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I hadn't thought of it like that. I'm not sure I have quite as much optimism for Trump as you have, but it would be awesome if you're right!

Yeah, that wasn't a serious suggestion. But it was pretty impressive the winnings he collected from that meme coin launch. Imagine how much those winnings could be super sized if he just made a few offhand hints about such possibilities.

The part that grates on me as a non American, is that he goes on and on, framing this as being a situation where all these other countries are getting such a lopsided good deal from America and poor America wah wah, yet it is America who set this system up, and it is America who gets to export their currency debasement to the rest of the world through demanding them to use their currency as the reserve currency for trade.

Yes they get massive debt as a result, but that's their own doing and is the side effect of controlling the world reserve currency, and is largely the reason the US is the most wealthy and powerful nation in the world right now. .

I expect Trump is well aware of all this, but it doesn't fit the strategy he is using to acknowledge it, but it is pretty annoying all the same.

Mmm tallow shakes... Actually that's what the rumour said was the secret ingredient in McDonald's shakes that made them so thick when I was a kid.

What’s Really in Your Breakfast Bowl?

Last week at our Orange Hatter meeting, we dug into Chapters 2 and 3 of Fiat Food by

Matthew Lydian

and

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Let me just say—what we learned about the history of cornflakes completely blew our minds.

Did you know that the Kellogg cereal many of us grew up associating with a "healthy breakfast" was originally designed as a purposefully bland food meant to curb carnal desires? I know, it sounds crazy.

Here’s the story:

John Harvey Kellogg, a devout Seventh-Day Adventist, and others within the movement believed that red meat was the root cause of carnal desires, including the urge to masturbate.

Their solution? A vegetarian, tasteless diet to suppress these urges.

The extent of their beliefs included horrific measures, like the mutilation of children's bodies and caging their sexual organs.

Over decades, the Adventists infiltrated government systems and schools under the guise of "diet and nutrition education," fundamentally shaping U.S. food policies to reflect their vision of an anti-masturbatorial vegetarian utopia.

This whole thing isn’t just a bizarre piece of history—it’s a huge lesson in the power of influence and especially in the power of money.

None of us knew the cereal lining grocery store shelves was born of religious zealotry aimed at controlling human desires.

It’s a jaw-dropping example of how marketing and money can rewrite the narrative of a product and reshape public perception on a massive scale.

Think about it: with a smart marketing campaign, an entire nation was convinced to embrace a food product with a purpose most of us would never have imagined.

So, what else don’t we know about the food we eat?

If you’re curious, let’s keep the conversation going.

Join the Orange Hatter Reading Club by visiting http://orangehatter.com/reading-club.

This Wednesday night at 8:30 PM EST, we’ll be diving into the next chapters.

Join us as we keep asking questions and learning together.

#FiatFood #OrangeHatter

That's a pretty big claim Saif and Lydian have made. I presume he must cite some solid sources? I'd heard the SDA church had a history of influence in the food industry but some of the above sounds pretty extreme.

Well, I run trails sometimes, but to call yourself a trail runner gives the impression you're pretty good at it so...

I feel like I've seen this movie before

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I wonder if this also happens on fountain.fm pretty frustrating for content creators if it is.

I dunno. There is this website someone posted a link to the other day where you can ask a LLM questions about what's in the released docs, but it seems there are still redactions on the most incriminating material which makes it a bit hard to get any clear answers.

https://www.chatwithjfkfiles.com/