentage of land. its price is kept low by subsidies.

    almonds take a lot of water to grow and are commonly grown in regions where water is scarce and is provided to farmers for little to no monetary cost with few restrictions




  • the rules of the internet state that users must not possess any nuanced understanding of any topic whatsoever, and are not allowed to distribute any such information. All takes for any issue must be a plain ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for popular opinions set forth by the two opposing majority groups and are absolutely mutually exclusive.

    but more seriously, yeah, its upsetting.

    it feels like people are incapable of nuance and context and dont understand that just because something is understandable that it cant also be incredibly harmful.



  • GDPR is for companies/corporations to “respect” user’s requests about their data.

    Lemmy (ActivityPub, actually) isnt a company.

    What you are saying is the equivalent of saying that the concept of writing is in direct violation of GDPR.

    What you probably can do is request that an instance remove your content… And then do the same for every single other instance of any platform that implements ActivityPub (and not all of them will even have data coming from you) and is federated with your instance. And the only ones that would really need to comply are those that are based or operating in the EU.

    This is still the internet, not some magical place.

    Use some of the most basic fundamental internet safety rules and don’t provide potentially compromising information for no reason whatsoever. Especially since this isnt a corporation such as Facebook or Google who require you do so in order to use their service.




  • Just nitpicking, but there is a biological definition of race (albeit informal), which you quote the definition of. it’s just that it cant be applied to humans because (as your quote mentions) there tends to be greater variation from within human “races” than there is between some “races”.

    There’s also the issue that there’s no “boundary” or distinction between the human “races”, and an actual race would need to be distinct from the rest of the specie population in order to be recognized as an actual race.