The vast bulk of crops grown in Arkansas are comprised of the top three: rice, soybeans, and corn. The rice and soybeans are mostly grown for export. The corn is heavily subsidized and most of it is turned into food additives like HFCS, corn starch, ethanol, etc.

These people aren’t putting food on our tables, they’re lining their pockets at our expense.

I never thought anyone would read Clear and Present Danger and think “gee, that seems like a pretty good idea!”

Aw, who am I kidding. None of these chucklefucks read.

I still flush the Naturally Fresh. It’s biodegradable and shouldn’t be a problem unless you’re on a septic system or something.

Don’t know if it’s helpful or even compatible with your device, but about 8 months ago I switched our (non-automated) litter boxes over to using a new litter, “Naturally Fresh”. It’s made out of crushed walnut shells, and they market it as having natural odor-control properties. It’s also significantly cheaper than the “World’s Best” cat litter we were using previously. For my part, I attest that the marketing is not just hype. We keep a litter box in our downstairs powder room which guests typically use. Several people who have visited with us since the change have commented on how little odor there is and wanted to know what litter we’re using (mostly other cat owners). Alternatively, you can buy odor-control litter additives at the pet store. I’ve used one made out of (I think?) wheat bran that works pretty well.

Only in the sense that they want to be in control of who gets to have guns.

I’m sorry this is happening. For whatever small comfort it may bring, please be assured that there are many people who don’t hate you for being who and what you are, and we are doing all we can to help.

What really pisses me off is that even if we accept that, due to a series of procedural and communications failures, the limited information they had justified their actions… there’s almost zero chance that they will make any meaningful changes to try and prevent something like this from happening again.

Sure. Someone spent time and resources to create an AI video of an unidentifiable person throwing unidentifiable objects out a window. For some reason. That seems like a perfectly logical conclusion.

Yes but very few people took them seriously (in recent history) until Andrew Wakefield published his (now widely discredited and retracted) paper on links between vaccines and autism.

Fuck that noise. WA has been 100% mail in ballots for over a decade. We aren’t about to bin our entire election system and build a completely new infrastructure because Trump is trying to overreach his authority. Will. Not. Happen.

I’ve paid the local cat shelter adoption fees, but I don’t think that counts. It helps them stay in operation, and covers things like spaying/neutering.

Yeah, I generally take these kind of warnings with a grain of salt (which is yet another risk to manage). The studies are generally looking at usage levels far in excess of what I personally consume. It’s pretty safe to say that with significantly lower usage you’re also looking at significantly lower risk.

There are certainly drawbacks to weed, both short and long term. Depending on how frequently and to what extent you use they may be less severe than alcohol, but they still exist. Nothing that affects your brain chemistry that profoundly comes without downsides. Sorry.

Yeah. There’s a reason a lot of places limit the sale of things like fortified malt liquor to certain times or places. It’s the lowest cost per unit of alcohol, and often the drink of choice for the homeless.

“I know every inch of the city, and to have seen over the years the deterioration of public places, either with graffiti or with people who are homeless, I couldn’t be more encouraged by the fact that there are people now that really want to say, ‘Stop, let’s make this better,’” said Christopher Her, a Maryland resident who previously worked in D.C.

I find it hilarious that the only person they could find to speak in favor of this action doesn’t even live or work in DC.

Username checks out.

Carvalho noted the agents left behind bullets and ammunition at the scene, which school police later recovered.

First off: JFC. I keep thinking we’ve seen the lowest depths of incompetence possible, only to be proven wrong.

Secondly: What do they think the difference is between bullets and ammunition? I know the technical answer, but somehow I don’t think that’s what they mean here.

I can only imagine the bureaucratic nightmare of fixing this. When my wife and I got married, she took my last name, and when she went to SS to change it, somehow they managed to change her birth-date in the system, as well. I think the antiquated system they were using at the time required the operator to re-type all her information and submit the new record to a DB. Anyway, we didn’t find out until the following year when we tried to file our taxes and it was rejected because her birth-date didn’t match the file. It took 2 months to get it fixed, and that was just a date that someone had fat-fingered.

It’s a virtual planetoid!