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 Hope y'all are having fun playing with your Bitcoin and crypto and whatever tonight 
 I have vague childhood memories of the glory of McDonald's fries. As I grew older I wondered why they weren't as good as my memories. I figured it was just childhood nostalgia. It wasn't until I heard Malcolm Gladwell recount the tale of how McDonald's betrayed the American people and replaced beef tallow with seed oil in their fries that I understood. 

With the rise in pro-animal fat sentiment and recent McDonalds news/entertainment events I think it is worth revisiting. Revisionist History from 2017.

https://youtu.be/HVpJAJjDI8U 
 I have wondered about this as well but have never seen any real explanation or investigation into the situation. When tallow started to go out of fashion and seed oils mostly took its place, where did that stream of tallow go? Discarded, used in other food products, industrial use, animal feed, other countries?  

While tallow is making a comeback or sorts and is big on certain corners of the internet, pro animal fat/anti-seed oil eating is still fairly niche in the real world. It won't happen overnight but markets can adapt and change over time to make it happen if the demand is there.  
 We should have just let Milton keep the red stapler 
 the america handle is owned by a company?

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 TRUMP WINS. X BECOMES THE PARTY’S PLATFORM. JUST AS WECHAT IS FOR THE CCP.

HARRIS WINS. US GOV... 
 couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
 
 
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 Federico Fellini, 1973.

He saw our quagmires before we saw them.

https://m.primal.net/LDnP.mp4 
Reposted from Brian Roemmele on X 
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 "a heartwarming film by hayao miyzaki about a young hippie couple on a road trip adventure of self discovery. come along as they enter a mysterious portal leading through a multitude spiritual realms and eventually discover the infinite love and light at the heart of the universe." GM 
 i’m starting to learn more from nostr. 

which is a great sign. 
 I've never been a big fan of trump. But the fact that Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala, and she is not embarrassed and ashamed... I don't even know what to say. He is a war criminal and probably done more to harm the world than any other American politician in my lifetime. Do people not remember who this man is?  http://web.archive.org/web/20111103011307/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/
 
 The average voter I'm afraid. She's just a puppet of the power elite and if they have calculated that this endorsement will give an advantage among some segment of voters then it probably will  
 Eat the fats humans have been eating for the longest.
How long have we been eating each fat??
Ani... 
 Only Lindy Oils 
 I made catBot yesterday with fiatjaf's nostr_bot base code which is rust based but there was a pr... 
 best bot I've ever seen 
 a noisy noise annoys an oyster 
 everytime I decide to check nostr rather than twitter

https://m.primal.net/KdWk.jpg
 
 Van Gough Down by the River by Rob Hans 

https://m.primal.net/Kapn.jpg
 
 Sparkling water is insufferable.

The amount of times I accidentally drank it in Europe has only ... 
 Does anyone else like to listen to this guy's channel while working? It's great for getting in the zone. 
https://youtu.be/zj5nHHHZPII 
 Finally got off my ass and spun up a Nostr npub for nostr:npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7... 
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 Lol great article. I love the Subhead: "The ex-president and RFK Jr were among the stars of this year’s Bitcoin conference, where there was no line for the women’s bathroom" 
 They forgot to mention the attendance of Indian-American, son of immigrants,  Vivek Ramaswamy.  
 I’m gonna give X a break for the next month and focus my social media intake only on nostr. 

I... 
 we need more content creators. my college age cousin has an instagram account with roughly 100K f... 
 what's his npub? 
 If I go on twitter I learn that everyone hates kamala and donald is going to win in a landslide. 

If I go on reddit I discover that trump is desperate as kamala keeps going up in the polls and he deeply regrets choosing JD as VP who he will soon have to replace. 

Here on nostr? It's looking like the people are already winning and we are taking bitcoin with us 
 I'm sure they are just preparing the bitcoin to return to ross upon his release from prison.  
 I’m gonna be on stage at the conference sort of representing nostr users. 

I have my own thoug... 
 I like the view 
 Magoo did it again. nostr:note1tzgtdkhxr7lrj0rx2v2q8z3dnf7t8wg7y3dyhymppyq467xq6z5s2gml98 
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 Don't worry about political theater, bitcoin conference fomo, twitter drama. It can all be fun but there's a real world out there, and there are rivers, and the river will wash it all away. #footstr 
https://m.primal.net/JaTB.webp https://m.primal.net/JaTD.webp https://m.primal.net/JaTE.webp https://m.primal.net/JaTF.webp  
 Fair enough. I hereby grant you one FOMO EXCEPTION PASS to be used during Bitcoin 2024. But you should still jump in a river or a lake. 
 that is a good looking bulb 
 nice. I never grew that kind before. it's giant in size but mild in flavor, correct? do you use it like regular garlic or do you treat it differently or have special recipes for it? 
 I think for someone like Larry-at the top of the fiat hierarchy, close to the money spigot and levers of power-it is a hedge against hope.  

For the rest of us, it is hope.

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