"I don't eat beef. I feel too bad for the cows."
*Orders the chicken.*
The cow: two years outdoors, grass, sunshine, raised one calf, fed a family for a month.
The chicken: 42 days in a shed, bred so fast its legs gave out, killed on a conveyor belt at six weeks old.
You ate 200 of those to spare one of the other.
The cow had a life.
The chickens had a sentence.
Compassion has a strange accent this century.
More people need to know that ancient Roman engineering was so precise, their aqueducts still produce clear water to this very day - 2,000 years later.
YouTube demonetized my channel for "Inauthentic content" a few days ago.
I want to tell you my full story because I think people need to hear it.
I run a history and education channel on YouTube. Every single video starts with hours of academic research. I pull from real scholarly sources, primary historical records, and published academic works. I write every script completely from scratch. I physically film everything myself. I appear on camera in every single video. I manually edit every cut. I hand design every thumbnail.
This is not automated content. This is not mass produced. This is me, showing up, doing the work, every single time.
YouTube demonetized my channel for "Inauthentic content" and removed $5,000 from me. Money I needed. Gone overnight with no warning and no real explanation.
I made an appeal video walking through my entire creation process step by step. It was never watched. An AI rejected it before a single human ever saw it. The response I received was a copy paste message that thousands of other creators got word for word.
I have reached out. I have followed the process. I have done everything they asked. And I keep getting the same automated wall.
All I am asking for is one real person at YouTube to actually look at my channel.
@TeamYouTube@YouTubeCreators@YouTube Please do the right thing.
If you believe creators deserve to be treated fairly, please repost this.
https://t.co/wlLrAkEYX4
Effect on DOGS: Death within 1-2 hours
Should be fine, right?
Can we not just target practice on squirrels? Do we really need to spray this shite everywhere?!
Areas in yellow are being sprayed with a chemical absolutely LETHAL to domestic animals, especially dogs.
Why?
Because Ground Squirrels.
WTF @YourAlberta
What are the future implications of this entering our ecosystem?
Total 🐄 💩
The city of Andernach, Germany planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to take whatever they wanted.
It was such a hit they did beans the next year, then added onions, fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries, and herbs. All free to the public and maintained by the city.
Andernach is now known as the "edible city."
Philadelphia has been doing a version of this since 2007. The Philadelphia Orchard Project has helped establish 67 sites across the city with thousands of food-bearing trees.
Baltimore is planting fruit trees on sidewalks. Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and Asheville all have public urban orchards.
A mature apple tree produces 400-500 pounds of fruit per year. A mature pear tree can produce for 75 years.
We've decided our cities should have trees. We just haven't decided those trees should feed people.
Would you support urban fruit trees and vegetables in your city?
The simplest rule to blow up your income, followers, etc.. EVEN when you have no idea what your doing is :
"Always Produce"
Paul Graham taught me this, and it changed my life.
overthinking, feeling sorry for yourself, or anything that is not producing will always get you nothing.
If you don't know what to produce ( this is normal ) then just produce anything.
the act of producing will naturally guide you to what you should be producing.
The MORE you produce, the better you get at producing and learning what you should produce.
This is painful because you feel like you are wasting time, and just creating non-sense until one day you produce something that thousands of people love and it changes your life.
Learned about something called a "glimmer" recently. It's the opposite of a trigger. A tiny moment that makes you feel good. Coffee hitting right. Sun on your face. Your dog losing its mind when you walk in the door. Most of us are trained to scan for threats all day. Flip that. Start scanning for glimmers. Same exact life starts feeling completely different.
Fall in love with your life. Wake up early, buy your favourite coffee, go for walks, eat good food, wear what makes you feel confident, and listen to your favourite music. Purposefully create these small moments that make you fall in love with your life.
Happy New Month.