Definitely something psychiatric going on there

This was a category 1 hurricane, by no means a once in a century event

I’ll preface this with I’m by no means a professional soil scientist, but I am an avid gardener. The best type of soil for your purpose depends on a ton of variables. Are you adding to existing soil? Are you planting in-ground, in a pot, or a raised bed? How much moisture do you need to retain? What type of soil is best suited for the specific plants you’re planting? What pH do they need to thrive?

If you’re planting a standard vegetable garden, you’ll probably go with a compost-rich loamy soil. If I were to dig a hole in my clay yard and fill it with that kind of soil though, it’d form a “bowl” and drain poorly, leading to root rot. I use raised beds to avoid this problem.

If you want to get wonky, the native soil where I live is ustert vertisol. You can learn about the different soil categories here. Here’s a map of general soil order locations in the US. You can even check out the USDA’s Web Soil Survey and map out your address to see what soil formation you’re on.

I don’t understand why, when confronted with the idea that we should eliminate hunger, you equated that with communist revolution

I know you’re just making fun, but I bought $6 worth of pistachios today and it’ll probably last me about 3 weeks

There’s quite a chasm between a $100 million boat and a $100 device…

Or, you know, we could spend slightly more on existing food programs and relax eligibility requirements…

We don’t have to put Stalin in charge to better fund SNAP or free school lunches

Each serving gets like 8 salted pistachios from the bulk food aisle at the HEB

When confronted with his assertion that he created a story, Vance — after a long pause of on-air silence — backpedaled, saying he “created the American media focusing on it,” and continued to insist that the story came from “first-hand accounts,” which has been proven false.

Where is this video? I really want to see his facial expression during this long pause

I eat oatmeal with raisins, pistachios, and molasses like 4 mornings a week. It’s fucking delicious

Greater than just the South, the eugenics movement in the US in the early 20th century, with forced sterilizations and criminalizing interracial marriage, happened nationally.

Though you don’t need to be capitalist to be racist as fuck. Racism exists all over the world in many different government and economic systems throughout all of human history

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They’re also purposefully leaning into this to keep the conversation about immigration, because it’s pretty much the only issue they have had an advantage on. Without Trump talking about eating pets, we’d all be talking about his abortion stance right now, which is deeply unpopular.

They are slurs, but there’s so much distance between today and the original medical usage of these terms that people have forgotten. Both are still terms with a history based in describing someone with an intellectual or developmental disability

The Biden Admin just announced an executive order removing de minimis tax protections from large companies trying to exploit it to import large quantities of product, which is going to take a bite out of Shein and Temu’s business models.

It’s actually not “in the public interest” for details about how she died to be made public. Thinking that you’re owed that information is a symptom of our voyeuristic, celebrity-worshipping culture

Wait…who took this picture?! This must be…a vampire’s house!

She actually said:

“I’m not a racist,” she said through heavy emotion, adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent.”

Lee said she pulled her daughter out of school and is now worried about her safety with so much attention on her family. She is also concerned for the safety of the Haitian community, which she said she did not intend to villainize en masse.

“I feel for the Haitian community,” she said. “If I was in the Haitians’ position, I’d be terrified, too, worried that somebody’s going to come after me because they think I’m hurting something that they love and that, again, that’s not what I was trying to do.”

These aren’t the words of some MAGA devotee, she seems pretty genuine on this and I don’t see any reason not to believe her. I instead blame those who have purposefully worsened and spread this rumor for racist ends. Imagine if you made an offhand post on Lemmy that inadvertently spun up a rumor that reached a fucking presidential.debate, I bet you’d be caught pretty off guard by that.

Remember how Trump’s inner circle from his last time around either all disavowed the man or have spent the last 3 years in courtrooms and bankruptcy proceedings?

A shipment is eligible for the de minimis exemption if the aggregate fair retail value of the articles imported is $800 or less. De minimis shipments enter the United States with less information than other imports and are not subject to duties and taxes.

The growing volume of de minimis shipments makes it increasingly difficult to target and block illegal or unsafe shipments. Foreign corporate giants who exploit the de minimis exemption do so for a variety of reasons. Some companies exploit the de minimis to conceal shipments of illegal and dangerous products and avoid compliance with U.S. health and safety and consumer protection laws. Other foreign entities use it to circumvent U.S. trade enforcement actions intended to level the playing field for American workers, retailers, and manufacturers.

With today’s announcement, the Administration is using executive authority to stop the abuse of the de minimis exemption.

I have no problem with this. This exemption was designed for individuals and small businesses to avoid import taxes, we clearly shouldn’t let large corporations abuse it.