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On #9 you can add Marxism and Fascism (and the technocracy).

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two things you reminded me of:

1) aspartame and sucralose are now common deliberate contaminants of juices and juice-ish drinks, even when those drinks contain several other non-synthetic sugars. been seeing this since the early 2000s, and when I called out Campbell's for contaminating non-diet drinks with the ingredient label hidden in a vending machine, they claimed those were added for "flavor profile." yeah, a disgusting flavor with persistent aftertaste. permanent loss of a customer. I know I should've started decades ago, but now I have to read every ingredient label at the store for synthosugars and GMO contents. and they started hiding the GMO status with "smart label" QR codes, so if I see one of those it's instant rejection of the product too.

2) "EMP-proof Pre-80s cars could run on cooking oil or wood gas, but eventually will be banned together with all combustion engines: maybe still useful in internal roads, or at night, in secondary roads." There is a great sci fi not so distant future short story about this. the band Rush actually made a song from it which is even shorter, about a person who takes their hidden internal combustion vehicle out for nighttime joyrides, outrunning or outmaneuvering the two lane wide hovercrafts operated by the enforcers on the old abandoned paved roads.

good article, throwing it up on the Zuckerborg page for others to see.

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