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Dharma Curious (he/him)

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  • Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators

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  • How about reread what I wrote?

    I'm not a vegan; I'm not a vegetarian. I'm far too broke and dependent on other people to be so picky as to choose what I get to eat. My dogs are also not on a vegetarian diet, neither is the cat.

    I am not making an argument for or against veganism, and especially not for or against a vegan diet for pets. I was explaining what the difference was between a carnivore and an obligate carnivore is. I'm also not the originator of this thread, in case you missed that, too.

    Normally I'd try to be nicer and more respectful, so as not to further inflame a situation, but honestly, the transphobic dig at "people like me" screams of someone who isn't worth my time or respect. Be better. You can get your point across without needing to disrespect trans people and indigenous people. 'sfucked up

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  • I missed the colon in that book title at first and was very confused about a book for their mother entitled "on looking eleven..."

  • Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators

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  • That's not really the argument, though. Cats are obviously, objectively, and indisputably carnivores. The question is whether they are obligate carnivores. If they can live healthily without detriment on a plant based diet, then they are not obligate carnivores. If they cannot survive healthily on a plant based diet then they literally require meat to live, in which case they are an obligate carnivore.

    The moral, ethical, and health discussion around feeding cats (both house- and big-) a plant based diet is beyond my scope, but arguing whether the cat is going to go for the tuna or the spinach isn't the point. They'll clearly go for the tuna. The question is whether they need that tuna to survive, or if they could live (healthy and happily) without it, if they could get their nutrients from, and be effectively tricked by, a plant based substitute.

  • US education

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  • Damn! Fellow Homeschooled Abeka-refugee, and a fellow Christian anarchist‽ Well met! In fairness, my religion's all over the place, but Christian anarchism is a big part of it.

  • US education

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  • I was homeschooled my entire childhood. My mom was a Christian. Not a crazy zealot, just a woman with faith. Initially, my school books were through a Christian curriculum program (I believe abeka books, iirc). One of my textbooks had this module on dinosaurs, with little pictures of humans in leopard print look clothes picking berries while a brontosaurus walked by in the background. My mom, ever the fantastic mother, immediately tossed those pieces of garbage and got me on the state curriculum that the public schools used. Took her forever to get it. Initially, when she called the state to ask how to get those resources she was told to stick with abeka, and was offered several other insane religious options before they finally relented. From then on, even though we lived in Virginia, my school standard came out of California, and I had to take end of year tests that aligned with the state of California. I got a great education, and because Mama let me basically choose what hours of the day I did my schoolwork in, I didn't really need to take summers off. Ended up finishing 12th grade at 14 years old. I am so thankful that she realized how bad those books were, and fought to make sure, even as a single mother working well over full time, that her kids got a good education. My brother and I both placed highest in the state when we took our final exams, in everything but math.

  • Back in my day selfies

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  • Honestly it was. I'm probably faster at typing on a qwerty touch screen now (I rarely actually use swype, though) than I would be if you handed me a T9 now, but that's just due to more recent practice, I'd bet. My fingers flew across that numberpad back in the day. Lol

  • Back in my day selfies

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  • I remember when I got my first qwerty phone. I hated typing on it. So much easier with my t9

  • Why is Lemmy so US-centric? The largest instances are in Europe, aren't they? So why does it have to be US news trolling as if it were Reddit?

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  • Why have you filtered out your communions, my child?

    It is important that you not desecrate the sacrament and accept the blood and body as they were intended, not strained or filtered.

    Also, please do not chew the wafer.

  • Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they...

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  • That's the one that gets me the most, man. People will literally go and say "the sixteen-point-nine-ounce bottle" instead of just saying "500 mil bottle" and it blows my mind. It's so much less awkward to say. I've even heard people ask for the 33-point-eight ounce bottle at the gas station I work at. It's a fucking liter. Just say the 1 liter bottle!

    I know it's a completely lost cause at this point, but I genuinely wish we'd switch:(

  • Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

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  • I didn't expect to find my fellow Advaitins on this particular thread, but hello, well met!

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  • One of my favorite ways this has ever been expressed is through David Graeber. Paraphrasing:

    If you convince 100 million people that you can breathe under water, and you go sit at the bottom of a lake, you drown.

    If you convince 100 million people you're the king of France... Then you're the king of France.

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  • Fairly short read effectively, it's never been made public what the loophole was/is, and all those who knew first hand are dead now. But it's speculated to be a few different things, the leading theory (and the one I think is it) is article V, the process by which we amend the constitution. If we can amend the constitution, we can amend article V, meaning we can then make it easier to amend again later, in a downward spiral. We could also amend the constitution, do a bunch of fashy shit, then amend article V to make it so the constitution could not be amended ever again.

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  • I remember when I found out that shit was plastic. I always assumed they were organic material of some kind, like the body scrubs with the crushed up walnut shell in it (which probably has fucking microplastic in it, too). So disgusting.

    This is why we need to change how shit works. It shouldn't go: company does some shit > fall out > government steps in. It should go: company has an idea > must get permission first from environmental agencies

  • ‘SUGAR DADDY’ [OC]

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  • The lobstrosities are another reason I avoid the coast

  • ‘SUGAR DADDY’ [OC]

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  • 100/10. The salt spray alone is incredibly dangerous. I had to move to the desert.

  • ‘SUGAR DADDY’ [OC]

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  • As a diabetic, can confirm. S'how this works

  • Seriously, you're probably dehydrated

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  • Currently drunk on bourbon street in NOLA, hooked up like 5 times, and just finished 2 of something called a swamp juice and another thing called a hand grenade... I definitely need water

  • Checking under the bed

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  • It needs to be against the wall, but I grew up with bunk beds in a room that could have fit 2 (well, in one of the places, anyway), it was nice. Gave us extra room for toys and shit and playing games

  • Checking under the bed

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  • The bottom bunk twin speaking like he's been replaced with a cyborg?

  • These are the thoughts that form grey hairs

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  • Gracias!