I’m not too knowledgeable about the c/geopolitics community because it wasn’t my cup of tea and I blocked it early on. But I interact with the mod/user in question on !toronto and !leaf_nation. I’m pretty confident they’re an individual who follows the Toronto Maple Leafs and lives in Toronto and not a bot account or professional propaganda account or anything like that. You might find their politics view objectionable. I can’t really speak to that. You can block communities you don’t want to see in your feeds
I hope Biggio ends up on another major league team, and not a tire fire one.
Pitching-wise, I guess we’re currently holding the 5th spot for another week with Bowden Francis (and maybe Trevor Richards) before Yariel Rodríguez presumably gets it going forward the next time through. We do not have a lot of depth.
It’s sad news for Manoah. It seems like he’d worked really hard to get back here after disastrously falling off last year. Now injury. Get well Big Puma!
A high-meat low-carb diet is a pseudo-self-starvation method to lose weight if that works for you. But no one needs that amount of cholesterol and saturated fat, and where are you getting your fibre and micronutrients from? Getting that many calories from protein could be problematic too, and would certainly be off the table for anyone with kidney issues.
Not to mention all the other reasons why meat isn’t great: inefficient use of land/food resources (1:10 conversion of calories), environmental pollution, non-human animal suffering.
Advocating for a high meat diet is absurd and exemplifying all of the confusion peddled by the animal agriculture industry to disguise the obvious solution to eating for health: reduce animal products, and eat a whole food plant-based diet.
If I learned 1 thing from the COVID pandemic, it’s that science doesn’t matter when it’s at odds with established big money continuing to make big money.
Per the WHO, processed meat is in the same category of carcinogen as cigarette smoking. That’s the science. In my locale of Toronto, they sell dollar hotdogs weekly at the ballpark of the professional men’s baseball team. They dump tons of money into advertising and fetishizing binge meat-eating. They try to increase the stadium’s consumption that day well past 40,000 ‘dogs’. Last I checked, colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men and second in women. These dollar hotdogs certainly keep colonoscopists in business.
More money talk. 2/3rds of animal biomass on this planet is ‘livestock’, which is given three-quarters of the antibiotics we produce. A healthy vegan is very unlikely to need diabetes, cholesterol-lowering, or heart disease meds. Most people on North American-ish omnivore diets will be on multiple prescription meds of these classes for decades of their life. They will need colonoscopies every year or two, starting around age 50. They will need hospitalization and maybe surgery after their first angina attack, heart attack, or stroke. They’re essentially a different kind of livestock.
It’s amazing how much taxpayer money goes into preserving this extremely-dettached-from-reality status quo that benefits pharmaceutical companies, the medical industry, and Big Meat. It’s not serving the people who eat North American-ish omnivore diets, the healthcare system, the tortured non-human animals, or the low-paid humans that are probably stuck in those barbaric industries for lack of access to better work
Thanks for posting this, Geezer. This is important news that I’m glad I heard about, and I didn’t see any coverage of it other so-called ‘local news’ outlets. It also introduced me to SP, which has refreshingly few ads and trackers on their website. Great post!
I appreciate your helpfulness, thank you! I’m aware of that setting but ideally I’d be able to set it differently for different feeds (i.e., no bots on my local or subscribed feeds, but bots are okay on my all feed)
I never said from Canadians. I said Canada-centric. In other words, Canada-related. There are more curated instances out there, like beehaw.org. Nevertheless, I appreciate the joke: “Passport required to post” lol
I currently have 2 lemmy accounts: .ca and lemmynsfw. But after sharing my perspective here I did explore other instances and I think it makes sense for me to have 2 non-nsfw accounts. That way I can have 2 different subscribed feeds. I also realized that for one reason or another the All feed on a lemmy.ca instance is pretty inclusive of the larger Lemmy landscape compared to a beehaw.org or lemmy.ml instance. (I compared the 3 without being logged in and the 2 other instances didn’t display as many posts on the All feed as lemmy.ca did - I’m not sure why but I would love to be enlightened by a more knowledgeable lemmy :)
A sort of related more general comment. For the sake of my Local feed, I wish Lemmy.ca was only human-created Canada-centric content. That’s why I signed up to the lemmy.ca instance. A couple week’s prior to this community’s creation there was an influx of bot-run communities. I blocked them, because I don’t want to see 15 Cool Guide or Reddit-based Nostalgia posts in my Local feed, displacing human-created Canada-centric content. It’s not a perfect solution though, because I wouldn’t mind seeing those posts on my All feed. I know from community growth and server cost perspectives it doesn’t make sense to limit who or what can be posted (beyond blocking hate speech and other obviously objectionable material). I wish I could have multiple Subscribed feeds. In lieu of that, maybe I should choose another instance based on Local feed appeal and port Lemmy.ca communities that I like to my subscribed feed
It’s understandable that this person has this much influence, even though it’s not an elected position.
Unelected parliamentary bodies are supposed to support transparency, fairness, and debate - they’re not supposed to take a prominent role in shaping policy and communicating it to the public. I think it’s good that the PBO issues reports from a supposedly non-partisan perspective, but I don’t think it’s good how little oversight they themselves receive, as this incident reveals. The Government and Opposition (or all parties) should get advance copies of the PBO’s reports for public consumption, and the published reports should include that commentary from the Government, Opposition, and/or all parties
That an unelected person or department that’s part of our federal services has had and will have such a huge effect on this country’s politics for several years, the next federal election, and this country’s ability to respond to the growing climate crisis is a cause for concern regarding the integrity of our democracy. An investigation is warranted