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Roaming Reporter formerly of KFile at CNN & BuzzFeed. Board member @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social Host of Beautiful Losers of History podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/beautiful-losers-of-history/ Mostly journalism, history, gay absurdism and the Simpsons
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.
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
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Woke 1.0 is dead
incredible thread!
I LOVE her!!
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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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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
"Yes, but for different reasons."
Is Sean McElwee a joke to you people?!
I just found out that Indonesi'a high speed train system is called "Whoosh"
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
“But teams of hundreds whittled down to dozens as the site most recently operated at 18% of its full capacity.” Printing moves to Des Moines, which is a long long way away from Minneapolis. Can’t imagine what this does to daily deadlines. It’s just sad. — www.startribune.com/star-tribune...
Any theories on why young men in the US are lonelier than their international counterparts?
It's just engagement bait to get those hot pottery shots
