{"id":5610,"date":"2022-08-17T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/babble-1\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:43:19","slug":"babble-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/babble-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Babble 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Babble 1<\/h1>\n<p>I feel very lonely today.<\/p>\n<p>Not in the sense that there are no people around, but I&#8217;m that way that feels like a mass extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Like, &#8220;in a rescue ship looking around at the desolation but also kind of bored with it all&#8221; lonely.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been so much desolation and destruction for so long that the very bleakness of it all has lost all meaning. A hopeless kind of lonely. One of those passing sadnesses that everyone has sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>The world feels in turmoil. Everything seems scary af.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m scared of the diseases being allowed to run rampant through the world right now. &#8220;What the fuck is even going on???&#8221;-levels.<\/p>\n<p>You people all said you&#8217;d know what to do in case of an emergency. You all said you had supplies for everyone. People gave you money to buy supplies.<\/p>\n<p>All these food shortages are because people didn&#8217;t really purchase and correctly store the basic supplies for their people.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemics are showing a history of gross negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Where did the money go? Where did the supplies they&#8217;d already gathered go? What the fukk are rich people doing with their money???<\/p>\n<p>Your company should be able to provide supplies to their own workers. Why else are you taking &#8220;insurance&#8221; money out every month?<\/p>\n<p>In a time of crisis, people should be able to receive basic supplies from the company. It would be more beneficial for worker happiness if they received monthly &#8220;gifts&#8221; from the company (loaves of bread, blocks of cheese, fresh produce, watermelons, turkeys, single-serving and family-sized ready meals, gift cards). It shows an acknowledgment of all that metadata they&#8217;ve gathered.<\/p>\n<p>For reals: If you don&#8217;t know whether someone has food allergies, ask.<\/p>\n<p>And for goodness&#8217; sake, tell people what ingredients are in your products. They don&#8217;t even force you to be all that precise! (Though you should be, come on.)<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the USDA. I want competent and hard-working health inspectors on the job. People that are REALLY making sure the people that make and package our food are cleaning their equipment and using licensed food-safe kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things we might wish less oversight for, but not food safety.<\/p>\n<p>For reals yo: The food you eat should be your last concern.<\/p>\n<p>You should be able to open a food package and know that it is safe for ingestion or use in recipes.<\/p>\n<p>Like, I don&#8217;t want to grow botfly larvae in my body. I don&#8217;t want to see any wriggly worms or about a million other things. No thank you. Hard pass.<\/p>\n<p>I want experts to make sure I&#8217;m not going to poison my family using questionable ingredients. There needs to be some form of oversight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babble 1 I feel very lonely today. Not in the sense that there are no people around, but I&#8217;m that way that feels like a mass extinction. Like, &#8220;in a rescue ship looking around at the desolation but also kind of bored with it all&#8221; lonely. There&#8217;s been so much desolation and destruction for so&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/babble-1\/\" title=\"Babble 1\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babble 1<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1su","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6680,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/12-days-of-xmas-prion\/","url_meta":{"origin":5610,"position":0},"title":"12 Days of Xmas: Prion","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"PRION \"You shouldn't eat that,\" he said, standing well back. \"It doesn't seem right.\" \"Shut up. 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