Do not trust anything I write down. I have this horrible habit of not checking sources.

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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • the plants are cross bred for generations. Each time the seeds of the plants with the best desired properties are kept.

    the seeds can also be treated (see "feminizing marijuana seeds) with chemicals to produce certain traits.

    the producers of these seeds (like monsanto, bayer, basf, …) have large R&D groups where the dna of the seeds can be further tracked and modified if required.

    these producers have large green houses just for breeding the plants and collecting the desired seeds.

    these seeds are patented. The plants produce fruits to specifications. To protect the intellectual property, patents and business, they are made not to produce further offspring, so the farmer needs to buy the seeds year after year.

    another trait that’s being developped in the plants, for example, is making the plant immune to glyphosate, allowing the farmer to wastefully spray the herbicide on the field. It will kill all plants except for the desired crops.

    source: used to work in for one of the above mentioned companies in the cropscience division.









  • Helped a friend flee Myanmar the day the news hit.

    He was lucky he had a passport so he could immediately start the visa process. The next day there were queues in front of the Thai embasseys and consulates of thousands of people. Thai officials announced they’d only process 400 requests a day.

    when my friend finally arrived in Thailand, immigration took all the Burmese nationals aside for hightened scruteny. It took him more than 4 hours of being detained and questioned. I suspect they wanted a bribe (they used all kinds of bullshit reasons to send hin back, like "1000 usd is insufficient amount of cash to havr with you, 1000 usd is not Thai Bhat, return ticket is fake (it was not)).

    they eventually let him pass because we made noise through our Thai connections. The rest of the Burmese nationals who were detained were likely sent back.