Then cream of wheat, broth, and mashed potatoes shall you eat. Did your surgeon say if you’ll be able to use sauces and spices? If so, a little tiny bit of olive oil followed by some garlic powder and maybe a drizzle of BBQ sauce in the mashed potatoes makes them to down a lot easier (gravy likewise if that’s allowed). Heavy whipping cream in vegetable or chicken broth along with some miscellaneous spices like Italian seasoning, garlic and onion powder, pepper, etc. will surely make it less healthy but could make it a bit tastier. Cream of wheat can have some pumpkin spice in it and maybe a drizzle of maple syrup (the real stuff).

That being said, do absolutely none of what I’ve just said unless your oral surgeon advises you that you can. I would check any notes the surgeon might’ve given you and call their office to see if maybe this is something the receptionist would know. If not and you’re not able to communicate with the surgeon directly, then be conservative: this is your health. If anything, you can rationalize it as a way to get even more out of food once your new implants are here!

Like other commenters have suggested too, if you call their offices, I would ask about meal replacement shakes. The plant-based ones I drink on occasion have 32g of protein, and they have a good flavor and texture and make me feel full for a pretty long while.

How dare you!! Here’s why you need to be vegan right now by the way grumble grumble grumble

Hey, that’s okay. It takes strength to recognize, own up to, and grow from it; that’s all you can really ask after the fact. Fuck knows I’ve read like a paragraph of an article before and gotten majorly called out.

So you crossed out the part about her staying in prison but didn’t bother to re-evaluate the rest of your comment when she denounced Trump and everyone who stormed the Capitol multiple times?

Screenshots to Twitter aren’t allowed either. If an activist org “captures photos of animal abuse by some major company” (I’m assuming good faith that you’re actually vegan and not just concern trolling), then 1) that activist org shouldn’t be on a neo-Nazi cesspool like Twitter (let alone exclusively), and we shouldn’t be rewarding that behavior, and 2) every vegan here already knows about the horrors of the meat industry. Animal abuse is going on fucking literally everywhere; the vegans already know it and have seen mountains of traumatizing evidence, and if anyone not vegan can watch the documentary Dominion (2018) and not understand that abuse is happening and is bad, then photos from a random activist org on Twitter aren’t going to move the needle. Even if you successfully made the argument it would, there are thousands of credible images and videos of animal abuse to draw from outside of Twitter. While there’s merit to keeping track of ongoing abuse, the positives don’t even nearly outweigh the negatives of platforming neo-Nazis, let alone because the idea that this scenario would happen in the first place seems farfetched. What vegan activist orgs do you follow that aren’t already on another platform than Twitter? Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Meanwhile, what the fuck is this second one? “Some evil org posts something clearly indicating that they’ve committed a crime” ??? Yeah, all those evil organizations going and documenting their own animal product-related crimes on Twitter, which is somehow not reported by any third-party news outlet. Nah, it’s gotta be a link to Twitter so we can expose all those evil orgs for their crimes they apparently blatantly publicize anyway and show everyone what’s up. This is why I said in the first paragraph I’m desperately trying to assume you’re not concern trolling, because this is the flimsiest, most contrived pretext for keeping a neo-Nazi platform I could possibly imagine.

If someone posts a screenshot of someone saying something on X, they should be temp banned unless they provide a link that authenticates their claim.

This is so disengaged with the rationale in the post that I legitimately don’t even understand what you’re saying. This isn’t about fighting mis/disinformation (although indirectly it is since Twitter is a cesspool of it); it’s about not harming our fellow man by normalizing and platforming neo-Nazism and other forms of bigotry. Temp banned for what? Nobody’s getting temp banned for posting Twitter stuff; their post/comment would be removed, they’d get a DM telling them about the rule, and then they could be temp-banned if they continue to do it multiple times thereafter knowing the rule exists.

Providing proof is not the same thing as supporting something

Name literally one instance where someone would want to reference Twitter for proof of anything and why this could plausibly be important enough to this community to warrant hegemonizing fascism. Again, I don’t even know what this comment is talking about.

we can link to xcancel or other twitter alt frontends

That only serves to legitimize Twitter as a hegemony. It’s the same exact problem just with a layer of misdirection. What we do as vegans is identify a problem causing harm to our fellow animal and refuse to participate in it, not come up with some up with some convoluted bullshit to soothe our cognitive dissonance that lets us pretend we’re boycotting when we aren’t.

My point being I see no reason why Kickstarter can’t be for kickstarting the rapid scaling of a free, available-to-all project when it can be for rampant, unadulterated scams. This is easily within the spirit if not the letter of Kickstarter, unlike the scams which fit the letter but not the spirit.

That’s my point: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo is filled with extraordinarily obvious scams, yet this person’s trying to act like there’a some sanctity to the semantics rather than the spirit of them.

Yeah, no, not at all. I’d feel intensely uncomfortable using Sup for anything when something like Signal exists. The network effect issue is the exact same on both platforms, so why am I going to take the most trusted communication application and protocol in the world and choose Sup which is the work of a single dev with no obvious background in cybersec, let alone the kind of math necessary to properly understand encryption?

Had a strong hunch you’d be onboard, veganpizza. lol

Hey Aqua, no problem! I’m sorry I didn’t DM you; I didn’t know at the time that you were a moderator. I knew veganpizza and jerkface would approve of this (I’m like 99.99% sure), but I would’ve sent you a message asking your thoughts otherwise since I knew almost nothing about you.

Oh no, someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign by checks notes raising money to scale up a project that can benefit everyone (thus kickstarting the scaling effort) instead of selling a $250 plastic brick that generates far-infrared waves using no electricity in order to “stabilise” your car’s battery which you velcro the brick on top of (okay, that one was an IndieGoGo, but same difference).

Don’t get me wrong, the other moderators don’t have to take moderative action against this if they don’t see it as worth their time to enforce; I’ll be around for that. If it had been anything even somewhat more controversial, I would’ve DM’d them collectively, and I mentioned this hadn’t been run by the other mods in case this was an idea they wanted to scrap.

What I do know of the other moderators told me they’d be enthused about the idea: gredo and iGxC aren’t around anymore to my knowledge; veganpizza who’s been around longer than I have posted a video of Musk sieg heiling 10 hours ago; jerkface and I aren’t on good speaking terms after the incident with Beaver some months ago if you remember that, but one thing I’m entirely certain of is that they’re willing to take even drastic actions to speak truth to power; and Aqua I definitely should’ve DM’d since they and I don’t actually know each other yet. That last one is just plainly a fuck-up on my part since I didn’t realize there was a new moderator (moderation tools are very poor, including seemingly no proper notification of a new mod being added). Sorry, @Aqua@lemmy.vg.

Thanks for asking! I was waffling back and forth for a while about whether that was an “extra” step or if it’s functionally the same action as removing links, and I’m confident now that it’s the exact same ethical issues at play with no meaningful distinction in terms of the overall harm.

I was giving this some thought before you asked, which is why the post just specifies links. On Wikipedia, we have this understanding with deprecated sources like the Daily Mail that anything worthy of inclusion in an article will reasonably be covered in other actually reliable sources. I think basically any notable or newsworthy information about veganism can be found off of the Nazi platform. In the rare event it can’t, so be it; letting a neo-Nazi propaganda hub have a stranglehold on breaking news only perpetuates this problem, and it 1) advertises users to go there and 2) sends a message to users posting breaking news to Twitter/X that what they post there will still get signal-boosted off-site.

Thus, I’d say “no”.

Wikipedia editor here; there’s some nuance. This article is listed as a Good Article, meaning it’s been reviewed by another (almost certainly) experienced editor for verifiability, prose and style, coverage, neutrality, stability, etc. This was attained in 2013, and especially for such a prominent article, slipping below those standards is a recipe to get GA status revoked. Presumably this note is summarizing a large portion of coverage by Wikipedia and thus a variety of sources. You want to read and cite all of the sources rather than Wikipedia in something like a research paper, but for just a community note, there’s really nothing wrong with this.

“Here’s my angry, unpopular, barely coherent diatribe apropos of nothing about this large and diverse group of people definitely being angry and hostile.”

Not only is this completely untrue, but a plant-based diet over an omnivorous one comes with multifarious benefits to short- and long-term health.

I wish they would put the official app on F-Droid. I use PixelDroid, but it’d still be nice to try.

Flat Earth is exactly tantamount to claiming that ADHD doesn’t exist or that climate change isn’t real – in fact, it’s actively far less rooted in reality than either of those two already incredibly dumb takes.