What is Mankind's Greatest Invention?

[heydaralon]

For instance, last year there was a point when most of the non-organic lettuce in industrial supermarkets got recalled and taken off the shelves. Lots of us joked about illegals picking lettuce after taking a dump in the field, but there is no way that could account for the scale of the contamination. There is minimal processing of lettuce as well, mostly just washing which is automated for industrial produce as far as I know.

The government never actually told the public what caused it, but I suspect one of the top culprit was the subsidized "biosolids" (aka compost made from human shit) these factory farms were using.

It os not as likely as factory farms cheating by using non-potable water applied directly to the lettuce, but not far behind.

I always assumed that the outbreak was caused by some old burrito shells made with montezuma's revenge water left by some undocumented raza romaine picking rapists who were harvesting that del monte merch for some under the table dinero. They had birds eye view of the whole scam, and were ice cold frozen about it including having bad smelling BMs on your meal prep monday leafy vegetables in the monsanto Mitt Romney farm. These wage lowering Juarez wastrels were straight up wiping their assholes with the lettuce leaves that you were making in massive amounts to mark up your macros. Some real life bowel movement banditos.

[Speaker to Animals]

I looked it up since I posted. Each time the FDA never really figured it out but concluded it had to be improper use of rainwater.

That might account for some of it, but only in localized spots linked to whatever farm was hosing down lettuce with non-potable water.

A more centralized cause, and the reason it hit industrial farming brands, I think is the fertilizer. That human shit fertilizer is heavily subsidized because the local governments otherwise have to pay to store it in landfills. The FDA is not a neutral investigator here.

Independent researchers have found all sorts of pathogens and toxic substances in that shit as well.

It's such a stupid fucking idea when you think about it.

[TheReal_ND]

I looked it up since I posted. Each time the FDA never really figured it out but concluded it had to be improper use of rainwater.

That might account for some of it, but only in localized spots linked to whatever farm was hosing down lettuce with non-potable water.

A more centralized cause, and the reason it hit industrial farming brands, I think is the fertilizer. That human shit fertilizer is heavily subsidized because the local governments otherwise have to pay to store it in landfills. The FDA is not a neutral investigator here.

Independent researchers have found all sorts of pathogens and toxic substances in that shit as well.

It's such a stupid fucking idea when you think about it.

The FDA is not by any means a neutral party. Once you see the reason why we are sending out food trucks, you won't be able to forget it.

[heydaralon]

I looked it up since I posted. Each time the FDA never really figured it out but concluded it had to be improper use of rainwater.

That might account for some of it, but only in localized spots linked to whatever farm was hosing down lettuce with non-potable water.

A more centralized cause, and the reason it hit industrial farming brands, I think is the fertilizer. That human shit fertilizer is heavily subsidized because the local governments otherwise have to pay to store it in landfills. The FDA is not a neutral investigator here.

Independent researchers have found all sorts of pathogens and toxic substances in that shit as well.

It's such a stupid fucking idea when you think about it.

ICE? More like LICE! Have you seen those illegals? Most of them don't even use shampoo or soap, and they cover their hair with those weird ass cowboy hats+wearing boots even though they aren't fucking cowboys. That's like a mexican tuxedo. The other ones wear ponchos for some reason (even when its not raining) and they dress like that Alien in the very first scene of the first men in black movie. These folks walked through a desert and ate cactuses and roadkill and drank water from a drainage ditch next to a hog farm on their journey to pick their vegetables, and the have mud caked with shit in their asscrack. If you eat anything that has been in a ten foot radius of them you are basically playing Russian Roulette. Wear 2 pairs of gloves and autoclave any Mexican-picked produce for 45 minutes before eating. I'll bet you have a fucking tapeworm in your gut from eating that romaine right now. Be careful man!

[C-Mag]

What happened to new ideas? The Ol' Remus laments the lack of new ideas.

There has been a noticeable lull in theoretical physics for a long while now. Quantum physics today, for example, amounts to experiments and commentary on a theory formulated in the 1920s, a resounding theoretical and technological success but getting long in the tooth. Physicists have been mining it like the Comstock Lode for almost a century, with diminishing returns.
Consider how little is really new. Television, the "modern marvel" that came of age in mid-twentieth century, depended crucially on the cathode ray tube, a device from the closing years of the eighteen hundreds, just another piece of lab equipment used by Victorian era nuclear researchers. Television was a parallel development of the electronic oscilloscope, first examples of which date to 1897.
A NASA engineer estimated that all the technology needed to launch a satellite was in place by the 1920s. The Hubble telescope's central feature is a reflecting telescope invented in the mid-1600s. Einstein's theory of special relativity was published in 1905, general relativity came ten years later. The LIGO gravity wave detector is built around a Michelson interferometer, invented in 1887. Electromagnetic particle accelerators were well developed in the 1920s, a concept still in use. The circular cyclotron was invented in 1930 , it's the basis of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. And on and on.
Science has gone quiescent, and technology is getting drowsy. Consider. The first jet aircraft flew in 1939. Both the F-86 and MiG-15 of Korean War fame first flew in 1947. The Boeing 707 entered service in 1958, sixty one years ago, and it's the dominant pattern for jet airliners to this day.
Semiautomatic rifles were marketed to civilians in 1903. Mexico issued standard 7x57 semi auto rifles to the infantry in 1910. France issued the 8x50 RSC , another successful semi auto, in 1917. The AR-15 goes back to 1956. The .45 ACP round goes back to 1910, the 9x19 mm to 1902. The first electronic infrared detector-display was invented in 1929 for the British air defense system.
Electronic analog computers were in use in 1939, some aboard US submarines. By 1941 they were programmable. The first digital electronic programmable computer was delivered to Bletchley Park in early 1944. The first transistor appeared in 1947. The marriage was as inevitable as in a 1940s two-hanky movie.
Oldsmobile began selling automobiles in 1897. Electric cars, also first mass marketed in the US in 1897 , were common until the electric starter replaced hand cranking for gasoline powered cars in 1912 and decisively captured the women's market. GE built its first diesel-electric locomotives in 1918. By the 1930s "diesels" were in general use as yard switchers, were replacing steam in passenger service and in main line heavy freight service beginning in 1939 .
Telephones were in common use by the 1890s . Radio, in its "wireless telegraphy" form, was patented in 1896. AM radio was first demonstrated in 1906, by the 1920s it was a commercial success. Hollywood first screened color and sound-on-film movies commercially in the early 1920s. The first color television was demonstrated in 1928, the first all electronic color television in 1940. Even the current gee-whiz technological darling, the laser, was first demonstrated in 1960.
We've been cannibalizing the past for six or seven decades, combining this 'n that, or developing existing stuff to the nth degree and calling it good. Where are the real breakthroughs today? In physics we're reduced to reading of parallel universes and wormholes and hidden dimensions and "the universe as hologram" on the basis of little more evidence than a competent science fiction writer could conjure from public sources. String theory, the serial Lazarus of theoretical physics, has produced little more than string theorists.
You'll notice physics began atrophying right about the time it became Big Science with grants and other government support. But, whole 'nuther rant. You'll have to excuse me. All this is my way of complaining about how difficult it is to find science articles worthy of posting for my treasured and beloved Woodpile Report readers.
http://woodpilereport.com/html/index-568.htm

[TheReal_ND]

We have working fusion reactors that are going online this year.

In university labs that is.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I looked it up since I posted. Each time the FDA never really figured it out but concluded it had to be improper use of rainwater.

That might account for some of it, but only in localized spots linked to whatever farm was hosing down lettuce with non-potable water.

A more centralized cause, and the reason it hit industrial farming brands, I think is the fertilizer. That human shit fertilizer is heavily subsidized because the local governments otherwise have to pay to store it in landfills. The FDA is not a neutral investigator here.

Independent researchers have found all sorts of pathogens and toxic substances in that shit as well.

It's such a stupid fucking idea when you think about it.

Look up “Milorganite”. On sale now, at Home Depot.

[Speaker to Animals]

I looked it up since I posted. Each time the FDA never really figured it out but concluded it had to be improper use of rainwater.

That might account for some of it, but only in localized spots linked to whatever farm was hosing down lettuce with non-potable water.

A more centralized cause, and the reason it hit industrial farming brands, I think is the fertilizer. That human shit fertilizer is heavily subsidized because the local governments otherwise have to pay to store it in landfills. The FDA is not a neutral investigator here.

Independent researchers have found all sorts of pathogens and toxic substances in that shit as well.

It's such a stupid fucking idea when you think about it.

Look up “Milorganite”. On sale now, at Home Depot.

You could also make compost for free (safely).




For the love of Jesus don't use human shit for fertilizer.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I suck at compost for some reason. I really need to find a better way to do it.

[Speaker to Animals]

If you want to scale it up, you could potentially look for organic dairy and beef operations and find out if you can haul off the cow shit. Then just create a farm consisting of many bins that you load with worms on a rotating schedule.