It’s extremely charitable of you to assume that these laws will be enforced equitably.

You have cool parents null

I’ve belonged to a few different ones (moved a couple times, one wasn’t a great fit, and one farmer retired during the pandemic), and there’s always something new. Not just heirloom tomatoes and different types of hot peppers, but odd varieties of herbs (lemon basil is fantastic!), odd fruits like paw paws, ground cherries and incredibly fresh Asian pears, weird upscale vegetables that you usually only get at higher priced restaurants and groceries, etc.

Between my boxed farm share and the pick your own extras that come with it, it’s probably about 80% of my veggies for the entire year.

Because you’re looking at the English Wikipedia? It’s there in the French Wikipedia.

Nicole asked around among her friends. “Where do you get real food?”

They stared at her, not comprehending her question.

“Whole Foods?”

Nicole drifted through the aisles of expensive, organic food. Even pricey lettuce after a few days in the fridge wilted and turned slimy. She felt trapped, confined to the industrial food distribution network that girdled the globe.

I could try to grow a head of lettuce, she thought. It can’t be that hard. She was not indentured to the corporate grocer. She was free. Free to grow a head of lettuce. Maybe more.

For anyone who isn’t in a position to grow their own food and also has this question, look into Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). At the start of the year, you buy a share in a local farm, and you get a box of veggies every week of the growing season. [There are variations: you can get a large box or a small box, you can choose to get a box just on alternate weeks, etc.] By having their money up front, the farmer is no longer at the mercy of start-of-season bank loans and the risk of a bad harvest: the farm is guaranteed to survive to the following year. In exchange, you get a box of peak produce: no lettuce that’s been making it’s way through distributors for three weeks, or apples that have been warehoused for nine months. No food that’s traveled halfway across the world - everything is small scale, seasonal, and incredibly fresh.

Eh, that page sounds like AI output, not sure I’d take their word for the origin of the phrase.

Void wants to know why you’re snooping on their very private bath!?

My point is that the big manufacturing boom in the US in the 1950s was a direct result of the devastation from WWII, and the US being the one less affected country that wasn’t facing inner turmoil (China, India) and that had a lot of resources and a lot of population. And that the decline of American manufacturing has less to do with the US transitioning to a service oriented economy, and more to do with the rest of the world rebuilding their economies and industrial bases after the war. When you’re the only large-scale industrial manufacturer in the world, of course you do well. When you have to compete with a bunch of other countries, you actually need to compete.

Because this head prioritizes branding over utility, neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener. The result? Broken bits, stripped screws, and more time spent on what would otherwise be a simple task.

Ugh.

I’m so happy for Bonnie!

The decline in manufacturing, however, is less a story about policy blunders than one about the long progress of the US economy, which has to a large extent graduated out of producing stuff like phones and cars and into the delivery of services, like finance and healthcare – a process similar to that followed by other countries that moved up the ladder of success.

Oh, ffs! You’d think that a British journalist focused on economics and politics would get this right, but apparently not.

The Republicans look back at America’s manufacturing boom of the 1950’s with nostalgia, and they completely ignore the reasons for the boom - namely, the devastation from WWII. South America, Africa and the Southern Pacific countries didn’t have big manufacturing economies. A significant number of other countries (Russia, Japan, most of Europe, etc) were physically devastated by the war and needed to rebuild from scratch.

With China focused inward and India focused on independence (and both countries recovering from the war), there simply wasn’t another large, heavily populated country to compete - New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc, simply didn’t have the population to build and staff factories to the extent that the States could. That’s where the US post-war manufacturing boom came from: the war itself.

And the boom died out because other countries recovered from the war and built their own manufacturing bases. That boom was never going to last, and it’s unlikely to ever be repeated, and I just wish that people would realize that and move on from that dream.

“I’m asking you, for the final time: please stop stalking me.”

Rights for me, rules for thee!

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a maintenance issue required a change of planes. [Noem’s] personal blanket was not transferred [to the new plane].

How about you be responsible for your own fucking shit, Noem? What about “personal responsibility”? The pilot is there to fly the fucking plane, not be your personal body-slave.

There were videos of this a few years back, when Tesla was pushing an update to all the cars in their lot.

They’re having staffing problems in prisons because corrections officers keep leaving for ICE. And as prison guards, they’re used to being able to freely abuse people and cover it up with the thinnest of lies. Actually being called out on it must be a shock for them

You know who the biggest welfare queens in the States are? Corporations who deliberately limit worker hours so that they’ll never get benefits, and who deliberately underpay workers relative to their value and the amount of profit the company makes, and who deliberately arrange to underpay their taxes.

All of these things increase pressure on the worker and their desperate struggle to have just a little breathing room - and the government cheerfully goes along with all of this.

If any part of society was working as it should - if government represented the people instead of the corporations, if minimum wage had kept up with inflation, if corporations and the wealthy paid back into the system that has so vastly benefitted them - if any of that had happened, then you wouldn’t be under the stress that you’re under.

Go. Sign up for SNAP. Check with your county and see what other resources are available to you because you’re on SNAP - maybe you qualify for reduced heating, or a free phone line, or seasonal credit at your local farmers market. Anything that you qualify for, take advantage of, because each program will get you a little more space in your life for yourself.

The people who shot Good and Pretti each had over 8 years experience; iirc, one had 12 years on the job. That’s not lack of training, that’s deliberate institutional oppression, and it cannot be reformed.

He already auctioned off a lot of his Dawson’s Creek memorabilia to pay his medical costs.

Stardew Valley 1.7.

Driver’s license. Credit/debit card. Library card. RFID blocker (if not built into wallet).

Health insurance card. Important medical information (like I dunno, “Diabetic” or “allergic to penicillin”). Contact information for next of kin [can be the same card as health information].

An emergency twenty dollar bill.