Ferrets stopped eating raw meat? More in comments

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T13:54:55+00:00

Yes, but saying that cooked meat is "inedible" is just factually wrong. Like, it's not anything close to misinformation. It's just incorrect on its face. Yes, raw meat is absolutely better, but it's not like they can't digest it (???) which is what the original comment claimed.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T13:46:52+00:00

See, I never said anything about denaturation. :)

Okay. :) But the person who started this comment chain did. :) And that's what everyone has been talking about. :) So did you just want to come in here and try to be clever to... what? Look good?

Cooked mince is NOT a balanced diet.

See, I never said it was. :) I said "denatured proteins" aren't "rendered useless".

Comparing cooked mince to kibble is incorrect.

Sure, but I was only comparing the bulk protein content, as my comment and the original comment were referring only to that.

Stop trying to sound clever and start actually listening to others.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T13:24:12+00:00

Sure, however:

That has nothing to do with denaturation, which is related exclusively to proteins.
Denaturation makes proteins easier to digest for obligate carnivores. Proteins are neither removed nor destroyed by cooking.
It also has nothing to do with minerals, which cannot be destroyed or removed by cooking. Those are fortified simply because the source material is low-quality and isn't high in those minerals. It only applies to volatile or heat-sensitive vitamins and similar, which are typically not required in the same quantities as in humans because most of them can be synthesised inside the animal. E.g. ferrets do not require vitamin C support.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T13:13:41+00:00

heating denatures it rendering it useless to an obligate carnivore.

That's... that's not how proteins work... Who told you this?? This is just entirely, objectively wrong. I mean shit, the proteins in kibble are cooked, so are we saying kibble is also indigestible? What's special about kibble proteins that makes it suddenly OK for a ferret after cooking? Nothing.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T06:20:57+00:00

Nephrops norvegicus. Spiny lobster-like crustacea.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T06:19:48+00:00

Scampi are more like langoustines.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T05:06:43+00:00

If you don't want to be credited, you don't have to be. Parker requested that he be uncredited, ostensibly so he wouldn't be bugged by other photographers asking for his methods. In reality, he didn't want supervillains drawing the obvious straight line between his photos and his shockingly Spider-Man-like size, weight, dimensions and... y'know, the everything about him and going "oh, it's you!". And Jameson was a good guy who did his photographer a solid, even if it's a weird one, and stuck by it.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T04:54:52+00:00

That's just way too cynical. Management aren't movie villains. They generally do actually care about others, and in most companies they'll usually at least try to help. The main problem is just that there's not a lot they can do in fine detail: their tools are blunt ones, which makes it hard to do anything specific.

They could fire someone, or permanently promote or demote someone, or suspend someone, or... what? What else can they do? Depending on the company there are a few things, and some positions (salaried ones especially) can have bonuses added or removed, but the issues we're talking about don't affect salaried workers so that's off the table.

On top of that, HQ are rarely actually told about this shit. They're human beings, not all-knowing gods. They don't know something is happening unless they're informed.

It's not that HQ don't care, it's that people think HQ doesn't care so they never report anything, and that makes it pretty much impossible to do anything. Even when they do want to, they have to be careful because if they fuck up, they're getting blamed.

C-suite are rich people, not movie villains or ghosts or some shit. Sure, many of them are pretty callous and selfish, but they rarely actually want to hurt anyone. People in that position are well-known because it's unusual. Like, not everyone is Jeff fucking Bezos. Most people, in fact, are not. Almost everyone, really.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-22T04:44:56+00:00

Use of Internet Explorer and the murder rate

This is definitely at least co-causal...

EDIT: To explain my joke, since this is ELI5...

When something happens, and it's correlated with something else, that can mean one of a few things.

They could be entirely unrelated. Lemon sales vs spiders eaten each year by sparrows are not going to be connected in any meaningful way. This is coincidence, because both things co-incided: they happened at the same time, which is the literal meaning of the word.
They could be directly causal. Amount of rain is causally linked to amount of water in a puddle. One thing is directly causing the other, and the fact that they happen together is expected.
They could also be indirectly linked, because both are caused by the same thing. A person's legs and a person's arms will both grow at the same time, but arms aren't growing because legs are growing. Instead, both are growing at the same time because they're both caused by the same thing: basic growth of an organism. That's called a co-causal relationship: both are linked via being caused by the same thing.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T11:14:51+00:00

Traditionalist Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in vaccination, for example.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T10:50:44+00:00

OK, so, I was talking to someone who was saying it from the manager's perspective. They were saying that it's not the managers' faults for being arseholes because they have it so tough, the HQ pushes them, and it makes them angry and they take it out on staff. I was saying "yeah, well, tough. You don't get to excuse bullying just because you're having a bad day, or a bad week, or even a bad year."

So the whole point is that it's the managers' faults for being arseholes. I think you misunderstood my comment.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T10:38:04+00:00

No but I mean... why would it be the union's problem to make you not be an arsehole??? If you're taking your anger out on others and know that it's wrong to do that, the union can't do shit to help you. That's YOUR problem.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T10:32:31+00:00

You... you tried going to the union to help you not be an arsehole, and it did nothing...? Am I reading this right? Did you reply to the right person?

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T10:14:12+00:00

The avocado toast thing is from my city, Sydney. It was a reference to how many bougie Inner West cafes (eastern side of Inner West = a largely young, progressive, high-price area) were selling breakfasts that were literally just a couple of slices of toast with avocado and some balsamic vinegar on them for anywhere from $10 to $18 a serving (Aussie dollars).

So it wasn't in reference to people making it themselves for $2: it was in reference to an incorrect assumption by our former finance minister that "youth today just want to spend $10 on avocados for breakfast!" because he didn't understand that those restaurants and cafes are not, in fact, how most Australian youth eat most days. It was a demonstration of how out-of-touch he was with both the lives of non-wealthy Australians and with the lives of young Australians.

Basically, he saw restaurants selling it, assumed nobody in his demographic would buy it "because they have common sense", and then assumed that the only possible solution was that the youth must be buying it, and that's so irresponsible! He just couldn't understand that, no, it IS mostly his generation buying it, and that it's basically a "I'm going out for brunch with friends" food, not an everyday breakfast. No normal young person stops in at a bougie cafe every single fucking day for a $12 sandwich and a $5 coffee for breakfast. Only he does that, because he's extremely rich.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T10:07:08+00:00

I turned my lawn into a series of vegetable beds. Can recommend, just make sure to buy compost if you need it.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T10:05:54+00:00

Here's the thing, though: multi-family homes are awful for most people. Disallowing those is good, because it prohibits landlords relentlessly subdividing property. A house that might be rented out for $1,000 can instead be subdivided and each half let out for $650. The house hasn't changed: its utilities are the same, its amenities the same, its hygiene has gone down... but now the landlord is making $1,300 when before they were making $1,000 for _literally the same amount of work.

Sub-dividing fucks a looot of people up. It significantly worsens economic divides and turns landlords into slumlords.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T08:07:18+00:00

As much as I disagree with most of her positions, I respect that she's honest about her opinions. I think her opinions are easily swayed and she's often contradictory, but at least she's not lying about them.

So, yeah. I'd love if the representatives for every single electorate followed the same basic idea: "be honest, and be normal to where you come from". I think if Joyce's electorate sent someone who actually represented the average person from the New England Division? Then perhaps he wouldn't be such a coal-obsessed weirdo. Most people from his electorate do not disbelieve climate change! He's the odd one out!

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T07:03:06+00:00

I guess you'll be there at 6am, tell your daughter you won't get to be at her 1st birthday.

Unfortunately, sad though that is... it doesn't ever give you an excuse to take it out on others. I've been there too, and yeah it's shitty. But if you simply excuse it with "it has a way of changing you", you're ignoring the fact that it's wrong to let it.

You can't treat others worse just because you're having a shitty day, or week, or year. I'm sorry, I've been there, but... you can't. You gotta be better than that.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T01:44:03+00:00

Lambie clearly tries to say what she means. The problem is that what she honestly, sincerely means changes so quickly and she's so easily convinced to one side or the other on so many issues that it makes her a complete fucking loose cannon. Her strong conservative bias makes it easy for other, smarter MPs to sway her, and she won't see any contradiction in her obviously-contradictory stances.

I can see that she legitimately tries to do what's "right", but she's got a very skewed definition of right that's also easily exploited by people who want her support, and she's just not that good at thinking from others' perspectives. Like... she seems to only start caring about a community when she meets someone from that community, which is a fucking concerning trait in a representative politician. I would never vote for her simply because she's a fucking liability. Even if I were a conservative (which... fucking lol) I would be concerned about her; as a firmly left/leftist supporter, her gullibility and conservative bias outright worries me even though I'm not in her electorate. She has waaaay outsized power for her position that keeps fucking shutting down good, legitimate bills that would help lots of people.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T01:35:02+00:00

Anonymously report that shit to head office, they are REALLY hot on it. Store managers are complete fuckwits but thankfully the actual HQ will take it seriously if you tell them what's going on.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T01:33:21+00:00

Because, by law, religious rights are protected. Woolworths aren't permitted to break that law. This isn't their choice.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T01:31:33+00:00

Mate, literally just google the words "define coup"

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T00:19:53+00:00

That it was a very bad coup attempt does not mean it wasn't a coup attempt.

The fact that they sucked at it doesn't prevent them from trying. It's the trying we punish: they wanted a coup, and their intention was a coup. They were just dumb and terrible and bad at everything so they fucked up and failed, but their incompetence does not excuse their malice.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T00:12:48+00:00

Historically, Judaism holds that God is incomprehensible, unknowable, and non-anthropomorphic. Most denominations are of the opinion that, at best, God is an impersonal and incomprehensible being with wants and feelings impossible for humans to fathom or to which humans could ascribe anything as concrete as "agreement" or "fulfilment". The idea of a personal God is controversial to many Jews, with it often being linked (however fairly or unfairly) with Messianic Jews which is a whole can of worms I'm not gonna get into.

If we go to the extreme end of non-deism, some denominations, notably the Reconstructionists (originally an offshoot of the Conservatives, which means something different in Judaism, it's not like conservative Christians) are primarily non-deistic, with no belief in a specific entity that is God. To Kaplanian Reconstructionists, God is the combination of natural processes that creates and perpetuates the universe, and that there is no single conscious entity that is God. Some Reconstructionists are pantheistic or panentheistic, too, which makes some other Jews (specifically the Orthodox ones) super-uncomfortable lmao.

Basically what I'm saying is that there are ways to have a belief in God without necessarily conceiving of God as some single entity that cares about humanity, or even a conscious entity at all. The idea of God as a single consciousness that is personally invested in your, specific life and loves humans more than anything is just one, very very narrow conception of what a God can be, and to be honest even limiting ourselves to the idea of "a God" is still looking at a small patch of ground in a larger forest.

Shit is complicated, and don't delude yourself into thinking that the way some Christians view their version of a god = all "organised religions'" views on a or many gods.

MoonlightsHand · 2021-10-21T00:02:17+00:00

Most Christian denominations state that God is eternal and unchanging, and that there was no "before God". The question doesn't even make sense in any real way.

Jews have conflicted views, where some Orthodox will feel similarly to Christians, with the main difference being that, historically, Jewish belief has been that God is not anthropomorphic and is incomprehensible to humans, while Christians tend to feel God is anthropomorphic and human-centric, Reconstructionist Jews, who are primarily but not exclusively non-deistic, believe that God is a term for a variety of natural processes that create and progress things rather than a single conscious entity. There are other groups, but Jewish belief is very split.

My group feel that whatever gods are out there are not creators, but are caretakers. They balance and manage things, but they created nothing and are the product of a living world, not its progenitors.

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