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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Do you know that the bananas you probably eat (maybe not, idk you) are at risk of going functionally extinct because of a type of fungus? A similar thing happened with Gros Michel bananas, which are not actually extinct but commercially unviable due to said fungus.

    Many plants require multitudes of antibiotics, pest control poisons and other measures simply to be able to ship and supply grocery stores with enough ‘goods’ to fill shelves. Regardless of whether or not the majority of those ‘goods’ end up being thrown away. You are right in thinking that it is wrong — because it is.

    Lentils, for example, do very poorly when competing with weeds. This is why herbicides are required very early on to grow lentils, otherwise they simply won’t compete as well. It doesn’t really matter if it’s organic or not — you are still required to use those pesticides.

    One would think ‘well then maybe we shouldn’t grow as many lentils’ — and you’d be right! Now, say that to all the vegans that are more or less required to eat lentils due to their protein and vitamin content. Suddenly things aren’t nearly as clean cut as ‘simply don’t do the thing’.


  • Yes, admittedly I go through cycles of churning through content. There was a brief period some months ago when his videos were… still clickbait-y but the information provided in them was actually news. Now it’s mostly just a circlejerk about how bad the Trump admin is which, yes I think we can all agree with that. What I dislike about him is how he leverages his platform to, as I said, monologue with unending eye contact. I have since unsubscribed, yet the algorithm sure does want me to keep seeing his videos.

    To question of ‘Do people wear this title willingly?’, yes he absolutely does — he makes sure to remind his audience regularly in his monologues.

    There are content providers like Meidas Touch that I think are… good. At this point in my life I’m extremely skeptical of anything that tries to send me a message, which is probably a valuable thing to live by if it weren’t so god damned exhausting. Which I think is the point regarding the bad actors trying to undermine public trust in news organizations.

    I appreciate you taking the time to write your message. It is refreshing to know that, even if mine is colored by my personal frustrations, that there are people who share my state of mind. I’ll have to watch the discussion between Stewart and Amanpour.