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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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John Deere's repair fake-out

Last week, a seeming miracle came to pass: John Deere, the Big Ag monopolist that — along with Apple — has led the Axis of Evil that killed, delayed and sabotaged dozens of Right to Repair laws, sued for peace, announcing a Memorandum of Understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation to make it easier for farmers to fix their own tractors:

https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf

This is a move that’s both badly needed and long overdue. Deere abuses copyright law to force farmers to pay for official repairs — even when the farmer does the repair. That’s possible thanks to a practice called VIN locking, in which engine parts come with DRM that prevents the tractor from recognizing them until they pay hundreds of dollars for a John Deere technician to come to their farm and type an unlock code into the tractor’s console:

https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8

Like all DRM, VIN locks are covered by Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 law that criminalizes distributing tools to bypass “access controls,” even if you do so for a lawful purpose (say, to fix your own tractor using a part you paid for). Violations of DMCA 1201 carry a penalty of 5 years in prison and a $500k fine — for a first offense.

This means that Deere owners are locked into using Deere for repairs, which also means that if Deere decides something isn’t broken, a farmer can’t get it fixed. This is very bad news indeed, because John Deere tractors are just computers in a fancy, mobile case, and John Deere is incredibly bad at digital security:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

That’s scary stuff, because John Deere is a monopolist, and a successful attack on the always-connected, networked tractors and other equipment it supplies to the world’s farmers could endanger the global food supply.

Deere doesn’t want to make insecure tractors, but it also doesn’t want to be embarrassed by security researchers who point out that its security is defective. Because security researchers have to bypass Deere tractors’ locks to probe their security, Deere can leverage DMCA1201 into a veto over who gets to warn the public about the mistakes it made.

It’s not just security researchers that Deere gets to gag: the company uses its repair monopoly to threaten farmers who complain about its business practices, holding their million-dollar farm equipment hostage to their silence:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it

This all adds up to what Jay Freeman calls “felony contempt of business model,” an abuse of copyright law that allows a monopolistic corporation to reach beyond its own walls and impose its will on it customers, critics and competitors:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

If Deere was finally suing for peace in the Repair Wars, well, that was wonderful news indeed — as I said, a seeming miracle.

But — like all miracles — it was too good to be true.

The MOU that Deere and the Farm Bureau signed is full of poison pills, gotchas, fine-print and mendacity, as Lauren Goode documents in her Wired article, “Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises”:

https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-advocates-question-john-deeres-new-promises/

For starters, the MOU makes the Farm Bureau promise to end its advocacy for state Right to Repair bills, which would create a repair system governed by democratically accountable laws, not corporate fiat. Clearly, Deere has seen the writing on the wall, after the passage in 2002 of Right to Repair laws in New York and Colorado:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair

These two bills broke the corporate anti-repair coalition’s winning streak, which saw dozens of state R2R bills defeated:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r

Deere’s deal-with-the-devil is a cynical ploy to brake R2R’s momentum and ensure that any repairs are carried out on Deere’s terms. Now, about those terms…

Deere’s deal offers independent repair shops access to diagnostic tools and parts “on fair and reasonable terms,” a murky phrase that can mean whatever Deere decides it means. Crucially, the deal is silent on whether Deere will supply the tools needed to activate VIN locks, meaning that farmers will still be at Deere’s mercy when they effect their own repairs.

What’s more, the deal itself isn’t legally binding, and Deere can cancel it at any time. Once you dig past the headline, the Deere’s Damascene conversion to repair advocacy starts to look awfully superficial — and deceptive.

One person who wasn’t fooled is sick.codes, the hacker who has done the most important work on reverse-engineering Deere’s computer systems, culminating in last summer’s live, on-stage hack of a John Deere tractor at Defcon:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/15/deere-in-headlights/#doh-a-deere

Shortly after the announcement, Sick.codes tweeted how the fine-print in the MOU would have prevented him from doing the work he’s already done (including “a direct stab at me lol”):

https://twitter.com/sickcodes/status/1612484935495057409

As with other instances of monopolistic, corporate copyfraud — like, say, the deceptive Open Gaming License — the John Deere capitulation is really a bid to take away your rights, dressed up as a gift of more rights:

https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/706163316598407168/good-riddance-to-the-open-gaming-license

[Image ID: Hieronymus Bosch's painting, 'The Conjurer.' The Conjuror's shell-game table holds a small John Deere tractor that the audience of yokels gawps at. One yokel is wearing a John Deere hat. The conjurer is holding a wrench.]

#pluralistic #copyfraud #right to repair #r2r #headfa #deerlife #john deere #tractors #big ag #licenses

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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“Most people have heard of open source software, maybe also of open source beer (Free beer for all!) or open source pharmaceutical research. The principle is the same: Someone developed the seeds — for cowpeas, corn, rye and more — and now offers the resource for everybody to share.

Just like software development has been co-opted by a few global companies like Microsoft and Apple, the international seed development and trade, too, is controlled by a few big giants like Bayer (Monsanto), Corteva (DuPont) and ChemChina (Syngenta). A 2012 Oxfam study found that four companies dominate more than 60 percent of the global trade with grains.

When we buy cereal or bread, few pay attention to the fact that most grains are protected or even patented. Most farmers don’t own the seeds they sow on their fields. “They are renting them,” Kloppenburg, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-founder of OSSI says with disgust. The problem with that? “A few global companies have the monopolies on global seed trade, and they breed cash crops like corn and soy, purely for money. They don’t care about biodiversity, world hunger or about the small farmer.” What sounds like a business problem impacts everybody, Kloppenburg insists. “These few gene giants on top of the food chain decide what ends up on our plates.”

In 2012, Kloppenburg and half a dozen like-minded agriculture experts founded OSSI as an alternative to the monopolies. OSSI’s aim is the “free flow and exchange of genetic resources, of plant breeding and variety development,” Kloppenburg says. With global warming, disease and changing climatic patterns, “we need novel plant varieties that are capable of responding to the changes. Farm to table is popular, but we really need to talk about seed to table.”

The movement faces an uphill battle, particularly in the US where most farmers plant seeds that are patented by the big corporations. Still, about 50 seed breeders have already signed on with OSSI in the US to offer nearly 500 seed varieties. And other open source seed organizations are making their own way in Europe, Argentina, India and more...

Of course, salad is no software, and the work of plant breeders has to be protected. Otherwise they might fare like plant breeder Jim Baggett in Oregon, who in 1966 started breeding broccoli with an extra-long stem so it could be harvested more easily. He shared his novel broccoli with researchers and other breeders — until Monsanto-offspring Seminis patented a broccoli with exactly that trait in 2011. Baggett could trace more than a third of the plant material to his work...

Seed breeders who commit to the OSSI pledge allow buyers to use what they have developed however they like. The pledge reads: “In return, you pledge not to restrict others’ use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this Pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives.

Examples of OSSI varieties include dwarf tomatoes, bred for people with little space by small farmers in North Carolina and Australia who worked together and exchanged information across continents. A new rye, called Baldachin, has been developed with the help of crowdfunding in Germany specifically for the sandy soil in East Germany and is for the first time available in bakeries this fall. Also potatoes, corn, wheat and nearly everything else you need to cook dinner...

Just like software, “we want to go viral,” Kotschi says. In North America, he notes, cannabis breeders are interested in the OSSI strategy. “Cannabis is going to be a multibillion dollar market,” he says. “The small breeders fear for their seeds. They are interested in using the open source license to protect themselves while making the seeds available to others.”” -via Reasons to Be Cheerful, 10/14/22

#monsanto #genetics #patent #big ag #big agriculture #open source #plant breeding #farm to table #seeds #cannabis seeds #cannabis #ossi #good news #hope

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wicked-witch-ofthe-east · 9 months

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I love science. But also, I can clearly see how it is the western man’s explanation of explicit indigenous knowledge. ESPECIALLY in agriculture and food systems. Isn’t it quite interesting to think about how regenerative agriculture was THE way of living. We’ve strewn so far from this form of food production that now rich white women with masters degrees and inherited land get to teach others “regenerative agriculture” for profit. It irritates me that our culture (mostly white culture) needs the chemical, biological, physical, scientific proof that something works when oral traditions have been tried and true on this continent for 10,000 years. Is the scientific method a means of distraction so big ag, big pharma, big oil, and big chem can make a profit?

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robertreich · 2 years

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Why Food Prices Are Rising Even More

Monopolies are slowly killing rural America — and driving up the price you pay for food.

Just four firms control 85% of all beef, 66% of all pork, and 54% of all poultry. This degree of monopolization is hurting farmers — and you.

Monopolists control nearly every part of the food production process, from selling feed to farmers, to packaging the meat and poultry for supermarkets. Half of all chicken farmers report having just one or two processors to sell to.

Farmers are essentially forced to buy from and sell to monopolies at whatever price the corporation wants – often taking on crushing debt to do so. They are trapped in long-term binding contracts, with no way out but losing their livelihood altogether.

Meatpackers used to compete at cattle auctions for what ranchers produced – which helped ranchers get a reasonable return on their investment. Now, with so few buyers, ranchers have no choice but to sign contracts with meatpackers, and sell their cattle for a lower price than if the market were truly competitive.

In 1980, 62 cents of every dollar consumers spent on beef went to ranchers. Today, only 37 cents do. Most of the profits are going into the pockets of the monopolists.

And here’s the kicker: Even though farmers are getting squeezed, the ag monopolists are also charging you higher prices. During the pandemic, beef prices rose nearly 16% — and the four biggest beef companies’ profits rose more than 300 percent.

These corporations are using their monopoly power to fix prices. Just recently, beef giant JBS settled — without admitting guilt, of course — a beef price-fixing case for $52.5 million.

Monopolization is happening across the food sector. In corn, soybeans, dairy, pesticides, and farm machinery. The result is the same: lower pay to farmers, bigger profits for the monopolists, higher prices for you.

A better way to hold these monopolies accountable would be to break them up, and stop future mergers. But it won’t be easy. They flex their political muscle through powerful lobbies like the North American Meat Institute, and maintain a revolving door with regulatory agencies like the US Department of Agriculture.

Well, I say, take them on. Rural America is hurting, farmers are getting squeezed, and consumers are being shafted. Notwithstanding the power of food monopolies, taking them on is wildly popular — especially in Rural America.

But don’t just listen to me, listen to what farmers are saying about this:

“I'm here to tell the powers at be to enforce the antitrust laws for the world of agriculture.” “The laws are on the books. We have to strengthen those laws and do what Teddy Roosevelt did to break up the monopolies.” “Don't let these boys who come to Washington with pockets of money set there and bribe our congressman year after year after year.”

“Who will stand up for me if you don't?”

For the good of us all, America needs to enforce antitrust laws, and break up Big Ag.

#Big Ag #food #food prices #hunger #video #videos

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carolkeiter · 3 months

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Grenzbegriff blog ~ Holy Words of Truth

From the first time I read this blog of Phil’s years ago, http://www.grenzbegriff.com/, I had left the tab open for a very long time. I recently rediscovered it, and frankly, have done the same. I feel that his words are so powerful, because they so eloquently and incisively speak the truth. The message is a clearer, stronger and nearer the truth ~ holy ~ More so than anything I’ve read,…

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battleangel · 6 months

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80 Degree Halloween

It was never 79 degrees on my birthday, October 28th.

Almost 80 degrees right before Halloween and November?

Absolutely never.

But everyone just stays consistently distracted now with all the social media scrolling, messenger apps, non stop notifications, endless shows to stream, multiple screens, videogames, anime, comic book movies & tv shows, star wars, halloween, amazon prime 1 day sale, thanksgiving, black friday, cyber monday, christmas, new years, presidential election --

Noone says, at a mass scale, "Hey, it was never almost 80 degrees Halloween weekend."

The humidity is one thing.

48 degrees & 90% humidity is a result of the bomb testing they did over the summer with resulting smoke falsely blamed on "canadian wildfires" when many in NYC reported seeing a mushroom cloud right before the smoke filled the skies on the east coast.

Humidity & air quality have not returned to normal since that day.

This is different where the temperatures have been steadily rising due to climate change, the polar ice caps are gradually melting, the ozone layer is becoming depleted, we have overextracted the worlds resources.

Capitalism means never having to say when.

Too many landfills, too many cars, too many flights to nowhwere, too many greenhouse emissions, too much drilling for oil, drill baby drill!, too much fracking, too many oceanic oil spills, too many nuclear power plants, too many humans, too much overpopulation, too much deforestation, too much factory farming, too much ethane gas emitted from cows fecal matter, too many millions of gallons of water needed every year for factory farming, too many cities, too many skyscrapers, too much pollution, too many factories, not enough clean drinking water

Too many bombs, too many cars clogging the highways, too much construction, too much machinery, too many houses with air conditioning set at 70 degrees, too many SUVs, too much industrial waste, too much industrial pollution, too many landfills, too much non-biodegradable waste, too much trash that wont break down in a landfill for thousands of years, too much smog, too many fossil fuels being burned, too many fires, too much smoke

Too many fast food chains, too many Mcdonalds burgers served, too many KFC wings, too many factories, too much carbon dioxide, not enough trees planted, too many species now extinct, not enough wildlife preservation, too many cruise ships polluting the oceans, too much recycling using more energy than it saves, too much plastic, too many experiments, too many chemicals, too many synthetic ingredients, too many labs, too much radiation, too much trash, too many chains

Too many amazon warehouses, too many big box retail stores, too many starbucks, too many plastic straws, too much overconsumption, too much greed, too much exploitation, too much raping mother earth, not enough abortions, too much overpopulation, too many people not enough resources, finite planet infinite greed, finite planet infinite capitalism, finite planet elon will just take us to mars, too many private jets, too much capitalism, not enough socialism, too much capitalsm, not enough solidarity, too much individualism, not enough communalism

Too many opioids, too many benzos, too many anti depressants, too much alcohol, too much electricity not enough solar power, too many luxury cars, not enough electric vehicles, too many cars, not enough bikes, too many highways, not enough bike lanes, too many lanes, not enough walkways, too many oil rig explosions, not enough clean up, too much money, not enough love, too much competition, not enough togetherness, too much dog eat dog, not enough lets not keep fighting over scraps, too many rich CEOs, not enough workers unions

Too many toxins, not enough herbs and plants, too many lobbyists, too many manufacturers, too many industry titans, too many leviathans, too many convenient scapegoats, too many targets of hate, too many layoffs, too much waste disposal, too many garbage pickups, too much trash per US citizen, too much smoke, too many pollutants, too much toxic waste dumped into water into poor and inner cities

Too many prisons, too many overcrowded jails, too much elder abuse in nursing homes, too much corruption, too many payoffs, too many grifters, too many wheelers and dealers, too many wall street executives, too many bernie madoffs, too much abusive porn, too much violence, too much cheap dirtiness

Too many walmarts, too many deals, too many dollar menus, too many dollaritas at applebees, too many people living paycheck to paycheck, too many individual 401k accounts, too many millionaires and billionaires, too many 1%ers

Too many false american dreams, too much meritocracy, too much keep up the good work, too many trips to the moon, too many rocket launches, too many lunchables, too many chicken mcnuggets, too many billions served, too many whoppers with cheese, too many water bottles, too many coke cans

Too much fast fashion, too many SHEINs, too many fashion novas, too much collagen, too many ccs, too much lip filler, too many bbls, too many augmentations, too many brow lifts, too many cheek fillers, too many facelifts, too many surgeries

Too much chemo, too much radiation, too much slashing and burning, too much fear of death, too much desperation to stay alive at any cost, too many people waiting to retire, too many people working to live, too many golden handcuffs, too many executives, too many VPs, too many Silicon Valleys, too many startups, too many uncanny valleys, too much virtual reality

Too many trash cans, too many plastic trash bags, too many paper towels, too much disposability, too much one use only, too many throwaways, too much extension of life at all costs, too many vacations, too many trips, too many homes, too many cars

Too much materialism, too much shallowness, too much superficiality, too many prison sentences, too much criminalization of normal behavior, too much medicalization, too many soldiers, too many products, too many costcos, too many gas stations, too many grocery stores

Too much excess, too much blind worship of success, too many genocides, too much jealousy, too much envy, too much child trafficking, too many rape parties, too many child soldiers, too many child prostitutes

Too many private swimming pools, too many gated communities, too many suburbs, too much middle class, too much low wage exploitation, too much stock market, too much dow jones index, too many returns on investment

Too many fur jackets, too many chinchillas dragging on the floor, too much theraflu, too much robitussin, too many covid vaccinations, too many vaccines, too much childhood autism, too many boys on ritalin, too many boys with adhd

Too much pathologizing of normal behavior, too many roofies, too many rape drugs, too many rohypnols, too many dollar trees, too many creature comforts, too much luxury, too many five star hotels, too many deliveries, too many amazon drivers, too many five belows, too many worker bees, too many garbage trucks, too many lobbyists

Too many zionists, too many western powers, too much modernization, too much technology, too much frictionlessness, too many diversionary tactics, too much repression, too much protestant work ethic, too much hubris, too much ego, too much money, too many elons, too many monarchs, too many queens of england, too many kings without a crown, too many rulers of the world, too many fake elections

Too much reality tv, too much double anal, too many hits to the head, too many hits under the chin, too many concussions, too many blue tents on the sideline, too many prison sentences, too many mass graves, too much ethnic cleansing

Too many taxpayer funded genocides, too many people afraid of being called an antisemite for telling the truth about US Israel zionism, too many kidnappings, too many abductions, too many shootings, too many stabbings, too many beatings, too many killings, too much spousal abuse, too much spousal rape, too many false agendas

Too many microwaves, too many cell phones, too many air conditioners, too many heat waves, too much climate change, too many drivethrus, too many distractions, too much doordash, too many surgeries, too many prescriptions, too much prescription abuse, too much alcoholism, too many suicides, too many rehab stints, too many revolving doors

Too many santa clauses, too much commercialization, too much commodification, too much consumption, too many rockefellers, too many rothschilds, too many bidens, too many mein kampfs, too many cultural revolutions, too many shibboleths, too many highways to hell, too many bridges to nowhere, too many dont ask dont tells, too much homophobia, too much transphobia, too much fear, too much hate, too much regret in hospices, too many lives wasted at a 9 to 5, too many too late realizations on deathbeds, too many trees cut down for paper...

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kp777 · 8 months

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No Paywall for this article.

#big ag #water consumption #ground water #aquifers #corporate greed #environment

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probablyasocialecologist · 9 months

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Agricultural production is worth protecting; food and fiber are too important to be subject to the increasingly cruel vagaries of the weather and global trade. But as it stands, the [Federal Crop Insurance Program] is maladapted to the challenges of our modern world, where places like Arizona are routinely smashing through high heat records and water in the West is becoming increasingly scarce. While home insurers like State Farm are pulling out of California and Florida due to the mounting costs of climate disasters, the FCIP is doing the opposite: insulating farmers from the true cost of doing business. The average return for home and auto policies is about 60 cents per dollar spent on premiums. Farmers receive an average of $2.22 for every dollar they put into crop insurance. As a result, between 2000 and 2016, farming businesses—mostly large ones—collectively pocketed $65 billion more in claim payments than they paid in premiums. They were paid to plant crops that never came to market.

#agriculture #farming #usa #big ag #crop insurance #Arizona

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catrocketship · 1 year

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Jackie Fawn

#Jackie fawn #indigenous artists #decolonisation #farming #big ag #industrial agriculture #other people's art #inspo #no pipelines #other

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rjzimmerman · 2 years

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Oh yay....the marriage of two of the most rancid global industries. Sealing pesticides (Big Ag) into plastic pellets (oil and gas). We are so blessed.

Excerpt from this story from the Pesticide Action Network:

Last month, our friends at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) released a groundbreaking new briefing on a largely unexamined issue – microplastics in pesticides. PAN regularly highlights the dangers of pesticides and the threats they pose to the health of our communities and ecosystems because of their active ingredients. But sometimes inert ingredients can be just as, or even more, dangerous.

CIEL’s report, “Sowing a Plastic Planet,” reveals that chemical formulations include the deliberate addition of microplastics to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides used in industrial agriculture.

This pollution is compounded by the fact that microplastics are added to agrochemicals, products that are applied directly to soils, crops, and seeds, and are pervasive in our industrial food and farming system. Synthetic pesticides are already some of the most toxic substances in use today, and the practice of encapsulating them in microplastic only compounds the risks.

The group also calls on governments to urgently act to close gaps in regulation and comprehensively ban the intentional use of microplastics in agriculture. We couldn’t agree more. Here are some key findings from the report:

Despite receiving little public attention to date, the agricultural sector is one of the most significant users of intentionally added microplastics.

The deliberate dispersion of microplastics in the environment through the application of plastic-coated fertilizers and pesticides is one of the most direct and preventable sources of growing microplastic pollution in agricultural soils.

The use of plastic-coated synthetic fertilizers and pesticides is rising, with producers marketing their “controlled-release” function as a key to sustainable, climate-friendly agriculture.

Encapsulating agrochemicals in plastic and spreading them across soils and crops only compounds the significant health and environmental risks posed by agrochemicals and may exacerbate their harmful impacts.

#pesticides #plastics #microplastics #oil and gas industry #big ag

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emilnikos · 4 months

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I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

#i can't believe i have to day it but autism /is/ a disablity. its disabling. meltdowns are part of that.#'oh this is a lukewarm take' you dumbshit fucks have been throwing the word neurodivergent and meltdown around so #casually they have both been said at me with the same disdain as a swear word. you guys will accept making fun of autistic people #if someone jn your circle who is 'cool' does it first. at your big ages. shut the hell up

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alicemccombs · 3 days

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#big ag #climateactionnow #healearth

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thecapitolradar · 18 days

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Rhonda Santis is mad because she lost the nomination fight over faux-masculine stunts like claiming fake meat as a red meat, red state issue.

Truth is, your doctor is the only expert who can say whether lab-grown meat is safe for you. Anything else is wellness industry claptrap, masquerading as environmental responsibility.

We say, abandon Big Ag. Bring back meat from small, local ranches. Stop trying to force chemicals down our throats. And, don't let anyone but your doctor tell you what's healthy for you.

#lab grown meat #big ag #wellness industry #republican reichstag #bc

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battleangel · 6 months

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Who Cares About a Bunch of Dead Black & Brown People?

"Canadian wildfires" from this summer, if you remember them, were a "100 wildfires that started simultaneously in Canada". Yeah, okay.

Yet, if you recall, all the videos on the news and social media were of the smoke that completely filled and covered the sky on the east coast of the U.S. like a literal alien attack movie, like ID4.

People on social media reported seeing mushroom clouds and bombs being tested in NYC.

This is because the government was testing alien weaponry including bombs.

Right after the "Canadian wildfires", a former CIA director admitted in a Congressional hearing that "non-human remains" aka alien remains had been found by the government for years.

During this time this past summer, record levels of air pollution and toxicity were reported on the east coast as well as record humidity.

Yes, due to climate change but also due to government testing of confiscated alien weaponry and bombs that polluted the air and created unheard of levels of humidity.

Climate change has been known for decades and yet nothing real has been done about capitalism which drives every aspect of climate change, from the destruction of the rainforest by fast food conglomerates, to greenhouse gas emissions fueled by the auto industry, factory farming practices responsible for ethane from animal feces which is a huge climate change contributor plus all the millions of gallons of water required, drilling for oil, oil spills, oceanic pollution from non-biodegradable trash that ends up in the ocean, endless Amazon warehouses, endless SHEIN & Amazon landfills, air conditioning house at 70 degrees at all times, endless cars clogging the highway all rushing to nowhere to sit in traffic to waste the day away inside in a building wasting your life away for a paycheck & benefits, emitting pollutants out of your exhaust pipe smoke smog killing the environment depleting the ozone layer creating smog difficult to breathe, dirty machines belching smoke and gas on concrete highways to hell.

Yet noone does anything about rampant overconsumption, wastefulness, mindless spending, mindless buying, keeping up with the joneses, wasting money at IKEA, buying furniture to impress guests that never even come over, consumerism, materialism, oversized portions of food at restaurants, fast fashion worn today thrown in a landfill tomorrow, private jets killing the environment flying to nowhere for nothing, drones delivering Amazon packages that nobody needed in a day much less an hour and nobody does anything but to demand Amazon Prime deliveries in half an hour and Elon Musk is colonizing Mars and Bezos is flying rich wypipo to the moon.

This weekend, IGN via Bloomberg reported 50k year old zombie viruses being released due to climate change causing Siberian glaciers to melt.

Government wants disabled, immunocompromised, elderly, lower income black and brown people gone. As many as possible.

Whoever else dies is just collateral damage.

Why?

Because by 2030, white people will become the minority in the US if current birthing trends continue and they will be replaced with blacks and hispanics making up the majority as their birth rates are much higher than white peoples especially amongst hispanics.

The elites are using the government to do whatever it can to reduce and delay this trend before white people become the minority in the US.

The government also wants to reduce Medicaid and Medicare enrollment as well as the money spent on these programs and what better way to do that than weaponizing viruses (COVID & 50k year old "zombie" viruses) via policies to kill off lower income food service, fast food and big box retail employees, people living in inner cities, disabled and the elderly, the majority of whom are black and hispanic?

Look at Beyonces and Taylor Swifts concerts over the summer, all the crowds and unmasking despite an increase in COVID cases, mutated COVID cases and long COVID cases with severe health consequences including extended hospitalizations and lung damage.

Why did noone care that this COVID resurgence was happening alongside the Eras and Renaissance tours with literally over a million people in attendance, extremely large crowds gathering with a real chance of concert attendees infecting one other?

Because, as we saw with George Floyd and the temporary black squares on Instagram, once the performative virtue signaling stage of COVID was over, nobody gave a fuck anymore and the elites know most people dont really gaf about poor, disabled, elderly black & brown people so the new COVID mantra became "stay tf inside if youre vulnerable, I aint wearing a mask to Eras or Renaissance cuz I look tew cute".

They correctly surmised people were o-v-a-h it and most had been summoned back to their wage slave 9 to 5 life of drudgery so they knew people wouldnt complain about the concerts as they had already done their "say her name Breonna Taylor" performative virtue signalling bullshit and now they wanted to shake their dreads to Slayonce and Taylor.

Who cares about a bunch of dead poor, disabled, elderly black & brown people anyway?

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