Easy question. Big money wants, and needs to control the news for power and profit. Mastodon is not so easy to control.

Since no one paid attention when Putin said it, he trots out his stooge to say it.

If only we could have a one company pick people up and deliver them to another point or work from home and have our stuff delivered.

Then there’s guerilla grafting. You can sneak edible fruiting scions onto decorative apples and pears, for instance. Crab apples readily accept delicious apple and pear varieties.

If Newsom is going to tax guns let it be on handguns and Ar-15 style weapons since they are primarily used in attacks and mass shootings. Most sportsmen, and the general public will be more tolerate of this. Gong too far will cost too much political capital.

Then too, the current EVs are going to evolve. We are just at an awkward stage of development.

It doesn’t help that big corporations promoted 100% hydrogenated Crisco as a healthy alternative to lard or the drug Thalidomide that caused horrible birth defects.
People need to be informed but many are swamped with the task of making a living and constant social “guidance”.

Tendency to overwater (non-chlorinated) and little sun - lucky bamboo

Well, Herman Cain isn’t going to get covid this time.

The orange turd’s plots have Putin’s fingerprints all over them.

True but it works effectively to bully and send a message. All fall in line, while those that don’t find they get the shittiest jobs possible.

You don’t understand rich folk. They are giving it back to themselves - all of it, and all they can weasel out of you.

Unions have been compromise in the past. The union may be staffed by incompetents or bribed.

Quality parts cost a lot of money. Capitalists hate the thought of parting with money. Your death won’t cost them anything in most cases.

A good example is Crisco, a 100% transfat cooking oil that corporations pushed for decades.

Also, there are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters, but no old, bold mushroom hunters.

This is my experience so don’t rely on it: Most mushrooms won’t kill you but some will make you so sick that you wished you died. Even a small bite of the deadly Destroying Angle will most likely not kill you. Only eat a very small amount of a new-to-you mushroom because even safe ones may trigger a fatal allergic reaction, also “safe” Morel mushrooms have killed people who really, really over consumed them.
Get a real “National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms”, book and download the “Seek” app for your phone. Find a person who experienced and go slow. NEVER get careless or over confident.

At some point people on the left have to bite the bullet and run candidates from the ground up in order to get someone who has ANY chance to actually change anything. In the meantime the sane people must hold the ground against fascist authoritarians by not allowing them to get into power at all costs - this means voting for the lesser evils until someone with a chance of a snowball in hell moves into position. That is how the crazies got their man into power. Schoolboards, county officials, mayors, even dog catchers must be pushed up the ladder of power. Anything less is just blowing smoke.

It’s been mid 70s here in the day and mid 50s at night just about all summer so far. Bought two window air conditioners but never bothered to install them. We open windows at night and close them in the day.

It isn’t failing, Musk is failing.