Still not convinced?

Witness your death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9F1EhfvYpA

I could not watch the video due to youtube restrictions regarding graphic videos, and because I always forget my login password. One commenter said the parasites were actually "Ascaris", which are found in contaminated soil. So the guy likely got infected when he ate raw vegetables, not raw meat!

Perhaps people who eat a traditional diet which includes grains and cooked food must limit their exposition to parasites because their immune system is weaker, and their body "dirtier". Worse is when their body never had the chance to develop a better immunity because of low exposition to them during childhood.

Anyways, as GoodSam says, parasites are everywhere. You get them by walking barefoot on soil, drinking spring water, swimming in a lake, breathing...
Nowhere is safe.

Hey, you do get one to two hours of awake time in the middle of the night. That's something!

You guys heard of Biphasic sleep?

http://www.sleepdex.org/biphasic.htm

It was supposedly the natural sleeping pattern for humans before electricity, especially during winter for people living in Europe and other high latitudes. Biphasic sleep implies going to bed when it's dark outside (or early-ish, like 8 or 9PM) and spontaneously waking up in the middle of the night (some say in a sort of secondary state), then going back to sleep an hour or two afterwards till dawn, or till your alarm beeps.
I'm guessing people didn't necessarily experience biphasic sleep in Summer when there is longer light time.

Some more info on Biphasic sleeping pattern:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-conduct-a-personal-experiment-biphasic-sleeping/#axzz3okIoz922

Technological advancement doesn't necessary mean it has to be destructive and keep us out of tune with our environment. There is a growing number of initiatives and projects surrounding the "eco" ideal out there (meaning eco-technology, eco-villages, eco-farming, eco-everything...). If we already tried Eden, then let's try Eden 2.0!

I hope we'll one day have permaculture machines capable of harvesting different plants at their optimal picking time, in squares of land with several species growing next to one another.

An answer to Tyler's “Life is not fair and people are not equal.” by Hiroo Onoda:

"God made man to his image, Sam Colt made them equal" unknown.

I didn't know coconuts were now labeled as "superfoods". I salute the ingenuity of agribusinesses for turning slightly unusual fruits and vegetables into extra profit. Same as low-fat (high-sugar) yogurt, and gluten-free vegetable soup.

Not just compost. In thailand, they use coconut fiber to make mattresses, and I'm pretty sure there's a hundred application for coconut by-products, in housing and such.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/247999-uses-of-coconut-fiber/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coir

http://www.techinsider.io/edward-snowden-talks-alien-communication-with-neil-degrasse-tyson-2015-9

No one takes these idiots seriously. Relax. We'll have top-quality vat-grown meat before veganism ever gets any real traction in the Western world.

... or we'll just stick to our top quality regularly-grown animals.

I met a Belgian bow-hunting teacher and signed up for his bow-shooting club. Apparently bow-hunting is illegal in Belgium, so I'm feeling less and less inclined to pay for any kind of hunting license, even a French one. I'll just keep a low profile on the field

kind of irresponsible (and selfish) though as the planet is already overpopulated.  what if everyone did this?

Well, if everyone left on its own for a crocodile infested hostile wilderness, hunted barehanded, and had sex with the occasional passerby, I could assure you there would be no overpopulation problem. In the wilderness it makes sens to have plenty of baby-making sex, since a part of these children will not survive long enough to reproduce: because of predators, lack of resources, and other threats. The birth/death ratio is usually balanced, so there is just enough individuals to reproduce and keep the population at a steady viable number. Of course the more food, the safer the environment etc, the greater the population, and vice versa.

In our modern world, our super-safe, super-plentiful world, it does not make as much sens to conceive so many babies, since the chances our children will survive to adult age are much much greater. So you can either populate the world to the point where there's an actual food shortage, or take a global decision to restrict the number of children per women to 2-3 (probably enough for the world population to regenerate), and maybe allow people to make more children in times following major crisis, such as natural disasters and wars. The matter might be more complex than that, but that's how I see things atm.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3227724/Father-caught-wild-deer-London-suburb-slit-throat-ate-Christmas-boasting-Facebook-good-meal-ten.html

I'd like to know what you guys think about this.

I've got a problem with several aspects of this story.

First of all, they say the man "stole" the animal, when he clearly found it or captured it in the wilderness, meaning it didn't really belong to anybody in the first place (except the state?). It's not like he actually stole it from someone's ranch or something.

The way they describe how the capturing and killing took place is also revealing of the underneath hypocrisy of our time and culture: eating packaged meat is fine, lions ripping gazelles apart is "natural". But when a man captures and kills it's own food , it's called "disgusting", "cruel", "inhumane" etc... Of course, filming the whole scene is somehow disrespectful, even if it comes from pride of having found and taken down the animal by himself, but I bet the person would've been criticized the same nonetheless.

The way this man got sanctioned also demonstrates how our right to live as sovereign humans is being suppressed, through moral judgment or actual penal sanctions.

Nummi, your stance on this matter is quite hard to catch: do you believe being gay is an illness?

I see why some people would think so, but the fact is that even animals who live in a pristine, pollution-free environment, eating the most optimal diet, will still display homosexual behavior, partially or totally.

I think the number of "totally" gay animals may have to do with the size of the group they live in. The more individuals there is, the less breeders are needed, the more gays there will be. If a previously gay animal ends up being the last one of his sex among different-sex beings, chances are he will become heterosexual through some sort of hormonal shift for the sake of the survival of his specie.

In a wolf pack, all non-alpha members are gay, and in a state of hormonal numbness, until the Alpha can be challenged. At that point they start producing hormones such as testosterone in higher levels again, and if one wolf (usually the beta) succeeds in taking the place of the alpha male, it becomes heterosexual. That's how they keep from spending all their time killing each other over leadership.

When two young lions who recently left their old pack stumble upon one another, they will form a couple and take part in homosexual acts to strengthen their bond and ensure better protection of one another, until the day they find an old lion to challenge for its lionesses.

Homosexuality is as much a disorder as being left-handed. It's a survival strategy for the individual, the group, and the specie.

Yes, they may squat better, but I am sure they still sometimes have issues with balance, such as if something big is exiting the body like a large turd etc.

Damn, how heavy are YOUR turds?! 

If you have nothing to hold on, another way is to rock your body a bit to the front and balance with one or both hands on the ground. With practice, pooping without holding on to anything should be manageable.