@PNS I knew a lady with a peanut allergy. She had lived with all her life, but at 60 something she was at a ladies Bible study chatting it up and when a plate of peanut butter cookies was passed around. She absent mindedly took a bite - and she was dead a few minutes later. Paramedics too late, and no one had an epi-pen or knew where hers was.
@PNS Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. Hosea 4:13b-14
“I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!"
So yes, the johns bear the responsibility in God's eyes.
The same goes for drug dealers. It wouldn't be a thing without customers.
@cjd@freepatriot@BowsacNoodle Celtic Christianity did exactly this. Walled communities with a (Catholic) priest, soldiers, farmers, weavers, tanners, etc. The best room was kept vacant, clean, and ready for visitors.
My favorite part: every task had a song. Milking the cow, weaving the cloth, practicing arms, sowing the seed, ...
As I understand it, the surgery sites hurt for the rest of your life. (Like FGM in Africa.) His life is a continuous agony of pain in the groin. (And millions in the bank for Big Pharma.) These genital mutilation surgeries are not simple castration (which is relatively free of side effects other than the obvious and low testosterone).
@rory@PNS They are one of the few trustworthy sources of real food, and have many customers from neighboring states. They do embrace new tech - but after many decades of observing the long term effect. E.g. they have their own telephones now, with Amish switchboard operators. (If any have embraced cell service, I think it is a mistake.)
Statistically, a van is safer than a horse drawn wagon (which the illegal driver would also cream).
@PNS With all the pundits reading from the FACE act this week, I suddenly realized that it enshrines temples of Moloch (aka "abortion" "clinics") as places of religious worship. It justifies itself from the 1st ammendment, and also protects mosques, churches, hindu temples, etc
@cjd My understanding was the good old RSA was secure against quantum with sufficient key size. I.e. a 4096 bit key requires a 4096 qbit quantum computer to solve. 4095 qbits does not "mostly" solve it.
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?
@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.
@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 This was the mistake Eli and Samuel and David made in the Bible. This was the mistake Saddam Hussein made in Iraq. Their sons committed capital crimes, for which they executed the populace, but they protected their sons. Rules for thee but not for me and my kin.
@freemo Most people were not aware there were real vaccines available for Covid-19. In fact, there weren't in the US. (The DNA based shots were almost as bad.)
@freemo My daughter and son-in-law got the sino-vac (non mRNA). They wouldn't have gotten anything, since Covid is not dangerous for healthy young people - but they were required to get something because they were pilots. So the Sino-vac essentially gave them Covid.
@freemo The problem is that the mRNA shots were called "vaccines", and that is what "anti-vaxxers" are protesting against. It was never against real vaccines. At the RFK level, there is protest against *untested* vaccines - essentially all real vaccines developed since 1986, when Congress absolved Pharma of liability for vaccine injuries. Before 1986, each vaccine went through about 5 years of testing. Now, new vaccines (e.g. "flu" vaccine) goes through at most 5 days of testing.
In the case of flu, it is similar enough to previous vaccines that new vaccine injuries are unlikely (and there has been no increase). But more novel new vaccines, like the RSV is more worrisome. Hopefully, while there was only days of testing before release, there are non-fraudulent records kept of injuries as it it used (since there is no liability).