misteraven

Long gone, but cooking on some fun stuff you guys will se soon. Been posting bits and pieces in the screen printing thread.

The big update promised hasn’t happened yet. Still waiting on an update from the developers. But hoping the small refinements and optimizations to the environment help. Hopefully it’ll all dial in soon.

I can see both sides of the argument and indeed, people are freakin stupid. But I also believe it's all been engineered as such and that very likely, there's no solution other than to see it run its course. That beings aid, I do not think this is the result of a free market in and of itself. There's a social expectation that someone else (usually government) is expected to come in and take care of you. It's not surprising that from health to personal safety to happiness in general, all seems to be shoved off onto someone else's lap, rather than the individual going into expecting that they are on their own and need to solve it for themselves. Again, I can understand what this is the case and I'm still guilty of it to a degree as well. I'd like to think we can all at least agree that as a society, we aren't taught basic skills like reason, logic or rhetoric. Even science, which is supposed to be a framework to question and learn about the world around you, does a poor job of not devolving into dogma and subject to heavy political influence and bias. In the state we're in, I don't expect society in general to have the brains on their own to read labels, understand nutrition and apply logic, reason and skepticism toward making the right choices. Those are characteristics that now get you cancelled, criticized and into all kinds of trouble. Instead, we're raised learning the food pyramid, which was funded and developed by a lobbying group that also bankrolls the politicians making legislative and policy decisions, while also coordinating on influencing everyone from main stream media to social media to Hollywood to add tailwind behind specific narratives. We're taught that government is watching out for our best intentions and that we can depend on them for everything from education to health advice to health care. Based upon what we see everyday there's no penalty for breaking the poor standards that they were involved in developing. Roundup settled a multi-billion dollar lawsuit around its link to cancer. Yet the FDA has an acceptable minimum standard to how much is allowed in food. Meanwhile Cheerios has been found to be orders of magnitude above that with no consequence. There's so many layers to the problem, but I don't see this as the result of capitalism. Rarthewr what we see is a system born out of cronyism that is allowed to thrive due to government. It's all built on lies, bribes, influence etc and throughout the whole thing there are no meaningful consequences whether you lie about what's in the food, get caught putting full shit in the food or even the flip side... That you live off consuming that shit and then think it's someone else's responsibility to fix your health and pay for it.

Fact that this exists in our country but most others have laws prohibiting this level of fuckery is strong evidence to support my position in my last post. https://www.instagram.com/p/C58FXQHtQEt/?igsh=MnptcHFqc2ljcnR2

This isn’t capitalism. Corporate greed getting strategic advantage via government and their monopoly on controlling everything from what you’re taught in school to what is communicated as news by the media to what is allowed and disallowed through legislation as well as who and how consequences are doled out is something else entirely.

Last post inspired me to start a new thread…

The FDA Charter States: Objectives and Scope of Activities The Committee advises the Commissioner of Food and Drugs or designee in discharging responsibilities as they relate to helping to ensure safe and effective drugs for human use and as required, any other product for which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulatory responsibility. Link: https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/science-board-food-and-drug-administration/charter-science-board-food-and-drug-administration —————————————— Do you actually believe your government gives a fuck about you? Your taxes are squandered to pay for yet another agency that not only does not come close to fulfilling its role and responsibility to you, but is literally going far out of its way to do the opposite. It literally approves the use of proven carcinogens and poisons in your food according to their “acceptable” levels for daily consumption based upon “research” bank rolled by the companies seeking FDA approval. Then do zero when those same companies actually violate those standards by far exceeding the “acceptable” standards for how much poison they”re allowed to put in your food. Most people are so ignorant and distracted or otherwise beaten down to the point that they just don’t care or are addicted to the chemicals and poisons (often used specifically for that reason) that they continue to eat that garbage. And yet, we’re supposed to believe that they actually give a fuck. That we should trust what they have to say about anything at all when even the governments of other nations are like, damn that’s fucked up and “we won’t allow that shit to be inflicted or consumed by our own population”. Fo yourself a favor and get the Trash Panda Food Scanner App and scan the shit you’re buying at the supermarket. Or better yet, shop small and local and try to only at Whole Foods. (Chances are if it has to list ingredients, it’s probably best to not eat it). Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trash-panda-food-scanner/id1539759995 You can also follow accounts like this on Instagram for more info: https://www.instagram.com/thefoodbabe?igsh=MTdveHFodDQzcG90cg==

So besides poisoning you, they’re going to throttle and squeeze out extra profits in doing so. Wendy’s is poison and hopefully more people wake up to that fact and just drive them out of business. But yeah, I get the broader point of this and yeah, pretty nuts. I’m all for what the market can bear to compel mutual transactions so my larger problem with this concept is when governments start doing it for toll roads and shit where getting home quicker costs more so it becomes a case of the poors having to wait in traffic to drive roads that were supposed to be tax payer funded while the rich zip home in surge charged speed lanes.

we already know from the Snowden dump that three letter agencies are paying or subsidizing advanced network surveillance systems for big regional and national chains in exchange for access. Likewise, that pretty much what the Real ID system is doing at the state / municipal government level as well. Not even a secret or conspiracy at this point.

There’s been rumors floating that China has been probing and testing our networks in preparation for their invasion of Taiwan. Who knows if it’s more misinformation and bullshit but theory is that they plan to stir shit up and collapse some of our critical services just before they invade Taiwan so that we’re too busy on our own shit to step into it. Sounds too obvious and basic IMO, but I don’t doubt that at some point one of these nations is going to start doing shit like that. More surprising to me is how none of these splinter groups haven’t crossed the border and started collapsing infrastructure and spreading terror via IEDs along our highway systems. Considering how effective that was in the Middle East and how easy it would be to do, honestly we’re lucky it hasn’t been a thing yet. Ultimately it would have little direct impact, but the terror and disruption that it would cause the rest of the country into being too scared to leave the house or drive anywhere would be catastrophic.

You guys should read the ingredients for coffee creamers and “alternate” milks (almost milk, rice milk, etc). At least those of you in the USA since the FDA is a garbage organization. They’re poisoning you with that crap. Also, get yourself the Trash Panda Food Scanner App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trash-panda-food-scanner/id1539759995

@glorydays where you at?

More relevant as it ages…

Lot of good thought in this thread. Hoping to breath a little life back into it. Curious how many people have evolved their position a bit like vet the last few years. Anyone?