It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.

TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

with the water issues IT’S THE FARMER’S FAULT BLAME THE FUCKING FARMERS is like Newtonian physics: it won’t get every single particular right, but for practical purposes it’s all the information you need most of the time

incredible stuff

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

our current state of affairs is literally only possible because decades of prohibition met a completely deregulated supplement industry

except all these developments were made for the purpose of pursuing raw profit and pushed out to the world by corporations. people did kratom for thousands of years before 7oh was available in every head shop.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

kratom? nah that's not good enough. We gotta find a synthetic extract of it that fucks people up like oxy and sell it in gas stations. what if weed were a million times stronger and making it sometimes blew up trailers?

I have always considered myself a libertine. I had no problem with gambling. But the expansion of gambling into EVERY CONCEIVABLE CORNER of society is horrific. This is why I don't read ads for sports betting anymore.

people can't leave well enough alone. and this isn't just a gambling thing.

hell yeah welcome to the heresy

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

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this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Ahhh that makes sense.

I hang out around leftists in the criminal justice reform space and literally none of them have ever used that term to me. I just asked and they all thing it's both stupid and inaccurate. There's no justice involved in the system

has...anyone ever heard someone use the phrase "justice involved population" before now? I've only ever heard "incarcerated people" and similar terms.

look when you live on a starship you're gonna need to masturbate sometimes. it's only responsible to ensure your colleagues know when you're indisposed.

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

god, Riker really is the perfect man

A screenshot of a youtube short of behind the bastards host Robert Evans with an overlay celebrating the fact i was the 67th person to click the like button

I feel old and forced to participate in this bullshit by Youtube. It does a little celebration when the 67th like is hit @iwriteok.bsky.social

it's very funny that he thinks this post is intelligent while also ignoring that any logistical problems the Navy is encountering are entirely the result of an illegal war of choice

i figured they might because, y'know, they already had

This is a massive environmental disaster and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention or resources as it should, it shouldn’t take the best scientist in the space to point out how dangerous this is to tens of thousands of people, if not more.

the FBI's record got stopping domestic terrorism wasn't like, great before Kash got the job

what the hell

when would you say was the last time the FBI really clearly contributed to your safety

Hahahahahahahaha

Oh my!
Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph?

This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

it's wild that we have a fascist president currently invading multiple countries for no good reason and he's also a huge advocate of ibogaine

i would rather an FBI director too coked up to think than an FBI director who is sober and productive

my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does