I know. It’s, potentially, an absolute tragedy. These (adult) people are so confident / smug in avoiding the “woke virus” that they seem to have forgotten that it’s the real viruses and pathogens that take us out. In droves. Throughout history. Again and again.

I’m thinking this too… let’s hope Renaissance mk2 only takes a few years to blossom - but my confidence is not high.

Yes. I wish more people were like you. What you wrote is correct. It Is far more nuanced than the crowd here are saying, as you acknowledge. I hope people take onboard what you posted. The only reason so many of us are alive is because of pasteurisation, vaccines (I assume the word is related to cows), modern medicine, biocides etc. To move away from these things, en masse, would cull a huge proportion of people. There’s a reason families pumped out 10-15 kids - they hoped a few would get to adulthood.

I’ve buried children, under those circumstances, and it’s the saddest fucking thing I’ve ever done.

Unpasteurised milk drank at cow temperature ‘can’ be fine - depending on the cow, milker and drinker. It’s ludicrous to even suggest it could be safely distributed nationally in the US. He’s an absolute lunatic - and so is anyone who buys it.

Just seen this is in lemmy.world - home of the big brains who are experts IN EVERYTHING. Makes sense why a factually accurate statement gets downvoted.

Exactly. You need to build a “tolerance” to it… as you yourself, being a dairy/beef farmer (I assume) know.

If raw milk is as dangerous as some of the keyboard experts on here think then Louis Pasteur would never have been born - humans would’ve died out in Northern Europe long before.

Your house. My map.

Yeah, I’d imagine it’s the most searched address this week across all mapping platforms. The guy wanted to be famous - guess he is now.

Argue bad. Discuss good.

And certainly don’t use Apple Maps to look at the property in question in its full glory with no blur.

It does look like a Mini at first glance.

Hello? This is the internet. Please don’t complicate things with your thinking and logic. /s

Do you know where I can buy a 2 mile extension cable to get to my nearest plug socket this morning?

I used rhythmbox on a system running Mint to move music to and from an iPod nano 2. It was fairly straight forward. Save the transfers before closing the programme and you’re good to go.

Enough with your psyop, Bill. Go back to trying to cure malaria to atone for your past sins.

I remember that now you mention it. Bartering with a super power seemed crazy to me back then. It’s amazing how little seems to have genuinely improved for Russians (specifically) since the fall of the USSR - we had high hopes of a new age but… gestures broadly at the current state of Europe and shakes head.

Have you been watching “Reefer Madness” and thinking it’s a documentary? Spoiler: it isn’t.

Again, whilst your opinion is not without merit, I’d still prefer to encounter spun news stories than to not encounter them at all, and, if you want a global picture of what’s happening all over the world then there isn’t much choice but to read the wires (Reuters, AP etc) or visit a global broadcaster.

Here’s the thing, with media organisations such as the BBC, Al Jazeera etc the funding source is clear and obvious and you can factor in an appropriate degree of editorial spin where applicable. Now, if your evening news programme was “brought to you in association with Poca-Pola” the giant soft drink company… do you think they’d even run that story about the direct link between consumption of carbonated drinks and obesity? If your technology programme is sponsored by the tech giant Googosoft do you think they’d run that feature on how good Linux can be? No, they wouldn’t. When media exists only to make profit that is their only goal - profit.

I pretty much agree with all of that but wanted to add that when BlackBerry BB10 was discontinued (miss you, Z30) I had the option of Microsoft, Google or Apple. I chose the least bad of a poor bunch… The original monopolists or an ad-obsessed stalker were of no interest to me.