This is going to be fun watching over the next four years. LOL. You just gotta laugh.

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    10 months ago

    Because it’s the dumbest fucking thing they could do that doesn’t show immediate harm to them in the short-term.

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      I’m sure it’s usually ok. That’s kind of the problem: if they only get sick 1 in 10 times, for example, they won’t connect the two enough to learn their lesson. Humans are dumb that way, and looking at prevalence of disease in the population is apparently now “woke liberal bs”

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    Okay so they’re not getting vaccinated and now they’re guzzling unpasteurised milk whilst cattle all over the US are dying of this latest bird flu?

    I’m starting to think this right-wing shift might sort itself out

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      You don’t really need the bird flu in that mix, even. Pasteurization was a huge public health win.

      What next, fridges are woke nanny state inventions and real red-blooded Americans store all their food in room temperature, especially their raw milk and meat?

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        To be fair since Pasteur we have made enormous progress in refrigeration and supply lines, so if the cow is healthy, and the raw milk is fresh, you should be fine. The main issue is that you should treat the milk in your fridge like something that spoils quickly (like fish), rather than something that can stay in the fridge safely for a week or two. Of course if the cow is sick none of this applies, so it has to come from a trusted source.

        TLDR; raw milk can be okay if you are taking far more precautions than you normally would with milk.

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        Nah, fridges are convenient. That’s what makes the beer taste good!

        There is a definite interest in learning older preservation techniques. I’m not sure how it lines up with political beliefs, though. For any that do, the big trick was salt - lots of salt. If they are above a certain age, it’s likely to do some damage based on the rest of our modern lifestyle.

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          There are some more ways, usually involving fermentation. Us arctic types know some methods. But I get the impression rakfisk, lutefisk, hákarl, surströmming and kiviak would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.

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              Nothing to be ashamed about! There’s lots of stuff around the world that some people love but the majority shy away from. All the rest of us can ask is that you enjoy it responsibly and don’t bother other people with the smell. :)

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            […]would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.

            That’s the most eloquent thing I’ve read this week.

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          Well I am progressive as fuck politically and somewhat crunchy lifestyle -wise. Garden, ferment things, have made bread exclusively from sourdough for about 15 years now, really enjoy fermented foods like kimchi and pickles and sauerkraut.

          The other fermenter in our family is the literal racist uncle, he makes incredible homemade foods, raised me a turkey for Thanksgiving one year, even.

          Both of us came to it from a culinary background, not a political one, a way to get good food. I don’t think it maps well, but there is certainly a subset of crunchy lifestyle people who started out progressive and were coopted by the right wing.

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          Food preservation lines up very well with conservative and libertarian plans. I even know if your number of Democrats that enjoy preserving food. Dehydrating, canning, pickling or all cheap and easy. The more extremes in conservative and libertarian also seemed to like freeze drying. I have to admit I kind of like freeze drying myself but the machine is so freaking expensive and then it consumes so much power, you can literally buy commercially freeze dried food cheaper than you can make it yourself and that does not get better at any reasonable home scale.

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        And millions of “smarts” were so “smart” that they decided they didn’t need to vote again after 2020, and as a result, the “dumbs” are in power.

        So who’s really dumb, here?

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        That’s because the death rate for these sorts of problems is very low and at best is a very weak evolutionary pressure which won’t yield results for many generations. Additionally, the heritability of medical stupidity is very questionable.

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        10 months ago

        No, we made the mistake of doing everything thing we could to make them get vaccinated.

        Next time we know better.

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          10 months ago

          New ad campaign:

          “You survived COVID, even though the liberals tried to get you to vaccinate. You haven’t vaccinated to this day because you have an immune system. You’re conservative and strong. So when the liberals try again with bird flu, monkey pox, or whatever animal disease they come up with next, just tell them, ‘No thank you.’” Make sure the video playing along with the words shows strong manly men - white, of course - with rugged good looks, wearing outdoorsy clothes, doing manly stuff. Guaranteed to convince a bunch of insecure conservative douchebags not to vaccinate. Again.

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    Gullible fucks. How many of them would die if they were told that they can boost their immunity by sticking their house keys in a power outlet.

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      But the lamestream media says not to do it! That means they’re hiding the secret to cleansing out the 5g nanoRNA or some shit.

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      Electrons are the purest substance known to humanity! How are you going to tell me allowing 15 amps of the purest substance known to flow through my body is a bad thing!?

      Stupid liberals don’t even understand electronomy!

      :P

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                I think it mostly catches newer people who aren’t sure where to go or how federation works. Originally I went with .ee only because it was at the top of the list I was looking at and for some reason .world has always rubbed me wrong.

                Alas, ee was home to a lot of “conservatives,” so I just picked the most generic sounding one after getting banned for my radical left ideas! “Discuss.social” is very boring sounding haha.

                Although, I do like the use of the .social tld, as I am a fan of relevant tld choices.

                .ml is for Mali, in west Africa. And .ee is for Estonia.

                Anyway, I hope discuss.social remains generic.

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    Dr: Are you vaccinated?

    Pat: No!

    Dr: Do you drink raw milk?

    Pat: Every day for breakfast!

    Dr: Ok then we have a diagnosis, a severe case of stupid!

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      Ah, the abbreviation here is great. Since a family friend of mine is named Pat and had been buying into this shit more and more over the years. He even got a doctor to give him hydroxychloroquine during the peak of covid!

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    I’ve never heard anyone in the far-left make a point about unpasteurized milk, why would you put that in the title and then not reference that anywhere in the article, Salon?

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        Yeah and those who do for shit don’t drink unpasteurized milk. Maybe some hippies do but honestly their politics are all over, often “apolitical”, certainly not far left.

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        Yeah and they are almost never truly left when you stop and prob them. They’re usually a mixture of apolitical and liberal.

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    They have been in Bolden by stupid things and stupid people becoming popular. Because they are also stupid people doing stupid things, they think being stupid is now somehow heroic.

    But they’re just shitty stupid people doing shitty stupid things.

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    The cheap illegal labor working on the large MAGAt supporting dairy farms will deliver the raw milk.