I’ve never had Impossible Steak. Do you like Beyond? I’ve noticed some people like one or the other.

Have you tried Lions Mane steak?

https://youtu.be/oaARq5qw3jk

Herbivorous Butcher is really good too and they have a cookbook to make your own.

https://www.theherbivorousbutcher.com/

I think they exploited the psychological bias that n=all.

They do it for elections and they do it for major news media.

When people see these candidates they believe all the issues are represented and organized for.

When people see news coverage they believe that all stories have made it into the news cycle.

Even at the lower frequencies. For elections that could be independents or fringe politics. For news that could be local news stations or even social media.

The truth is many many issues aren’t being represented and Many many more stories have not been told. If you look at what the national insurance pool does it could be said many are being suppressed.

https://youtu.be/BYSFvq8sr7A

That’s also true for the courts.

We’ve decided that votes save Democracy (or it could be anything else). What I have not seen represented on the National level is why we are so addicted to votes to saving democracy (or your urgent issue) and if there are better systems.

Have you never had an obvious issue it seemed wasn’t reaching the national level?

Have you ever asked yourself who’s missing?

From candidates. From news stories. From landmark legal cases.

I guess it relates to unlabeled containers.

Which might explain some of the news stories related to hazardous chemicals getting into food.

https://www.muckrock.com/agency/united-states-of-america-10/occupational-safety-health-administration-2396/

I’m not very familiar with FOIA requests sent to OSHA.

I was just going to make a list of companies I’ve worked at and see their OSHA violations. Snowball research from there. I’m learning R with a YouTube course and Introduction to Statistical Learning with R. If you know a lot about R and have time for a coffee chat I’d love to hear from you. My State does not have many data analysts as public records clerks and I’ve been trying to ETL data before it’s erased.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FsZxVq54ERrlMRNE5aq2qUFH042fbuM

https://www.statlearning.com/

Has anyone noticed changes in their job’s OSHA training since DOGE targeted them?

Probably Lye Crystals?

OSHA was hit by DOGE I thought.

Not to mention the weird thing where it’s not a government agency? I never fully understood that.

https://www.nelp.org/defending-worker-safety-responding-to-osha-and-mshas-dangerous-rollbacks/

I think, there’s some soft censorship too.

Either it’s the mods downvoting posts early or it’s the level of users they have cultivated.

I feel like many IRL communities have been hijacked in some way. Like the Denver and Colorado subreddits.

I can’t find anyone who hasn’t been mass downvoted and it doesn’t seem to align with the upvotes. It doesn’t seem like certain topics are off limits it seems much more like the entire idea of community organizing is off limits.

That might sound like a strange theory until you see how much the Governor is worth.

https://youtu.be/f0RK_yjdMXQ

Not to mention smaller elections have brought that level of social media manipulation. This town had a mayor who won by like 8 votes and felt it was worth it to flood social media with posts about “how great the water is”.

https://youtu.be/583G9pl_w_I

Now look at an Englewood, CO subreddit post about the water. There’s very little arguing, but a ton of downvotes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/englewoodco/comments/1txrd3o/englewood_restaurants_filtering_water_or_lack_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/englewoodco/comments/1u19v64/is_the_water_just_a_lil_gross_or_actually/

Meanwhile…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/oy4vsz/psa_e_coli_in_englewood_tap_water_how_fun/

It’s not exactly the best water. It has had issues, but you get people jumping in to say it “meets EPA standards”. You see the same lines getting thrown out like someone has been leading what they should say. If you were to point out that EPA Standards is ambiguous and that many EPA standards have been lowered and with less enforcement, it’s like no one could even hear you.

The good news is, many people simply leave those subreddits or don’t participate. The bad news is, how powerful an effect on perceived consensus it can be to come into those threads without knowing the baseline.

Has no one done an analysis on subreddit votes?

I have been researching what would be needed to show correlation between the topics and the votes. Because you can still pull the rss of new comments and posts.

https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/03/jared-polis-vetoes-swipe-fees-firefighter-bills/

He vetoed the cancer benefits bill for firefighters.

He said it was the Cities asking for it, but much more likely it was the Cities’ representative. CIRSA.

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/denver-145/cora-logs-2026-shadow-government-entity-cirsa-213839/#file-1401888

You can see they lobbied against it. Successfully.

They also fought a firefighter over his cancer benefits.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/co-supreme-court/1733666.html

I think many people believe Democrats vs Republicans is the fight for our Country, but I think if we don’t secure Citizen rights and we keep relying on voted officials to fix urgent issues we’re going to have the same problem come up again and again.

Transparency laws are important. There’s a reason they keep raising the hourly rates, while records staff don’t seem to get paid from those extra fees.

These insurance pools pay into a national pool, so I doubt it’s limited to Colorado.

Look at the CIRSA lobbying.

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/denver-145/cora-logs-2026-shadow-government-entity-cirsa-213839/#file-1401888

They lobbied against the No Kings Bill.

So while students in Englewood staged a walkout against ICE with police escort, the insurance pool for EPD was lobbying against the bill. Successfully.

Voting is one part.

Supporting our transparency laws and getting right-to-know into the Colorado Constitution is another large part.

CIRSA is exempt (according to them) from CORA requests.

All the while they use NDAs and settlements to suppress and erase civil rights violations across the entire State. 298 members. Roughly 244 are Cities.

https://youtu.be/9qL4KxqbrFM

I can’t think of a better system lever than empowering Colorado citizens.

Gotcha.

I think, there are major differences between States.

Have you ever read Thinking in Systems?

The issue I’ve been seeing is the protections that bring together State legislature on important legal issues have largely been dismantled.

It used to be the Circuit Courts and even the supreme Court worked to set clearer guidelines on recurring important issues. Now it seems there are many times less Supreme Court cases and the Circuit Courts wait for two Circuit courts to disagree before they bump it to the supreme Court.

I don’t know everything, but that seems to be what’s happened.

The feedback loops are all broken.

Civil immunity was invented by judges. It was never law. We use ‘clearly established’ cases to counter that, but many of those a recursive and the entire system is broken.

For a case to be clearly established there must be another clearly established case to point to. So it was never meant to work from my understanding.

So Colorado is easily able to do as many Fourth Amendment seizures violations as they like. Until someone gets crypto “Clearly Established” we could be stuck with this.

It would be interesting to see the situation in your State. Not that I wanna pry. Because Utah for instance is very similar, but a Utah flavor of these issues. Same Circuit Court.

Does all this sound crazy?

If that sounds crazy read Backroom Deals in our Backyards.

Libby might have the audiobook depending on which library you use.

Transparency laws and things like CORA requests are a crucial part of maintaining the good qualities of each State.

It sounds similar to the automotive auction process then?

Foreclosures.

I did some deep dives into those since 2017, but banking and anything else I am just beginning to make CORA requests on.

What do you think happens after?

Do you think it’s saved in a crypto wallet?

Like Colorado has a PePe wallet with financial statements. 😅

I think they brought in crypto, but without the protections other assets have. It took a long time to protect the dollar. Let alone the banks and that’s debatable if they ever did.

Are you familiar with cash flow and accounting?

That’s what I was thinking until I looked into it.

It’s unclear who handles it.

If it’s the Treasury or Department of Revenue. Or both.

For all Coinbase accounts they only list a single account based on Sacramento. So I’m not sure how my account got linked to Colorado and yet unclaimed. Or how they claimed a Sacramento account in Colorado.

They do this for BlockFi too. I figure if I can’t get them to find my Coinbase I can at least do the process there.

They returned like $1 billion in unclaimed property, but I suspect they retain a lot more in the process.

It seems like you’re upset.

What are you doing on this post?

Right. There are many kinds of unclaimed property.

How do you think they organize something that’s considered unclaimed?

What do they do to return it and what happens if no one claims it?

Maybe you think I’m not familiar with Colorado’s government and made a post to fix a personal issue with Coinbase.

https://imgur.com/a/2KN4vmn

They don’t list it.

How do you think it works?

Yea I checked that portal.

There’s exactly one account listed for Coinbase.

What do you think happens to the “unclaimed” accounts?

Those aren’t listed.

I think, you don’t consider this stealing or a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The backstory is I was trying to get 9 cents to cover stories being erased in Colorado, Denver Metro and rural Colorado.

I have a nice flowchart to show the issue, but ultimately rDenver, rColorado and even rEnglewoodCO are doing a lot of soft censorship. This coupled with retroactive NDA’s is making a lot of potential “Clearly Established” cases disappear.

The root cause appears to be the City Insurance Pools. CIRSA for Colorado.

They are outside of our transparency laws.

They take every Civil Rights violation by their 298 members and make it attorney client privilege.

We only have a two year window (kinda) for 1983 U.S.C cases so by charging high fees in the Cities, ignoring half of CORA requests and setting 2 year or less retention policies: they can erase the discovery that fixes long term problems and make people believe these problems don’t even exist.

I tracked it from the vehicle registration and driver’s license tickets they kept giving out even when the offices were appointment only and they knew they weren’t meeting everyone. My car was towed for a vehicle registration I couldn’t get.

I even tried to register a new vehicle and they threw the title at in at the Arapahoe DMV. Both cars they refused to register and I have the letters. That didn’t stop the tickets or impoundment.

Now the sad thing is this is caused largely by CiRSA and it’s not just tows it’s everything. They also don’t won’t to pay firefighters their cancer benefits.

So when Polis vetoed the benefits bill for firefighters and said the Cities didn’t want it, it was likely the Cities’ representatives which is CIRSA. CIRSA who fought in 2013 to deny cancer benefits to firefighter if something else may have caused cancer.

CIRSA who takes public funds and lobbies Cities’ in Colorado. Who lobbied against the cancer benefits bill for the firefighters.