Insomnia Barbie and Allergy Season Barbie waiting in the wings

Ozempic is responsible and not broad price increases across all categories?

It’s because California land is locked up by either entrenched farm families or corporations so building any new infrastructure means buying extremely overpriced land from people who don’t want to sell it. Now you know why all budgets for CA rail explode: owners are jacking up the price of empty land to soak up as many billions as can be offered for the entire project. Farmers are greedy by nature and try to extract as much as they can from everything and everyone, including government budgets.

The only solution for now is to use existing infrastructure until the land can be sold for fair market value or imminent domain. And imminent domain would ruin a political career in the state with fuel for the right wing propaganda machine to smear nationwide.

The prices are right there dude. 2.11 9/10 for regular, 2.21 for super, and 2.31 for premium.

The Budweiser being 8.99 for a 12 pack also means this is rather recent (as noted by the clothing that person is wearing) and those prices are just for show so they can be anything they want. They could have had 0.21 but opted to have 3 main digits.

Such a lazy answer to the problems of the day. Banning is dumb. Teach how to spot misinformation, enforce empathy, and fucking get rid of the class system to remove interpersonal inequality. But no, England doesn’t do what it’s supposed to; only what it can to get by for now.

friend-shaped but we without friend personalty

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The last few years California has been hit by the atmospheric rivers that once blanketed the PNW 8 months out of the year. The result is the cyclical droughts have vanished and this is the 3rd year in a row California has been drought free in all parts of the state. Even the Eastern Sierra and Central Valley too.

Climate change is real but not bad for all places. The climate is shifting.

And we are here to teach them how the world actually works. Love seeing MAGA salt

Funk sole brother

Overwhelmingly conservatives do not pictures themselves as evil. They do believe that everything is zero sum so making positive changes somewhere means negative changes in other places. They do not believe in “win-win” scenarios and believe there is a catch or additional conditional clause.

By this logic they also see the tremendous harm being done and believe that there must be an inverse, so tremendous good being done. That’s their faith in the economy or security or some vague idea like “prosperity” filling in the gap. They don’t want to be evil or encourage harm but only through great harm can we achieve great salvation.

It’s fucked thinking but one that is important to consider. They NEED a trade off whether gold or bad. The truly evil people are the ones who don’t need good, like billionaires, and still inflict harm. There are about 1,000 people who can have their resources shared with the world and literally 80% of all problems like war, housing, and food security will be solved.

Same! Digging into this wiki says (with source):

Typically, once it reaches 25 years old, its thick bark can be harvested for cork every 9 to 12 years without causing harm to the tree.[4]

The source is a Rainforest Alliance article from 2024: https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/species/cork-oak/

Cork oak is unique in its ability to regenerate its outer bark. After a tree reaches 25 years of age, it can be stripped of its cork once every 9 to 12 years without causing damage to the tree. A single cork oak, which lives up to 200 years, can be harvested over 16 times.

Cool thing I learned: harvested cork oak stores 5x as much carbon as unharvested. Get that cork!

The Afghanistan Trilogy always surprises

Judging from the anger over ICE and anti-american administration if Trump tries to stop the election there will be riots and strikes.

But why an ogre?

He’s a cop… If he didn’t do it he helped

Need a COVID for conservatives

So it’s a game which is out of reach for many to play much less enjoy. Good luck on sales! Makes more sense to make games for the most common system type, like old school video game publishers used to do with consoles. This is just sloppy development and bad management rolled together.

All you can eat buffets would like a word

But she isn’t a regular citizen. She’s both an immigrant and an elected leader. She is leading where she is needed. Stop whining she isn’t giving you all her attention. She isn’t a baby sitter and you’re a big boy. We all trust you can manage by yourself even if you don’t.

ICE has no recruits except the “give me a reason to shoot” crowd who are scared all the time. Remember that one ICE age t who pissed his pants?