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- Comment on Britons greatly overestimate number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals 2 days ago:
The rich control the news and they tell the masses what to fear and hate.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 days ago:
Growing your own food is like printing money but you need to know a little bit about gardening. It’s a journey, adventure and philosophy. If you are working hard at it you are doing it wrong. Read Ruth Stout’s and Masanobu Fukuoka’s books. They make it a lot easier. I wouldn’t hardly eat vegetables or fruit if I had to eat store produce. Tomatoes and peaches from the store are atrocious.
I don’t plow, till or weed much. My garden produces way more than we can use so I try to give friends, family and needy people the excess - don’t get me started on the excess cucumbers and zucchinis. - Comment on Those darn immigrants and pinkos. 4 days ago:
Well, this works splendidly for the billionaires.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 4 days ago:
The Republican and Democratic parties have placed targets on AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Mamdani because they aren’t on the oligarchs side.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 4 days ago:
So? Your ruling oligarchs don’t care and they tell most peons how to vote. Now get back to slaving away.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
The majority of people are afraid of things they are told to be afraid of. Education dispels the fear. That’s why the GOP loves the poorly educated.
- Comment on Theft 1 week ago:
Talarico is saying the right things. He deserves a few bucks. The others, not so much. Democrats, in general stood by and let all this corruption go on. Support only those who understand the problem but understand that we need many more to actually actually change things.
- Comment on In Iran, Trump Has Found an Opponent He Cannot Easily Dominate 4 weeks ago:
Not to worry. He can easily dominate folks here in the good old USA, just like he dominated those 13 year old girls.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 5 weeks ago:
Mitch is dead and sucking money from US taxpayers. Brain dead is dead too.
On the other hand, folks might make some money betting he will “die” in August. - Comment on Brexit isn’t working: British voters are ready for a European future – European Council on Foreign Relations 1 month ago:
Sucks to be stupid.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 month ago:
For billionaires, it seems.
- Comment on Instead we got a trillion dollar man 2 months ago:
Sixty years ago you could graduate from high school, get a job, buy a car, get married, buy a house, buy a boat and raise kids all on one salary. People had a future to look forward to then.
- Comment on Best Friend 🫂 3 months ago:
A good horse you have a bond with is freaking awesome, but dogs are just on another level.
Well described. That said, I love the smell of a horse. Wet dogs, not so much, but dry dogs smell pretty okay.
- Comment on Best Friend 🫂 3 months ago:
Well, I don’t let horses in the house or on the bed and dogs will literally die protecting you. Also, I like horses too - a lot.
- Comment on Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran 4 months ago:
Anyone else think the moron wants to nuke Iran?
- Comment on Gotta go fast 4 months ago:
Never sell proven chemistry or physics short. Water transforming to a vapor is awesome. Maybe we could harness the energy of water transforming to a solid too.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Don’t sell steam power short or water for drinking.
- Comment on Dumb bitch 4 months ago:
Boomer here. Excellent point. I was mostly a lone voice at work. Then again those I worked with never bothered to be the least bit informed. I also worked with much younger folks that were not any more informed. In fact, most all the people in our rural area are also young and grossly misinformed and they love it.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 4 months ago:
People need to understand that gardening is a huge amount of labor and time spent - it’s not economical compared to working a job and buying what you need.
It depends on how you do it. Read Masanobu Fukuoka’s, “One-Straw Revolution”. I don’t plow, til or do much weeding. I don’t use machinery to garden, just a round point shovel, hoe and a five tine fork to spread mulch. I save seeds that grow well, produce and are tasty. I don’t spend a lot of time working in my garden and I don’t have hardly any weeds. It’s all about the technique you use. Conventional gardening can be very expensive and labor intensive.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 4 months ago:
I would go with parsnips as an alternate survival crop to sunchokes. I grow both but only use parsnip. They are aggressive re-seeders and produce huge roots.
You can find tons of parsnips growing wild along road in my area. Which makes foraging a very attractive option. - Comment on That's how the world works. 4 months ago:
Potatoes can be grown sort of as a perennial. I leave potatoes, carrots and parsnips in the ground to be dug when I need them. They stay much fresher that way. You have to mark the rows and mulch the potatoes so they don’t freeze and become mushy, especially if there isn’t snow cover. I have been doing this for several years. These are also high calorie foods.
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 5 months ago:
Don’t give the next crop of clueless political candidates any ideas.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 5 months ago:
I mentioned above that varmints are often shot with lead bullets and left in the field, however fishermen use lead sinkers that fish and ducks ingest then eagles eat them. Eagles are extremely sensitive to lead poisoning and other poisons like DDT. There is a push to change that with alternative less toxic materials.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 5 months ago:
Birdshot is only banned for migratory bird hunting. Many landowners shoot woodchucks with rifles because they dig holes that livestock step in and break their legs, also the holes cause problems with equipment - they most often use lead bullets and leave the carcasses for the wildlife to dispose of. Some have switched to green ammunition but few have. We need to raise awareness for the need to switch to non-toxic ammunition. Maybe a bill that subsidies green ammunition with a small tax on lead ammunition could help.
- Comment on Top 10% of Americans Have Double Wealth of The Bottom 90% 5 months ago:
a net worth of $2,000,000 would provide a retiree a mostly-safe withdrawal rate (4% or $80,000) of around the median income of ~$84,000.
If inflation and dollar devaluation eats away faster than investment growth they may find themselves just scraping by.
- Comment on ‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas 6 months ago:
Filling his diaper isn’t a mistake either. It’s a show of force that nobody dare speak of.
- Comment on London knife crime vs viral content about London crime 6 months ago:
Socially Trained Emotional Knowledge. The media tells you what to believe and social media is gives you fake knowledge and how to feel about it.
- Comment on From Amazon to Home Depot and Beyond, Mass Layoffs Continue to Punish Working Class Under Trump 6 months ago:
Moron Americans will still vote for more of the same form Republicans because they are told by oligarch controlled media propaganda that is the fault of immigrants, Somalians, Biden’s, windmills fault and they BELIEVE.
- Comment on Democrats Vow Not to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal 6 months ago:
His name wasAlex Jeffrey Pretti, a VA ICU nurse. Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement. His killing was a blood red line that was crossed.
- Comment on Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. 8 months ago:
Didn’t the orange rapist/felon mention the words traitor and hang when talking about those who warned soldiers to follow their oath to the constitution?
Projection to the nth degree.