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.
A new posting is up at The Petri Dish=
"The Spirit of Malthus Lives on With or Without a Malthus to Maintain it. Evil ALWAYS finds New Forms of Expression."
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Tucker Carlson: "What do you think of Gaza?"
Zanny Beddoes: "I went in with the IDF, what you see is a flattened place... I think it's a disaster for the future of Israel"
Tucker: "Why would you describe it first as a disaster for the future of Israel? Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians murdered, but it's first and foremost a disaster for Israel? It's foremost a disaster for the families of the dead kids"
"The real problem with calling people anti-semites who aren't, is accusing the innocent of a crime they didn't commit"
"The real crime in Gaza is killing people who did nothing wrong"
"Those are the real problems, but no one can say it because you have to be like, oh no October 7th."
Zanny: "I don't know what you'e talking about Carlson."
Tucker Carlson: "Everyone watching this knows what I'm talking about."
I was talking to a girl from Somalia.
I said, "I'm cold."
She goes, "You can't be cold, you're from Sweden."
A few days later she says, "I'm hungry..."
Yeah.. we don't talk anymore.
Everyone needs to know the origin of the word “rune.” When ancient Germanics formed their own alphabet, they called the letters *rūnōz or ���whispers,” because as your eyes followed them, they spoke to you, silently. Reading is magic to a people at the dawn of literacy, who haven’t yet learned to take the miracle for granted.
WHITNEY WEBB on the military now "realizing [its] initial dream for the internet"
"LifeLog [has become] Facebook"
"Total Information Awareness [has become] Palantir"
"we're coming... close to the end game"
"A lot of these 'Big Tech'... companies are just masquerading... [they] were created by military intelligence"
"I think it's important to keep in mind too that even going beyond Palantir, the Internet itself was created by the military"
"And... now we're coming kind of close to the end game in terms of full circle of them kind of realizing their initial dream for the Internet"
This clip of Webb (@_whitneywebb), author of One Nation Under Blackmail and contributing editor of unlimitedhangout(.)com, is taken from a discussion with Ryan Cristian, Hrvoje Morić, et al. posted to the Corbett Report YouTube channel on May 29, 2026.
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"I mean, I remember stories 10 years ago about massive NSA data centers in like Utah and various states before people were even talking about data centers, about all the information they've been compiling on people.
"And I think it's important to keep in mind too that even going beyond Palantir, the Internet itself was created by the military. And I think now we're coming kind of close to the end game in terms of full circle of them kind of realizing their initial dream for the Internet.
"And then, you know, in the case of Palantir, you know, I argue, and a lot of my research points to various efforts within the DARPA military sphere aimed at the Internet being privatized. For example, LifeLog becoming Facebook, Total Information Awareness becoming Palantir. You know, these have become reality.
"A lot of these big, 'Big Tech' Silicon Valley companies are just masquerading as we just started in our garage. And we're regular guys. Like, no, these are guys that were created by military intelligence and they privatized these programs and we have willingly given them our data and we continue to do so.
"And so even if you have Palantir having access to privileged information, think about something in that same family of company, like Clearview AI, for example, which is also Peter Thiel–connected, that has amassed this huge database used for facial recognition by law enforcement and militaries. So, you know, to arrest and also to murder people.
"And they just scraped most of that from stuff, pictures people freely and willingly posted. We voluntarily gave a lot of our data away, and they've been able to scrape a lot more of it than you, than you probably think."
🚨EUGENE TERRE'BLANCHE VS MAX DU PREEZ IN ONE OF THE MOST FEARLESS DEBATES EVER BROADCAST IN SOUTH AFRICA ‼️
In this intense 1990s M-Net debate, the tension between two very different understandings of Afrikaner identity and love for South Africa🔥 It takes me back to when South African TV debates actually went hard. Eugene Terre'Blanche wasn't here to make friends‼️
Max du Preez criticizes Eugene for “loving to dress up in khaki,” implying a performative or outdated nationalism. Eugene fires back: “You refer to my khaki clothes, you can come in your pajamas and we will still know who and what you are. You’re an internationalist.”‼️
Eugene goes on to define a Boer as someone who puts his Fatherland, God and People first, not out of a sense of superiority, but out of deep-rooted loyalty to his own heritage and soil🔥
Max counters that he loves South Africa too but a different South Africa, one for all its people🔥
This exchange cuts to the heart and decades later, South Africa is still living inside this tension‼️
What does it mean to truly love your country and who gets to define it⁉️
The conversation never really ended🔥
A Syrian, an Arab, and a German are together in a bar.
When the Syrian finishes his beer, he throws his glass into the air, draws his pistol, and shoots it into small pieces. He says, “In Syria, glasses are so cheap that we don’t have to drink twice from the same one.”
The Arab drinks his non-alcoholic beer, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots it into little pieces. He says, “We have so much sand in the Arab world that we can make glasses out of it, so we don’t have to drink from the same one twice.”
The German takes his beer, drains it in one sip, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his .45s, shoots the Syrian and the Arab, catches the glass, puts it on the bar, and orders a new beer. He says, “In Germany, we have so many foreigners that we don’t have to drink with them twice.”
"Meat just sits in your gut and rots for days."
Astonishing. The most absorbable food on the planet, broken down and mopped up in the small intestine with barely a crumb left to reach the colon, and somehow it's the one you've cast as the rotting villain.
Fermentation, the thing your beloved fibre does in the large intestine, is rotting. That's the literal definition of it. Bacteria decomposing undigested plant matter and pumping out gas as the reward. The bloating and the wind you've been blaming on the ribeye is the salad breaking down precisely as advertised.
Meat is the ultimate low-residue food. It doesn't stick around to rot because there's next to nothing left of it by the time it reaches the part where rotting happens.
The only thing putrefying down there is the side salad you ordered to feel virtuous.
Responses to being called 'racist':
1. "Thanks for noticing."
2. "Yes. It's 'pride' month and I am proud to be a racist. Look at all the cool stuff my race does..."
3. "Racist? Ok. I don't give a fuck."
Here is my latest original song. It's dark, but so are the conditions these monsters create every single day!
♫They are Washed in The Blood of Their Victims♫
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