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**Are humans carnivores, omnivores, or herbivores?**

https://www.sinergiaanimalinternational.org/single-post/are-humans-carnivores

Unlike **obligate carnivores** like cats that depend entirely on meat for survival, humans show multiple biological traits that align more with herbivores:

- Our **physical features** include:

- Smaller mouths and fleshier lips

- Blunt, flat nails rather than sharp claws

- Teeth lacking carnivores' blade-like carnassials

- Jaw structure similar to herbivores

- Much weaker stomach acid (pH 4-5) compared to carnivores' highly acidic stomachs (pH 1 or less)

- Unlike true carnivores, humans face **significant limitations** with raw meat consumption:

- Careful selection and preparation is required

- Only certain cuts/types of meat can be safely eaten raw

- Special handling and sanitation practices are necessary

- Higher risk of parasites and bacterial infections remains

- Our **intestinal length** is 10-11 times our body length, matching herbivores (10-12 times), while carnivores have much shorter intestines (3-6 times body length)

Modern evidence shows:

- **79 million people** worldwide thrive on fully plant-based diets

- While some people adopt purely carnivorous diets for rapid weight loss, these diets lead to serious health issues including:

- Constipation from lack of fiber

- High cholesterol

- Increased heart disease risk

- General nutrient deficiencies

- Plant-based diets are associated with improved health and reduced risk of severe illness

Beyond human health, **billions of animals** are slaughtered prematurely each year after lives filled with suffering. Choosing a plant-based diet benefits not only human health but also animal welfare and environmental sustainability.

#IKITAO #GoVegan

Not to mention the lack of culinary possibilities available!

People love food so much, they post fucking pictures of it, I'd guess its number 3 to kids and pets on the quantity list😂

This is a thing I've seen happen in my world - a nice walk or bike ride (Broom 😀) has morfed into all the kids moving via battery power now. No more pedaling or pushing a skateboard around my hood, not judging, but definitely noticing....

I can neither confirm nor deny in a Nostr permanent note 😂

Replying to Avatar Nadia

😂

On a serious note - This is the uncle that wants to kiss your newborn and says its just a little "sun blister" - no dude you have herpes, stay the fuck away from my kid 😱

I had this thought reading Jimmy Song's Fiat Ruins Everything. Felt like it pulled the Saif hypothesis from the second half of the Bitcoin Standard and went with it. On that topic, Saif should have left that out of his book because its just so weak in comparison to the first half. I can't recommended The Bitcoin Standard to anyone because that is just a buzz kill that tarnishes the first half by being so opinionated without having the same depth of knowledge in those areas.

Just my 2 SATs...😀

Replying to Avatar Super Testnet

Phase 0. Waiting. Someone requests that the admin do a signing ceremony, such that each pool member will receive X sats of inbound capacity, where X is picked by the person who made the request ("the Requester") and must be below whatever amount the admin has in on-chain bitcoin. The admin's software automatically sets a 30 minute timer and gives the Requester a sharable link for people to join the ceremony. The Requester goes about finding additional people to join the ceremony, and gets to see how many people clicked the link and are waiting. At any point before the 30 minutes are up, the Requester may prompt the admin's software to start the ceremony, and the admin's software will do so as long as the number of people in the room is above a minimum established in their configuration file. If the 30 minutes expire without the Requester starting the ceremony, it aborts.

Phase 1. Admission fee. The admin's software identifies the number of people from phase 0 and calculates an admission fee, based on taking the amount of money to be provided to each as inbound capacity, plus a mining fee divided by however many users there are, and makes a bunch of lightning invoices for the resulting amount. The admin shows this to each person in the signing ceremony. They each have 1 minute to pay. If anyone does not pay, the remaining people are still in there ceremony. If, when the 1 minute is up, the number of people who paid is below a minimum threshold determined in the admin's configuration file, it aborts.

Phase 2. Signing. The admin tells everyone what utxo he will use to fund a multisig composed of every user's pubkey in an n-of-n. Each user independently constructs the funding transaction and all the transactions needed for each user to have a unilateral withdrawal into a channel. The number of signatures which each user must produce is (n**2) + n. Since the number of signatures required is variable, I don't have a static timer; instead, I require each user to send in a batch of data every 10 seconds, and right now I simply require that the number of signatures they've signed so far increases by at least 1. (I should probably raise that to something like 1000.) If anyone fails to send in valid signatures, they are ejected; the admin keeps their money; and he resends the signal to start signing, but only includes the pubkeys who did everything right. So everyone recreates the n-of-n multisig with the new set of pubkeys and starts resigning the funding tx and the unilateral withdrawal transactions. Repeat til everything is signed.

Phase 3. Broadcast. The admin broadcasts the funding transaction, funding the multisig. All of the money is in a state where any user, at any time, can unilaterally withdraw their share into a channel, i.e. a 2 of 2 multisig where the user has a key and the admin has a key. This channel has an initial state whereby all the money is on the admin's side of the channel, thus giving the user maximum inbound capacity. So, if anyone unilaterally withdraws at this stage, the admin will not lose any money; it's all on his side of every channel. The admin also sends every user the set of sigs they need to unilaterally withdraw, and each user validates these signatures before using the channel. Since they know the multisig script, and they validate all the signatures, there is no danger of them being tricked into not having a unilateral exit. But the admin *could* just not send them anything and keep their admission fee, which would constitute theft. So he has to be trusted not to do that, though I imagine admission fees will tend to be small, because that's the point.

Phase 4. Confirmation. Once the funding transaction confirms, it is safe for every user who has validated their withdrawal signatures to use their channel. Although it is not broadcasted yet, each user, as well as the admin, has the signatures necessary to put it on chain at any time. Consequently, they can treat the channel as if it is *already* on-chain. Meaning the user can use it to send and receive lightning payments as well as hedgehog payments, which are asynchronous. I have the admin charge 0 fees to route payments within the pool, which is easy because he has direct channels to each user. I also have him charge 0 fees to route payments to members of any *other* pool that he is the admin for. For payments to other (non-pooled) people, users can use lightning. For on-chain payments, they can use Boltz and competing submarine swap servers. (I will probably eventually have each admin run a submarine swap server too.)

Whoa, I know SuperTestNet...

but I still don't really understand😀

After you've sold all your chairs to stack the extended 5 figure dip.....