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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePirulecy
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    17 days ago

    I’m not saying to only buy music. Concerts are amazing and I love to promote my favorite artists with merch. So do that, plus buy their music instead of pirating.

    Also video games should be pirated, the non-indie games I mean. What a load of junk are games these days. They don’t deserve our money. Indie game devs however, do deserve our money. Provide quality and I happily pay for it. Provide junk and I’ll steal it gladly, only to be disappointed anyway.

    A few weeks ago I pirated the latest Hitman game. I liked it, so I wanted to buy it. When I opened the game, it was just an empty shell. I needed to purchase all the DLC’s too, to get what I pirated before. So I refunded the game, fuck them.


  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePirulecy
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    17 days ago

    But piracy doesn’t help the artist at all. It’s better to buy their album from bandcamp or something. Music artists are having a hard tome with streaming services. I wouldn’t suggest piracy as an alternative. For movies and series however, it’s a different story. Those are made by mega corps trying to squeeze every penny our of their customers, screwing them over and ripping them from rights with fucked up user agreements. Fuck them. But music artists should get our money. So instead of streaming, support them directly by buying their music.









  • Common edible salt, sodium chloride, is properly cleaned for human consumption, this often isn’t the case for animal use. So there can be a lot of dangerous other stuff in there, like heavy metals. Again you list “salt”. What salt? Sodium chloride, potassium chloride, or something else? You know how many salts there are?

    You know how fast we can get too much iron? Supplementing iron is something you should only do when your doctor tells you to. Too much calcium is also bad for your bones (become brittle). This can already happen when you drink milk on a daily basis. I don’t know about the rest, but there’s a chance it’s similarly dangerous to randomly supplement those too.

    If you want cheap electrolytes, buy ORS. Or make your own ORS mix, you can find online how to make it (plain kitchen salt or several salts if you’re fancy, and sugar, in water).



  • I said the article states it “can” be toxic.

    The article:

    A nutritionist told Lead Stories that people should not take animal supplements or medications without medical advice since the products could be toxic for humans.

    So indeed it did not state it “is” toxic, nor did I claim it to be.

    It’s electrolytes dissolved in water. They’re not adding anything dangerous to that.

    Can you support your claim? Do you have the listed ingredients?

    Also, what electrolytes were used? Do you know what they are?

    Wikipedia:

    An electrolyte is a substance that conducts electricity through the movement of ions, but not through the movement of electrons. This includes most soluble salts, acids, and bases, dissolved in a polar solvent like water.

    Not all salts, acids and bases are safe for human consumption while they could be for horses.



  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneElectrulelytes
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    1 month ago

    Like it states in the fact check article, it can be toxic for humans.

    Horses are herbivores, humans omnovores. The stomachs of horses are different to ours. That means there could be certain ingredients which were prepared differently for horses so they are toxic for us, as we lack the ability to digest it the same way as a horse. Like soy for example. The soy used for animal food is toxic for us. The soy used for human consumption is different, of a much higher quality. We can’t digest all soy types properly while herbivores can.

    Another example: horses can eat everything they eat raw. We humans can’t. We need to cook many things otherwise they are toxic (like eggplant) or they are very hard to digest. Horses can eat grass, we really shouldn’t because we can’t digest it properly.

    Conclusion: don’t use products made for animals (food and medicine) even though the ingredients might look safe while they can still be toxic due to different quality or preparation. Except dog and cat food in the US. Both of those are also safe for humans, as people during crisis or extreme poor people tend to eat that so both of those are also brought to FDA standards. But yes, as a European I can agree with you those standards are complete shit. Many FDA safe foods in the US are considered toxic here and aren’t allowed on our market.