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  • I think yes and no.

    I was shocked to find out that a lot of people I knew didn’t understand that cows needed to be continually impregnated to produce milk, or that male chicks were culled en masse as part of the chicken flesh and egg industries. So there definitely is a still a lot of ignorance out there.

    I think you’re also right that there’s not a lot of awareness about what a healthy vegan diet looks like.

    Further, I think many don’t understand just how cruel animal agriculture really is. But also, a lot of people just don’t want to look.

    Most people I know understand that I’ve been vegan for years, so it’s obviously possible to live just fine on a vegan diet. Yet for whatever reason, they don’t seem to care enough to change their behaviour.

    It seems to be a combination of anxiety about social exclusion, loss of convenience, loss of pleasure, and fear of change, among others. I find lack of knowledge to be a less common issue.

    It’s honestly been a disheartening experience for me, and I’ve lost some faith in humanity as well as the people I’ve held as friends.


  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzIt's My Nature
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    Yeah, that’s pretty pedantic. xD

    Text emoji is kaomoji, which is the Eastern branch of emoticons, so you’re right, technically it wouldn’t generally include o7, but that’s kinda splitting hairs.

    You’re also right, o7 has more broad uses than F, but they do both get used in a usually tongue-in-cheek “condolences” manner. So you can almost always use o7 in the place of F, but not necessarily the other way around.



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    “o7” is a saluting text emoji. The ‘o’ represents a head, and the ‘7’ is a raised arm. It’s usually used in internet culture when a fictional character dies, or when one dies in a video game.

    Similarly, there’s the “Press F to pay respects” meme, which appeared as a quick time event in a video game cut scene (Call of Duty, I think?), and was adopted into sarcastic use by the internet, so “F” and “o7” are kinda used interchangeably.


  • Does it do any good for all the atheists to down vote every catholic post? Nobody is benefiting from that behavior

    Thanks for the insightful reply!

    To me, the potential issue could be if it wasn’t a very active community, the user might not even recognise they were doing so from c/all, so you might end up banning someone who didn’t know they did anything wrong. But you’re also right, it could certainly have adverse effects on the community, so totally I get where you’re coming from as well.