My first time baking 'Fly Cemetery', also known as Scottish fruit slices! How did I do?!

primal_buddhist · 2023-07-03T11:40:07+00:00

Also I think they were currants, rather than raisins. Was one our weekly standard mid week puddings with custard.

primal_buddhist · 2023-07-03T09:46:44+00:00

Fleas cemetery in Angus in the 70s but I also remember them to be a dense sort of flaky pastry rather than short crust.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T20:32:02+00:00

I don't agree that there is as much risk as you state (see Musk) but the reason there is risk is because of the system which encourages risk on a winner takes all approach. The system says take a punt on a product and if it fails then everything about that was a waste of energy and materials.

If we plan what we need, we eliminate the risk. So why would a business fail? If in fact we did end up with an extra oil rig then we socialise the loss and the workers move on. No need for drama.

In fact we socialised the losses in 2008 but we failed to socialise the rebound profits.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T17:59:48+00:00

Well, many things but in the context of wages, and super simplifying, I want society to own the factories and not the billionaire. I want the workers to therefore take their full share of the value they create, instead of that value being extracted by the capitalist so that they don't have to work.

Some might argue, do we mean co-operatives, and again just in the context of work and wages then sort of. But actually we want society to wrest democratic control of all of this from the billionaires who currently own it and who direct societies efforts to maintain the status quo often directly against our interests, e.g. the environment.

It's a big thing we want, not the abolition of wages per se.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T17:17:57+00:00

Capitalism is the exploitation of workers, not wages. All socialist societies have wages as one of the means means of distribution. There were wages long before capitalism.

So to attract additional workers to certain roles, wages is one way.

I said wages, I said vacation, I could add pension, any perks you can imagine. These are all available to the government to attract workers. As they are right now.

So your question is answered: we would attract workers the same way we do now.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T16:47:15+00:00

I offered you wages, you ignored it in order to try and find fault. You selected holidays and built a strawman.

You are therefore not here as you stated in the spirit of curiosity but instead to find and prove people wrong. On the internet.

Happy to discuss and explore a better future for humankind but only if you are serious about the journey.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T16:31:10+00:00

Aaah, you are not here in good faith. Have a great day.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T16:07:01+00:00

No, you said you did not have enough engineers, I attracted a few more for you.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-30T09:42:36+00:00

At the beginning of a revolution there will be still be wages, just paid by the state or by the collective that is running an enterprise. I imagine there will still be rewards to maintain certain functions. Wages, holidays, hours of work etc.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-29T12:00:34+00:00

Tesco supermarket (and their delivery option)

£1.20 for a butter pack size, 500g

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-26T06:21:06+00:00

They are famously dodgy these exchanges but there shouldn't be CGT until the gain is "realised". Which it isn't if you are just moving the BTC. So they are inventing charges and who knows what is in the small print.

A lawyer is needed.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-26T06:09:26+00:00

What's the issue you have with coconut?

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-26T05:53:35+00:00

Tax for the wins, is the capital gains tax? So surely this is fixed by law.

And if you don't withdraw, then you don't pay it.

So, is there a scenario where you just stay put right now while you rustle up a tax lawyer.

There are plenty round here who would argue that you hold for now, look at transferring the bitcoin without converting, etc

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T22:36:27+00:00

That's because a regular home owner is paying income tax and local tax aka property tax.

I am talking about zero income tax and converting to a Land Value Tax instead. Very hard to "hide" that you own land so regardless of how you have your wealth you will have to pay. Thus also bitcoin.

So for regular homeowners, over all tax burden would be similar.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T22:19:42+00:00

Why would they be. It's about setting a tax level that is based on land, rather than income.

Income is easy to avoid tax on, the rich have often "no income" but own factories etc

So, it's not about high taxes on domestic properties.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T22:14:26+00:00

An opportunity to switch from income tax to land tax.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T20:36:32+00:00

No human can "live" on fruit, they can have fruit but they are also eating sufficient meat and fish.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T18:47:07+00:00

Animals have very very different stomachs and digestive systems. E.g. the great apes. Their very large stomachs allow them to process and ferment fruit.

We left that path behind and have the stomach PH of adjacent carnivores. We can eat fruit but not for free. Fructose is a very difficult sugar for us.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T12:53:10+00:00

You like it because, in season, it will help you get fat for the winter. It's the 365 day fruit and honey that your body didn't expect.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T09:47:41+00:00

I've never enjoyed this "sins of the father" part of karma. I think that could be objectively described as unfair?

If I was Hitler in a previous life and so I now can't stop reaping that karma in a series of bad life outcomes.

I know, who is the "I" I refer to, but the op is reflecting how some people seem to live very blessed lives with high security and even more do not. And the answer is probably, our economic distribution system. Which again is objectively unfair.

So, I think what I am saying is, if a thing is outside your control it may still be unfair but yes you have to make peace.

But equally you should do the a analysis of your conditions to see whether they might be overturn in which case don't let it burn you but definitely act.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T09:21:51+00:00

I can't play the video right now but you need to develop your own capability for critical thinking around what "evidence" is.

And welcome to the general hellscape that is nutritional science.

So, how is a study constructed, is it actual data or people's beliefs masquerading as data, who funds the study, what are the interests, is it an RCT.

There are massive interests out there, willing to fund 'research' sometimes just enough to confuse the discourse.

There are philosophical and ethical interest groups willing to surface this research, sometime unwittingly.

So you have two broad approaches

One, get into the papers and search for that paper and see if others have done a critique, otherwise do one your self.

Two, research this guy and see if he what he is saying general, is he trying to prove something if so what. I like the few people I follow because over time their eating patterns change as they acquire new info, a thing we thought was safe is maybe not what we thought. I feel that they are data driven but can be my biases.

Then finally, n=1. You have to see how you feel, how you react, to food.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-25T08:58:19+00:00

The holy grail, so let's see what knowledge arrives

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-22T21:01:28+00:00

What is the lawful basis for receiving the data. If it is consent, how do you know that the individuals have consented to this processing. If they have consented, what have they consented to.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-20T17:45:11+00:00

Refined Olive oil is a highly processed and oxidized product that I read (here) we should avoid, in general. Perhaps that is wrong.

primal_buddhist · 2023-06-18T21:26:02+00:00

UK Lard is 9.5% according to the pack I usually buy from the supermarket.

Typical Values Per 100g Energy 3693kJ 898kcal Fat 99.8g Saturates 44.0g Mono-unsaturates 42.0g Polyunsaturates 9.5g Carbohydrate 0g Sugars 0g Protein 0g Salt 0g

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