The blue shell is a tax hike on the rich

New York to Select Site for New Nuclear Power Plant This Year New York state expects to select a community this year to host at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear energy, signaling a push to accelerate reactor development as electricity demand climbs.

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I need Cats to run long enough so that they can bring in Kennedy Davenport as a replacement

My mayor just came out and said Fuck Calvinism

The sort of thing we absolutely love to see.

All that being said, the author does spend the second half of the piece talking about these things, and offering useful policies on improve the financial operations behind farming, so it’s still worth checking out.

Technology, government subsidies, and low wage immigrant labor have all made being a farm owner a more comfortable and stable life than it was in the past, but it is still a ton of work.

The material reasons people are leaving farms far outweigh the cultural reasons.

American history has been one long exodus from farms to cities.

These people didn’t make these choices because farming seemed ~uncool~ to them. They did it because it was backbreaking labor from dawn to dusk, with the threat of one bad harvest destroying everything hanging over their heads.

Growing up, when we visited my grandma, we would visit a nearby strawberry farm where tourists could pay to pick strawberries like a pumpkin patch.

My grandmother would never join us. As she said: she picked them as a kid until she got blisters on her fingers, she wasn’t gonna pay to do it for fun.

You see this most starkly in developing countries in East Asia, where young people choose to work in sweat shops for Nike over their parents farms.

The romanticized vision of farming appeals mostly to non farmers who have latent guilt for living in a cold, profit driven modernist society.

Opinion | Why the Kids Won’t Farm

This article has good points and I don’t wanna dump on it, but people have been leaving farms for better paying, more comfortable work throughout history.

The writer argues that modern culture is driving the youth from farms, but the driving force has always been the intensity of the labor required

A chart showing traffic tickets issued in San Francisco, with a sharp drop that began in 2014, hit bottom in 2022 when just a few tickets were issued, and has now rebounded almost to 2014 levels.

We’re back, baby!

Woke 1.0 is dead

incredible thread!

I LOVE her!!

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Alysa Liu Explains How She Got Her "Smiley" Frenulum Piercing: "I Did It Myself" Here's everything to know about Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu's mouth piercing that's been on display when she smiles at the Winter Games.

I’ve known of Alysa Lou for an hour and love her.

She quit figuring skating a couple years back because the completion aspect sucked. She died her hair zebra striped, pierced her own Frenulum, came back to the Olympics dancing to MacArthur Park Suite, and won gold
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Before 1986, affordable housing had accelerated depreciation schedules, which was a much faster way of getting things built than the current system of tax credits.

I felt my back snap seeing that flip!

But it’d help a lot with the “let’s turn the page and move on, America” message she was sending

His ego wouldn’t have allowed that, especially after the humiliation of dropping out, and I think she was reluctant to separate herself too much from him on the trail out of personal respect and the tradition of VPs running to replace their outgoing president.

I’m wishcasting, but the best thing Biden could’ve done after dropping out was have a one-on-one with Harris and give her his blessing to trash him on the campaign trail.

She could’ve waived away criticism of the Biden Administration by saying she was just a powerless VP

Honored to have my Zeteo podcast 'We're Not Kidding' nominated for an Ambie podcast award, for Best Interview, but - growing up in the 1980s and 1990s - I never thought I'd ever be competing with Oprah (!) for anything. Lol. Wish us luck!

this is really great

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Can’t recommend Past Lives enough if you’re looking for a history podcast, especially if you appreciate the perspective of the “common man” in history and want something different than the usual “great man” perspective

I have to tell a story about this. My great uncle, Jimmy Perrone, fought Hitler in WWII and then came back to our hometown and married Adeline Liguori, my grandfather’s sister. Adeline died of cancer in the early 1980s and Uncle Jim went through a depression. 1/x

'Watchmen' Creator Alan Moore Says Adults Who Enjoy Super Hero Media Are Engaging In A "Kind Of Infantilisation That Can Very Often Be A Precursor To Fascism" 'Watchmen' creator Alan Moore believes the enjoyment of super hero media by adults is a societal "precursor to fascism".

Has Alan Moore been wrong about anything?

"Yes, but for different reasons."

Is Sean McElwee a joke to you people?!