Yeah, that is a good one.  Zuboff nails it!

Sri Lanka also has a history of colonial abuse.  First there were the Portuguese then the Dutch and finally the British Empire. It went on for centuries . . . Of course they did everything they could to impose their religious beliefs on the "natives" as Western European colonists did all over the world.  Disgusting . . .

@MiyoLinux . . . It's easy to step into a pile of poo when assumptions are made. Those assumptions most always say more about the assumer than the receiver.  You are certainly "special" in my Rolodex for whatever that's worth  . . . 

Free speech is a tricky thing but is speech "free" when it is only allowed for some but not for others? Book burning is also problematic.  Which books get burned and who makes those decisions? The gamut of human opinion is infinite and it is driven either by   generosity or greed, kindness or hate and truth or delusion.  How does hating those who hate solve anything?  It just fuels the flames.  The Devuan community is better than this . . .

Having a bad day HoaS?

/me sends another hug . . .

Actually the disease of human hubris and stupidity is the cause of both those problems.

Good for you! I never went the route of direct action but instead, that of words.  My site which collected documentation and news stories was #1 in google rankings for almost 10 years. Scotland is holding the GMO line but the rest of UK not so much. The administrative battle with word-twisting continues at the regulatory level.  In that game, the bad guys always get their way  eventually and I no longer have the stomach for it.

I still buy bulk but also may have to readjust because I just can't eat that much at my ago.

Yeah . . . I do a lot of potatoes too but almost impossible to find decent ones here. Lucky you to have Pink Fir Apple! /me high-fives the Scots!

Do you really want to go there?

Yes

Just because it's the latest fashion statement . . .

KN95

No, no and never

I've spent the last 25 years vocally opposing genetic modification in any form. It would be unthinkable. Why would I jeopardize my good health?   This isn't much incentive . . .

I know that Moderna's and Pfizer's asses have been covered by immunity for damages from their little experiment.

Short term memory problems? 

Ah, so the data source is WHO Child Growth Standards.  And just who has their fingers in the WHO pie?  Bill Gates among others all who have agendas.  Every human endeavor has bias.  It is inevitable and as varied as there are organizations and individuals.

You are fun to play with HoaS! 

/me sends a hug to HoaS

Correction.  Not Ubuntu.

"LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear."

Just to clarify . . . long life has never been the focus of my journey since that has no intrinsic value.  All life spans have a temporal limitation so such a quest is pure folly. Value can only be found in how wisely we live. A longer life does provide a greater opportunity to figure this out . . .

@Hoas . . . There is a reference in your first anti-macro post that points to https://aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.WILEY.com.  Did you take note of that name - Wiley? I suspect but do not know for sure that it refers to Harvey Wiley who in the late 19th and early 20th centuries fought for safe food in the US but I strongly suspect it does.

He was an heroic yet tragic figure who stood up to the monopoly industrial food manufacturers that were adding dangerous and deadly chemicals to preserve food. He ran the newly created FDA until money and the political machine had its way and he was hounded out of the government regulatory process.

I find it pretty ironic that this site that would choose to honor someone who fought his entire life for safe, unadulterated food would publish a paper denigrating macrobiotics which promotes just that . . .

HND

edit: Ha! We both landed in the same place at the same time . . .

Hoas . . . Wake up! There is no "data" that does not have confirmation bias because humans collect and interpret it.  Humans are quite selfish, deluded and unreliable creatures. Data is most often used as a weapon to manipulate and control populations to create fear (mostly of death) but also to increase desire. It is pure marketing genius.  Marshall McLuhan understood this decades ago.  It is a capitalist's wet dream . . .

I just live my life happily and ignore the farce of human stupidity.