• qoez 4 hours ago

    New way to make money after AGI takes all jobs just dropped

    • metalman 4 hours ago

      nah, just another item for the shoe goo line of products

      googlue "just for you"

      soylentglue

      absurdism never had it so good

    • r381az 2 hours ago

      The article is quiet about how they harvest the mucus.

      Our lives get more and more disgusting. In the EU the peasants are now expected to eat mealworms:

      https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/novel-food/authorisati...

      So far, this disgusting "food" has to be labeled, but I would not be surprised if they drop it in the future. Another "conspiratorial" meme (eat ze bugz) has become true.

      In Germany today there is a chance to vote against the globalists.

      • goda90 an hour ago

        Humans have eaten insects for as long as there have been humans. No one's expected to eat them, they are just approved for eating under food regulations in the EU now. It's highly unlikely they'll ever stop labeling them properly because insects can cause the exact same allergic reaction that shellfish do, given how similar they are to each other.

        • muzani an hour ago

          Fun fact: shellac has been in food for a while, especially those shiny chocolates.

          • 0_____0 10 minutes ago

            And you've got carmine as well - we've been eating bugs all along!

          • tekahg an hour ago

            Civilization, first in the form of religions, has established all sort of rules against practices of primitive tribes that were guided by necessity.

            We are now throwing overboard humanism and start to make lives worse for the masses while the 1% who live in castles in Tuscany can buy their organic food locally.

            • MengerSponge 12 minutes ago

              Yikes, dawg. Chapulines are delicious.

          • cdblades an hour ago

            Do you feel like you had to create an alt because the globalists are going to delete this? And you didn't want said globalists to interfere with your primary account?

            • tuesdaynight 28 minutes ago

              There are other comments in this thread from throwaway accounts created very recently. It's the first time that I see something like that here on HN.

              • righthand 19 minutes ago

                Ha, open your eyes then, throw-away accounts have been super common here for a very very long time (at least a decade).

              • 36efdhG 44 minutes ago

                Do you feel like mocking people who criticize WEF policies even after they have actually become law is still a valid strategy in 2025?

                On the other hand, perhaps you are using reverse psychology to support MEGA.

              • thro849rj an hour ago

                I do not mind harvesting if it consensual, or from dead body.

                But there is a cosmetic treatment that takes stem cells from new borns foreskin. What sort of twisted mind tortures and maims babies, just after birth, so they can look younger!!!

                • jrmg 43 minutes ago

                  Oh man, I hate to break it to you, but Americans can choose to eat bugs too!

                  https://www.amazon.com/cricket-flour/s?k=cricket+flour

                  • tekahg an hour ago

                    I suppose the "sell powder lobby" on HN does not like this post. Vance's friends must be happy with this EU regulation.

                    • thelastgallon 33 minutes ago

                      Whats wrong with eating bugs?

                      • trhatsFjh 26 minutes ago

                        People have evolved a natural protective feeling of disgust when confronted with the possibility of eating insects and worms. Try cultivating 100 mealworms, smell them and then put them in your mouth.

                        Slogans cannot overcome this feeling, that is why they are sold in the form of powders or stealthily added to food.

                        But I get that these powders are a great startup idea that requires no intellect, only advertising ("this is actually a good thing") and lobbying for dropping regulations.

                        • prododev 6 minutes ago

                          I mean, put some live shrimp on a plate and I'm sure people will not feel great about it either.

                          People have eaten bugs around the world forever, from prehistory to modern times.

                          Scorpions, snails, ants, silkworms, grasshoppers, bees, and yes, mealworms, all have long long long histories of being a part of human diets. See also Carmine and shellac.

                          You live a sheltered life that hasn't been exposed to this extremely normal phenomena.