I'm not singling out anything. I'm saying any food product sold to consumers, from corn flakes to fresh produce, needs to have a symbol on its label saying it's from GE, the name of the company that holds the patent, and the fact that the GE is protected by a patent.
And my objection to GE does not start with whether or not it's safe, so let's spare everyone that argument.
On the plus side, if as you say these GE foods are a miracle that will save humanity from hunger and malnutrition, then these labels will pure marketing and consumers will flock to buy them. So it's win-win for both of us, right?
Even then, no one said blindly trust anyone. Do you also think that vaccines are bad because of pharmacutical companies?
No, but I do think that a pharmaceutical company would gladly throw a baby off a bridge if it meant a $0.50 bump in its stock price.
I start from a position of distrust when it comes to pharmaceutical companies and multi-national chemical conglomerates looking to establish intellectual property protections over basic foodstuffs. They want trust? Well then start by labeling your products. Because like you say, blind trust is bad.
The plane of our solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object
Is society ready to talk about the elephant in the room? Genetically engineered crops, it's long past time to get over the paranoia, marketing, and denialism, and start wider application of pest resistant crops.
That's right. We should totally trust the companies that made the fucking pesticides that have killed the bees to make pest-resistant crops that won't kill the bees.
Payroll is specifically not profit. Payroll happens "above the line" and profit is what happens below the line.
If there's one thing that the past three decades have taught us, in late-stage capitalism, profits only affect payroll negatively. Companies don't pay workers more because their profits go up, but they often make their profits go up by paying workers less.
And yet, we can see an explosion of new ideas in the late 18th century and in the 19th century.
We also see an explosion of new ideas about 2.5million years ago among the Australopithecus. And an explosion of new ideas in the Nile delta about 6000 years ago. And in the Eastern Mediterranean around 750 BC. And in the early Renaissance.
If you think capitalism is the only way to get new ideas in society, you lack imagination or have been utterly brainwashed. If you can't see how late-stage capitalism has actually worked against the creation of new ideas and innovation and the erosion of social structures and human well-being, you just haven't been paying attention.
Then think about how much better off you'd be without any of the products or services that were backed by VCs or motivated by profits.
I'm not saying that profits are all bad, only that we should see them for what they are. Just as not all taxes are bad, since they allow us to have something like a civilized society with roads, indoor plumbing, common defense. It's when profits (or taxes) get beyond a certain border condition that they become socially and economically destructive..
So, I repeat: Profits are a tax on productivity.
I'm not the first person to realize this, of course. Way back in the early 1800s, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was saying the same thing.
Remember, a "VC" is someone who wants to get rich off of someone else's work and creativity. Parasites. They produce nothing but exploitation. It should not surprise that they seek to exploit everyone they meet.
Who really cares what this giant tub of frosting does any more? He is now the face of the GOP from coast to coast and his opposition only has to stand back and watch. His kind of stink does not wash out.
You could choose to just quit being an asshole and work to bring people together, realize that most people have far more in common than not, but no. You choose to ridicule and insult anyone different than you.
75% of the US population and GDP lay in urban areas
Best recognize. And the rest of you just sit your civil war memorial protecting oxycontin using bring back our coal jobs Toby Keith listening asses down.
There is a lot more to maintaining healthy gut bacteria than just drinking them down. There have been precious few studies that show "probiotic" foods or drinks actually do anything, and almost none that show effects that are more than extremely temporary.
If you want to have healthy gut bacteria, you've got to eat a variety of healthy food that have been minimally processed or not processed at all. And stay off the antibiotics. Fermented foods and foods that are advertised as having "live bacteria" just won't get the job done.
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I'm not singling out anything. I'm saying any food product sold to consumers, from corn flakes to fresh produce, needs to have a symbol on its label saying it's from GE, the name of the company that holds the patent, and the fact that the GE is protected by a patent.
And my objection to GE does not start with whether or not it's safe, so let's spare everyone that argument.
On the plus side, if as you say these GE foods are a miracle that will save humanity from hunger and malnutrition, then these labels will pure marketing and consumers will flock to buy them. So it's win-win for both of us, right?
No, but I do think that a pharmaceutical company would gladly throw a baby off a bridge if it meant a $0.50 bump in its stock price.
I start from a position of distrust when it comes to pharmaceutical companies and multi-national chemical conglomerates looking to establish intellectual property protections over basic foodstuffs. They want trust? Well then start by labeling your products. Because like you say, blind trust is bad.
I figured out what's warping the solar system:
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That's right. We should totally trust the companies that made the fucking pesticides that have killed the bees to make pest-resistant crops that won't kill the bees.
Makes perfect sense.
Payroll is specifically not profit. Payroll happens "above the line" and profit is what happens below the line.
If there's one thing that the past three decades have taught us, in late-stage capitalism, profits only affect payroll negatively. Companies don't pay workers more because their profits go up, but they often make their profits go up by paying workers less.
All productivity comes from labor, and labor very rarely shares in profits.
It's stock price goes up.
We also see an explosion of new ideas about 2.5million years ago among the Australopithecus. And an explosion of new ideas in the Nile delta about 6000 years ago. And in the Eastern Mediterranean around 750 BC. And in the early Renaissance.
If you think capitalism is the only way to get new ideas in society, you lack imagination or have been utterly brainwashed. If you can't see how late-stage capitalism has actually worked against the creation of new ideas and innovation and the erosion of social structures and human well-being, you just haven't been paying attention.
I'm not saying that profits are all bad, only that we should see them for what they are. Just as not all taxes are bad, since they allow us to have something like a civilized society with roads, indoor plumbing, common defense. It's when profits (or taxes) get beyond a certain border condition that they become socially and economically destructive..
So, I repeat: Profits are a tax on productivity.
I'm not the first person to realize this, of course. Way back in the early 1800s, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was saying the same thing.
It is amazing to me that you think there were no new ideas developed until the rise of capitalism.
Late-stage capitalism has stunted people's imaginations to such an extent that now they can't even envision alternatives.
Remember, a "VC" is someone who wants to get rich off of someone else's work and creativity. Parasites. They produce nothing but exploitation. It should not surprise that they seek to exploit everyone they meet.
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You have just described capitalism.
Next to Phoenix, Trenton is almost paradise.
I love this country enough to have served it. You?
"Mother Nature is bleeding from her whatever."
Phoenix, Arizona serves the same function for Christians.
Why do you hate America?
Maybe a few days if they're on intravenous liquids.
There is no such thing as a free market. They do not exist, have never existed, and cannot exist.
Remember, Donald Trump is 2 years younger than Mick Jagger.
Who really cares what this giant tub of frosting does any more? He is now the face of the GOP from coast to coast and his opposition only has to stand back and watch. His kind of stink does not wash out.
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You're talking to to wrong guy.
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Food production and transportation are becoming automated. Soon, we won't need their ignorant snuff-dippin' incest-having asses any more.
Best recognize. And the rest of you just sit your civil war memorial protecting oxycontin using bring back our coal jobs Toby Keith listening asses down.
We got this.
There is a lot more to maintaining healthy gut bacteria than just drinking them down. There have been precious few studies that show "probiotic" foods or drinks actually do anything, and almost none that show effects that are more than extremely temporary.
If you want to have healthy gut bacteria, you've got to eat a variety of healthy food that have been minimally processed or not processed at all. And stay off the antibiotics. Fermented foods and foods that are advertised as having "live bacteria" just won't get the job done.