Dunno, we’ve never seen anything go wrong with the Soviet system of representation before have we?

Eh… nah.

Lemmy.Ml admins are delicate little snowflakes that ban any deviation from their narrative of choice

Hmmmm

Lemmtgrad/Ml/hexbear occupy the same landscape

Ehhh no

Lemmy.Ml admins are trash

Exhibit A

The thing about open source software, no one person gets the credit for it. Especially since the Reddit exodus there have been more and more contributors.

Exhibit A of the original dev’s moderation style

Fuck that guy, best thing he did was make Lemmy open source so it can grow beyond their tiny little world view

This is true if you ignore what words mean

This, but unironically is ml experience

It happens across the whole instance, it’s an admin level problem. My favorite is when you say something critical of the site admins, Russia, or China and get not only the comment removed, and not just banned from that community, but any other community the particular user moderates

Imagine being that petty- someone disagrees with your chosen political stance, so you go community by community and ban them from every one to protect your fee fees.

Think I’m blowing smoke? See for yourself.

Exhibit A

Because the discussion isn’t good, the instance admins themselves go from thread to thread removing anything that doesn’t agree with their chosen narrative of the week(subject to change according to the latest ccp talking points)

This post pretty much sums up my problems with .ml

these foods have been around for a while and I’m not hearing about a mass die-off of indoor cats as a result,

Because the majority of people realize its a shitty idea

Ironically the only studies that seem to indicate its anything but terrible for the cats are funded/conducted by either pet food manufacturers, or Vegan organizations. Not there’s even any actual decent studies done from what I’ve found.

In fact, cats fed a proper vegan diet tend to have better health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499249/

It actually never definitively says that in any of the studies mentioned… This particular study relies entirely on self reported results, with less than 10% of the sample sizes being fed a vegan diet, with no actual controls in place. It’s a meaningless study. It honestly reads like a fluff piece where they collected some surveys from an already pro-vegan community. As we’ve seen from the rhetoric surrounding this situation some vegans will absolutely feed their pets inadequate food and feel good about themselves while doing it.

And the final nail in the coffin:

This research and its publication open access was funded by food awareness organisation ProVeg International (https://proveg.com).

Ahhh… there it is.

HAHAHAHA

Best most relevant meme so far, thank you.

heavy sigh

Vegans be reposting this link everywhere not realizing how silly it makes them look. First, one of its big points is that there hasn’t been much research done into feeding cats vegan diets, mostly because it’s a bad idea.

Some great lines:

Cats on a high-protein vegetarian diet exhibited hypokalemia which accompanied recurrent polymyopathy. There was also increased creatinine kinase activity, likely reflecting the muscle damage caused by the myopathy, and reduced urinary potassium concentrations.

To simplify: even with protein supplements your cats muscles will decay over time.

showed that plasma taurine concentrations decreased by approximately 87% after only 2 weeks on a vegetarian diet (from 122 μmol/L to 16μmol/L). By the end of the 6-week study, there was no detectable taurine in plasma. Taurine concentrations were not different between the potassium-supplemented and non-supplemented groups, with both groups showing this substantial drop in taurine.

To simplify: Taurine supplements didn’t work. Though findings are mixed between all like, 3 studies that tried

In cats fed vegetarian diets that were supplemented with potassium, a myopathy was seen within 2 weeks of the dietary change 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.

To simplify: your car feels like shit and acts like they feel like shit

Weight loss and poor coat condition have also been observed in cats fed vegetarian diets. 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].

Simplify: it was bad. Sometimes it wasn’t so bad, but lots of times it was bad and the owner should feel bad

I can keep going, literally every paragraph has some good “don’t fucking do that” material.

A classic

Everyone listens to me and gives me things. I eventually get shot in the face which causes societal collapse. Or something.