VeganPizza69 Ⓥ

No gods, no masters.

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • They’re showing up on dinner plates, served with rice and a side, in cities as much as 120 miles from their home forests. Almost 95 percent of the lemurs in the study were sold directly to clients. The rest were sold to restaurants or to middlemen who sold them to restaurants.

    “They would be consumed as a special treat at home or for a special occasion out at a restaurant, depending on lemur availability,” Dr. Borgerson said. They’re a status symbol that costs more than three times as much as beef, she says, and they are sometimes eaten for unproven medicinal benefits.

    “We are really surprised,” said Max Andonirina Fontaine, who served as Madagascar’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development until the country’s government dissolved in September. “It’s not an issue raised before.” In an interview days before the government collapsed, he said that the authorities intended to investigate the practice.

































  • Engineering knowledge is, of course, a necessary condition for advanced technology, but it is not a sufficient condition. Instead of assuming that, once invented, these technologies “exist” in some abstract sense and that their material provisioning is another problem, we find that modern technologies in their very essence are means of appropriation and thus distributive phenomena. To apply Marxist terminology, we can say that a nation’s “productive forces” are contingent on global “relations of production”. Indeed, rather than absolving capital from exploitation once it is invested in machinery, we can conclude that technology is capital.

    That last part seems difficult to grasp for many who subscribe to the left.


  • They take the fascist hype about being a superior being very seriously. The biohacking and related activity is part of becoming that. It’s an embodiment of fascism, but, in effect, it’s the deeper commodification of the body’s systems; every cell, every hormone, every amino-acid, every calorie, all must become part of the life and death rat race competition (under capitalism). I think that the somewhat recent show, “INVINCIBLE”, presents the fitness story of that strain of fascism very clearly.

    Fitness in of itself is part of the broader problem of mortal existence without meaning. Fascists give it their kind of meaning, the meaning of being super, even super-natural. You can find better meaning to bind to fitness if you try, just keep in mind that we live in a society which lives in an ecology.