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Perhaps "wine is a scam" would have got your followers attention 😅?

No, not at all. It's just those first few words ("organic wine is a scam") that, in my opinion at least, push readers into an entirely unhelpful frame to think about this problem (organic vs non-organic). You nuance it a lot later on but half the readers only read the headline

Organic farmers aren't scamming anyone, it's pesticide producers and intensive farmers that knowingly and unknowingly destroy the value of organic farmers hard work, as well as people's health, fertility and the natural world in general

This one was from a few days ago. Happy with the photo (spontaneous and with a phone) and the coffee is great too ☕😁

The answer to your question is always 1990's metal and grunge 🤘🎸

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Isn't SUI just another centralized shitcoin scam, including a foundation, "tokenomics", proof of stake and massive premine?

If there's anything I learned about Bitcoin in the past 8 years it's that it doesn't need shitcoins to scale. It scales in layers, as money always has. Lightning, and maybe Ark too in the future, is an excellent layer 2 solution. Ecash and custodial lightning might be "good enough" as a 3rd layer.

I fully understand. I haven't even tried Yakihonne yet myself.

The great thing about Nostr though is that you can try both clients simultaneously with the same nsec (your secret key) and find out which one you prefer

GM and welcome! Nostr is still a bit rough around the edges, but you'll get used to it soon enough and things are improving all the time

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Replying to Avatar Ben Justman🍷

Organic wine is a scam.

The label might say it’s clean.

That doesn’t mean it is.

Glyphosate still shows up in bottles labeled organic.🍷👇

Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup.

It’s used in vineyards to kill weeds around the base of vines. Easy to spray. Cheap to apply. Hard to keep out once it's there.

Glyphosate exposure is linked to:

- Increased cancer risk, especially non-Hodgkin lymphoma

- Endocrine disruption

- Gut microbiome damage

Glyphosate use is off the charts in U.S. agriculture, but when it comes to wine, California is the hotspot.

It’s heavily used in conventional vineyards up and down the state. That makes California wines especially vulnerable to glyphosate residues, even when the winery itself follows organic practices.

Organic farming bans glyphosate use.

But it doesn’t stop drift from neighboring vineyards, runoff from shared water, or carryover from shared equipment.

Even if a vineyard plays by the rules, those rules have a lot of holes.

The Organic label offers comfort, but not certainty

What the Tests Say

Independent testing has found glyphosate in both conventional and organic wines.

Levels in organic bottles are often lower, but not zero.

And while these levels are well below the EPA’s legal limit of 30 parts per million, microdoses add up as newer research suggests even trace amounts can do harm.

Buying organic helps. But it isn’t enough.

Here’s what actually matters:

Shake your Producer's Hand.

Ask how they grow. Ask if they spray. Small, transparent winemakers will tell you the truth.

or choose wines from places where glyphosate is banned or restricted.

France, Austria, and Germany are leading the way. Certain parts of Italy too.

The wine industry reminds me a lot of the crypto world.

Some winemakers take the slow, grounded, Bitcoin-like approach, while others hide behind buzzwords, status, and crypto-smoke.

From the outside, it’s hard to tell the difference.

Follow along. Let’s peek behind the veil together.

Your reNosts mean the world to me.

Why did you choose to start with "organic wine is a scam" and then continue to (correctly) explain that the real scam here is the pesticide industry and intensive agriculture.

Good luck to all Americans with their upcoming "deregulation"... poison levels are going to go further up, not down 🙁

GM. Got some freshly roasted ☕ beans today.

#coffee

#photography

Fatima Hassouna

A fellow photographer. Unknown to me except for her heroic photography.

"If I die, I want a loud death"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna

Privacy is the ability to selectively reveal who you are and what you do. The technologies I mention support doing so. It is not the same as anonimity though.

You are correct that these technologies, with the exception of ecash, have no inherent anonymity, but that's also not the point I made

True! Mind blowing right? That it's the closed private networks that take away your privacy and the open public networks that can strengthen privacy 🤯

GM. #Mood

Today, you need this

Tomorrow, you'll need it even more

Armies are the most statist, violent, centralized and hierarchical organisations in the world. I'm not sure this is the best way to represent/promote self sovereignty and liberty? 🤔