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@upRootNutrition @Rado9910 @rockets_enjoyer You know arthropods are a diverse group? Have you actually engaged with the research on this? I'm only asking you why you think the way you do. It has nothing to do with what I do.

@SteffiGiraffe @Rado9910 @rockets_enjoyer Listen, you're free to believe ganglia are sentient. You're free to refrain from showering to spare the lives of the poor mites on your skin, or advocate for brain dead rights so that lifeless bodies stay on life support. You do you.

At this point, I think I'd actually rather date an open-minded carnist than an average vegan. So far, it seems like converting a reasonable omnivore is massively easier than convincing an average vegan that my approach to veganism is ethically defensible.

@upRootNutrition @Rado9910 @rockets_enjoyer But why do you think this? Lots of research suggests otherwise.

@Rado9910 @rockets_enjoyer Bees are probably not sentient. I think the default assumption with arthropods should be non-sentience.

@JaxxUnleashed @Chach18425322 @rickygervais That's a myth. The threats to red squirrels are indirect, through squirrelpox transmission and competition for resources (greys being better at exploiting food sources, not through aggression).

@Chach18425322 @rickygervais I don't care, the grey squirrels have done so much damage to the red squirrel population (and have decimated birds too). You can't re-introduce reds without doing something about the greys, as they'll just attack them again. (They literally rip their nuts off btw.)

About to play tennis, but I’m waiting for this little upside down idiot to finish stealing the bird food so I don’t disturb him.

@TenLetters100 @Aella_Girl How is that rational?

@Aella_Girl Humans are rational beings, therefore there is no justification for killing another human even if they are impaired because they are a part of the human species.

How mentally impaired would a human have to be before it would be ok to kill and eat them?

@flaviaredpanda Not all nutritional yeast has B12 - you need to make sure the one you're eating has been fortified with it.

b12 is made by bacteria, not animals (commercial farm animals are fed b12 supplements). you can just eat nutritional yeast. if you have adequate vit c intake your body can use non-heme iron. light grown mushrooms have vit d. zinc is found in seeds, nuts, and legumes

@RichardDawkins AI chat bots were trained on content produced by conscious beings. That step has been bypassed.

My own title was, “If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?” If Claudia is unconscious, her behaviour shows that an unconscious zombie could survive without consciousness. Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?

#comment-1031777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

@morallawwithin God this is so boring now

Everyone in the world will get to press one of two buttons. Yesterday, a super-accurate predictor predicted how it would turn out. If you press red, you will certainly survive. If you press blue, then you will live if and only if it was predicted that >50% would choose blue.

@tianiferreira @CyberHornet66 @stats_feed Tofu is not ultra-processed

@CyberHornet66 @stats_feed I never said it is necessary but few vegans only eat plants and beans. They include tofu, vegan cheese, vegan milk, and things like vegan meat in their diets. All ultra processed.

Vegetarians have 13% lower cancer risk and vegans 23% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, new meta-analysis finds.

@tugsuumon @stats_feed You don't understand relative risk

Greetings from the Mongolian steppe! 🇲🇳🐎🥩 Mongolians domesticated livestock 10,000 years ago and have been eating meat and dairy as our main diet every single day… right up to this moment. In 10,000 years of that diet? We never once got wiped out by cancer. Cancer wasn’t even recorded in Mongolia until 1990. We understand meat quality better than most: Grain-fed factory meat → highest cancer risk Grass-fed farm meat → medium risk True pasture-raised, wild-grass steppe meat (like ours) → zero risk Nomads didn’t just survive on meat for millennia. We built the largest empire in human history on it. Real food. Real strength. No “modern diseases.” The steppe doesn’t lie. Neither does 10,000 years of unbroken health and conquest. 💪🌾 Who else is tired of the anti-meat propaganda? #RealMeat #CarnivoreAncestors #MongolianDiet #GrassFedNotGrainFed #SteppePower

@ikirigin @waitbutwhy And afterwards they reveal it was a trick and actually it was the other way round, as a way to purge the world of the most selfish 😄

@waitbutwhy You press red for survival. I press red to cull the blue pressers. We are not the same.

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

@LinkofSunshine How about when people don't know the difference between odds and probability?

The most worrying poll I’ve ever seen is one when they asked doctors “1% of the population had disease X. The test has a 99% accuracy rate. If someone tests positive for disease X, what are the odds they’re have disease X” And like 95% of doctors said ~99%. This is their job.

@Testycol @issacc_hunt @BBCNews Or female?! 😂

@issacc_hunt @BBCNews Can you define 'woke'? I'm betting you can't.

Sara Cox replaces Scott Mills on Radio 2 breakfast show bbc.in/4cZLB2q

@BBCNews I'm more interested in who is going to replace Sara Cox!

@GrahamHendry14 @BBCNews You know it's normal for Radio 1 presenters to move to Radio 2, right? It's aimed at 35+ year olds.

@BBCNews It’s all the ex Radio One gang who wrecked that station 20 odd years ago now doing the same thing to Radio 2. It was Jimmy Young, Ken Bruce & Steve Wright who made Radio 2 the station it became. Then they all jumped on the bandwagon

@YouGov Well that's disappointing 🥲

🐙🐙🐙 Here's what Britons think are acceptable plural terms for 'octopus' Octopi: 57% Octopuses: 37% Octopus: 21% Octopodes: 4% (Respondents could choose multiple options)

@John04kim @BBCNews More progressive than we thought

@BBCNews Yo, what kind of country is the UK?

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed bbc.in/4cEfrbq

@David_Cassidy3 @meta_enix @BBCNews Otherwise you'd be banning cigarettes for people who already smoke, which would be a lot less popular.

@meta_enix @BBCNews The 'law' is saying that if you were born on or after Jan 1st 2009, you can never buy cigarettes, even when you're 100- years old - but someone born 1 day before you, can. Complete and utter Liberal nonsense.

@DavidJFoord @AlexTruths @BBCNews Are you sure about that? You might want to do a little googling...

@AlexTruths @BBCNews Why not ban sugar then? Or alcohol? Or processed food? Smoking isn't even the number 1 cause of cancer. The majority already don't smoke.

@tjmussett @nutrition_facts Are you mad?

@nutrition_facts Plants don’t have any fat. We need saturated fat.

Those eating plant-based diets average about twice the estimated daily protein requirement. The myth that proteins from plants are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked decades ago by the scientific community. bit.ly/2HRBT4r

@nutrition_facts ... the lower bioavailability of protein in plants (because of healthy things like fibre) and it should be at least 1g/kg/day. More if you want to build muscle or are older.

@nutrition_facts I certainly didn't average around 90g a day before I deliberately upped my protein intake with powder, and even now I would struggle to reach that. I know lots of other vegans and my diet was not atypical. I have read that 0.8g/kg/day is not sufficient for vegans due to...