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Food labeling laws were recently changed so that they didn't need to disclose ingredient changes if the substitutes were "like for like".

The change was in response to supply chain disruptions during covid. Processed food companies were changing recipes weekly in an effort to maintain production and product consistency, and it was impossible to keep ingredients disclosures on packaging up to date.

So you will eat ze bugs after all and won't even know it. You will also eat sawdust, where in North America a highly processed form of it is used as a food bulking agent. It's not digestible, and so the limit has been set to 28% of the product ingredient because any more than that and people notice side effects.

Something to consider which is rarely talked about.

Safety testing is only conducted on adults because it is considered medically unethical to experiment on children.

We know that a child's immune system is has not fully developed, and it undergoes significant changes as a person matures into adulthood.

We also know that a child's immune system responds differently to an adult's with regard to disease. They will even exhibit different symptoms and physical immune response in many cases.

So we have a group of people, whose immune systems have physiologically different immune systems, that also behave in different ways, but we don't know enough about those differences to accurately predict how this complex system will respond in different situations because the ability to study it is limited.

And we choose to take infants, who are on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of immune system variance compared with adults, and target them for immunization based on an assumption that if it's more or less safe for an adult, then it's equally more or less safe for the infant.

That is terrible science. I would not even call it science.

Yes, at the time I opened a bottle of good Aussie red, and toasted the end of this super cycle.

I must say though, I'm really impressed at how good the bankers are at delaying the inevitable. I figured they could kick the can down the road for 3 or 4 years, but not 15.

I hope everyone has receipts. If you can't prove that your BTC was not purchased from the proceeds of some kind of crime, it's gone.

And don't think a cold wallet will save you. It is naive to think that the second you connect that thing, the intelligence agencies can't locate its physical location with incredibly high precision.

The extremely rapid development of Sydney and Perth in Australia, as well as San Francisco in the USA is suspicious as all heck.

At the very least it shows how inaccurate history is because the official narrative relating to these places is obvious BS.

Same deal with NYC and Chicago.

GM NOSTR

Today I am breaking in some buckskin that I soap tanned as an experiment to see how well the tanning technique works compared to brain / egg yolk tanning which I usually do.

I mentioned it because that was Elon's original pitch for SpaceX. Mining asteroids for gold n sheet.

The speed isn't the challenge. The energy expended per ounce extracted is the challenge.

That's why a golden asteroid is the only way to tank gold.

Another challenge is the rising industrial use of gold in a form that isn't recoverable. The global data centers have already eaten 841.5 million ounces.

You guys are crushing it! Relationships and marriage are hard work. Real hard work.

Respect from someone who knows 🙂

I was thinking reality TV where a lot of it is scripted. But things have switched up.

That exchange at the white house... It was like those WWF dramas they used to have back in the late 1980's. You know, Vince McMahon and all the antics that went on outside the ring but still center stage?

The difference here is that back in the WWF, everyone knew it was fake and didn't care. This current situation is clearly fake because the acting is so bad, and yet a whole lot of people think it's real.

Have you ever been to a theatre to watch a movie and there are folks in the crowd who appear to think it's real? Caught up in the moment?

I feel like I'm sitting in a theatre trying to enjoy the show, and the boomers in front of me are losing their shit at the baddie for doing the baddie things, and cheering on the goodie for no particular reason except that the emotive musical score is prompting them to do so.

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It’s fascinating, and concerning, the degree to which we base our interpretation of events on preconceived beliefs.

Within a couple of hours, I’ve seen posts about the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting that range from scorn for how Zelenskyy spoke during the discussion, to abhorrence of how Trump treated the man sitting across from him.

These responses often start from the assumptions of “this guy is a scammer” or “that guy a monster” and I’m just processing how deeply engrained some of our (allegedly) free opinions and beliefs are, when they’re ultimately built on a body of information consumed from partisan sources that we trust, often in spite of the fact that nearly every source of news is biased. It’s only human. But it’s also scary.

I think the best we can do is trust our intuition - does it feel right? It’s also helpful to listen to our emotions, but especially important question those, and their origins, because emotion can mislead.

Personally, I was sickened by the lack of empathy and compassion shown by our country’s leaders. I recognize the Ukraine war issue is extremely fraught, and with the amount of disinformation and propaganda out there, it’s hard to know exactly what’s right. But the fact is, when someone’s country is being systematically demolished, my heart goes out to them. Maybe that’s weak, or naive.

(It’s not).

It was a hard video to watch, especially after spending so much time on Nostr (and none on Twitter), because I have become a bit accustomed to all the good vibes.

I do believe Trump actually wants to end the war. He may be able to get there, and even if the cost to Ukraine is high, the cost of continued warfare is almost certainly higher (although this is highly contingent on what Putin turns his gaze to next).

Trump was clearly triggered enough to revert to “verbally-abusive-parent” mode. I’m not a shrink, but it’s not hard to see. Zelenskyy’s posture was that of man who has watched an ally turn into an abuser. We’ve already extracted enough minerals from the developing world, so now we’ll do it to Ukraine, so long as they agree to let Russia off the hook for the war?

That shit feels wrong, man.

Fuck war 💔

What makes a great software developer or analyst is the ability to be conscious of these base assumptions and inspect them carefully.

Pattern recognition is also a key attribute.

Now regarding the current situation and pattern recognition, I recognize a pattern match with audience participation theatre.

The more I pull on that thread, the more the whole thing makes sense.