I need to see the nativity scene version of this! But with Xi’s old face on baby Jesus.

Ah I see the confusion. I went back and edited my comment to hopefully make it more clear.

It is but it doesn’t stop a massive corporate industry from growing around it as the original comment implied would happen with cannabis.

Tobacco Industry: “Am I a joke to you?”

Basic, modern human needs such as housing, healthcare, education, nutrition, utilities (electricity, internet, water & sewage), and transportation should never be a means of profit. As with everything, there is a cost to maintaining these systems and to profit off of them inherently means diverting resources away from these systems that serve our society into the pocket of an individual.

The “pro life” party sure seems to get something out of killing people

Obligatory fuck Nintendo!

TilTok likely got my car stolen (Hyundai vulnerability trended on TikTok)

THE RAPTURE WILL HAPP^EN

At this point I feel more threatened by cops than I do by whatever they’re supposed to be “protecting us” from.

“Give us what we want or we’ll shit in the pool and ruin it for everybody.”

I knew this day would come but nonetheless I was not prepared for it…

Stickers put on products by manufacturers or retailers must either be on the product packaging or be made with the material that leaves no residue behind when peeled off.

You seem to assume I’m arguing in favor of vegan cats.

Whether or not a cat can thrive on a vegan diet is irrelevant to me as I don’t own a cat nor do I advise people on how to feed their cats. However, I do have a bias (as we all do) that tells me there is likely more nuance (which you did allude to in your original reply) than the general absolutist sentiment against the idea.

That bias is informed by half-a-lifetime of experience maintaining a loosely plant-based diet myself and witnessing first-hand the fierce compulsion people have to push their uneducated opinions at the mere mention of a plant-based diet. In my experience, there are few other things that can so reliably stir people into a vitriolic frenzy than the suggestion of a plant-based diet.

And to back up that bias, I now have my first negative comment after almost a year on Lemmy :⁠-⁠)

Frankly, you may as well be pulling all that out of your ass since the information you just provided is as good as useless without any reliable sources backing it up (and don’t bother providing any, I’m not here to educate myself on cat diet requirements. If I cared, I would ask a qualified professional not a Lemmy user).

I’m just calling out the hypocrisy in this whole controversy. People do a quick Google search, read “obligate carnivore” in the title of some document and act as if they’ve got a college degree on the subject.

Who knew that so many Lemmy users were experts in the science of dietary nutrition?

These corporate media companies are all the same and are a blight upon our society.

We need more people like you! Thanks for helping us move forward.

I’m jealous! I’d love to do all those things to my house. Unfortunately, I’m priced out of homeownership in my area. So I rent and all the money I’d otherwise be spending on climate-friendly upgrades are instead financing my landlord’s wealth accumulation.

I never really thought about how brown sugar used to just be less refined white sugar…