THE SCROLL: The Crisis Of Vanishing Farmland

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Authenticity and “Luxury Shaming”

[In response to Luxury Shaming: Are You Being Judged for Your Taste? by Vaibhav]

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Chicken Fat….?!

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The Crisis Of Vanishing Farmland

Land-Grant Impacts. (2024). Extension. Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Board on Agriculture Assembly.

Levine, A. (2020). A meaty problem. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the U.S. meat supply chain, leading to worries the country will lack adequate meat supplies. Reuters.

Pietchell, D. (2021). The Past 24 Report 11-17-2021. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). The Past 24 Report 12-5-2021. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). The Past 24 Report 12-7-2021. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). The Preparedness Report 11-19-2021. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). The Preparedness Report 11-26-2021. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). The Preparedness Report 12-4-2021. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). Western Society Passes Through The Cultural Crucible: Critical Mass Tipping Point Achieved. The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2021). What No One Is Asking: Where Are All The People? The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2022). What I'm Watching: April 30, 2022. What is the real truth about fossil fuels and abiotic oil? How does our false notion of energy scarcity impact the way we calculate value? How would changing this impact our lives? The Starfire Codes.

Pietchell, D. (2023). The Sun, The Soil, and The Seed: Uncovering the Truth About Food Security in an Age of Manufactured Scarcity. The Starfire Codes.

Rago, G. (2020). Smithfield Sent So Much Pork To China Last Year It Ran Out Of Freezer Space. The Virginian-Pilot.

Treisman, R. (2023). China is buying up more U.S. farmland. Some lawmakers consider that a security threat. National Public Radio.

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms. (2024). Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms.

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Let’s Stop Trying To Fix This Broken System

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The Memelords Are Memelording Again….

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New Cult On The Block

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New Vocabulary

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OnlyFoods

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Our De Facto Think Tank

[In response to Industrial—I Mean, Internet Society and its Future: Contrarianism, Countercultures, and Gen Z by The Lurking Ophelia]

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Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain

[In response to “The windows don't look right. Everything looks off. The room just looks crazy. The room looks off. It doesn't match up. It's not to scale. And then you'd see in certain parts, it would look like the oval office has set joints. Like corners, but like the corners were coming apart, like a set. It looked like a set,” from THE SCROLL: My Computer Just Became Self-Aware]

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RHIZOMATIC!

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Virtual Fisticuffs Ensue….

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When All Of Your Wishes Are Granted, Many Of Your Dreams Will Be Destroyed

h/t DoG

“Well that’s weird AF.” - Christopher Cook

“Yep, that's why Demi will probably love it. Feel free to share….” - DoG

You're right. It's weird and I like it. LOL.

“I'm really disturbed by what's happening in the crotch region.” - leithian

It reminds me of Bosch.

“I love Bosch! Have you ever seen any of his paintings set to music?” - Christopher Cook

No, but I want to!!

“Also, this may be the single-greatest thing ever written on the internet….” - Christopher Cook

Ortberg, D. (2015). Texts From Hieronymus Bosch. The Toast.

"WHAT ABOUT FISH SOLDIERS"

KA CHOW!!!! It's your boi, Hieronymus Bosch, back at it again with the FISH PEOPLE!!!!

"I THINK MAYBE FISH DRESSED UP LIKE SOLDIERS WERE A BIG PROBLEM FOR ST. ANTHONY"

hahahahahahahaha

“I want to quote almost every bit of this. 😂😂😂😂😂 ‘Well it was either put the book there or give it scissor-feet and show it eating pig-babies in the background.’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣” - leithian

DYING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“That was always my favorite line. I go back and re-read the post every so often. True genius. I am grateful to the Internet for allowing so many creative people to have a voice.” - Christopher Cook

“There really is no sensible third option.” - Apollo's Lyre

None. Ever. Gavel drop. 🤣

“Without a doubt!” - leithian

“Genius! ‘Do you think dozens of terrified nudes have to flee inside of an egg to escape the fanged mermaids?’ ‘I’d have to check with a theologian, but I don’t think so.’ I can no longer find the original, which was absolutely brilliant (but probably got hosed for copyright reasons). But here are others. Not nearly as good at the original, but the best I could find….” - Christopher Cook

Thank you!!! 🤣🤣🤣

“Holy shit those are amazing 🔥” - Jacqueline Rendell

That first one has a Manson sample. "Many of your dreams will be destroyed."

The rest of it is, "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

Kind of a profound thought.

If you have nothing left to wish and hope for, you have no dreams left.

We have to always keep our dreams and hopes alive. It's actually a very positive idea. It's just constructed as a warning.

In the reverse you can see it in the boredom and decay of people who have everything they could ever want. What's left to hope for?

“An alternate interpretation could be that we sometimes wish for things that would - without us realizing it - destroy our dreams.” - leithian

We're in an expectation engine. So, absolutely. We could derail ourselves temporarily from our dreams by going in a different direction, but everything you choose is ultimately a lesson for your soul, so in that regard, it's impossible to make an incorrect choice in terms of what your soul needs to learn, or what source needs for you to enact in order to continue to heal fragments.

Some people were put here to heal extremely dark soul fragments. There's no getting around that.

As much as everyone loves to hate on Marilyn Manson, he transmuted extreme darkness for a lot of people and likely saved their lives through his music. Everyone is here for a reason.

“Hating on that fella is a class on insecurity... Most of the time. He's a fucking treasure and he knew what he was doing.” - Andrew | Dad Explains

“Excellent point I'd never considered. NIN too.” - DoG

“I enjoy interviews with him. It's ca-razy.” - Andrew | Dad Explains

“Agreed that everything ultimately serves a higher purpose. 🔥” - leithian

I often went with my friends to all of his Florida tour dates as a kid. There were many protesters outside the shows, freaking out. The protesters were the only ones ever to get arrested. And the news would warp what happened. It was one of my first experiences watching in real time how the media warps real events. Extremely eye-opening, powerful experience to have at 15/16, and I'm sure it colored the way I look at the world.

I also saw the way crowds would just bend to him. He turned it into performance art. He was making fun of them for groupthink. And I was looking around me at everyone chanting and stomping like they were at a revival or a Nazi rally. And I understood we haven't grown. So this was interesting to see a resurgence of this in the past few years. I was shown it, and it happened.

This is the song the sample is from. The lyrics are disturbing but also eye-opening and they really make you think. This was what drew me to his music most. The lyrics were highly intelligent at a time in which most producers were dumbing them down to capture international markets. And often, they were self-reflexive. You could use his lyrics to do shadow work. You never want to stay there. That's not the point. But if you need cultural psychopomps to guide you through hell and out again so you can learn from it, who better than Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor? (Reznor produced this album.)

“The original was some thrash/metal instrumental. But it was timed out perfectly, with moments in the music matching moments in the animation. Often in perfect rhythm. Truly amazing.” - Christopher Cook

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When Tyranny Wears The Mask Of “The Greater Good”

[In response to MEME DROP #195: Ohhh I Get It Now.]

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