Sadly, not the only billionaire pushing for more surveillance.

Another big one is Peter Thiel.

Not tagged NSFW and wrong community.

Good luck in life, hope all is well!

New user:

Don’t forget to report

You Can’t Keep Your Parents’ Skulls [Caitlin Doughty | September 4, 2019 | theatlantic.com]

Under U.S. law, it’s nearly impossible to get permission to decapitate and de-flesh a relative’s remains.

Abuse-of-corpse laws exist for a reason. They protect people’s bodies from being mistreated (ahem, necrophilia). They also prevent a corpse from being snatched from the morgue and used for research or public exhibition without the dead person’s consent. History is littered with such violations. Medical professionals have stolen corpses and even dug up fresh graves to get bodies for dissection and research. Then there are cases like that of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century Mexican woman with a condition called hypertrichosis, which caused hair to grow all over her face and body. After she died, her husband saw that there was money to be made by displaying Pastrana in freak shows, so he took her embalmed and taxidermied corpse on world tour. Pastrana had ceased to be regarded as human; her corpse had become a possession.

So where do skulls on bookcases come from? In the United States, no federal law prevents owning, buying, or selling human remains, unless the remains are Native American. Otherwise, whether you’re able to sell or own human remains is decided by each individual state. At least 38 states have laws that should prevent the sale of human remains, but in reality the laws are vague, confusing, and enforced at random. In one seven-month period in 2012–13, 454 human skulls were listed on eBay, with an average opening bid of just under $650 (eBay subsequently banned the practice).

If there were any legal wiggle room that might allow a person to get Dad’s head liberated from its fleshy shell, Tanya Marsh would know how to find it. Marsh is a law professor and the expert on human-remains law. “I will argue with you all day long,” she told me, “that it isn’t legal in any state in the United States to reduce a human head to a skull.”^[1]

Oh, I knew I heard Mexico had a major reason for that name to stick; thanks for posting!

Owner-class media trust is at an all-time low, but it will be interesting how capitalism continues to change them.

Independent media seems to be going with ads, grassroots funding, and/or membership dues.

It is an awesome life experience when the “Never Meet Your Heroes” saying does not apply!

Quick thinking resulted in a win-win situation, nice!

TIL^[1]

Too much to post text of all months.

Here are the ones just for September:

1. Month Long Events

• Happy Cat Month: Founded by the CATalyst Council
• National Pet Insurance Month

2. Week Long Events

• Third Week in September: Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week

3. September Cat Holidays

• September 1: Ginger Cat Appreciation Day
• September 13: Pet Birth Defect Awareness Day
• Second Sunday of September: National Pet Memorial Day
• Third Thursday of September: Remember Me Thursday® (an international social media awareness day that brings attention to the millions of adoptable pets waiting in shelters and remembers those pets who never got a second chance.^[2]

Feel free to continue to think that way, but I will continue to disagree.

Dissidence =/= troll

Thanks, here is more information about Crikey:

Crikey is an independent Australian source for news, investigations, analysis and opinion focusing on politics, media, economics, health, international affairs, the climate, business, society and culture. We are guided by a deceptively simple, old idea: tell the truth and shame the devil.

I don’t agree with your smears.

I posted the possible source that started this.

Thanks for the chat though.

Joining in the lemmy circle jerk of name calling anyone that does not align to your thinking, nice.

Was this the article that started it? Do you have the thread or would an archived link be required to see it?

Vegan versus meat-based cat food: Guardian-reported health outcomes in 1,369 cats, after controlling for feline demographic factors [Andrew Knight, Alexander Bauer, Hazel Brown | Published: September 13, 2023]^[1]

Abstract

Increasing concerns about environmental sustainability, farmed animal welfare and competition for traditional protein sources, are driving considerable development of alternative pet foods. These include raw meat diets, in vitro meat products, and diets based on novel protein sources including terrestrial plants, insects, yeast, fungi and potentially seaweed. To study health outcomes in cats fed vegan diets compared to those fed meat, we surveyed 1,418 cat guardians, asking about one cat living with them, for at least one year. Among 1,380 respondents involved in cat diet decision-making, health and nutrition was the factor considered most important. 1,369 respondents provided information relating to a single cat fed a meat-based (1,242–91%) or vegan (127–9%) diet for at least a year. We examined seven general indicators of illness. After controlling for age, sex, neutering status and primary location via regression models, the following risk reductions were associated with a vegan diet for average cats: increased veterinary visits– 7.3% reduction, medication use– 14.9% reduction, progression onto therapeutic diet– 54.7% reduction, reported veterinary assessment of being unwell– 3.6% reduction, reported veterinary assessment of more severe illness– 7.6% reduction, guardian opinion of more severe illness– 22.8% reduction. Additionally, the number of health disorders per unwell cat decreased by 15.5%. No reductions were statistically significant. We also examined the prevalence of 22 specific health disorders, using reported veterinary assessments. Forty two percent of cats fed meat, and 37% of those fed vegan diets suffered from at least one disorder. Of these 22 disorders, 15 were most common in cats fed meat, and seven in cats fed vegan diets. Only one difference was statistically significant. Considering these results overall, cats fed vegan diets tended to be healthier than cats fed meat-based diets. This trend was clear and consistent. These results largely concur with previous, similar studies.

liar

Joining in on the lemmy circle jerk of name calling those that don’t fall in line to your status quo.

I am not disputing that claim.

I am pointing out the “science” that started the whole event.

IIRC, it was a reputable source, not just some random website talking conspiracies.

Smear those that don’t follow the status quo.

The lemmy circle jerk continues.

some moderation or the loudest but stupidest would have the rest of us unable to have discussions

I don’t agree on this; it is just using it as an excuse to censor dissent.

Not giving them meat will make them sick and possibly die.

Yes, many on Lemmy pointed that out, and enough reports were made that admins got heavily involved in the managing of the community, which should be a huge concern for those that left Reddit for similar reasons.

Discussions are good for those that can handle critical thinking, but it seems that any “science” not aligning to the status quo will be censored.

This goes back to more enforcement and more interference with what moderators want vs. admins vs. users.

IMO: Like our society and our social media, Lemmy is becoming much more similar to a Police State.^[1].