Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@tk most of such religious rules are memes that naturally evolved due to spreading via their believers, so it’s not a conscious desire but rather a successful evolutionary tactic.

It’s the same as with some religions forbidding pork. As pork often carried diseases, believers that didn’t eat it were statistically more likely to live on and spread that belief. Cut to 2022 when there are legit people who abstain from pork because they think God forbids it XD

@tk quick reminder that according to Christians any sex other than for the purposes of procreation is a sin, the Catholic Church only recently reluctantly allowed the use of condoms, and even that only because of STDs. Most likely because of the absolute STD shitshow they caused in Africa by preaching that condoms are evil.

@determinerik the ground for growing grass for feed can be much less fertile, and plants are generally much more efficient if you can digest cellulose. Even things like corn which we can only use the seeds of, cows can use the whole plant.

It’s not as black&white as most vegans suggest.

@determinerik has that person ever seen a cow eating? There’s a reason livestock was popular even in the times of widespread famine, herbivores can access nutrients in plants that are inaccessible to us, to the point of being incredibly useful despite the inherent inefficiency of converting feed to meat to then eat that meat.

@Pat ?
I’m Polish. We’re pretty experienced when it comes to russian imperialist tendencies.

@tk are there fanboys that aren’t?

@freemo the server doesn't seem to be handling that too well though, I just came here to post and was welcomed by a "something went wrong" page, and my home timeline ends 9 minutes ago at the time of writing.

The ease and speed at which crypto scams are being exposed is a testament to how much benefit there is to a public ledger. Yes, private individuals need a private cash equivalent to avoid being tracked, stalked, needlessly judged and in some cases oppressed by their governments, but the transparency a public ledger offers for businesses, or rather their clients, is hard to overvalue.

@cy@mstdn.io the control of what we say is limited to what’s in the rules - that’s what good moderation means. Please don’t assume that every moderated space is a hugbox with power-tripping mods selecting views they like.

@LibreSolutionsNetwork sounds like something that didn’t happen, honestly. Most of the “x was declared brain dead but y insisted to keep him alive and x made a full recovery” stories turn out to be straight-up made up, usually to push religious/political agenda or simply for clout.

And the rare actually true cases usually consist of a poor diagnosis and stars-aligning level of luck. Doesn’t stop hundreds of distraught family members from keeping total vegetables with physically destroyed brains alive hoping for a miracle though, and posts like this don’t help.

@rastinza I didn't manage to quickly find a sensible source that goes into details, but according to Wikipedia the LD50 of water for rats is 150 ml/kg. Assuming a similar one for humans, the lethal dose for your 70kg person would be 10.5l, which is indeed more than 6l. That gets more complicated considering different levels of initial hydration and the speed of drinking, but I assume not by 175%.

However when we consider standard drip coffee which according to Wikipedia contains ~145mg per 200ml cup, the volume of coffee you need to drink to achieve the 14g would be ~96.6 cups, meaning 19.3l, which is nearly twice the LD.

So I assume whoever wrote the fun fact didn't use very strong coffee for the "wow" effect. That doesn't make sense for someone legitimately attempting suicide by caffeine, but checks out otherwise.