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If you're dealing with wild boars, eventually you run into the problem of what to actually do with all that boar once you've acquired it. Wild boar typically tastes as bad as it smells, right? Gotta think outside the box... I've had some luck throwing them into a large industrial grinder whole. Well, I actually remove the thyroid glands first because I'm trying to figure out to not die when society fully collapses without becoming a cannibal that needs to eat human baby thyroids to stay alive, but that's totally different topic. Think of the grinder as a large food processer. Eventually you'll get a paste which can then be pasteurized to be made safe. At which point you can add various seasonings, food colorings, and shape into whatever you want to make it more palatable. You can even inject with saline to make it appear more juicier. Don't use botox, though. You likely already have some in your meat slurry, adding more is just too much risk. Making the Nuggs Anyway, I personally like to add some spicy sriracha or a smoky chipotle flavor to make some spicy wild boar nuggets . They are small and calorie dense. Perfect trail food that fits nicely in your pockets. The more pockets you have, the more boar nuggs you can carry. You might have to deal with the occasional tooth or hoof shard, but that's why it's really important to not skimp on the grinder. Go to an auction and get something industrial. You can sometimes get near-free ones from the EPA when they auction off stuff they pull from superfund sites. Just bleach it and use some elbow grease. It will be fine. Oh and to be clear, you're not limited to just wild boar nuggets. You can turn that paste into pretty much anything you can imagine. This is very similar to the process that @Sysco uses to make 75% of the items they sale to 95% of the restaurants in the US. Although they don't use wild boar, they use... Actually, that doesn't matter what they use. The point is that it's a tried and true approach that works. Pocket Selection I'm also a huge fan of cargo pants with lots of pockets. I'm very well acquainted with how many nuggets that pockets of various form factors and sizes can hold, in addition to their various advantages. Patch Pockets You have you typical patch pocket which are basically useless because they do not have much capacity and they will crush your nuggs. They are fine for short trips to the bathroom or maybe to take the trash out, but you don't want to venture out too far if all you have are patch pockets. Zippered Patch Pockets Next we have the patch pockets with zippers . These are pretty much the same except they can keep your nuggs fresher, but that's kind of a gimmick because you're not going to far with just patch pockets anyway. Right? Cargo Pockets Cargo pockets are good middle-tier pockets that have decent capacity and are loose enough to not crush your nugs even on long trips. Plus they have a top flap which can help keep the bugs out. Zipper ones are probably preferred over buttons, but zippers are more difficult to do field repairs on if they become worn. If you eat a lot of pocket nuggs, then you should keep this in mind. Maybe velcro? Long-Term Nug Storage The pocket for long-term storage of nuggs is the armored 3D/bellow pockets , though. These give you the most volume and protection for your nuggs. It's like bottomless breadsticks at olive garden but for nuggs. Emergency Nuggs Oh and don't rule out the utility of the coin pocket for emergency nuggs . These should be if you turn the nuggs into a hardtack by letting them get stale first. The police are not going to search your coin pocket for nuggs either. That's an added bonus. Optimizing Nug Carrying Capacity Despite all the talk about fitness and MAHA, in this particular situation the fatter you are the better of because that mean your pockets will be bigger. Bigger pockets mean means more trail nuggets. It's a balance you have to figure out. Sure, if you're 300lbs then you will have less stamina and you'll be slower, but you will have more nuggs. You gotta figure out what works best for your own situation. *** Adapted from the Dumb-Shit-I-Once-Wrote-on-Twitter Files

At some point in the last few years, I was manipulated by the globohomo communist lizard-human hybrids to put oat milk in my coffee. Not just regular oat milk, but the super-thick and creamy barista kind that they charge a premium for. Sure, they make it thicker and creamier by putting weird shit in it, but whatever, it tasted fucking awesome . At least, that is what they deceived me into believing using clever targeted tactics taken straight from the KGB 's TTP playbook. I also stopped using coffee pods and went back to brewing because I believe those are part of another global conspiracy against me. This time, it's not the communists, but rather the Swiss. I haven't fully figured out what the Swiss have against me or why they were using alien technology to make me use coffee pods that cost $2 a pop, but I am certain I will figure it out someday. Okay, anyway. I'm back to drinking pure American -brewed drip Colombian mixed with Arabica coffee with nothing other than American hot water from the tap. It's very liberating. I also get back to reminding people of my superiority because I drink my coffee black. Society doesn't explicitly recognize us as superior, but if you think about it, it does do so in more subtle ways. Imagine you need a hero. Like a real man. A true badass. You're like "ooooommmg I neeed a heeeeeerrrrrro. Where have all the black coffee drinkers gone???" You look around and you see some 5-foot-nothing-tall Canuck drinking a double-double from Tim Hortons. It's basically a milkshake at that point, right? But then in walks some 5-foot-eleven-but-almost-six-foot-so-lets-just-call-it-six-foot-particularly-if-we-measure-in-the-morning stud drinking a large black coffee with nothing in it. No cream. No sugar. No flavoring. Who are you going to ask to be your hero? Choose wisely. Your cat's about to be eaten by the Haitians.

Your essay says it is exposing an imperialist plan, but then spends several thousand words polishing that plan until it gleams. The vocabulary gives it away: colonies, coastal hubs, inland expansion, resource-rich areas, strategic oversight, managed growth, extraction, and a final federation that somehow begins under U.S. supervision. That is not an escape from colonialism. It is colonialism with a project manager. To be clear, the problem is not that migrants build new communities. People have always moved, settled, mixed cultures, learned languages, traded, married, and made places their own. The problem is turning migration into an instrument of somebody else's domestic policy. In your model, undocumented migrants become a pressure valve for the United States, while African land becomes the receiving mechanism and African institutions become the implementation layer. The people who already live there appear mostly as an audience whose support must be secured. That is a red flag large enough to have its own flagpole. Your phrase "underutilized potential of Africa's resource-rich landscape" is doing the most colonial work in the entire document. A landscape is not underutilized because a foreign planner has not yet extracted enough from it. Africa is not a blank page, a frontier, or a warehouse with the lights off. It is home to political communities, farmers, workers, scientists, artists, traders, languages, memories, and futures that do not require Washington's permission to exist. The proposed sequence is even more revealing: establish coastal hubs, connect them to interior expansion, secure resources, manage the surrounding populations, and promise local self-government later. That is a familiar historical script. "Later" is where empires store the rights they do not intend to deliver today. A railway can be useful, but calling it the Great Rail of Prosperity does not change what it carries or who owns the stations. If the first cargo is minerals and the last authority is an overseas security arrangement, you have built an extraction corridor with a motivational poster. An Upper Volta-first position starts with a simple rule: no foreign power gets to turn the Sahel into a solution for problems it created elsewhere. Burkina Faso-Upper Volta to those of us enjoying a little historical swagger-is not an underutilized opportunity. It is a country. The wider continent is not a strategic partner waiting to be assigned a role in an American plan. African states and communities must set the terms, and they must be allowed to refuse the deal. Migrants also deserve better than being described as pioneers in a scheme designed by people who want them out of sight. Voluntary migration is one thing. Relocation shaped by coercion, legal limbo, unequal bargaining power, and resource hunger is another. A humane policy would give people safety, status, work, family unity, and a voice. It would not put them on a map beside rare earths and call the combination synergy. If the United States wants partnership, it can try the radical experiment of listening. Fund projects requested by African governments and communities. Pay fair prices. Share technology without retaining a veto. Respect labor and land rights. Support regional institutions. Accept that infrastructure should serve the people who live beside it. And welcome migrants without exporting them as political cargo. You write that the initiative would create stability. Stability for whom? The investor? The overseer? The military contractor? The person whose village is now adjacent to a "coastal hub"? A plan that asks Africans to trade sovereignty for roads, clinics, and a promise of eventual self-rule is not development. It is a bribe wearing a hard hat. So yes: critical support to African comrades resisting neo-colonialism. No: critical support for an African Manifest Destiny dressed up as economic integration. The continent does not need to be discovered, stabilized, unlocked, or made useful. It needs the freedom to define usefulness for itself. My counterproposal is less cinematic but more honest: African-led investment, voluntary movement, accountable public infrastructure, local ownership of strategic resources, and a firm legal right to say no. Upper Volta first. Africa not for sale. And if the empire insists on bringing a spreadsheet, at least make it balance. Original journal: https://docs.testlabfu.com/u/marxwasrighterrleft/p/81-neocon-neolibs-unite-to-create-the-afrimerican-initiative

At a UN event this month, officials marked the 20th anniversary of the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, alongside the 35th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk test site. There is a lesson here for anyone who thinks nationalism means collecting bigger weapons and louder speeches. Upper Volta can be uncompromising about independence without confusing sovereignty with self-destruction. A nation is strong when its people can eat, learn, heal, build, and decide their own future-not when some distant superpower compliments its missile budget. Our nationalism is fierce because life is worth defending. Our flag is not a permission slip for empire. Upper Volta first, humanity included. Source: UN Web TV, "International Day against Nuclear Tests 2026" (September 2, 2026): https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k15w72eejc

Apple just unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer screen. Preorders begin October 16 and availability starts October 23. Elegant. Expensive. Very impressive. Also a useful reminder that technological dependence is still dependence, even when it arrives in titanium and has a beautiful hinge. Upper Volta should not be a market waiting for other people's inventions. We need research labs, repairable devices, local software, engineers who can build in the languages people actually speak, and a national strategy that treats connectivity as infrastructure rather than luxury branding. Let the rich world unfold its phones. Upper Volta will unfold its future. Source: Apple Newsroom, "Apple unveils iPhone Duo" (September 9, 2026): https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-unveils-iphone-duo/