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I guess that’s “Not With My Tax Dollars!”
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Also a longread:
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Demanding that your independent contractors distribute propaganda (which is not what they contracted to do) sounds an awful lot like they are not contracted, but employees. Hmmm…
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Is there an alternative? I started using it because I’m immunosuppressed.
I also use a local independent market but their website has been having problems.
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I know of Shipt, but it’s owned by Target, if that makes any difference to you.
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Sometimes it’s difficult to get people interested in doing your dirty work:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/11/means-testing-conundrum/#dickinson-county-news
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Some good advice.
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“Mining the air”…
In oreganonia, it’s a vapor deposition process, like phone microchips. And a huge network of hydroelectric dams instead of a pile of transuranics.
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That first one sounds like woo even if it isn’t.
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It’s definitely along the lines of spinning plutonium into gold and calling it magic.
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I can’t decide. It seems to me like pulling CO2 out of the air, getting the C out, creating methane (using H from water decomposition), and then depositing the carbon from the methane is very energy intensive. And expensive. But maybe less so than mining it.
I can see industrial uses for diamond, but I never understood why people pay so much for it in jewelry. There are so many cheaper alternatives – and colored stones are so much prettier IMO.
Oh well.
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Da Beers (insert Mike Ditka joke here) has a huge stockpile and lawyers and marketers and lawyer-marketers. They’ll just call them “perfect” diamonds and price them 30% higher.
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19th century frenchisms about the “estates” may not be useful to my eyes, but it’s better discussion than we usually have now.
The support Biden is receiving from the center-right is not surprising. This is his class. These men and women, center-left and center-right, are grounded by and committed to the preservation of the state. So, why should the left support him? Because the state cannot solve the present crisis without leftist tools such as increased spending on public health. It is the reliance on legitimate socialist solutions that the merchant class finds unpalatable. It loosens their grip on state power.
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The author should work on his ledes. The first sentence namedrops a philosopher I haven’t heard of, and I suspect most people haven’t heard of. The second sentence explains his philosophical idea with reference to a youtube video, which, despite being mercifully short, is mumbled. The third restates Merleau-Ponty’s ideas in a jargoned English. Finally, the fourth sentence brings us down to earth, and Merleau-Ponty is invoked no more. His role is done-- he has infused “grip” with a suitable level of mystique.
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Dick Sargent and Wilford Brimley?
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Charles Mudede has a poetic style and he definitely lacks a preciousness about it that might serve him. He’s a film critic. It’s his father and his son who were/are the academic economists in his family. If I remember correctly.