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A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by HopenHeyHi »

simplotek wrote: post #27
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In context: > Elderly volunteers (or "mulchees") are provided with generous payments for their families before being rendered down and recombined with other chemicals into a range of substitutes for common foodstuffs, including hash browns (Grandmash™), bananas (Nanas™) and butter (Fauxghee™). So one meaning is Faux Ghee (faux as in fake, Ghee as in a type of clarified butter, originating from South Asia) which follo…

Thanks for the near-academic preciseness and clarity of your explanation. Puny!

Fauxghee - I can't believe its not bubby!

Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by pavlov »

RobotToaster wrote: post #23
h2odragon wrote: post #3

2019. Hasn't spawned a billion dollar startup yet. There must be something wrong with the idea, or it'd have been commercialized by now.

Maybe we can sell it as a way to turn granny into a NFT?

Last year some crypto-douche destroyed a Frida Kahlo artwork to turn it into an NFT:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/aken7k/rida-kahlo-nft-mexico

Mulching people for NFTs is the logical next step. Surely Andreessen Horowitz would fund the startup that gives grandma an eternal life as a web3 token while also contributing to solving the world’s food problem.

Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by meindnoch »

h2odragon wrote: post #3

2019. Hasn't spawned a billion dollar startup yet. There must be something wrong with the idea, or it'd have been commercialized by now.

Ukranian scientists are utilizing this technique to fertilize crops around Bakhmut with Russian-sourced organic slurry.

Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by eurasiantiger »

kevviiinn wrote: post #26
totetsu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this topic shifted from the realm of Satirical hypothesis into the real world about six months after is was published.

Sacrifice the elders to the gods of the Economy!

Hail residential care!

Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by eurasiantiger »

pavlov wrote: post #32
RobotToaster wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we can sell it as a way to turn granny into a NFT?

Last year some crypto-douche destroyed a Frida Kahlo artwork to turn it into an NFT: https://www.vice.com/en/article/aken7k/rida-kahlo-nft-mexico Mulching people for NFTs is the logical next step. Surely Andreessen Horowitz would fund the startup that gives grandma an eternal life as a web3 token while also contributing to solving the world’s food problem.

Even if there is artistical merit to his performance, it is in poor taste, as using another artist’s work as-is as a part of a new artwork is generally frowned upon.

Minting NFTs off the original is straight up thievery.

Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by alex_smart »

politelemon wrote: post #22
simplotek wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the oblivious like me, what's the pun?

Fauxghee sounds like "fogey" which refers to an older person: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fogey Faux is imitation Ghee is a type of clarified butter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

> Fauxghee sounds like "fogey" which refers to an older person

It actually doesn't, at least the way "ghee" is pronounced in the native languages where the word originates from. English doesn't quite have the strongly voiced "g" sound, so western people pronounce it incorrectly as "gee".

Re: A Mulching Proposal (2019)

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Post by HPsquared »

RobotToaster wrote: post #23
h2odragon wrote: post #3

2019. Hasn't spawned a billion dollar startup yet. There must be something wrong with the idea, or it'd have been commercialized by now.

Maybe we can sell it as a way to turn granny into a NFT?

How about a person's genome encoded as an NFT?
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