My friend and I were just taking about this very issue Saturday night with our wives when we were coming home from listening to a band. No, once a week is not enough.

I am totally stealing this 😁

What kind of volunteer work/help are you looking for?

I love seeing new CPRs (Centralized Platform Refugees) come over to Nostr.

I love the initial enthusiasm as the realization hits that this protocol is radically different from everything they are used to.

I love the nonstop note-posting when they first join.

But…

Sadly, many do not last.

They can’t get the same dopamine fix on Nostr that the centralized platforms deliver so effectively…

They are free, and yet they yearn to return to their cage.

But that’s okay. Everyone is free to do what they want, and Nostr will be here (and better than ever) when they eventually return. And they WILL return.

So, cheers to those of you that continue showing up on Nostr every single day, posting your thoughts, sharing your lives, sharing your art, sharing your music, sharing your podcasts, sharing your memes, sharing your feet, hosting meatspace conferences, and engaging in meaningful conversations with this small but powerful network.

You know who you are 🫂

And of course, cheers to the people who make all of this possible: the developers who write the code that allows all of us to have this incredible experience

Nostr is just getting started.

Rebrand continues. Who in their right mind would think this is genuine?

I bet you don't let him shower just so you can enjoy his masculine phermones for the month following this.

Well, in the US you have a major problem with the tuna you eat in 99% of the supermarket sushi, which is the main channel for sushi, for example.

It's mostly dog shit grade tuna that has been in the hold of a wooden boat in a tropical country for two weeks before being offloaded. The tuna is not toxic yet, but it's on the verge. It's also, let's say, not red in color. Rather grey-brown-green. The sort of color that you would immediately reject if you were told to eat it, especially raw.

But decades ago some enterprising people figured out that if you gas the tuna with carbon monoxide, you can turn it some sort of extremely unnatural fluorescent bright pink hue. It's a purely chemical reaction that does not "revert" anything. The fish is still going bad -- but it will not ever change color again. So you can literally be eating rotten, toxin-laden tuna, and lack the visual cue to tell you that (the color).

There have been deaths due to this worldwide, so the practice has been banned in the EU, Japan, even China for the last twenty years... But not in the US. I could tell you a lot of dirty little details about how this story went down, but I won't. In short: your beef is gassed as well.

Now, good for the EU, you'll say. Well, no. After all this cracking down (which continues today), the EU turns around and allows ANOTHER type of manipulation (that's coming to the US now, by the way), that has exactly the same risks. It's just a different set of chemicals from the ascorbic acid family ("vitamin C", but not it) that are added "to preserve the color" of tuna, exactly the same that CO does, but even worse, because these are chemicals that are literally injected into the tuna flesh (plus a lot of water, so there's double fraud).

This tuna has become absolutely prevalent in Europe now. It's the default in all supermarkets, both in the frozen section, at the fish counter and in sushi. And yet, the EU doesn't ban it. Why?

Well, it's 2024, and I guess just as the US has its beef lobby, Europe has other lobbies, including the large fishing and seafood trading and processing companies in Spain, France and the Netherlands, who sell literally tens of thousands of tons of this crap continent-wide.

My point being, fiat food is everywhere and it's a strategy against the people. The process may be more advanced in the US, for local reasons. But in Europe it's progressing as well.

Whenever you hear about such and such new "protection" by EU authorities, rest assure what they mean is protection of some agri-food lobby pushed by one of the member States (especially France). Not the consumer.

I agree. That's why I prefaced my note with "You'd be surprised". There are other things going on closer to my niche (fish and seafood) that are also quite shocking.

Is he one of those crazy people that do the 100mile race in Manoa!??

if I start following every advice about how our food is toxic, i might as will die of hunger.

it is so tiresome.

I am a European who happens to work in the US food industry. You'd be surprised.

Definitely anything is better than the US and China in terms of regulation, but the differences we all find between Europe and the US are more closely related to the way distribution is handled than to what's allowed and not.

Europe is A LOT denser, and our distribution is A LOT better in all senses. We have better cold chain, better infrastructure, better central markets... We have quicker access to better food that doesn't need to travel in a truck for a week before it gets to the first distribution hub.

Second, and very important too, culturally speaking, we simply eat more whole foods and cook more than Americans do.

True, but it seems that the trend in the EU is slowly reversing regarding food safety. For instance, the EU recently authorized the used of insect-based flour in foods in substitution to plant-based flour and no labeling is required which makes it hard for consumers to avoid produces containing insect-based flours.

As I understand it, "organic" is basically a BS distinction. Just lower thresholds for herbicides & pesticides which is not the same as none. And not everything is actually tested.

One of the many reasons why carnivore is a significantly better way to eat.