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Meat is the easiest way to ensure full nutrition. Especially as the list of known essential fatty acids, vitamins, etc keeps growing with research.

However, there are and have been fully nourished vegan cultures. The key is growing the plants in real soil. (Or Real Soil, as an activist group is named.) Chemical fertilizer is efficient in many ways, but it does not replace carbon in the soil, and it kills the normal soil microbes. These microbes make the essential nutrients typically lacking for a Western vegan. B12 is the best known, but there are many more. Also, a vegan diet has to include fungi, which provides more essential nutrients not found elsewhere outside of meat.

Note that corn fed cows do not get B12, and get sickly without artificial B12 supplements (cyanocobalamin). The synthetic B12 must be detoxified by the liver - this is a problem for humans taking B12 supplements (makes about 1/1000 human supplement takers insane through neurotoxicity). When you eat corn fed cows, their liver has already detoxified the synthetic B12, so there is that.

However, corn fed cows have acid stomachs. Their normal diet of grass creates low acid stomachs, and the natural E-coli are harmless to humans with high acid stomachs. The acid stomach of corn fed cows breed an acid tolerant strain of E-coli which is deadly to humans. So eating corn fed cows is riskier than grass fed.

Furthermore, the fat composition of corn fed cows is unhealthy - reversing the normal Omega 3 to Omega 6 ration. This affects both meat and butter. This is made worse by the CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) environment of corn fed cows. You have the bovine equivalent of a couch potato eating junk food. Not something you want to eat long term.

Bottom line: eat 100% grass fed beef (and pasture raised chicken, etc), and/or fruits/veggies/fungi grown in Real Soil.

We get beef from Polyface farms run by Joel Salatin who has the hands on experience and research in the cows/chickens aspect. He has written a number of books: I recommend "Folks, This Ain't Normal".

In general, for those who aren't farmers, the solution to Big Farm problems is similar to the solution for Big Tech problems. Know Your Farmer. We have talked to Joel Salatin and visit his farm every year or so. Have you talked to your mail admin?

@PNS @Truthy Looks like satire to me also.

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@r000t @cjd Right, but the trick is to convince the browser that the cabal CAs are NOT valid for r000t.com and subdomains. That requires PKCS#11

@cjd But then, the cabal CAs can still forge certs for the local stuff. Because the cabal CAs are trusted for *everything* - not just ICANN TLDs.

@cjd Run your own ACME server for .pkt. Like the one I linked.

The BIG issue is that Normies only comprehend how to add fully trusted CAs to their browser (allowed to validate any domain). We need a normie friendly way to add a PKCS#11 policy that e.g. does *not* trust cabal CAs for .PKT and *only* trusts your CA for .PKT.

@cjd Not the biggest fan of golang - but at least it compiles fast, unlike Rust.

@cjd ICANN can (and has) canceled TLDs and domains (on threat of canceling TLD) for political reasons. The shadowy "TLS cabal" selects CAs for inclusion in the "trusted" list for mainstream browsers. Any CA on the list can forge any cert whenever they want.

ICANN is ok for public websites - but if you want actual security, run your own TLD and CA. Like we did in the old days before ICANN.

We've been CLI (manual) signing certs, but I'm about to try this open source ACME server for private CAs/TLDs:
https://github.com/smallstep/certificates

@PNS @ShovelTrouble Run a Real OS and put 11 in a VM.

@fuknukl Meh. Solomon had 700 wives. (And 300 concubines on top.)

@FourOh-LLC Akshully - patents are for implementations, NOT ideas. Similarly, copyright is for a book/other creative work, NOT for an idea for such. Rowling shouldn't win a suit against copycat works with boy wizards (that don't substantially copy plot etc).

The most egregious example of patent abuse is software patents. These are explicitly prohibited in the law. BUT, after a (correct) ruling where the mere presence of software did not invalidate patents (on an oil refinery implementation), Big Tech discovered they could "patent" software by simply appending "but on a general purpose computer". These are "patents" on ideas. Software implementations are already covered by copyright - no need for patents.

That said, there are numerous examples of small inventors getting real patents, and Big Corp ignores the patent. One famous example is the intermittent wiper setting for automobiles.

@PNS Replacing truth with lies, beauty with ugliness, order with chaos, reality with delusion is all part of their philosophy.

There are also the great reversals:
1) reversal of time: the future is fixed and immutable, the past can be rewritten
2) reversal of subject/object: guns kill people, cars run over people, etc
3) reversal of morality: good and kind deeds from those who oppose the Cause are unspeakably evil. The most unspeakable evil in support of the Cause is commended.

@PNS Have we ruled out fat suits?

@PNS When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.” Hosea 1:2

@cjd That's great for a point to point link, and you can accomplish the same thing with two radios on each end. Many openwrt routers have 2 radios, or use two $25 single radio boxes with Batman or other mesh.

Wifi was designed for many stations - too many for the channels available.

@PNS I can't imagine ever using those products. But apparently lots of people find them useful for the price.

I just fry a hamburger/egg and/or veggies. Faster than placing an order and waiting for it, including cleanup.

I do buy true convenience foods, e.g. sliced bread, preformed hamburgers (messy and time consuming to pat 'em by hand unless you're doing the whole family - which I used to do), ready to cook frozen vegetables.

@PNS You need to move instead of copy. Copy will take quite a while (unless it's a refcopy on a zfs/btrfs type filesystem).

@PNS Fat makes you fat.

@PNS Did he get a Darwin award?

@connection_with_reality @Endof10 I boot up Windoze in a VM to run Tax software. I don't know how to convince TurboTax/TaxAct/HRBlock/etc to have a Linux release. Maybe as a container release? There are legit reasons it is not open source.

An open source engine + proprietary tax rules database might work, but the rules are complex enough to be Turing complete.

The best solution is Flat Tax or Sale Tax and dispense with tax software altogether.