Vechs

Author of the Super Hostile series, maker of Minecraft maps. Current indie game dev working: Now: Castle of the Zephyr. Soon: Super Docile.

[Vechs @Vechs]

This one hits so differently now for me.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Brown rice is what you order when you want the waiter to know you have made peace with joylessness in exchange for health points. The arsenic is the twist nobody puts on the menu.

Rice has a problem unique among grains. It grows in flooded paddies, sitting in standing water for months, and it draws arsenic out of the soil roughly ten times more eagerly than wheat or barley. That arsenic concentrates in the bran, the grain's outer layer. White rice has the bran polished off. Brown rice keeps it, because the bran is where the fibre and minerals live. It is also, inconveniently, where the arsenic lives.

A 2025 analysis found brown rice carries around 24% more total arsenic and 40% more inorganic arsenic, the form classed as a known human carcinogen, than white. You upgraded to the wholegrain and quietly upgraded your carcinogen dose along with it.

Then the ecology, which nobody ever pins on rice, because rice looks so very innocent. Those flooded paddies are anaerobic, and the microbes thriving in them belch methane on an industrial scale. Rice cultivation produces something like 10% of all human methane emissions and roughly a fifth of agricultural methane. Cattle get filmed for documentaries about their burps. Rice quietly produces a tenth of the world's methane while flooding entire landscapes and hoarding arsenic, then takes its place in the salad bar wearing a wellness halo.

Cows are dragged through the climate courts every week. The rice paddy, doing serious damage of its own, sits in your grain bowl with the expression of something that has never done anything wrong in its life. Curious, isn't it, which foods we decide to interrogate.

[SquChan 🐙✨ @SquChanVT]

I don't understand why people hate creating beautiful women... like you have a gorgeous model and you downgrade her to make her seem 'strong' or what not...?

Can't a woman be attractive and badass at the same time? They try to fight 'misogyny' so hard that they have to censor feminine beauty just so the men wouldn't 'win'...

[Vechs @Vechs]

@NancyMace Much better to have sales tax and tariff as the main form of taxation, and not property and income tax. You shouldn't be taxed just for having a thing, nor for trying to earn a living (I also think many low income people pay so little it's not worth the gov paperwork to look at)

[Vechs @Vechs]

@NancyMace Nobody should pay property taxes. A property tax means, de facto, you are "renting" the property from the government. It's not really yours. As soon as you stop paying the rent (tax), men with guns will come and take it from you by force. (After a bit of paperwork bullying)

[Vechs @Vechs]

@NancyMace Nobody should pay property taxes. A property tax means, de facto, you are "renting" the property from the government. It's not really yours. As soon as you stop paying the rent (tax), men with guns will come and take it from you by force. (After a bit of paperwork bullying)

[Liberty Hannes @LibertyHannes]

Der Fall Henry Nowak. Erklärt in 21 Sekunden.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

We must remove those third world migrants who put their ‘clan’ above all else, including our British rule of law.

If that means entire clans are deported, then that is what must happen.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Life is good.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!

So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

[Carl Wilkinson @Wilbaforce12]

We really have reached Soviet levels of gaslighting.

A man is murdered, and somehow, the real problem is that people are angry about it.

Children are gang raped, and somehow the real problem is that people keep mentioning it and “dividing communities.”

This is moral inversion.

No. Crime divides communities. Institutional failure divides communities. Cover-ups, euphemisms, cowardice, and elite contempt divide communities.

[Vechs @Vechs]

@oidonhagouda You are being genocided in slow motion. You ask an AI it'll probably say in its pedantic retard style "nah that's hyperbole" but your shrines and irreplaceable historic sites are being arsoned, and you're being invaded; where does that eventually lead? Your eventual extinction.

[Kamikazius the Wizard @MadKamikazius]

Note how the best alternatives to Steam, like GOG and itch which offer DRM-free installers you can download to your hard drive, never take part in these "Steam is a monopoly and we must topple it!!" lawsuits.
It's only the shit-tier alternatives nobody wants to use that do this.

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

Like that fucking matters.

You don't murder people over words.

[Gun Gnome @GunGnome]

With all of this debate about Sikhs and ceremonial daggers and stuff going on right now I just want to share my two cents: I don't think kirpans need to be banned.

But I think white British people should be allowed to carry THEIR traditional ceremonial weapons as well — Webleys.

[Vechs @Vechs]

@slingcamp Part of the humiliation ritual.

[The Bulford Kiwi @slingcamp]

I’m still not certain why they handcuffed Henry Nowak?
An allegation of racism was made.
Nothing was substantiated. Nowak wasn’t a flight risk. Nor was he aggressive.
Why would handcuffs have been required?

[Erik Dale 🇳🇴 @EuroDale]

Norwegian media was finally forced to cover Henry's murder this morning.

So they made it look like he was the killer 👀

[Liberal Hivemind @LiberalHivemind]

I hope Bricks & Minifigs goes bankrupt.

[Orange Gal @orangegalbased]

@ChristianHeiens I once saw a news photo with Japanese and thought “Oh I wonder why they are talking about NC” clicked for translation… and was is fact was a Japanese story about Japan.

Wasn’t my proudest moment. But it was truly amazing how similar their backroads looked to ours.