🦾 How we pay $15b a year for junk food
Opting-out is the goal and ways to help you do that.
Hey, ya’ll sexy humans,
I’ve got some awesome updates coming soon revolving around decentralized food, regenerative agriculture and cattle farming, kiva-like microloans, and helping others opt-out of the broken, consolidated, corrupt, and destructive systems that profit from ruining the health of citizens and our planet.
Just writing that sentence gives me chills + inspiration.
As part of my new Better Human Co, this revamped newsletter, and my focus on The Better Human brand, I’m doing my best to work through the many ideas I have so I can focus.
For someone like me, that’s the hardest part.
It’s the removal of good ideas so I can focus on the great options.
You being here as a reader and/or subscriber means everything. And I’ll do my best to keep delivering valuable information to help you become a better human.
Onward!
What to expect in today’s edition:
🛻 How to go public with $0 in revenue
🙄 Facebook goes out for 6+ hours and everyone makes fun of them
🥒 40 meals to master (or 5 at least)
Let’s gooo…
📰 News 🚨
🇺🇸 🏛 💸 Biden is blaming others for blocking a vote to extend the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is another "dog and pony show" that gives the illusion that the government has checks and balances. Raising the ceiling will allow the U.S. to do what it always does—bloat, make promises, waste money, print money, and otherwise make the world WORSE off. Of course, this shouldn't be a surprise coming from the administration (all politicians actually) obsessed with making phony money so they can tell the public they are "doing stuff" when what they are doing is robbing from the very people they are claiming to help. #politicsareascam
🎮 Ghost Recon Frontline is a free-to-play battle royale → I’m not into games right now because of work but I do love em. I also think they are beneficial for brain development and skill development. I’m so much faster on a computer than most people I’ve seen operate one in front of my eyes. It’s usually painful to watch. Of course, you have to be careful to use gaming strategically. (I still play Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings from time to time. And I’ve been playing since I was 15—that’s 21 years!)
🛻 Electric truck maker Rivian is looking at an $80 billion IPO. The company has $0 in revenue and has already lost $994m in 2021. What happened to the good ol days of companies within profit going public. 😂
🖥 Big Tech: Facebook was out for 6-hours, and this comes right on the heels of an Ex-Facebook employee whistleblower and a 60 Minutes interview discussing how FB is bad for children and fuels division. All I have to say is: DUH. #OPTOUT
🔥 Useful $HIT CORNER 🔥
🗓 On this day in 1947: 1st Presidential address televised from White House → Kinda crazy how fast technology is changing human life.
🚖 How To: Pick a lock. How to escape handcuffs with bobby pin. ← I’ve learned both of these. Makes a great party trick + makes you that much harder to kill.
🍎 Mind-boggling: There are black apples called Black Diamonds. They are found in Tibet. I’d like to try one. I bet they are expensive.
🥑 Food: Let avocados ripen on the counter or in a brown paper bag. If they are at risk of overripening, put them in the fridge
🥒 Cooking: 40 Meals To Master ← A good list of basic dishes worth learning. To simplify it even more, I recommend learning 1) how to cook steak in a cast-iron 2) how to pan-sear any protein in a pan (fish, chicken, etc.) 3) how to cook burgers and 4) how to brown ground beef and add so much salt that it finally tastes good. Then build from there. That'll get you most of the way to healthy home-cooking.
🏕 Prepping: 🛒 I bought $400 worth of bulk flour, sugar, honey, and rice. I will explain why in a later episode. (And 20 5-gallon buckets to store it in.)
🌊 Surviving: Avoid swimming within 100 yards of any electrically wired dock. People have died from electrically charged water as a result of a faulty wire.
🌍 Rad: 69% of the world’s fresh water is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets.
💩 Health: Pop is mostly bacteria. Some are still living and some are dead.
✍️ Interesting: Pen caps have a hole at the top as a safety mechanism. Can you guess why? To protect your youngins if swallowed.
🐘 Animal Kingdom: Elephants can’t jump. Apparently, they’re one of the only animals that can’t.
📽 Movie: In the dining room scene in Django Unchained., DiCaprio cut his hand on broken glass during the sixth take. The cameras kept rolling and it ended up in the movie.
😘 Love: I’ll share a personal struggle. I sometimes am short when repeating myself with my partner (and in general, I get frustrated when people can’t keep up). So sometimes I respond shortly and sharply. I’m working on pausing, repeating myself plainly, then letting whatever internal thing that causes it to subside.
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🎙 Better Human Podcast 🎙
#217 - Stop Abusing Yourself - You are probably your own worst enemy. Here are some points to think about.
💲 Bitcoin Corner 💲
🎙 The Cantillion Effect is a pernicious byproduct of our broken money, fiat paradigm. Learn how it makes the rich richer and you poorer: Here
䷼ Truth Seeker 🧘
🤐 More Big Tech censorship: Facebook ‘Puts Astronomical Profits Over People,’ Whistle-Blower Tells Congress → I’m not really sure why people are surprised. It’s kinda like the Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma.” I already knew most of that, and most of the people I talk to get it as well. Maybe it’s for the masses since they are usually late to the game of understanding what’s really going on.
🇺🇸 Amendment II from The Bill of Rights: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
🌎 Climate: UN report warns of global water crisis amid climate change. These journalists and organizations like the UN now make claims without even trying to connect it to anything. They say things like, "Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes, and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations’ weather agency."
Yes, these things happen. The Earth has been doing her thing for billions of years. Humans are just the most recent dominant species that have claimed her as their own. So we pretend if Earth does her thing in any way, that's inconvenient to us, who we have claimed as the most important species on this rock, then we make it more about us—about the supposed climate change we've caused.
🩺 Doctors and Researchers: 🤮 Tuskegee Syphilis Study is an infamous clinical study conducted on black men in rural Alabama between 1932 and 1972 to track the natural progression of syphilis by not treating the disease and watching what would happen. Most of the men in the study thought they were receiving free health care from the government. #how anyone trusts the “experts” and powerful is completely beyond me
🍟 Big Food: The government (I mean us, taxpayers) pay farmers that produce soybean about $4.7 billion a year in subsidies.
Farmers growing corn, wheat, and soy receive over $15 billion a year from the government via direct payments. They are paid to produce the cheap ingredients that are the foundation of all the industrialized, toxic, fake food that kills millions of Americans each year.
💊 Big Pharma profiting off of Covid-19. BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of dollars going to these crony fks and their buddy politicians helping them make it happen. Is it a conspiracy? Well, let’s define the word conspiracy real quick: 1. a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful 2. the action of plotting or conspiring.
So if someone plans something, they are conspiring? 🤔
🤑 Something Money: I have a 50 million bolívar Venezuelan banknote in my office right next to me. It cost $4 on eBay. This is what you get when you print up currency—it eventually becomes worthless. America will go the same route, it’s only a matter of time.
📘 Book Corner: Just read. Try Audible. Build the habit when you’re driving and walking and doing the dishes.
💬 A Quote To Ponder: “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” -David Ogilvy
🎥 Reddit Thread: Instagram Reality shows you how toxic social media can be → Fakeness.
🙋🏻The Power of Questions: Interesting. Totally, I get that. What about this? Hmm, ok, have you considered trying this? How do you feel about that? → Ask more questions and listen intently and watch how people open up to you.
😶 Definition corner: Agorism is a social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, engaging with aspects of nonviolent revolution.
Helping Humanity + Supporting The Show
From the Charity Water Website: 785 million people in the world live without clean water.
The Bitcoin Impact Fund is currently raising funds for an entire Charity Water project. Estimates for completed water projects range between $10,000 and $25,000, so I’ve set a goal of $15,000. Once we reach that, I’ll work directly with CW to fund a project from start to finish. Can’t wait!
→ 50% of all subscriptions to this newsletter go directly to the fund 🙏
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About Me & Better Human
I’m Colin. I’m Pro-Humanity. I believe in Free Humans, Free Markets, and limited (if any) government. I’m also a CEO, Entrepreneur, Father, Podcaster, and Thinker. Read my story.
My goal is to help you opt-out of the system. To escape the Matrix that profits off your lack of flourishing. To take your health, thinking, finances, and life into your own hands. Then with that newfound freedom and abundance, show others how to do the same. That’s what Better Human is all about.
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