Bro was running on fumes 💨

It is sad how much people underestimate just how insidious businesses can be when it comes to manipulation of consumers. If it isn’t explicitly illegal and easily enforceable, then it is a safe bet to assume that those who sit at the top are going to use it to its fullest extent in the pursuit of profit.

Just in case, for the non-Americans from regions that do not have the specific brand, the sub name is in reference to prepackaged “Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice” which is used in this specific mushroom growing tek.

The problem is that people are not exercising their political power to the fullest extent.

Going to a demonstration where people are just standing around and voice their concerns doesn’t actually exert any legitimate political power. It is toothless. Failure to listen to demands doesn’t hold any consequences for them or threaten their control. They know we will all still have to go home and participate in the system that they control and gives them their power over us.

Protests of the past worked because the people stopped listening to their authority and threatened to take back control for themselves. That took monumental efforts of organizing to allow people to exert their own political power over their labor in order to put a wrench into the gears of the system.

The point of a protest is for, the reason it worked in the past was due to, people taking a stand to say “change this system to better benefit us or we are going to change it without you”

It’s time to start changing.

This country is so fucking stupid and brainwashed.

The establishment has spent the last century doing everything in its power to control the narrative around the Civil Rights Movement (and, even though not mentioned, the Labor Movement before it) into this idealized “peaceful revolution”, making sure to erase any mentions of the effective methods which were able to buckle the system and force it to listen to demands from our education.

This article explains exactly why and proves that they were effective in their efforts. Now, when we need to do the same thing as our forefathers, no one knows what we need to do, and insist on copying half measures without understanding the full picture of why those methods worked in the first place. People have this idealized vision of that time period; a vision that was tailor made to ensure compliance and that they be wary of those who actually know the truth and advocate for effective methods of protest or alternatives.

And the reason we still use CO2 slaughter instead of something like Nitrogen is because… They already have machines built for CO2 and just don’t want to pay the cost of changing practices.

Pure greed and laziness.

That’s the point of the second half of my comment.

Clickbait popsci sites are called “secondary sources”.

There is only so much “dumbing down” you can do to scientific research about topics until you lose all contextual nuance or become too long winded for a layperson to understand without being overloaded with information.

Then there is the issue with secondary and tertiary sources using simple language that causes confusion because it lacks the contextual nuance necessary to convey the correct interpretation.

Eh, mostly not the scientists’ fault but the media sensationalizing the data in secondary and tertiary sources.

And, as you said, general ignorance of how science works internally. That is a problem with education though, again not the fault of the scientists.

Of course it isn’t but you are the one who said that it was ridiculous that we haven’t embraced it.

It isn’t ridiculous. It’s actually pretty expected of the society we have built to be against it. There are perfectly explainable reasons why we have yet to embrace it.

I don’t say this to tell you it shouldn’t change. I’m saying this to specifically highlight the things we need to change so that no one will be forced into doing it.

People do need to do what’s best, so we should probably fix things so that being forced to use office work as a replacement for a social life isn’t the best option people have available to them.

As well as being a sexual monster. A lot of tradition is built around reinforcement of sexist gender roles.

Naive to think that those who set the prices won’t just adjust the baseline to absorb the entirety of your monthly allowance.

Better to just establish a system of community property that equitably shares and distributes necessities and the means of producing goods or providing services without the need to satisfy an arbitrary profit incentive of some private individual who will put their greed over your needs out of a sense of entitlement gained from their private ownership over such means.

Due to how isolating our culture and urban planning has become, a lot of people have started using their work as a replacement for their social life. Without it they realize just how caged they are under this system, so they refuse it. They think being given more free time and the ability to do work from the comfort of their own home is a bad thing because it takes away their social outlet.

That sounds like you are using work as a replacement for whatever it is missing in your personal life. Nothing stopping you from going to do things outside of work hours.

Well said mate.

As someone who does know how transplanting gut biome works… yea, you absolutely don’t want to know.

Just know that a “Stool Bank”, which is a facility which holds samples of fecal matter tested to ensure no transferable disease, is a real thing that exists and is relevant to this discussion.

Doctor has advised “low impact” exercises such as swimming and cycling as alternatives

Those would be good alternatives if I had access to them. No pool anywhere nearby and no infrastructure to cycle safely. Rural area is aggressively anti-cyclist. Like “people will run you off the road into the ditch for laughs” aggressively anti-cyclist. Too poor to afford stationary equipment, much less a home with a yard to put a pool.

Even still, I’m fighting a losing battle. My body will atrophy no matter what I do. All any exercises will accomplish is slowing the degradation. Already have partial loss of use in my hands, haven’t been able to play my guitar in over a decade now, and only a matter of time before I can no longer use my legs.

This. No matter how much I do it, I never get that “invigorated” feeling people talk about.

I always end up just feeling like shit and, because of my CMT, I take longer to recover. What may take a normal person a few hours to recover from will take me an entire day. My normal is being constantly fatigued, exercising just exacerbates it. Hell, not to even mention that my doctor even told me that running is not a good exercise for someone with my condition because of the inevitable atrophying of the extremities means that impact from my feet hitting the ground is damaging my joints.

I’m also autistic and the sensory overload of being sticky from sweat and overheated from exertion literally makes me want to flay myself to escape my own skin.

Yea, they say they restricted the Jewish immigrants. Yet, if you read the article posted in my other comment, you’d see that their actions during the time period of their mandate speaks a different tale.

Them abstaining from the vote is purely performative, and doesn’t negate the rest of what they did to facilitate the colonization of Palestine.

Just look up the history of Israel before it was given statehood and of Zionism. Here is a good article by the Guardian. warning, it’s a very complicated situation, all in all, and this article really gets into the nitty gritty of history. Literally, deep into it. It’s some heavy reading.

Boiled down though…

After the defeat of the Ottomans and their empire partitioned off to various countries after the Sinai and Palestine campaigns of WW1, the British were given control via a mandate by the League of Nations over a territory that became known as the Mandate of Palestine, but it was still mostly Arab citizens, the British were just given authority to maintain order in the region.

During the years of occupation, the British government encouraged European Jews to settle the region in an effort to fulfill political obligations to the Zionist movement made at what is known as the Balfour Declaration. This caused a civil war to break out over the whole colonization thing.

With the end of the Mandate over the region drawing to an end, and the tensions of the area heightened after civil war, the U.N. voted to subdivide the Mandate of Palestine into two separate states: Palestine and Israel