This is what I think, too. This guy Mike just had the ability to write it out coherently. :>
Off Topic: Dog Fighting and Meat Eating
Whether we admit it or not, other entities (and this
includes animals) have value only to the extent that they are useful to
us. Living things do not have value to
themselves, as Immanuel Kant would not
have argued, but rather have value as means to our ends.
I’ve been thinking about this for about two decades now, and I’ve not heard of a single comprehensive plan to deal with this major issue. Anything that comes along is piecemeal and doesn’t account for other parts of the infrastructure.
Minneapolis I-35 Bridge Collapse - Expert Op-Ed - America’s Weak Infrastructure - Popular Mechanics
The fact is that Americans have been squandering the
infrastructure legacy bequeathed to us by earlier generations. Like the
spoiled offspring of well-off parents, we behave as though we have no
idea what is required to sustain the quality of our daily lives. Our
electricity comes to us via a decades-old system of power generators,
transformers and transmission lines—a system that has utility
executives holding their collective breath on every hot day in July and
August. We once had a transportation system that was the envy of the
world. Now we are better known for our congested highways, second-rate
ports, third-rate passenger trains and a primitive air traffic control
system. Many of the great public works projects of the 20th
century—dams and canal locks, bridges and tunnels, aquifers and
aqueducts, and even the Eisenhower interstate highway system—are at or
beyond their designed life span.
The reason for this is quite simple: It is the utter corruption of
our political system. Our system has become a single machine designed
to raise huge amounts of money for a few people through a system of
institutionalized bribery by special interests, and public payment
wealth transfers in exchange for votes.
Bridges and other infrastructures don’t vote, and it has already
been calculated that it is cheaper to pay off the aggrieved after a New
Orleans drowns, or a Minneapolis’ primary bridge falls into the river,
than to actually fix our ancient infrastructure systems - since doing
so would divert too much money from the more politically attractive
system of direct bribes to voter segments.
Being a fat fuck myself, I like to try the meal replacement stuff to see if it’s any good. Hell, it’s supposed to be food-like, and my hobby is stuffing my face, so it’s a win-win situation, no?
No.
I consider it a bad thing when something makes you so nauseous you get the pre-puke saliva flowing like a faucet. AmazeRX was just such a bad thing.
Ah well, another $150 down the drain.
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“The other day I fried doughnuts in coconut oil and dipped them in my special glaze, and I took a bite out of one, and my knees bent
involuntarily and I had to hold onto the stove. I consider that success.”
http://www.hogonice.com/2007/02/i_see_hans_where_is_franz.html
“Once again, I stupidly thought I might be wrong about something but turned out to be right. When will I learn?”
