After you pay for fencing, feed, and misc starter items, backyard chickens pay for themselves after a year or two, depending how many foxes and rats you have in the neighbourhood. You can do it reliably on the cheap if you’re handy and time-rich.
If you live in an apartment, or a house with neighbours who don’t like chickens, good luck.
It also bears noting: part of the current price of eggs is driven by a bird flu epidemic. People who aren’t around birds much aren’t at risk. The math is left as an exercise.
Also: watch the price of laying hens go through the roof in 3, 2, 1 …
ETA: My wife just pointed out: “She’s the Secretary of Agriculture. Isn’t her job representing the interests of professional food producers? She doesn’t understand chickens, epidemiology, or her job.”
Wait, there’s more.
You forgot to mention HOAs. I’m pretty sure the gated community where the Ag Secretary lives has a covenant against “barnyard” animals.
I’m sure Putin’s oligarchs are going to love EU countries deciding to take their frozen assets to make up the difference in reduced US support.
I suspect that Comrade Krasnov will be supplying the Russians with arms pretty soon, and it looks like he’s going to lift sanctions, so maybe he’ll do a trade deal with Russia, and the Russian economy could pick up.
We’ve done it before when we switched over from the 25Hz system in 1949 for most customers. Some 25Hz stations were still running to 2008. Now that we’re off incandescent bulbs we could switch back without the flicker. I guess we’d have to rev up a 
appliance industry to support it.
Might be a good idea…
That said, I still run a motor here designed for 50Hz 200V (
) but at 60Hz 240. Higher Hz is faster RPM’s but lower current in the coils. It’s been 20 years, no complaints from it.
Isn’t sunlight also a factor?
& if someone’s “yard” is the fire escape, I guess it’s their fault for living in a city. Sad!
Also, why couldn’t they just denied her entry to the US? She didn’t even leave the port of entry. They could have told her that they believed she was breaking the terms of her visa, revoked it, and sent her back to Mexico. Or put her on a plane back to Germany with her ticket.
This was needlessly cruel. I hate our current government, but the immigration system has been broken ever since they’ve privatized and monetized incarceration.
While i was getting my haircut yesterday, some day time show was discussing how expensive that would be. I didn’t pay a lot off attention, but i think they concluded it was impracticable to save money at a small scale. And believe or not, you can rent chickens.
We could never do that because this gentleman likes his chicken.
That article can’t be real, right? Like, no acknowledgement of the background of the skit at all? Neither the suit thing nor the blue and yellow symbolism when he hugged Chalamet?
This genuinely reminds me of the kind of culture you find in totalitarian regimes, where criticism has to be so subtle that it can be denied even under scrutiny from censors. If not even CNN picks up on it, it might have been too subtle.
I don’t see what you’re complaining about. It’s not like anyone referenced Winnie the Poo or anything.
“What a joke, finding out from colleagues and online – and not directly,” said this employee, who requested anonymity so he doesn’t get fired, again.
Fake news! They did send him a direct notice! – To his work email. Which he no longer had access to. Because they had fired him.
I would 100% guarantee that sort of thing is happening. Because that’s just how much this administration ‘thinks’ through what they’re doing.
Or perhaps the notice was posted on display…
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Man is hard to keep up. Now he’s a lumberjack and forget about the Endangered Species Act.
The most petulant president in history remains on point.