There’s a direct correlation. Where do you think the money comes from?

That is literally the funniest ASCII drawing I’ve seen.

So according to this article, if there was a high-protein, low-carb food with taurine, it would be nutritionally satisfactory? Taurine is already lab-made and added to most pet foods, including animal-based ones. Protein is easy to separate from carbs in plant-based foods. Pea protein, for example, has a 15:1 protein to carb ratio.

I still don’t see a case for malnutrition. Every article that claims cats can’t be plant based repeat the same “taurine” and “protein” concerns, but again, those are so easily debunked. What magic ingredient of meat is necessary for cats that can’t be found in plants, causing them to die a slow, tortuous life of malnutrition?

Source?

It just feels so petty. Not a single person reading “less cops” was confused by its meaning. I get fighting against misuse of your/you’re, its/it’s, etc. because they can make things harder to read. Fewer and less, though, have the exact same underlying meaning (a reduction).

Wouldn’t it be easy to lie though? Instance B could report 1000 upvotes to Instance C and Instance C would have no way of verifying that. An instance could boost its own numbers pretty easily, pushing agendas to the front page.

The transparency allows for accountability. It would be pretty easy to detect an instance making up user upvotes versus a “just trust this number” system.

It’s not that they’re the enemy - it’s just that the platform is controlled by its users. If an admin goes bad, users have the ability to change instances or stand up instances of their own. We are not tied to a single entity’s will.

I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11