what do you do about the entrepreneurs who traffic and launder the meat? That's a different way to ask: how do you guarantee traceability?

Hear me out: humans are tasty, right-wing is numerous… feast?

So the fascist propagandist hates indigenous people? That is quite the relevation.

Two astronauts stand on the moon. Both are looking out towards the earth. The second astronaut is pointing a gun at the first astronaut.

Really interesting. It never occurred to me how hard it must have been to tame wild horses at first. Did we capture horses for the purpose of helping us carry things? Or did we somehow attract horses the way we attracted dogs, and then figured they were useful labor forces?

This one is for the people who believe that "ethics" are "unaffordable" (reserved for the rich).

Don't debate people that refuse to use facts.

Never miss a chance to shit on the ancient pastoralist religion.

What the video essay doesn't say clearly enough is this:

People suck, and that's putting it mildly.

Is people sucking so hard an inevitable deterministic outcome or is it something that can be different? I'm in the "another people are possible" camp. It gets metamodern from here on.

They take the fascist hype about being a superior being very seriously. The biohacking and related activity is part of becoming that. It's an embodiment of fascism, but, in effect, it's the deeper commodification of the body's systems; every cell, every hormone, every amino-acid, every calorie, all must become part of the life and death rat race competition (under capitalism). I think that the somewhat recent show, "INVINCIBLE", presents the fitness story of that strain of fascism very clearly.

Fitness in of itself is part of the broader problem of mortal existence without meaning. Fascists give it their kind of meaning, the meaning of being super, even super-natural. You can find better meaning to bind to fitness if you try, just keep in mind that we live in a society which lives in an ecology.

So obviously the Johnsons this article refers to are nuts. I want to be clear my take on that.

My concern is that the take in this article seems to say "taking care of yourself" (even when not done in a culture way) is a form of fascism. Its not drawing clear lines between "I want to be under 30% body fat" (the clinical definition of obesity for adult men) and people who hock health supplements/miracle cure lifestyles.

The article is critical of people worth criticizing, but it also seems inclined to say "any steps you take to be more fit are you giving in to capitalist grift and fascism", which I staunchly disagree with.

Fully agree.

History is made by the people, and under constant threat of being stolen by the ruling class.

We must firmly keep what is ours, and keep its memories alive and well lest we fall to the same mistakes, cruelties, and hopelessness the autocrats try to impose.

in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, *artificial intelligence and killer robots.

*delusion that we have created artificial intelligence

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

In terms of what kind of history you can make a living covering in a "pop-science" fashion yes, but this is a MASSIVE claim to make without serious conclusive evidence proving this is what motivates the trajectory of history primarily.

Why isn't History best told as a story of lawmakers attempting to create a sustainable coherent body of laws that don't collapse inwards eventually?

Why isn't History best told as a story of revolutions in domestic labor technology? The pottery wheel, the loom, the dishwasher... etc...

Why isn't History best told as a story of different meals and culinary traditions?

Why isn't History best told as a story of organized religion, friendship, communities, or ideologies?

We choose to see history this way and in doing so play right into the hands of the ruling class. The act of retelling History by necessity must challenge the primacy of authoritarian regimes in the human story because otherwise all History does is retell the propaganda of the past.

...all except the delicious animals, obviously.

Crowd cheers again.

Chat, is it ethical to spread ticks into polulated areas to reduce meat comsumption? 🤔

This is a joke

The writers are lazy, last few seasons of reality have really sucked.

they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor

Totally stealing that one.

A particular horror is the prospect of brushing up against vegetation containing a massed ball of juvenile lone star ticks, know as a “tick bomb”, that can deliver thousands of tick bites.

Yeah I wasn't planning on sleeping this night anyway

Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area.

A particular horror is the prospect of brushing up against vegetation containing a massed ball of juvenile lone star ticks, know as a “tick bomb”, that can deliver thousands of tick bites. “They are so tiny you can’t see them but you have to take it seriously or you’ll never get them off you,” said Forsyth, who now carries around a lint roller to remove such clusters.