This reminds me of a story my dad told me. His school went on a field trip to an ice cream factory and he was, of course, expecting this to be the best day of his life. What he discovered, though, left him mortified. They were taking poor-selling flavours and running them back through the machine to change them to something better. If you buy some store brand chocolate and it has undertones of mocha, now you know why. I think of this now whenever I see a product that "may contain peanuts". Like they're not sure.

We were required to read Ayn Rand.

yeah it's wild how many schools skip over Sinclair! The Jungle literally led to the creation of the FDA because people were horrified by the meat industry. Schools that only teach "economics" without covering labor history are missing half the story. My high school tried that too - all Adam Smith, no context about why regulations exist in the frist place.

I heard his wife was Meta.

at my high school they made us read fucking ayn rand

Is that why they're all into children?

Every self-proclaimed libertarian I ever met gave me a different reason why they're a "libertarian", bashed fake libertarians, say they're the only TRUE libertarian, then voted Republican.

Libertarian: I can't hear you with so much money I have!

Libertarians are only in tiny minority of US population, and most of them are earning roughly $100,000 a year. Of course they will support absolute laissez faire society.

They kind of already do that. Not sawdust but just take a look at the list of ingredients in most of the food you buy. A lot of those ingredients are banned in most countries and pose health hazards for consumers, yet we still use them. We need not only tougher regulations, but to also properly fund the FDA so they can inspect properly. Of course companies lobby heavily against that, and with our current administration, there is a bigger chance they kill of the FDA than that happening.

We literally had to outlaw slavery. That should tell you everything you need to know about supposed self-regulation.

Elon Musk's original pitch for the underground hyperloop system / boring company included the claim that the dug out dirt would be repurposed as super building bricks, and that this would keep the projects at or under budget.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/almost-7-years-ago-elon-145526694.html?guccounter=1

He literally did this, sold reformed, shitty dirt and called it a miraculous building material.

e.g., cellulose, added to kraft parmesan as an "anti-caking agent."

There's a bag of "bacon flavored bits" at Walmart that's just sawdust seasoned to taste like bacon.

He shows this exact picture in the video as his inspiration

Most entertaining 12 minutes of my life i will never get back.

It's free fiber!

Tortillas made from 100% recyclable, free-range, gluten-free, non-GMO, hand-raised sawdust that complies with the Geneva Conventions.