furious googling of "are bees magic" reveals that bees have powerful magical properties according to internet witches and also that there is a minecraft mod with magic bees
like, its close enough to hfcs that a lot of honey in stores is actually cut with it, and the regulators cant tell the difference https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/#.Ud8ATBZpctt
okay what the fuck is going on with honey
it has antimicrobial and other medicinal properties despite being literally sugar (ie microbe food)
it is almost chemically identical with hfcs but is healthy somehow
look at this shit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Medical_use_and_research
as always, all roasts are directed first and foremost at myself
"you can only write who you are" is a pretty standard writing tip
hot take: the influx of stories about stories and bland everyman protagonists is because many writers dont know anything outside of stories
my exalted players are trying to use sympathetic magic to convert a molehill into a mountain
my general opinion of the domestic unrest lately is disappointment at the sheer incompetence of it all
people burning down random small businesses instead of government buildings, no politicians being hurt in the dc raid
sloppy. disorganized.
but also things have gotten bad and our leaders should feel real fear of the populace
and i only sense contempt coming from them
i feel like theres some bad incentives going on here, wrt media environments - something something emperors clothing
pondering my increasing extremism
ive always been partial to people with principled objections to the status quo, but im leaning more and more in the direction of bitfd
i dont think destroying the system will make things better, mind
my interaction with farms has largely been in driving past them - ive not dealt with agriculture firsthand outside of gardening and the neighbors pet chickens
but ive seen a lot more cows spending their time in pastures than ive seen anything else
this updates me significantly towards eating cow being generally fine, especially given my problem with meat eating being about the factory conditions rather than meat itself
im fine with killing animals, which also blunts the original argument i guess
a counterargument: lots of farm animals are fed field-grown grains, harvested the same way as everything else
but not all! cows in particular are more likely to eat wild scrub in areas like the american west, where there isnt enough water to support fields
a newish strong anti-veg*n argument that ive heard passed around: harvesting grains/vegetables from fields hurts a lot of small rodents and other wildlife, thus making eating from fields less ethical than eating from barns
this is worth thinking about if youre veg*n
okay making a key pair is pretty easy looks like
successfully signed a test file, encrypted, decrypted, imported a key, were good to go
my public key is at http://ianmhines.com/public-key if any of you crypt nerds want it
oh neat gnupg is already on my computer
and it looks like it can make keys for me
okay time to read some docs
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