Welcome To The Government Shutdown Circus, Where Everybody Loses Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all?

Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all? www.levernews.com/welcome-to-t...

YouTube video by Farm to Taber How The US Gave Up On Growing Food

We have a big problem- for a big breadbasket nation, the US now grows surprisingly little food.

We're now dependent on imports for basics like potatoes, ketchup, and even peanut butter.

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Sirota has a photographic memory for things he hates — pass it on

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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

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"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.

Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act

As soon as he was re-elected he was just “Yeah okay so Israel comes first and forget everything I said about free speech and the Ukraine war is continuing and there will be no Epstein investigation, fuck you.”

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okay fine I'll draw this thing

I think what's especially bothering me about this war with Iran is its so lazy. They are doing the Iraq war lies again, but its clearly habitual. There's no effort, no pazazz. We don't even having the burning charisma of Donald Rumsfeld.

If A.I. is so powerful, why does every 2000 word article about how powerful it is mostly come down to "it summarises, it translates, it fumbles when you try and make it do actual work, some software engineers like it, also it doesn't know anything and thus cannot truly be trusted"?

Work, Life, and Burnout: Why Hustle Culture is Making You Miserable - Buddhistdoor Global Kassidy Evans offers a meditation on our grind-obsessed hustle culture, and working meaningfully and happily amidst capitalism

BDG feature: Work, Life, and Burnout: Why Hustle Culture is Making You Miserable

🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/4jzcpn5h

#Buddhism #Buddha #RightLivelihood #Mindfulness #Attachment #Capitalism #Greed #Happiness

THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED: Liberals in San Francisco just teamed up with Supreme Court conservatives to limit EPA's authority to prevent polluters from dumping raw sewage into lakes, rivers, and the ocean.

Bipartisanship!

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Trying to fight the forces we’re up against now through the Dem Party is like trying to change a flat tire with a soup dumpling.

Some chicks Headline: White House Announces Appointment Of Virus As Head Of Pandemic Response Story by George Doors and Thomas Pantsoot Photo from Unsplash

White House Announces Appointment Of Virus As Head Of Pandemic Response

A woman who is totally trapping an airborne virus just using a piece of tissue paper. Headline: Bird Flu May Be Airborne Says NCP, So Is It Time To Wash Our Hands Harder? Story by Trek Ludeque and Silmon Vanquist Photo: Adobe File #: 1129285158

Bird Flu May Be Airborne Says NCP, So Is It Time To Wash Our Hands Harder?

very alarming trend of elderly politicians falling, where are they getting this idea from? Is it TV? Time to ban it

Everything About the Trump Administration’s Impoundment Putsch You Were Too Afraid to Ask This is a free piece of Notes on the Crises. Reader support which makes my Freedom of Information Act project, archival research and general writing possible (including my #MonetaryPolicy201 series). ...

Over the coming weeks, ordinary Americans are in danger of learning a lot more about the “legal plumbing” of fiscal policy—far more than they could ever have the perverse desire to know.

You can read the whole piece here.

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The EXPLORE Act is a blueprint for bipartisan conservation legislation - High Country News Bipartisan support for the act highlights the outdoor industry’s growing political clout, but questions remain about its cultural and environmental impact.

The legislative win in a divided congress signals the strength of the outdoor rec industry as a political force.

The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.

🔥INVESTIGATION: California lawmakers helped real estate lobbyists block 2021 legislation to limit development in the state's most fire-risk areas, including in some LA neighborhoods that have been torched, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. https://buff.ly/3DMSYeL
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We’re in Gibson’s Jackpot.

The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.

🔥NEW INVESTIGATION: In 2019, California’s climate task force warned of increased fire zone risk.

In 2021, legislation was introduced to limit new construction in fire zones, including in LA.

Real estate lobbyists & politicians they own killed the bill. https://www.levernews.com/the-architects-of-…

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture

"This may be the most significant lesson of the UnitedHealthcare assassination. The cloud isn’t real. Νor is corporate messaging. Human beings & the things we create are what’s real, & the source of true change comes from flesh and bone, breath&spirit" beiner.substack.com/p/best-serve...

From the Crows' Nest | Deciphering the Drone Conspiracy In this special episode of From the Crows’ Nest, host Ken Miller is joined by returning guest Dustan Hellwig, founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Chesapeake Technology Institute, to discuss what ...

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Some Thoughts On The Mystery Drones Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Some Thoughts On The Mystery Drones

Since mid-November people have been sighting large drones all over the east coast of the United States, and what makes this so interesting is that the US government is claiming they don’t know anything about them.

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Humanity Must Awaken From The Dream Of Separation We suffer because we erroneously believe we are separate.

Humanity Must Awaken From The Dream Of Separation

We suffer because we erroneously believe we are separate. It’s why humans suffer as individuals, and it’s why humanity creates so much suffering as a collective.
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People are shooting lasers at planes, creating dangerous situations for pilots amid the panic over drones in New Jersey.

We obtained audio of a pilot contacting Air Traffic Control while dealing with this issue in the air.

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Health Insurers Gave $120 Billion To Shareholders While Denying Your Claim The country’s largest insurers spent $120 billion on stock buybacks since 2010, with nearly half of that spent by UnitedHealth.

🚨NEW: Since 2010, the country’s top health insurers have dropped over $120 BILLION on buying back their own stock.

In recent years, execs across the health care industry have authorized more spending on stock buybacks than on R&D.
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Why Elie lost his starting position. Body shape and positioning wrong for first goal.

Body shape all wrong for that yellow too.