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You're correct. There's nothing special about taurine delivery, which is the obligate nutrient for obligate carnivores like cats.

>I contend that you are cause of just as much loss of life as I am through your actions. That's patently false. More than 85 billion land animals alone are slaughtered annually for…

That's not the full definition of murder. Here's the rest: - 1: to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice - 2: to slaughter wantonly : SLAY - 3a: to put an en…

> I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it. Do you eat them?

>I'm just not here to impress, and anyone passing judgement about someone else's lack of alcohol consumption is a loser. Seriously. That entirely depends on the reasoning behind ab…

> Who wants to be known as the Christian Christians do; many quite vocally, even aggressively. Thus the pushback.

>Spending that time with dulled senses What exactly is the fear of dulled senses? What are you gaining by being a bit sharper on Friday night that drinkers are losing? Is anything …

>Two indicator lights (red/green) serve as attention getters and ensure a far reaching call function when a respective message is displayed. The red light is used for system and em…

>Sound engineers need to stop needlessly flexing all that dynamic range that modern tools give them, and just produce a watchable movie. Audio component manufacturers have actually…

>WiFi Sucks...Including 6E Outta curiosity, why do you say 6E sucks?

Imagine saying "Awww yisss" as an emoji, only you don't actually have to say "aww yiss."

>Narrator: "It didn't." Yuck. I read HN to avoid these kind of low effort canned responses.

Even textualism is an interpretive process by very human judges.

I've been seeing more and more talk of how global opinions of the US have really taken a hit in the last year. With that in mind, do y'all think as quickly as it went down it can r…

"The RATE is abuse is more important than the mere existence of abuse." So what's an acceptable rate for the murder of PoC due to ongoing systemic racism and abuse of authority at …

" They're trained with guns to aim for parts of the body that make it less likely to kill a target instantly or quickly and instead incapacitates them (of course, with a gun you ca…

"...but police here is trained to shoot to incapacitate, and it generally seems to work." I've never heard of this practice, and the opposite is regularly taught to various armed f…

"Second, why shoot to kill and not to incapacitate? Shoot to kill is a policy. Why is that a policy?" Most armed folks are taught that when you draw a gun it's to neutralize a thre…

|Ethics isn't based on what causes suffering / well-being. Ehh, where we've landed in contemporary, normative-esque based ethics, it kind of is. Where you think ethics gets its imp…

| IP multicast is and always was hopeless. Out of curiosity what do you mean by this? Are you referring to all Multicast solutions? Can I just be specific -- what do you think of D…