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The Long-Snouted Weevil

Sylvia Shawcross

Well, here we are—living in the New Abnormal in the first world nations trying to figure out what to do with those little plastic tabs they put on milk cartons without being wasteful because God knows that even though “they” say “they” recycle things who really believes “they” are going to recycle those wee things?

Now, I know there’s all that stuff about nuclear war annihilation and doom and gloom out there but really… we can only manage what we have the power to control and these plastic tabs have been driving us crazy for years.

You’d think we could at least manage these things if nothing else.

Truth is, these little plastic tabs are gonna end up littering ocean tides in the Philippines being eaten inadvertently by the Long-Jawed Mackerel who will keel over and die which the media will exploit to convince us yet again the planet is dying from climate change.

Now, maybe the planet is dying from climate change but it certainly is NOT because of the Long-Jawed Mackerel which swim around with their large mouths open looking for food much like humans with jaws dropping at the price of food. The only difference being they get plankton and we get ramen noodles.

Obviously “we” will have to figure out a use for those little plastic tabs to save the planet because “they” certainly aren’t going to do it, now are they? We know this. We’re not complete fools. Except when it comes to elections and stuff. Then we’re blithering idiots driven by emotion and misery and media influencers. We’ve learned it is what “looks” good and not what “is” good that matters.

We know this because Boris Johnson was elected because he had wild hair and we were feeling wild at the time and Justin Trudeau has lost all sorts of popularity since he did his new look-at-me haircut. That much at least we’ve learned. These politicians in turn appoint like-minded diplomats and hire PR consultants and the rest is history… or the end of history maybe. Hard to tell at this point. However, I digress.

The important thing is the crickets. And the cockroaches. Oh, I know I’ve written about this before but it is the only thing of any real relevance in the world. I mean, to the common person in the first world who gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and does something in between.

Or maybe not.

“Doing something” all depends on where you are on the chart of demoralization and despair allotted to your particular country at this point in the Great Regret.

If you’re in the freezing to death/unemployed/civil war/famine stage of it all, you probably aren’t doing a darn thing but staring at the ceiling in a fit of existential angst. And eating chocolate Easter eggs in August fresh off the boats from China that have been sitting idle in harbours for about seven months.

But they were very cheap—for chocolate after all. And that matters.

But never mind all that. It’s about cricket consumption.

I know some of you might think the most pressing concern has nothing to do with crickets and is related to global climate, nuclear armageddon, wars, market meltdowns, civil unrest, gender confusions, racism, genocide, overpopulation, plagues and magnetosphere rollercoaster pole reversal solar flare minimum incoming asteroids and stuff, but really… We have to eat.

Now, I am very upset about the prospect of Sunday dinners with cockroaches. No, not the relatives, the main dish. I refuse to eat a cockroach. Or the milk of cockroaches which is apparently a thing. Or a cricket. Or a flat-faced long-horn beetle.

What kind of tasty gravy can you make to serve with a long-snouted weevil?

Oh the dilemma… I’m telling you, if we’re put in the position of having to survive on Spittlebug burgers then why are we even bothering to save the planet?

And it is all as if we were in charge of the world. We never were. But you know that.

The cockroaches, knowing they are the only beings that would survive nuclear war, have just been humouring us all this time. They are indubitably unpleased by the idea of being milked but since it takes 1000 cockroaches, delicate microsurgery and many many days to make 3.5 ounces of milk I’m absolutely certain they’re not that worried.

But then again, here in the New Abnormal maybe these high and mighty cockroaches shouldn’t be so very smug about not being cost-effective as a food source.

We humans have a way of choosing the hard way every single time. Like using hydrogen for fuel in Germany or paying farmers not to farm just before the famine starts or encouraging wars in foreign lands to interrupt microprocessor manufacturing.

It is almost like we “want” life to be difficult. (Or “they” do—whoever “they” are) It gives us something to complain about on YouTube and TikTok so we can feel we are part of the herd. We’re just not happy without something to complain about.

And we’ve got SO MUCH to complain about now—we couldn’t be happier.

However, that being said…. The eating cockroaches thing is the last straw.

Yet there is always hope. There is no doubt in my mind that once we’ve all become obedient slaves to the global system and hungry enough there will be plenty of people willing to milk cockroaches for a top up on their digital currency account. Which will of course be the turning point for the revolution to start.

Because you gotta know how far you’ve fallen in your Social Credit Score and how low it has to get before you find yourself working with a lactating roach, a magnifying glass and a miniature breast pump for a living. But never mind all that…

Sylvia Shawcross writes things. Sometimes. For the fun of it. Despite the ghastly world which she completely fails to understand for the most part/

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plino
plino
Aug 28, 2022 8:37 PM

And perhaps, purely theoretically, they adapt the ubiquitous diet closer to the taste habits of the mass part of the future population. Coudenhove-Kalergi and stuff.

Howard
Howard
Aug 28, 2022 5:34 PM

I don’t think we have to worry about anyone but the wokest of the woke falling for the bug-eating psyop. Dinner must have a certain aesthetic appeal – which means no more than four legs per customer.

Also, it must have been “cute” when in its childhood. And there is nothing “cute” about a larva. People will not dine on ugliness.

But then, if it comes to cannibalism, does that mean the homely will be passed over in favor of the attractive?

Lorie
Lorie
Aug 28, 2022 11:59 PM
Reply to  Howard

Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” comes to mind.

Linda Ferland
Linda Ferland
Aug 28, 2022 4:54 PM

What a great article & yes, humans will choose the ‘hard way’, every time!

Edwige
Edwige
Aug 28, 2022 10:04 AM

Looking for a wedge to drive in UBI:

https://dumptheguardian.com/business/2022/aug/28/widespread-child-hunger-cost-of-living-crisis-free-meals

“You think maybe we’d better check inside that horse, Paris?…. “.

red_squirrel
red_squirrel
Aug 28, 2022 4:15 AM

Like using hydrogen for fuel in Germany

May I ask what is wrong with hydrogen vehicles? I had a chance to test drive a hydrogen car, well guess, in Germany. If the hydrogen were harvested using clean energy, then this method to power vehicles is the cleanest so far in existence.
So if neither we go back to ride horses or someone re-invents Nikola Tesla’s free energy to power all vehicles with (which is not going to happen as long as there are greedy usurers controlling the world) it is the best technology we have.
Hydrogen vehicles are basically electro vehicles – but without battery – so no lithium and other materials that are as bad (or maybe even more) to nature as fossil fuels are needed for them.

mgeo
mgeo
Aug 28, 2022 6:23 AM
Reply to  red_squirrel

The primary intention is not reducing pollution or cost (for the owners). It is marketing another version of private vehicles for profit. Well organised mass transport, hydrogen or otherwise, is another matter.

Edwige
Edwige
Aug 28, 2022 10:09 AM
Reply to  red_squirrel

“If the hydrogen were harvested using clean energy”.

Water engines have been rumoured to be possible but surpressed for decades. David Mamet, who wrote ‘Wag the Dog’ and is thus clearly a big insider, wrote a TV movie about one.

It’s also long been suspected that ‘The Hindenburg’ was no accident but a stage event to discredit hydrogen’s use in transport.

Zane
Zane
Aug 28, 2022 12:07 AM

Easy. They will tell the sheeple that eating insects helps to prevent Covid.

Billions of people will start eating bugs tomorrow.

It’s all connected. It’s all one big op. Operation Global Takeover is half done.

Wendy
Wendy
Aug 28, 2022 5:53 AM
Reply to  Zane

Nailed it!

jimbojames
jimbojames
Aug 27, 2022 9:30 PM

each and every one of our ancestors ate grasshoppers, aka crickets, when we left the trees roughly 4.5 mya. There’s nothing wrong with eating grasshoppers and in a lot of ways it makes perfect sense for us to return full circle, certainly if we’re approaching the End.

Johnnycomelately
Johnnycomelately
Aug 27, 2022 4:13 PM

I recall Heston Blumenthal snail porridge. Then his snail ice cream. This stuff did not take off with the sheeple. People didnt go for it. Weirdo richer folks did.

Bizarrely The fat duck restaurant he run had to temporary close due to loads of people getting ill.

Cockroach sandwich or Ants milk isnt going to make Christmas number 1.

Ort
Ort
Aug 27, 2022 9:28 PM

This evokes a hazy memory of a comedy routine by the late, great Richard Pryor.

As best I recall, he mentions an elderly aunt or grandmother who always brought her famous rice pudding with raisins to family gatherings.

Pryor jokes that the problem was that if one looked closely, one realized that more than a few of those “raisins” had legs.  😎 

This, in turn, reminds me of something my adult relatives would say if we kids objected to an unpleasant or revolting ingredient or feature of some dish: “But that’s the best part!”

In our brave new world, the insect-mongering authorities would insist that the legs on those “raisins” are the best part!

Wendy
Wendy
Aug 28, 2022 5:55 AM
Reply to  Ort

I think we had the same adult relatves. Also, the lied.

el Gallinazo
el Gallinazo
Aug 27, 2022 3:21 PM

On my acre surrounded by agave (mescal cactus) and maiz fields of SW Mexico, I have the perfect solution to those milk tabs That is, if I were to buy milk which is unlikely. I have a pre-used 55 gallon steel drum into which my burnables go and are ignited when enough is accumulated. The plastic tabs are made of polyethylene which is composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen atoms. When combusted it is converted into molecules of water and carbon dioxide, the latter being the gas of life about which plants currently are complaining that it is found in insufficient amounts in the atmosphere.

As to eating crickets, my neighbors do eat a roasted small cricket-like bug referred to as chapulines. They are collected in nets as a cottage industry and found in all the small markets, sold by little old ladies of Zapotec origins. They are definitely not a main course, but rather a quick snack for those on the run, and regarded by the vast majority as quite tasty. I tried them once and thought that they are OK but nothing to write home about, but probably better than Soylent Green where this insect propaganda is probably heading.

bunkin
bunkin
Aug 27, 2022 2:28 PM

there is plenty of land to feed 5 times more people than there is today
https://www.pop.org/episode-3-food-theres-lots-of-it/

sabelmouse
sabelmouse
Aug 27, 2022 10:34 AM

lol

William Sabre
William Sabre
Aug 27, 2022 10:13 AM

Self-sufficiency; doesn’t mean you have to survive on your own; it means that you; as an autonomous sovereign entity; with the right will, right determination and following the right spiritual understanding, is enough not only to survive but grow, heal, and build which itself dispels corruption.

The idea that we need; or our futures are ordained; by a group of corporate ’theys’ is one of the greatest delusions pulled over our modern eyes. Look at tax, they can only tax luxuries, local grass fed butter and basic foods can’t be taxed and used to pay for their corrupting influence. If you buy the basics you can produce the luxuries tax-free. The only reason they exist is because of our ignorance of the true system and their manipulation of it.

Paul_too
Paul_too
Aug 27, 2022 8:25 AM

Make a post, doesn’t get flagged by the spam bot. Edit same post to add a missing ‘a’ and it gets flagged ‘pending….spam’!

Paul_too
Paul_too
Aug 27, 2022 2:31 PM
Reply to  Paul_too

And original post then disappears, despite the above comment being a reply to it!

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Aug 27, 2022 7:56 AM

I read a comment on one of the UK’s papers. It said:

“I’m too busy working to worry about your ridiculous conspiracy theories”

And, you know, he has a point.

A hell of a lot of people are in the same position and have to concentrate on making ends meet rather than look at the big picture.

If TPTB keep the pressure on just enough to keep everyone’s nose to the grindsone people will just keep complying.

If they push it too far into revolution they can implement martial law.

Win win situation.

Paul_too
Paul_too
Aug 27, 2022 8:23 AM

I’ve heard the same from a few friends and family, but then I see the amount of time (in their busy schedule) they find for facebook, bbc news, netflix, their appearance, hair, makeup, clothing style, reinforcing the mainstream bullshit in conversations.

I have no sympathy, it’s a weak excuse for saying they are willfully ignorant and that’s exactly how they like it.

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Aug 27, 2022 7:07 AM

Can death from starvation be caused by Covid ?
Will the crickets poop be recycled too ?
And how many generations after the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) will people be scratching their heads wondering what Bing Crosby meant by his song “Brother Can You Spare A Dime ?”
As panhandlers dont obey the Social Distancing Rules, are CBDCs a means to put an end to panhandling ?

mgeo
mgeo
Aug 27, 2022 8:42 AM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

In countries with large populations where the rulers have no capability or intention to provide basic services, covid is useful to thin the population and even reclaim some slums for redevelopment. This includes Brazil, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Nigeria.

Sophie - Admin1
Admin
Sophie - Admin1
Aug 27, 2022 9:44 AM
Reply to  mgeo

“COVID” does not exist as a new or definable disease. It’s merely the usual collection of seasonal flu symptoms given a new name. Referring to it as if it had some discrete properties is counter-factual.

Mike
Mike
Aug 27, 2022 5:50 AM
les online
les online
Aug 27, 2022 5:36 AM

O.T.
Einstein, quoted in a 1929 article in the New York Times…
The ether was invented, penetrating everything, filling the whole of space, and was admitted as a new kind of matter. Thus it was overlooked that by this procedure space itself had been brought to life. It is clear that this had really happened, since the ether was considered to be a sort of matter which could nowhere be removed. It was thus to some degree identical with space itself…
“The characteristics which especially distinguish the general theory of relativity and even more the third stage of the theory, the unified field theory, from other physical theories, are the degree of formal speculation, the slender empirical basis, the boldness in theoretical construction ,and finally the fundamental reliance on the uniformity of the secrets of natural law and their accessibility to the speculative intellect. It is this feature which appears as a weakness to physicists who incline towards realism or positivism, but is especially attractive, nay, fascinating to the speculative mind.” (Emphasis added).

The above words come direct from Einstein. He presents a glowing boast of his mental powers and mathematical prowess, with a clear bias against empirically determined facts, and against any concept that would breathe life and motion into cosmic space. His form of speculative arrogance and pseudo-intellectualism, with its explanatory monopoly over experimental findings, flooded into science of the post-ether period .Einstein’s relativity, the big-bang theory, quantum entanglement, and similar other-worldly concepts collectively smothered out the flames of critical scientific curiosity and rational dissent, placing theoretical shackles upon just what was possible, and what was not.
(The author continues…)
Now consider how the Einstein theory, invoking a cosmic speed limit, that “empty space” has no creative energy or power, became immensely popular in a quick and easy manner. It had a stifling effect on modern thinking. And where defeatist thinking was insufficient to dissuade the inventive genius or dissenter, there always was censorship, public slander, book-burning and prison. All were used by 20th Century science, medicine and media in the post-ether period, to squelch competing ideas. That same ugly toolkit is still put to work, even today…

The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space, by James DeMeo (p342-343)…

The book is definitely not likely to get any positive or even negative reviews – it’s far too heretical…But while reading the above i was thinking how DeMeo makes modern physics seem so similar to Virology…

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 27, 2022 8:01 AM
Reply to  les online

Space, filled with light, gravity waves and the awareness of the perceiver, could hardly be classed as ’empty’

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Aug 27, 2022 3:21 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Lol. “Gravity waves”

Sok
Sok
Aug 28, 2022 8:07 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 27, 2022 4:49 AM

Working on the sound assumption that what is given a high profile in the media and reported favourably or sympathetically, I wonder how the industrial action will serve the rulers e.g. the refuse worker and rail service strikes. These are spun as triumphalist worker protests but will clearly turn out to be nothing of the sort. There are local rumblings here in Scotland about public service strikes and I guess they are part of that dissolution of services that will feed into the reset. As well as feeding into the cull.

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 27, 2022 5:05 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Sarah Cocker has been on ITN News to explain to us uncomprending peasants how the vicious energy price rises are inevitable and have nothing to do with making profits. Furthermore these rises will continue etc. In the light of all this, it is difficult to see how any strike action can have any effect beyond accelerating the impoverishment of the population. Thus the theatre is set for another phony battle in which we will be the lovers.

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 27, 2022 9:25 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Two mistakes there: Sarah Cocker should be Sarah Corker. And that last line should end with “we will all be losers”. I doubt if any of us will be seeing much love!

Edith
Edith
Aug 28, 2022 5:13 AM
Reply to  George Mc

Oh well the mask wearers will probably love it George…they seem to have a desire to suffer…smile.

and yes it is all designed to collapse the economy.l.they believe they need too in order to fix the mistakes made with the banking system…or rather start it all over again afresh so they can play in the new system

lotuseater
lotuseater
Aug 27, 2022 4:34 AM

All the stuff they are doing to us can put under the heading: Buggery.

Bill Francis
Bill Francis
Aug 27, 2022 2:30 PM
Reply to  lotuseater

Bill Gates: From Big Pharma to bug farmer?

Ort
Ort
Aug 27, 2022 9:19 PM
Reply to  Bill Francis

Not much of a leap.

Remember, Gates made his mega-fortune by hijacking other people’s work, and using it to found an international corporation dedicated to producing notoriously buggy bloatware.

Penelope
Penelope
Aug 27, 2022 4:34 AM

 India on Alert as Rare Viral Illness ‘Tomato Flu‘ Spreads. More than 100 children infected with hand-foot-mouth disease.

I can understand bananas catching it from the monkeys, but tomatoes?

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:23 AM
Reply to  Penelope

If they ban pizza, I’m out

Antonym
Antonym
Aug 27, 2022 3:26 AM

London. Ontario, Canada May 26th 2022: Aspire’s new plant will reportedly produce 9000 metric tons of crickets every year for human and pet consumption.

King Trudeau: let them eat crickets!

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:26 AM
Reply to  Antonym

Well they better grind them into a paste and make them look like hamburger patties with the help of fillers… The most controversial chains will fill them with,,, beef

les online
les online
Aug 27, 2022 1:40 AM

Local TV “news” informed viewers ‘Monkeypox cases are declining globally’…But dont break out the Champagne, not yet..Stay Vigilant ! There’s a good chance that in a short while cases will be ratcheted up again…Hopes are raised so they can be dashed…

Of course, monkeypox wasnt meant to become a major pandemic…The ‘spread of monkeypox was limited by its telltale blisterings…The toxic jab caused the telltale visual blisters of shingles…The ‘virus’ catalogue contained a description of a ‘rare’ disease that fitted the need for a cover story…Experts rightly figured the monkeypox story would gain heft, and inspire more fear, if fused with claims it was spread by “men who have sex with men”…Homophobia & germ-phobia – The successful 1980s AIDS fear campaign, rerun…

Below the radar: Zika and another virus is on the move in South America…But it’s not a given that it will spread around the world. (Dengue fever, another ‘virus spread by mosquitos’ has been inching its way south from Queensland’s jungles for decades, threatening Sydney…Where’s little billy “mosquito killer” gates when you need him ?)…

There’s a lot of viruses listed in the Virus catalogue: one for every disease, one for every occasion ! (It’s remarkable how they all have mostly the same symptoms)…
The killer viruses share a common feature, they all incubate in deep dark dank places – like the Jungles of Africa and South America; or, occasionally, in The Mysterious East (fishy markets in Wuhan city)…

Most people know that ‘climate change’ means ‘man-made global warming’. They’ve most likely read claims that ‘climate change’ will hurry the spread of viruses currently restricted to deep dark dank places…The spread of monkeypox globally, popping up in cities all over the world at almost the same time – is one such story…

There’ll be a recurrence of such stories during 2020 -2030: A Decade of Pandemics… The masses may remain largely unmoved by ‘climate change’ warnings*, but not when they’re fused with fears about viral pandemics…

The ‘covid’ fear campaign showed how Fear of Contagion can be mobilised – just to get the masses to submit to toxic jabs…That same Fear can be exploited to gain mass support
for implementing the World Economic Forum’s desired economic changes..
Fusing global warming with a decade of viral pandemics, who was the genius ?

** The global warming propagandists surely must have realised by now that Greta has become a negative to their campaign ? Ridicule of Greta is breeding skepticism about The Message !!

Captain Birdheart
Captain Birdheart
Aug 27, 2022 3:23 AM
Reply to  les online

Was about to reply, ‘that’s great’, sounds just like the sort of thing we in UK see in ‘The Light’ (free ‘truther’ paper), minus a couple of key subjects.

However, I see in the latest edition of The Light, centre spread, ‘Has man been to the moon ?’

https://thelightpaper.co.uk/

So that is great.

Just the root cause to go…

Real shame on OffG, not touching either.

CK_
CK_
Aug 27, 2022 1:40 AM

I predict Cricket Cooking Books will soon be part of the New Normal!

Bee
Bee
Aug 27, 2022 12:55 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygrgcOtezM&list=PL0B2F478D97C98827

In response…just a little ditty from the past & my awol mind….used to live in a roach infested council block (Chalkhill – Penitentiary – Wembley Park back in the early 1980’s) Back then I was a constant caller to ‘The Pest Mob.’ Er Um… maybe I should’ve been more aware of where we were all gonna be pushed…could’ve farmed roaches back then courtesy of Brent Council & centralised heating systems! Roaches so aint EVER gonna be on my consumption menu…I would rather die….seriously…they are frigging icky…they can live after they loose their head if they’re carrying an egg sack…fair play to them though!

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:33 AM
Reply to  Bee

I see a lot of people too, walking around w… never mind

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 26, 2022 11:43 PM

Speaking of long snouts, Moderna is suing Phizer and BioNtech for patent infringement.
Corporate cannibalism or slugs eating slugs?

Hele
Hele
Aug 27, 2022 6:08 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Finally-thank god.

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:37 AM
Reply to  Johnny

It is still a competitive market… “Don’t you go take credit for that 50 million dead and injured now… You’ll hear from my lawyers!”

Penelope
Penelope
Aug 26, 2022 11:27 PM

I bet y’all can think of a few big mucky-mucks you’d like to consign to the flames– but not for any culinary purpose.

Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:07 PM

Embrace technology and science…

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And the Future will be awesome!

Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:10 PM
Reply to  Voz 0db

I mean… ingesting bugs will be a good thing compared to the crap degenerate uman animals are already doing and planning on doing!

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:39 AM
Reply to  Voz 0db

Good idea on that baby not trying to get in head first

Zane
Zane
Aug 26, 2022 10:58 PM

They successfully destroyed the sociometric structure of the world with a psyop called Covid. 90% of people fell for the deadly new supervirus schtick. The first trillion dollar pathogen. That’s quite an achievement for the planners. The execution of the spec op was pitch perfect. These guys deserve an award.

And now come the bug burgers.

lotuseater
lotuseater
Aug 27, 2022 4:22 AM
Reply to  Zane

Well, the contest was Mike Tyson vs a wet paper bag…

Edwige
Edwige
Aug 26, 2022 10:48 PM

Albert Bourla has convid!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/pfizer-ceo-bourla-tests-positive-for-covid-with-mild-symptoms

Perhaps he could isolate in solitary confinement.

Grafter
Grafter
Aug 27, 2022 1:58 AM
Reply to  Edwige

Has he been injected yet ? The man’s a criminal.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 27, 2022 2:00 AM
Reply to  Edwige

Perhaps he could fuck off to Neptune.

Robert Esbrandt
Robert Esbrandt
Aug 27, 2022 2:09 AM
Reply to  Edwige

There is no covid so that’s impossible. It’s a psyop to keep all the rubes believing in germ theory.

Bill Francis
Bill Francis
Aug 27, 2022 2:38 PM
Reply to  Edwige

He should be put on a ventilator immediately. There are a lot of dead people who can testify to its efficacy!

I stand in UK rain
I stand in UK rain
Aug 26, 2022 10:28 PM

Many non meat eaters I know have their suspicions about the vegan agenda. Vegetarians and vegans would not eat bugs anyway, but these questioning herbivores have doubts about the motive behind the promotion of plant based meals. Like me, they can spot a nudge when they see one being applied to the public. So much shelf space dedicated to veggie and vegan meals. Something stinks and it is not the hummus.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 27, 2022 12:40 AM

‘So much shelf space’?
Must be at least 5% .

Jo Dominich
Jo Dominich
Aug 27, 2022 2:02 AM

Ah yes but, speaking as someone who has worked in “it’s not just any food it’s …. food” i can safely say that those shelves of plant based and vegan food are always practically full ad in they aren’t selling!

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:48 AM

I though veganism was making them less competitive

KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
Aug 26, 2022 10:06 PM

Cockroach Ratatouille:
2 cups minced Cockroach
3 Rats skinned, de-boned, gutted and diced
4 Tulip bulbs thinly sliced
1 cup assorted lawn clippings
500mls used engine oil.

Simmer diced rats in 400mls used engine oil in pot until thoroughly blackened

Add minced cockroach (stirring in slowly, so as not to coagulate in clumps)

In a separate pan use remaining 100mls to saute tulip slices until opaque, then add to main pot

Bring to a high simmer

Add lawn clippings as garnish and serve.

Derek
Derek
Aug 27, 2022 12:11 AM
Reply to  KiwiJoker

A turd sandwich with mayonnaise sounds more appetising…….because “Hellmans makes it”

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:50 AM
Reply to  Derek

You’re talking about their new turd product line… yeah I’ve seen that

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Aug 26, 2022 10:01 PM

This is excellent! I loved it! Why such a low rating?? Thank you Sylvia!

Tim Glass
Tim Glass
Aug 26, 2022 10:49 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

people don’t like eating bugs and they’re shooting the messenger?

plino
plino
Aug 26, 2022 10:55 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

With this low rating, Sylvia is unlikely to get to the milk from cockroaches, let alone the Ratatouille of a KiwiJoker.

Eat cake then.

Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:09 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Usually when a fellow MMS writes about Reality the reaction is always the same…

Stop The Prison Mentality
Stop The Prison Mentality
Aug 27, 2022 12:06 AM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Truth is, it’s just not funny. Didn’t you hear the audience groan when the “I digress” play was used.

Rambling, yes, jibberish, also yes, funny, no.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 27, 2022 2:03 AM

It’s the sort of thing we used to find funny until reality decided to catch up and reflect it perfectly…

Not the author’s fault, but I have to admit my sense of humour has moved on.
To me, ordinary, chirpy satire no longer seems appropriate to our present circumstances.

Black humour, with a strong element of bitter revenge, has taken over my lighter contemplative moments…

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 5:52 AM
Reply to  wardropper

proud of you Dropper

Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Aug 26, 2022 9:53 PM

How ironic. Chefs have been killing the blighters for eons. Now they are being expected to put them on the menu. It could save some cleaning bills.

The stuff in these bugs turns toxic in the human body. So, bon appétit.

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 26, 2022 9:38 PM

If my last item appears twice I apologise. I put it in seemingly without a problem but when I tried to change a little bit of it, the pending shark pounced with a violence I’ve never seen and gobbled it up with the word “Spam” stamped on it.

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 26, 2022 9:36 PM

I was listening to the latest John Steppling podcast and he has a go at OffG and in particular Catte’s recent open letter to Vanessa Beeley which apparently doesn’t show the requisite “historical awareness”, nor “a dialectical sense”, also insufficient “Marxism”, and furthermore a blindness to the ongoing relevance of imperialism etc. Shortly after which, Steppling started to drone on about anti-Semitism yet again and I felt like screaming.

COVID was certainly a revelation about the true nature of the power structure at work, but even before that viral scam, the “anti-Semitism” issue had been shown over and over again to be a tool used to discredit and demonise any dissident faction as well as stigmatising all critical thought under the heading “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”. The “anti-Semitism” card is part of that general movement to push forward the William Golding “Lord of the Flies” view of humanity as inherently evil – by which is meant of course the inherent evil of the masses and never the rulers. Ironically Steppling has also criticised the Golding view but fails to see how the “anti-Semitism” meme feeds into that. And before you know it we will be into the Adornian waffle about “The Authoritarian Personality” and the “fascist tendencies of the masses” and all the rest of that academic drivel.

A true critical outlook should be constantly looking at all previous formations of “historical awareness” and should take very seriously the perfectly correct observation that history is written by the winners. Thus the truth is not only the first casualty of war but also the last too. Indeed the “facts” ceaselessly emphasised after a war should be the very first facts to be doubted. As well as the areas considered taboo.

It isn’t a question of denying anti-Semitism but of looking at how this term, like every other term, is used and whether that use is legitimate or not. I would hold that it is not used legitimately at all now. Or at least not for the main part. Indeed, it is ironically the ones labelled anti-Semitic who are most vulnerable to harassment. Now that is dialectics with a vengeance!     

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 26, 2022 9:34 PM

I was listening to the latest John Steppling podcast and he has a go at OffG and in particular Catte’s recent open letter to Vanessa Beeley which apparently doesn’t show the requisite “historical awareness”, nor “a dialectical sense”, also insufficient “Marxism”, and furthermore a blindness to the ongoing relevance of imperialism etc. Shortly after which, Steppling started to drone on about anti-Semitism yet again and I felt like screaming.

COVID was certainly a revelation about the true nature of the power structure at work, but even before that viral scam, the “anti-Semitism” issue had been shown over and over again to be a tool used to discredit and demonise any dissident faction as well as stigmatising all critical thought under the heading “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”. The “anti-Semitism” card is part of that general movement to push forward the William Golding “Lord of the Flies” view of humanity as inherently evil – by which is meant of course the inherent evil of the masses and never the rulers. Ironically Steppling has also criticised the Golding view but fails to see how the “anti-Semitism” meme feeds into that. And before you know it we will be into the Adornian waffle about “The Authoritarian Personality” and the “fascist tendencies of the masses” and all the rest of that academic drivel.

A true critical outlook should be constantly looking at all previous formations of “historical awareness” and should take very seriously the perfectly correct observation that history is written by the winners. Thus the truth is not only the first casualty of war but also the last too. Indeed the “facts” ceaselessly emphasised after a war should be the very first facts to be doubted. As well as the areas considered taboo.

It isn’t a question of denying anti-Semitism but of looking at how this term, like every other term, is used and whether that use is legitimate or not. I would hold that it is not used legitimately at all now. Or at least not for the main part. Indeed, it is ironically the ones labelled anti-Semitic who are most vulnerable to harassment. Now that is dialectics with a vengeance!    

jiin
jiin
Aug 26, 2022 9:26 PM

The weird kid at school ate half a worm.
He was taunted for the rest of his schooling life.
Aint going to work.
Maybe alt media can stop boring us with the bug nonsense.
Either Bugs or trannies.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 26, 2022 11:58 PM
Reply to  jiin

What WE need to do is to stop giving this bug-eating, injection-accepting nonsense any more air. Just ignore this shite and get on with living our lives.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 27, 2022 2:17 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

I suspect that is already happening, although there is still some trepidation about a new pandemic of dog ‘flu on the horizon, transmissible to humans and to be renamed, “Rabies22” for marketing purposes…

S Cooper
S Cooper
Aug 26, 2022 9:02 PM

Mengele the Beagle Slayer never met a doggy he did not want to torment and torture.”
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“Beagle Lives Matter!”
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“Bless the Doggies.”

S Cooper
S Cooper
Aug 26, 2022 9:08 PM
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Hele
Hele
Aug 27, 2022 6:18 AM
Reply to  S Cooper

So good

S Cooper
S Cooper
Aug 26, 2022 9:10 PM
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Mike
Mike
Aug 26, 2022 9:22 PM
Reply to  S Cooper

Vera Sharav speaking at Nuremberg, on Nazi Tactics in 2020

Mike
Mike
Aug 26, 2022 10:08 PM
Reply to  Mike

Sen. Marshall Discusses the Need for HHS to Preserve All of Dr. Fauci’s Records

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 27, 2022 2:22 AM
Reply to  Mike

And if they have any difficulty tracing those records, I’m sure a fair number of readers here could get hold of some copies.

rememberingmonkey
rememberingmonkey
Aug 27, 2022 10:20 PM
Reply to  Mike

In other words ” Hurry up and get the shredders running”

Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 27, 2022 11:16 PM
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Tigerlily
Tigerlily
Aug 26, 2022 10:37 PM
Reply to  Mike

Any chance they get to beat ‘their’ holocaust drum!

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 27, 2022 12:01 AM
Reply to  Tigerlily

Exactly. I’d like to see her speak at London, Montreal, Melbourne, NYC, etc.

Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:18 PM
Reply to  Mike

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Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:20 PM
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Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 27, 2022 12:02 AM
Reply to  Voz 0db

You could have found a photo from Paris, France where the cops went through the restaurants and cafes requiring patrons to show their vaxx status on their phones.

Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:28 PM
Reply to  Mike

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S Cooper
S Cooper
Aug 27, 2022 2:26 PM
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S Cooper
S Cooper
Aug 27, 2022 2:30 PM
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Voz 0db
Voz 0db
Aug 26, 2022 11:33 PM
Reply to  Mike

Clearly we’ve kept the long tradition of not learning anything from our Past.

rememberingmonkey
rememberingmonkey
Aug 27, 2022 10:19 PM
Reply to  Mike

Was so right about everything.

rememberingmonkey
rememberingmonkey
Aug 27, 2022 10:18 PM
Reply to  S Cooper

It’s the only reason I can tolerate the lettuce ladies.

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Aug 26, 2022 8:44 PM

What about cockroach caviar. You know. Those odd looking egg cases hanging off the abdomen tip of the females. Must be delicious. Raw or fried (in vegetable oil, of course).

Will the cockroach milk be stocked in the dairy case next the almond milk? Probably would not be hard for dairy farmers to shift over to cockroaches. With the new nanotechnology it should be easy to retrofit the milking machines to fit cockroaches. Probably need to heat the barn to support tropical cockroaches which are bigger producers. Solar panels could provide the needed energy without taxing the energy grid.

And lastly, has anyone consulted with PETA? Last I heard, PETA was protesting the use of cockroaches in pesticide experiments. I can only imagine how flipped out they are over the idea of eating them.

antitermite
antitermite
Aug 26, 2022 10:12 PM
Reply to  Hemlockfen

According to the link in the article
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cockroach-milk-nutrition#bottom-line

the downsides are that it kills too many cockroaches

cockroach milk isn’t the most ethical drink. According to a co-author of the famous cockroach milk study, making just a single glass of the drink would involve killing thousands of cockroaches

They only once, near the end, consider that “many people would find the idea of drinking cockroach milk unappetizing”.

Science evolving into performance art.

plino
plino
Aug 26, 2022 11:05 PM
Reply to  antitermite

They only once, near the end, consider that “many people would find the idea of drinking cockroach milk unappetizing”.

Having already expressed ” concerns “that” the new anti-vaxxers are the anti-transhumans, ” they are now the anti-bug-eaters. It is not easy for liberal bugs to “save the planet”.

theobalt
theobalt
Aug 29, 2022 6:01 AM
Reply to  Hemlockfen

How do you hire for those who will milk the cockroaches… a moment from Schindler’s List comes to mind

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Aug 29, 2022 2:38 PM
Reply to  theobalt

Short lived vaxxers, as you imply. They are all dying prematurely anyway. Round them up like they did in the the movie Soylent Green. They won’t live long enough to protest.

Peter
Peter
Aug 26, 2022 8:05 PM

with those little plastic tabs they put on milk cartons

as we buy milk directly from the dairy in glass bottles and before that drank for a large part of our lives milk from our goats, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Aug 26, 2022 8:53 PM
Reply to  Peter

Some cartons have a screw on cap with a tamper proof pull tab underneath. Almond and coconut milk products, half and half, etc. Goat’s milk isn’t bad. Naturally homogenized. Just does not have folic acid. Pinch and squeeze…………. but don’t pinch too hard or she will squawk.

richard
richard
Aug 26, 2022 8:02 PM

Boris wasn’t elected. Nobody voted for him. He just took over from that woman…. can’t remember her name. – because she wasn’t delivering Brexit – remember Brexit??
Out of the frying pan into the fire – cheers Boris.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 27, 2022 2:27 AM
Reply to  richard

Nobody ever votes for our current ‘representatives’.
They just plonk themselves in 10, Downing Street, or the Oval Office.
Our input is not required.

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Aug 26, 2022 7:47 PM

Does anyone know what the Davos Great Reset crowd eats at their annual confabs? Is it bugs, like grasshoppers, crickets and cockroaches? Does anyone know if they still devourer all the things they tell us not to eat like beef, lamb, expensive seafood, rich deserts and pricy alcohol?
How do they get to their exclusive meetings? If they are so concerned about the environment do they row in using canoes, do they use wind only sail boats, hot air balloons or do they fly in in gas guzzling jets, helicopters and sail in on luxurious mega yachts?
BTW since they are so concerned about eliminating inequality, poverty and the wealth gap how come they never offer to give away all their money, riches, ill gotten possessions to us useless eaters? Just asking.

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Aug 26, 2022 8:12 PM

The rules don’t apply to them.

Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Aug 26, 2022 10:02 PM

Many of the global shysters have several mega yachts. It’s typical. Just when you thought one was enough.
Poor chaps, having to rattle around just one yacht. Perish the thought eh?

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Aug 27, 2022 11:51 AM
Reply to  Peter Jennings

I am sure it depends on where they plan to sail. Some places are safer than others. Bigger boats can carry more security for fending off pirates. Won’t be long before they start sailing in private fleets of ships. Like floating countries. They, of course, are the real pirates.

Ort
Ort
Aug 27, 2022 9:13 PM
Reply to  Peter Jennings

This brings to mind Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galapagos, which revolves around the (mis)adventures of the “Nature Cruise of the Century”– a pleasure “science cruise” to the famed Galapagos Islands for affluent persons interested in science and nature.

The novel is well-crafted, but even by Vonnegut standards it’s so grimly dystopian that I don’t think I could read it again, although I recommend it. Anyway, at the moment I just want to observe that the book makes a pretty realistic case that all of the ultra-rich overclass’s amenities, e.g. mega-yachts, exist on the tip of a pyramid of both material and human support services.

When the vital weakest links begin to drop out of the perpetual-motion chain of supplies and services, the impressive luxuries soon become mausoleums.

rememberingmonkey
rememberingmonkey
Aug 27, 2022 10:24 PM

That’s a rhetorical question. Right?

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Aug 28, 2022 4:19 PM

Yes, a bit of sarcasm and an attempt at humor. One of the best weapons we have against the insanity of the globalist overlords is satire, mocking and making fun of them.

Art Costa
Art Costa
Aug 26, 2022 6:15 PM

With the mention of “doom and gloom” nuclear war, I can only add that in over 50 years with the technological power of electron microscopy, no one has ever seen DNA or a gene nor for that matter an atom. How does one split something that has never been seen by anyone? So, I contend, call it a bluff, that while there are big mother bombs filled to the gills with TNT that can do huge local damage, and even the use of uranium, none of it can do what the dooms day experts say – create a nuclear winter.

This is a fearmongering threat they’ve been using since the late 1940s – it’s the “god-complex or syndrome, and works just like the never proven “pathogenic viruses” they parade out to control the masses.

I think that all of science, real science, is altogether hypothesis and theories.

Peter
Peter
Aug 26, 2022 8:02 PM
Reply to  Art Costa

no one has ever seen DNA or a gene nor for that matter an atom.

really?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279115-this-is-the-most-detailed-look-at-individual-atoms-ever-captured/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500734

How does one split something that has never been seen by anyone?

By the reaction when it happens and he results aferwards.. Most chemical processes we do not see and do not need to see, but you live with the results of those processes on a daily basis.
Maybe before you post nonsense, read up about physics and chemistry.

BTW…Atomic energy works, eh? Since you claim that something you can’t see cannot happen, I wonder how the process of splitting atoms in a controlled way in a nuclear reactor works? Care to explain? Or maybe you think they are all fake engines and powered secretly with gasoline or diesel?

Art Costa
Art Costa
Aug 26, 2022 8:39 PM
Reply to  Peter

There’s no record of anyone seeing (with or without technological aid) an atom. You can believe the voodoo magic all you want, just consider keeping it to yourself (all theory). “So the real reason we can’t see atoms — and we will never be able to see — is because this is impossible for our eye apparatus. Even using the most powerful eye microscope ever created. Even using the most powerful eye microscope yet to be invented.” You know nothing about microscopy and its limits.

Why It Is — and Always Will Be — Impossible to See an Atom | by Juliano Righetto | CARRE4 | Medium

Kika
Kika
Aug 26, 2022 9:52 PM
Reply to  Art Costa

Another version of ‘the emperor’s new clothes’?

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 27, 2022 2:31 AM
Reply to  Art Costa

It’s quite true. People vastly over-estimate what an optical microscope can do, fascinating though its capabilities might be.

But optical microscopes, which are affordable for most people, are not the only kind of microscope.
Electron microscopes, for example, are much more powerful, but prohibitively expensive, as well as being very problematic for a layman to set up.

Rob Rob
Rob Rob
Aug 26, 2022 9:37 PM
Reply to  Peter

DNA is nonsense, what have they done with it? Nothing. CRISPR failed.

They can’t really tell what genes cause cancer.

I agree that atomic energy works by its results, even if we cannot show what happens in detail, it does something.

but seriously, DNA is fucking bullshit period https://viroliegy.com/2022/01/26/the-epistemological-crisis-in-genomics/

even DNA matching for court cases has a huge error rate… Adam ruins everything show taught me that.

Peter
Peter
Aug 26, 2022 10:08 PM
Reply to  Peter

technological power of electron microscopy,

your contention

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279115-this-is-the-most-detailed-look-at-individual-atoms-ever-captured/

my answer

is because this is impossible for our eye apparatus.

your contention

of course, you are right, but you said it yourself (and still keep lying in spite of the facts: technological power of electron microscopy, which clearly is not optical microscopy

Of course, there are many different forms like scanning tunneling microscopy,
or atomic force microscopes

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/157048-the-first-ever-images-of-a-molecule-as-it-makes-and-breaks-atomic-bonds

BTW. I worked with light microscopes as a lab tech, among other things like various spectrophotometers, radiation counters, etc., etc., since I was sixteen and my wife worked on electron microscopes in one of the Max Planck institutes in Germany for many years. I guess I have some experience, which you are obviously lacking, in microscopy and microscopical techniques.
We also know the structure of minerals from techniques like X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy etc.

I know I waste my time, but some BS cannot be left unopposed.

Art Costa
Art Costa
Aug 27, 2022 1:38 AM
Reply to  Peter

I think, at least for me, your recitation of your experience explains your resistance to the lack of rigorous evidence.

Art Costa
Art Costa
Aug 26, 2022 10:29 PM
Reply to  Peter

In a nuclear power plant, this heat is used to boil water in order to produce steam that can be used to drive large turbines. This, in turn, activates generators to produce electrical power. Atomic energy is more correctly called nuclear energy. And the reason is because “atoms” are a construct, an idea which serves as the basis of a building block which has never been seen as I noted. So, you can say that everything consists of “atoms” because that’s the construct used, not because it’s ever been proven.

No one has ever seen and atom, and thus no one has ever split one.

Again, nuclear power plants are nothing more than boiler plants. Uranium is used as a source of energy to produce heat. The question which is very controversial is whether or not this vapor is “radioactive” to the extent it can harm life.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 27, 2022 12:11 AM
Reply to  Peter

“Read up on….?” Gimme a break. The medical texts all describe what’s visible (tissue changes), and all say ’cause unknown’ and/or ‘multifactorial’ and all say ‘there’s no cure’. The basic biochem stuff is founded on hypothesis.

The atoms, etc, story is a mathematical construct. Just like the insilico viruses. And putting arrows on a picture of something said to be something or other and then printing it in a sciency journal does not prove that this something or other is in fact such.

Any more than the computer generated pictures of the universe or the photos of man on the moon.

The Bible says ‘ …….’ – yea, read up on.
Btw, something you can’t see – such as an intelligent designer – can’t exist, right? That’s also in those sciency books.

Gordon
Gordon
Aug 26, 2022 8:08 PM
Reply to  Art Costa

If someone from Hiroshima or Nagasaki could chime in I’d appreciate it.

Art Costa
Art Costa
Aug 26, 2022 9:51 PM
Reply to  Gordon

There’s a lack of on the ground evidence that those two civilian towns (shanty towns) experienced an unusual bombing event as has been described over the years. U.S. Major Alexander P. de Seversky shortly after the war ended, investigated Japanese towns/cities to determine damage. He indicates that Hiroshima’s damage was no different than other Japanese cities which were firebombed. He says he spoke to the then Japanese emperor who conceded no nuclear bomb had occurred. It was what the US had been doing including with Britain to Germany (Dresden and Hamburg). Concrete (relatively modern) buildings remained intact. The town had mostly wooden structures that readily succumbed to total destruction with napalm and fire. Here’s one of many reports.

I don’t think using the Japanese people in those two towns as singular makes what happened the truth. My guess is this was a false flag that allowed the US to save face in the surrender conditions (Russia was on the march) which has served many nuclear state’s geopolitics right up to the present.

Was Hiroshima Firebombed and Not Nuked? | Winter Watch

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Aug 27, 2022 12:20 AM
Reply to  Gordon

It wasn’t an atomic bomb.

Rob Rob
Rob Rob
Aug 26, 2022 9:32 PM
Reply to  Art Costa

Yep genetics is fucking bullshit

virology is bullshit

even quantum theory is bullshit

we need to stop listening to these ocd researchers that don’t think that the politics of funding doesn’t change the way they research things

Art Costa
Art Costa
Aug 26, 2022 10:14 PM
Reply to  Rob Rob

Just listened to a virologist (she’s quit) who said anything with the word “Quantum” in front (or alone) of it is BS.

Jo Dominich
Jo Dominich
Aug 27, 2022 2:13 AM
Reply to  Art Costa

She is absolutely right. I looked in depth into it it really is BS of the most excruciating stench!

Kalen
Kalen
Aug 27, 2022 12:31 AM
Reply to  Rob Rob

Major points of criticism of Quantum mechanics explained in details, contains links to scientific books published by Springer that question QM.

The point is that Quantum phenomena may actually exists and are empirically proven but QM theory is definitely questionable and definitely unintelligible based on mathematical concepts with no connection to observed reality.

https://questfornoumenon.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/a-note-on-science-surrealism-of-quanta/

Martin Usher
Martin Usher
Aug 26, 2022 5:55 PM

I’m old enough to remember “milk bottles”. You bought milk in them, delivered to your door and when you’d finished with them they were collected, washed and reused. The rot really set in with fizzy drink bottles, advertised as “no deposit, no return”.

Like a lot of modern things trying to kludge solutions to problems we created ourselves just makes the problems worse. The problem, like the solution, is obvious but as everyone’s been indoctrinated with There Is No Alternative since birth solutions are lacking. (Its like computers — you build computer software missing some key concepts (because its cheap ‘n easy) and then you keep adding more and more complexity on top of the flawed foundation to make up for the initial deficiencies…..building up an entire cult in the process until the belief becomes more important than the thing that you were believing in.)

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Aug 27, 2022 12:22 PM
Reply to  Martin Usher

My father was a “milk man”. Always was gone by 4:00 AM and home by 2:00PM before leaving for his second job. I can only imagine how many brothers and sisters are out there that I never met. The blond hair and fair skin must have stood out from the red haired freckled Irish kids in the families on his milk route.

The glass gallon jugs were the best. They had a handle. Great for collecting “stuff”. They had a 15 cent deposit. Two discarded jugs would buy a paper kite (15 cents), a ball of string (10 cents) and candy bar (5 cents) to eat on the way to the park to fly the kite.

A local dairy had been producing “old time milk” in returnable bottles up until the scamdemic. Now they are gone too. It was pricey with a 2 buck deposit on the bottles. Well worth it.

Tim Glass
Tim Glass
Aug 26, 2022 5:38 PM

The whole “eating bugs” conversation is yet another overpopulation psyop. In other words, we’re being lectured that “well, if there weren’t as many people on the planet we wouldn’t have to eat bugs…”

Edwige
Edwige
Aug 26, 2022 4:59 PM

“Like using hydrogen for fuel in Germany”

Part of the Morgenthau Plan 2.0.

DBH
DBH
Aug 26, 2022 4:53 PM

Very witty article. I love Sylvia’s sense of humor and cutting satire.