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These findings were compared to Adventists who maintained an otherwise healthy lifestyle but still consumed animal products.

“Many of those non-vegetarian Adventist people in this study were still very health-conscious, so in some ways, it’s amazing that we found anything at all,” said lead author Gary Fraser, an epidemiologist at Loma Linda University.

Actually finding proof of causation in dietary studies is incredibly hard and I’m not at all an expert.

The actual experts about overall cancer risk:

However, they cautioned that more evidence is needed to confirm whether a vegetarian diet lowers overall cancer risk. “The evidence from this study was suggestive of lower risk in vegetarians, but did not quite reach the necessary standard to say more,” researchers concluded.

In the end, health, environment, and the other findings over the years, are all secondary to the actual reason for veganism: reducing unnecessary animal suffering.

Even with all of these extra factors most people don’t seem to be interested in having their moral consistency questioned. So, hopefully this kind of research lowers the barrier for some.

The concept seems pretty clear to me from a quick look on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. [3] It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes.

Also further down:

Animals such as pigs, chickens, and fish are typically recognized as sentient. There is more uncertainty regarding insects, and findings on certain insect species may not be applicable to others.

And if you don't like wikipedia here is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[...] we raise cattle, chickens, and pigs. Evidence from their behavior, their brains, and their evolutionary origins, adduced in Allen 2004, Andrews 2016, and Tye 2016, supports the view that they have mental lives and, importantly, are sentient creatures with likes and dislikes. Even chickens and other “birdbrains” have interesting mental lives. The exhaustive Marino 2017 collects evidence that chickens can adopt others’ visual perspectives, communicate deceptively, engage in arithmetic and simple logical reasoning, and keep track of pecking orders and short increments of time. Their personalities vary with respect to boldness, self-control, and vigilance.

They claim it is an open-source model but at least for now it has a custom unspecified license. I hope they change that before the actual release because right now I wouldn’t even call it open-weight

Looks good! I did see multiple places that were listed as 100% vegan even though they were tagged ‘diet:vegan=yes’ and not ‘diet:vegan=only’. I know for a fact these places aren’t vegan only, so is it possible to see how a listing was established?

There is an existing OSM based map https://veggiekarte.de/ that also has filtering options. The biggest issue is that OSM doesn’t have much detail on POIs and they’re often out of date. Even in Western Europe where most other stuff is up to date. Mostly because POIs require on the ground surveys which only a handful of contributors can do in more than one region.

So, please consider contributing to OSM using simple apps like StreetComplete or EveryDoor if you have some spare time.

Found it by looking up dark mode Firewatch wallpapers.

Edit: Didn’t find higher resolutions of this specific one. But here are slightly different but higher resolutions variants: https://imgur.com/a/jvkoP

And the second one in this list

I’m not defending the meme at all. I agreed with the point immediately in the first sentence. I just interpreted the tone of some remarks to be a bit condescending and gave a recommendation based on my opinion on that. Do with it what you want. I’m not here to force any view onto you.

I agree with your first point and I really dislike the amount of misinformation flowing around on both sides, but spending even a little time online will show that is just humans being humans on any topic.

Since any other reference probably wouldn't work here, have one from one of those holistic medicine places

I’m not sure if I’m reading it right, but are you saying that people here, so vegans, don’t trust normal scientific evidence and are only here to reinforce their beliefs by excluding proper evidence? That sounds kind of patronising and implies people are only vegan because of their biased world view instead of proper ethics and science.

[…] to promote a hobby.

This also sounds dismissive of veganism and rude towards people that try their best to reduce harm in a part of their life. Vegans do it because they see it as necessary to live ethically consistent. This is not something done for ✨fun✨.

I would recommend leaving these unnecessary remarks out of your comments if you want to address misinformation such as in this post more effectively while also coming off more respectful.

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6#mtp-guide
Unsloth made a guide and has graphs with comparisons

You can also contribute to OpenStreetMap in your area using simple apps like StreetComplete or EveryDoor. This has a way lower barrier to entry than contributing code in my opinion. And it has the immediate benefit of a better local map for a LOT of services that are built on top of OSM.

As long as the moderation follows their rules, and it is always as transparent as shown in this example, I don’t see an issue with this.

My only concern is that LLMs are very good at recognising biases in questions and are more likely to confirm them than push back. So the LLM might pay too much attention to small/possible infringements. But this depends heavily on the model, the prompt, and the reader.

I’m really not fond of the profiling by automated means, but it seems like an inevitable consequence of the design of the threadiverse. Everything is public and easily accessible by anyone that would like to profile you.

I certainly disapprove of moderation based on ideology. Moderation should be based on quality of the content and if it fits in the publicly readable rules. Definitely not some hidden analytics or if the user completely fits in the in-group of the moderator.

I will admit that this might be a good way to find and filter out LLM based bots that are only there to promote or manipulate the conversation. But it should still be done according to public rules.