• FinnTheComrade@lemmygrad.ml
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    20 days ago

    Dude some of these programs pay big bucks in the states. There’s one here that looks for people considered medically athletic (like sub 15 body fat%, good BMI, and mile times) that can pays $500 per donation. If you go one a day you can make $180,000 per year just shitting. It’s crazy.

    Here’s that same one offering a $500,000 reward for a million dollar donor. To be fair, I think the guy running it may also have some screws loose (understatement, he might be batshit insane), but if it actually cures something I guess that’s a good thing.

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      19 days ago

      The guy sounds eugenics adjacent, though maybe not by intention:

      People wanting immediate reward without regard to the widespread, long-term damage they were doing have been allowed to poison our air, water, and soil. In some cases, the responsible party is the majority of the human population.

      People using their unhealthy bodies to create more unhealthy people.

      Humans have nearly completely overridden natural selection without regard to the important functions it performs to keep populations healthy, and without replacing it with ethical alternatives. Thus, the consequences of bad decisions have been drastically reduced. Many of these decisions detrimentally impact the health & development of their offspring [1][2]. Many people in the medical community support and enable some of these decisions despite the long-term consequences [1][2][3]. Thus, the proportion of the population that is biologically deficient has proliferated and become the majority.

      The tone of the website page as a whole seems well-intentioned but then he has to go and say stuff like this.

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        19 days ago

        I did read part of his post that I linked, and that’s what led me to add that he might be a lunatic. Since then, I’ve looked into it, and scratch that, this guy is insane. I think he’s an ecofascist of the socdem variety going by his website and the various sources supplied by it. He’s still has a bunch of supposed scientific support behind his FMT company Human Microbes and all they’re doing though. It’s funny because he literally says “infinite growth on a finite planet is suicide” which is basically a core tenet of modern Eco-Socialism/Eco-Marxism, and in his politics archive on his GitHub page cites Einstein’s Why Socialism?, all the while his principal claim is that we are living in a dystopia because people are getting dumber and the only way to fix that is by making smarter people. He also believes human overpopulation is the primary driver of climate change and we need to stop having kids. No takes on communism, but you can kinda assume his views because of his link for “why the left should be anti-censorship”.

        TL;DR: This guy’s nutty, but he knows his shit.