It’s humorerr… engagement farming:
Thanks for the new term!
It might not last:
Look at the last 5 days
Current market cap is about 74 billion
Also kernel exposes customer data
Welcome to the world of software monocultures.
There was an episode of Six Feet Under (HBO) about human composting in Season 4, 2004.
The character being buried was crunchy granola food coop employee and gluten free vegan chef.
Naturally she had regular acupuncture appointments. Straight out of central casting.
I’m actually considering this, though I can’t say it’s with great enthusiasm based on ideology. I’ve been reading a fair amount of far-future sci-fi lately and am imbued with the notion that, in the long term we’re not only all dead, but long forgotten. Even granite headstones weather away. The idea of being reduced to ashes, I find, well, unaesthetic. At least shallow burial without embalming permits some short term “participation” in the ecosystem. Deep burial with embalming, of course, merely delays the process and likely alters the nature of the “participation” by virtue of chemical reactions between soft tissues and embalming fluid, which coagulates proteins. I’ve no idea whether the individual amino acids which comprise proteins, eventually enter the ecosystem.
Carry a walnut in your pocket when you’re buried: it will grow into a tree, fertilized by your remains. Related: ‘Take these seeds and put them in your pockets’: Ukrainian Woman Stuns Russian Soldier
I’ve always considered both the hermetically-sealed casket/coffin to be wasteful (especially since the ‘embalming’ is mostly cosmetic and decomp starts not all that long after the coffin’s closed), and cremation also being wasteful (including not necessarily all the deceased’s ashes are placed in the container handed to heirs). For years I’ve been glad that I can be legally buried here on my farm, saying ‘Grass feeds the sheep, sheep feed me, and one day I’ll feed the grass’. A bit contradictory, as my focus of study is archaeological human remains. That said, medical schools and osteology teaching collections are overstocked these days with corpse donations, so I expect to ultimately join John on our hillside.
I’m in favor of individual choice in this as in most other issues.
I’m in favor of embalming solely to permit time for far-flung family to gather before the funeral. But yeah, it’s an individual choice, in my book.
I agree. In my most recent case, only relative declined to attend, so body embalming was minimal.
In other overdue news:
Appointment only shopping
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
From Brave search AI:
Kenyan police officers have been deployed to Haiti as part of a United Nations-backed mission to quell rampant gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The deployment began in June 2024, with the arrival of the first batch of officers, and has since been reinforced by additional contingents.
As of July 2024, a total of 400 Kenyan police officers have been deployed to Haiti, with more expected to arrive in the coming weeks and months. The Kenyan-led mission aims to bolster Haiti’s National Police, which remains understaffed and underfunded, with only about 10,000 officers active at a time in a country of over 11 million people.
The Kenyan police officers have been patrolling Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in armored vehicles alongside Haitian police, with the objective of restoring peace and security to the city. The deployment has been met with a mix of reactions from Haitians, with some welcoming the international assistance and others expressing concerns about the presence of foreign forces.
The Kenyan-led mission is part of a broader effort by the United Nations to address the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, which has been plagued by gang violence, political instability, and economic woes. The mission is expected to cost around $600 million per year, according to the UN Security Council.
Key Dates:
June 2024: First batch of Kenyan police officers arrives in Haiti
July 16, 2024: Second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya arrives in Haiti
July 17, 2024: Kenyan police patrolled Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in armored vehicles
July 18, 2024: More Kenyan police officers arrive, bringing the total to 400
