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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • GMO’s create a societal harm, not a physiological one. Patenting a cultivar of a plant is a slippery slope, and we have already had quite a slide. In theory, if somebody works very hard to breed a new cultivar, they deserve to reap the rewards of that work and protect their creation. Okay, that makes sense. But if I have all the ingredients to breed that same cultivar, and do all the same work myself, should they be able to restrict my ability to profit? A step farther, and this is the reality we inhabit. Monsanto has created an environment where their patented corn seed is the best bet for a profitable harvest, but farmers are required to sign highly binding contracts with ridiculous stipulations. Beyond that, if a neighbor farmer dares to plant non patented seed, and the wind blows his neighbors Monsanto pollen (corn is wind pollinated) into his field and it pollinates his crop, he is now in patent violation of a company he has no business with that is now going to aggressively come after him in court. This is actually happening in the American Midwest.













  • Long time ex vaper here, maybe think twice about that. No, you’re probably not going to get popcorn lung, but there is gathering evidence that the residual pg that runs into your throat is really bad for your gut. I may have developed inflammatory bowel disease because of vaping, and my flare ups have lessened significantly since I switched to pouches. I also became vastly more addicted to nicotine on the vape than smoking, because I could use it anywhere and did.

    Probably the most important thing is to stay away from disposable vapes. There’s no way to know the contents of the liquid, the integrity of the heating coil, or even where it came from usually. They are also really strong at 5% salt nicotine.




  • We got a new GMC 2500 for plowing at work last fall. My boss was a big truck guy and crowing about how awesome it was. Mechanically, it was alright I guess. I didn’t like the thousand speed Allison transmission.

    Regardless, I made the boss sit in the driver seat, in drive, with his foot on the brake and told him to beep the horn when he could see me then crouched in front of the truck and walked forward. Took about 10 steps.

    Repeated the same test with a treework company bucket truck International, easily 4 times the size. I can see the ground directly in front of the bumper.

    It’s not about the size of the truck, that lack of forward ground visibility is deliberate. It conveys a feeling of assuredness somehow.