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Cake day: September 10th, 2023

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  • In florida years ago, when e-verify was being pushed, and tomato farm operations had to verify social security numbers for their employees, they didnt start paying legal/competitive wages- they just left tomatoes on the vines to rot - and then took subsidies and tax breaks for operating those farms at a loss. some agriculture companies just got out of the tomato business altogether.

    employers at the largest levels don’t care about construction, or farming or whatever- they care about profit. the investors don’t care about the work their companies perform- if a sector becomes significantly less profitable because of a lack of immigrant workers, they don’t just take a hit to their profits and move on, they pull their investments and find another business to invest in. there will plainly be less construction firms, less farms, less local restaurants able to compete with the chains.

    the money in this economy is hoarded by the upper class- they can control how businesses operate, and because the rest of us have limited buying power, our choices are dictated more by what we can afford than what we need or want. demand in this economy has power, but it is easily overwhelmed by control of the supply by purely profit motivated investors.

    they dont want to make less money selling higher priced tomatoes, and at the same time, we dont have the available income to budget for higher priced tomatoes, from the largest or smaller farms, and will just shift spending to other cheap food we can afford in our budgets. lots of businesses will close but the investors- who most elected officials serve- will just invest elsewhere, which is why they don’t care about the impact on the rest of us. large operations will gobble up the failing smaller ones, consumer options will continue to shrink, and the people we’ve been exploiting for their labor will lose their source of income.

    there will be no industry-wide rise in low wages, just diminishing supply. eventually the tariffs will go, and then supply will be replaced by (even cheaper) foreign production.



  • There are many, many programs - sometimes as simple as a one-form rebate - available to help with and often completely cover costs related with:

    • replacing grass lawns with native plants, drought resistant plants and food gardens
    • adding cisterns, rain barrels and grey water systems
    • replacing with or adding new “smart” sprinkler controllers that check weather forecasts to plan irrigation around the rain
    • ordering and planting trees, including fruit trees
    • compost barrels, compost and mulch, drip irrigation hoses, pool covers, and more

    Some of my favorites include programs where you can get trees delivered and sometimes even planted for free, programs to help restore local parks and buisness landscaping to native flora, volunteer programs to remove invasive species from local parks, and money for replacing turf lawns with plants, bushes and trees that help bird and beneficial insect populations. Sometimes lanscaping companies and volunteers can even do the work utilizing the grants and rebates with little or no cost to you! Shoutout to the arbor day foundation that provides native trees, delivered to your door.

    Here is a list (not just the US) of programs, and another here. Your local water utility likely has a list of rebates and such available in your area, as well as your county extension office if youre in the US, and any government office from city up to the federal level, especially if you live in a drought prone area like the southwestern US. You can also search for “xeniscaping” to find more, or talk to your local hardware store or nursery.


  • imagine thinking the foundation your beliefs are based on so fraglie that the mere exposure to something different is enough for your child to turn away from them

    a good parent encourages questioning everything, including - especially - the beliefs and value system theyre trying to teach. labeling something else as wrong is one thing, but to then forbid your child from having any exposure to it whatsoever? that’s called failing at being a parent, because that’s not how the world works, and part of your job is to teach your kid how to critically consider things as force of habit before theyre a fully grown adult

    so, parents who freak tf out about drag queens reading to kids, or reading books with LGBTQ+ characters - if you think it’s proper to forbid your or anyone elses child from the mere exposure to things you have a problem with, all youre really doing is exposing that you know your personal feelings and opinions about it, religious or not, wouldn’t hold up to a logical, rational discussion with your kid 🤷


  • yeah, because subsidized basic medical care enables people to forego working for a living and play video games all day… what youre trying to lock behind a workers-only paywall is things like eye exams, things like therapy, medication, and doctors visits for any number of conditions, disorders and injuries - things that without, it’s pretty fucking difficult or often outright impossible to just “get to work”

    what a spoiled asshat spewing utter fucking nonsense who should “get to work” doing the job theyre supposed to be doing: actually helping their fucking constituents, looking out for the worst off among us. instead theyre confidently looking down from their high horse, as if theyre better. Im sorry we all cant make a living being total fucking sellouts to the oligarchs like you, mike

    go work a fucking day in the soul crushing job that is american social services, dude. go try to help poor people get a job in a state that said fuck giving some of the poorest among us basic healthcare; see how fucking hard it is for people who cant get and stay relatively healthy in this supposedly so “great” nation because they cant get the permanent, full time fucking job needed first. whats that? you dont actually know fuck all about the struggles of a poor person? youre just some fucking schmuck who gets off putting other people down?

    maybe some folks play video games to deal with the feelings that go along with realizing some of our neighbors and family actually thought you are worthy of representing them. maybe the utter, crushing sadness and disappointment they feel seeing you so effortlessly embrace selfishness as a complete traitor to the oaths you swore becomes a little more tolerable after some distracting video games, you waste of clean air and water, you fucking embarassment of a human being