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FOOD

As I freely admit, I don't really take the guy or the video seriously and was hesitant to comment at all but decided to just to give my take on why I don't think this is something to be taken seriously, as I think it's something worth saying.

Something that is interesting to me is how people say things and trying to smell B.S. is something that is a useful skill to have. My personal theory is that the best way to practice this is to find something where you know the person is probably being disingenuous, untruthful, or perhaps even unintentionally untruthful. Then try to decide what the "tells" are. That's really my sole interest here and, as you genuinely seem to believe the video, I don't blame you for being frustrated that my comments are more concerned with HOW things are said and not what is being said. If you don't think what I'm saying is worth responding to as a result, fair enough. I think the post would be more boring, though, if I just said "Absolutely right I'm gonna buy that book and start growing my own food TODAY."

My point about the farmer costume thing is simply that, whether or not this guy actually is a farmer, rancher, whatever...he clearly chose his outfit such that he wanted to look like one. That alone, in my opinion ought to be at least mildly suspicious. It's subtle yet to me it's like you were a fireman and just causally said "I'm definitely a fireman, you can tell by my outfit, so don't question it."

You're right, changing who hosted the video isn't sole point for me, that was just one detail among many that turns me off about it, so just changing that one thing isn't going to magically make me believe everything the guys says.

BA1 wrote:

How would he know? That's not what's important. It wouldn't matter if the answer were served to you on a gold plate.

The "how would he know" is the most important thing, in my opinion. You clearly trust that this person is telling the truth, so you must believe that he has a way of knowing. That's implicit in any situation where you are taking someone's word on something. If you are going to take someone's word on something, without evidence, you need to believe two things: They aren't intentionally trying to deceive you and They must have some way of knowing the thing they are trying to tell you. If you don't believe BOTH of those things than you have no reason to take the person's word on something.


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FOOD

I'm a demanding consumer of information. Some commenters give the poster the benefit of the doubt and ask for sources, proof, etc. I'm not that patient. I shouldn't have to ask for sources or do my own research to check to see if what you're saying is true. Especially if you're talking about a super secret plot to lower the US population which apparently the government decided to tell the farmers and this one is speaking out because he's such a swell guy. the burden of proof is on you if you're gonna hit me with some knowledge. I shouldn't just have to trust that you know what you're talking about it cus you got a charming southern drawl and a big ridiculous cowboy hat and plaid shirt. Like GEEZ he looks TOO much like a farmer, that's one of the reasons why I don't trust him. Like he literally looks like someone decided to go to a halloween party as a farmer.

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FOOD

Also there are serveral comments where people asked "how can I help" and poster was like "buy my book." Can you blame me for not taking him seriously? Like come on, talk about dipping the tip of your thang in the sauce your serving.


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FOOD

There is some truth in what he's saying but it's taking a little sprinkling of the truth and then adding a whole bunch of other stuff that is so much made up nonsense.

Is it true that some farmers are throwing away their product? Absolutely. Specifically I 've heard about milk being dumped...it wasn't being dumped because people were forcing the farmers to, they were dumping it because they didn't have any one to sell the milk to. That's well known infrastructure problem...and overproduction is a common problem in the farming industry as well. Remember when everyone was pulling their hair out some years ago when the government was paying farmers not to grow crops? That was a bailout measure for farmers but people were saying similar stuff because they didn't bother to understand what was actually happening.

Are they being forced at gunpoint to do so in service a plot to depopulate? Excuse me if I'm skeptical on this point.

To continue the metaphor, i think when my house isn't burned down at the end of the day I'll have the satisfaction of not taken this guy seriously.

Speaking of burning stuff down, I actually found the comments more amusing than the video.

Yesterday or whenever I originally was checking out the video, in one comment someone asked the obvious question, paraphrasing "who is asking you to destroy your harvest? Why don't you, you know, just not do it?" Poster replied saying that some guy tried that and the next night his farm mysteriously burned down (how the hell would he know that)

Commenter replied "source?"

It's not there anymore. I'm willing to bet the poster deleted it because he didn't like having to answer a real question.

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FOOD

Yeah its kinda like that except instead of a fireman its some random guy on the internet.

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FOOD

I don't think this guy really knows what he's talking about. To me it sounds like he heard something on the news and kinda ran crazy with it and is talking out of his butt using some real facts and making up the rest.

My source: Nothing, same as that guy.

Also I think the guy who posted the vid, who isn't the same as the guy in the vid, is trying to sell books.

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crazy shit ive found on the internet

Overall I don't care because people whining about anything on the internet is not something that interests me and it seems like one of those things where a lot of it only exists because too many people are choosing to pay attention to it, whether it be negative or positive attention.

As to whether different categorizations of sexual attraction exist, that's something that can be sorted out by people who study such things professionally, but if it's useful for someone to say "I'm attracted to emotions" while I think that carries a bit of pretentiousness to it, fine. Maybe that will help people find each other on dating sites, I don't know.

what I find incredibly pretentious is people who claim to be "sapiosexual", meaning attracted to intelligence. Because it's starts out with the assumption that the sapiosexual is one of the smart people, and also implies if they are not attracted to you that you must be stupid. But again, fine, if that is something that is useful in helping you make romantic connections, it doesn't bother me at the end of the day.

The stuff about being really an animal in a human's body seems kind of silly to me, but again, who cares.

I recall being on okcupid and seeing a girl (or maybe not a girl, I think she may have been trans) who had an inordinate amount of her profile dedicated to saying how much she didn't like "cis guys" and it was really disgusting.

I fixed her good. You know how? I didn't message her. Because honestly who gives an eff about that noise anyway.

The moral of this comment is...don't feed the trolls.

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crazy shit ive found on the internet

soco wrote:
Why the need to label anybody. I'm me. You're you. Simple.

On the other hand, if people want labels, let them have it if it helps them make sense of who they are.

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Hope this lightens your mood a bit.

Tiger king looks way too silly and im not really interesrted.

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Hope this lightens your mood a bit.

Lol that was a good one.

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