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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: rp Date: May 25, 2021, 10:24 pm
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       Thank you!
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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: SirGalahad Date: June 5, 2021, 3:02 pm
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       I'm having a bit of a crisis, because I'm realizing how much of
       my life requires potential violence or death.
       • I can't leave the house to do anything, because I would need a
       car to get to my destination, which would potentially run over
       insects on the road or kill them by having them slam against the
       windshield. I'm basically trapped in my home unless I absolutely
       have to leave for activistic purposes, or to get food. This
       especially sucks because I have a friend who I enjoy hanging out
       with, and we had also made a habit of going to Halloween Horror
       Nights every year. Both of which, I can no longer do.
       • I can't buy books, because books are made from trees, trees
       are plants, plants are alive, and therefore something needs to
       be killed to make that book.
       • I can't order anything online in general, because they're sent
       to your house in a cardboard box, which is made from trees.
       • I have to constantly be conscientious of where I step, what I
       buy, and how every single product I buy is produced, lest I
       accidentally step on a bug or support an unethical company or
       purchase an item that seems fairly innocuous on the surface, but
       in actuality required the death of something to produce.
       I hate that people have to bargain with the Demiurge in order
       for their lives to be easier. It seems like the only options for
       me from here on out (besides becoming a bodhisattva), are to
       either be complicit in the deaths of living beings, or
       alternatively to live a rather boring and stressful life simply
       so that I'm NOT complicit in the deaths of living beings. This
       only makes me more angry at my parents than I already was. I
       didn't ask for any of this.
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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 5, 2021, 10:57 pm
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       "car"
       Do you have a bicycle?
       "books are made from trees"
       "cardboard box, which is made from trees."
  HTML https://canopyplanet.org/solutions/next-generation-solutions/straw-pulp-and-paper/
       [quote]North America’s vast agricultural heartlands are untapped
       sources of paper fibre. Every year millions of tons of
       agricultural residue, like wheat and flax straw, go unused while
       our Ancient and Endangered Forests are logged to make more
       paper.
       Canopy supports the manufacture of paper made from straw left
       over after the grain harvest and all other uses, such as animal
       bedding and maintaining soil integrity, are accounted for. This
       leftover straw is known as “agricultural residue”.
       In many regions the residues are burned, while many agricultural
       residues happen to be ideal for making paper.[/quote]
       If you care about paper, you should promote this. As a matter of
       fact, ancient paper was also made from waste materials:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#Paper_primary_materials
       [quote]Bast (hemp and flax), cotton, and old rags and ropes were
       the major input materials for producing the pulp. Sometimes a
       mixture of materials was also used for pulp making, such as
       cotton and hemp, or flax and hemp.[39][40] Other uncommon
       primary materials such as fig tree bark are also reported in
       some manuscripts.[41][/quote]
       until Western civilization decided to 'improve' things:
       [quote] until the advent of steam-driven paper making machines
       in the 19th century, which could make paper with fibres from
       wood pulp. Although older machines pre-dated it, the Fourdrinier
       papermaking machine became the basis for most modern
       papermaking. Nicholas Louis Robert of Essonnes, France, was
       granted a patent for a continuous paper making machine in 1799.
       At the time he was working for Leger Didot with whom he
       quarrelled over the ownership of the invention. Didot sent his
       brother-in-law, John Gamble, to meet Sealy and Henry
       Fourdrinier, stationers of London, who agreed to finance the
       project. Gamble was granted British patent 2487 on 20 October
       1801. With the help particularly of Bryan Donkin, a skilled and
       ingenious mechanic, an improved version of the Robert original
       was installed at Frogmore Paper Mill, Hertfordshire, in 1803,
       followed by another in 1804. A third machine was installed at
       the Fourdriniers' own mill at Two Waters. The Fourdriniers also
       bought a mill at St Neots intending to install two machines
       there and the process and machines continued to develop.
       However, experiments with wood showed no real results in the
       late 18th century and at the start of the 19th century. By 1800,
       Matthias Koops (in London, England) further investigated the
       idea of using wood to make paper, and in 1801 he wrote and
       published a book titled Historical account of the substances
       which have been used to describe events, and to convey ideas,
       from the earliest date, to the invention of paper.[102] His book
       was printed on paper made from wood shavings (and adhered
       together). No pages were fabricated using the pulping method
       (from either rags or wood). He received financial support from
       the royal family to make his printing machines and acquire the
       materials and infrastructure needed to start his printing
       business. But his enterprise was short lived. Only a few years
       following his first and only printed book (the one he wrote and
       printed), he went bankrupt. The book was very well done (strong
       and had a fine appearance), but it was very
       costly.[103][104][105]
       Then in the 1830s and 1840s, two men on two different continents
       took up the challenge, but from a totally new perspective. Both
       Friedrich Gottlob Keller and Charles Fenerty began experiments
       with wood but using the same technique used in paper making;
       instead of pulping rags, they thought about pulping wood. And at
       about the same time, by mid-1844, they announced their findings.
       They invented a machine which extracted the fibres from wood
       (exactly as with rags) and made paper from it. Charles Fenerty
       also bleached the pulp so that the paper was white. This started
       a new era for paper making. By the end of the 19th-century
       almost all printers in the western world were using wood instead
       of rags to make paper.[106][/quote]
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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: guest5 Date: June 6, 2021, 4:18 pm
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       You can also grow delicious mushrooms on straw, I should add....
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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: SirGalahad Date: June 7, 2021, 3:36 pm
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       @90sRetroFan I could ride a bike, but then I still run into the
       problem of potentially running over small insects that I can't
       see from on top of the seat (like ants). Tangentially related,
       I've heard you mention that it would be hard for an Aryan to
       enjoy the outdoors, since they would have to remain mindful of
       where they step. How would this extend to childcare? If a child
       just wants to play outside, would you let them?
       #Post#: 6981--------------------------------------------------
       Gun violence erupts across country
       By: guest5 Date: June 7, 2021, 8:54 pm
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       Gun violence erupts across country
       [quote]Authorities in Miami-Dade County are investigating a
       second mass shooting within a week.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn110Sk33_4
       Americans have been shooting at the wrong people for well over
       two centuries now....
       #Post#: 6988--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: guest5 Date: June 8, 2021, 12:35 am
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       @SirGalahad:
       [quote]I could ride a bike, but then I still run into the
       problem of potentially running over small insects that I can't
       see from on top of the seat (like ants).[/quote]
       You could also help as many of the smallest creatures you come
       across who need help as you can, like a bee drowning for
       example, in the hopes that you may mitigate some of the damage
       you have done to others while you were alive in the material
       world. I know I'm a piece of shyte, but I have tried to help as
       many non-humans as possible whenever I can.
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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 8, 2021, 1:17 am
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       "If a child just wants to play outside, would you let them?"
       Yes. It is up to us to build outdoor play areas such that
       insects are unlikely to cross through. As long as there is no
       grass etc. nearby it should be OK. In fact, did you look at the
       excellent photos at the link in this post?
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/msg6864/#msg6864
       This kind of floor surface should be fairly safe:
  HTML https://p8.itc.cn/q_70/images03/20210526/3ec5186f7aa34238b5ca0a7a7db4411d.jpeg
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       Re: Random Thoughts....
       By: rp Date: July 3, 2021, 10:10 pm
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       Aryan bees team up to defeat agressive hornet:
  HTML https://youtu.be/UNroEwFxh6I
       Do not be intimidated by your enemies, Aryanists!
       #Post#: 7448--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In T
       he World?’
       By: rp Date: July 8, 2021, 12:55 am
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       [quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=66.msg4144#msg4144
       date=1613108507]
       Westerners always obsess over intelligence.
       A better question would be: what is the most Aryan bug in the
       world?
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrotermitinae
       [quote]The worker termites bring plant material such as dried
       grass, decaying wood and leaf litter, back to the mound. This
       material is chewed up and semi-digested by the termites,
       fertilised with their faeces and placed in the chambers where it
       is quickly colonised by the fungus to form a "fungus comb". The
       termites cultivate these fungus gardens, adding more substrate
       as required, and removing the older parts of the comb for
       consumption by all members of the colony.[5][/quote]
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants
       [quote]Leaf cutter ants are sensitive enough to adapt to the
       fungi's reaction to different plant material, apparently
       detecting chemical signals from the fungus. If a particular type
       of leaf is toxic to the fungus, the colony will no longer
       collect it.
       ...
       The fungi used by the higher attine ants no longer produce
       spores. These ants fully domesticated their fungal partner 15
       million years ago, a process that took 30 million years to
       complete.[8] Their fungi produce nutritious and swollen hyphal
       tips (gongylidia) that grow in bundles called staphylae, to
       specifically feed the ants.[9]
       ...
       The Atta colombica species, unusually for the Attine tribe, have
       an external waste heap. Waste transporters take the waste, which
       consists of used substrate and discarded fungus, to the waste
       heap. Once dropped off at the refuse dump, the heap workers
       organise the waste and constantly shuffle it around to aid
       decomposition. A compelling observation of A. colombica was the
       dead ants placed around the perimeter of the waste
       heap.[10][11][/quote]
       [/quote]
       Just as there are Aryan bugs, so there are apparently Turanian
       bugs as well:
  HTML https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/meet-earths-oldest-farmers-ants/
       [Quote]
       If cutter ants are the vegetable farmers of the ant world,
       herder ants are the ranchers.
       [B]Much the same way we keep cattle, these ants keep aphids,
       which drink plants’ nutrients and excrete a sugary substance
       called honeydew that ants eat[/B]. Some species of herder ants
       follow the green creatures, devouring their droppings, while
       others milk their herds by tickling them with their antennae.
       The only difference is that the milk comes out of the cows’
       udders while the honeydew flows out of the aphids’ anus — not
       that the ants seem to mind.
       [B]In return, ants shepherd their bug flocks to better pastures
       and shield them from rain, sometimes carrying them from one
       plant to another.[/b] Ants care for and protect aphids’ eggs,
       treating them as their own and keeping them safe inside their
       colonies for winter. When a young queen of a “dairy ant” colony
       leaves on a mating flight, she brings an aphid in her mouth to
       her new home. [B]And just like humans take away their animals’
       freedom in exchange for care and protection, so do ants.
       Sometimes they bite off aphids’ wings so the “milk cows” won’t
       fly away, and release chemicals that make aphids move slower,
       becoming more docile. [/B]To reciprocate, ants protect their
       livestock from predators. They attack ladybugs that try to feast
       on their herds just like we would ward off a pack of wolves from
       our bovine beasts. And yet, much like we eat our cattle, ants
       sometimes devour aphids too.
       [/Quote]
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