LibertyBell

it's not just them, it's every industry/cartel in this country. The dumb AG said she wants to prosecute for the death penalty for Mangione because he decided to go up against the healthcrap industry. That's ironic because if there's any cartel that deserves the death penalty it's the healthcrap industry....

the cherry tree in my back yard has just blossomed with pink flowers

and Russia is an oligarchy. There aren't and haven't ever been any *communist* nations either.

Thats when we want to kick in after the highs for the day have already happened. It doesn't need to be here before 5 pm

Oligarchies are worse This is the American oligarchy https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf https://act.represent.us/sign/usa-oligarchy-research-explained

It's temporary, Norway is also the fastest in switching to EVs. Sweden is too conservative for my taste. The nations I look at are Finland, Norway, Iceland and Denmark. Finland would be my number 1, they are at the top of almost every metric, including happiness. I'm more afraid of oligarchy than I am of socialism. Oligarchy is much worse and that's what this country has been turning into for awhile now.

up to 72.5 here now

there's nothing better than no wind during allergy season! no allergies at all for me today!

This might be one of those years

But we have air conditioning to cool down lol. Nothing better than the rush of hitting triple digits outside though.

Your hottest day so far this year, Rob?

Such an interesting dichotomy You - 81 Me- 71 JM - 61 (of course he's not in Long Beach right now but that's what he said the temperature is there right now.)

But at least not Long Beach which is 10 degrees colder than we are. Living on a barrier island must be a nightmare lol. Sucks during the cold season and sucks during the warm season.

wow you guys are much warmer, it's only gotten up to 71 here

they need to stop or greatly limit the use of fertilizers and pesticides. Pesticides are making their way into our water systems and fertilizers are going into the waterways and causing toxic algae blooms.

The Soviet Union was horrible but they weren't even remotely close to socialism. China is also pretty bad but not anywhere close to the system I envision. The Nordic nations are at the top of every benchmark, including life expectancy. Those are the best, and they don't use corrupt crony capitalism like this cesspool of a nation does. A mixed economy is the best system. The US is very mediocre in every way.

really? wow it's 70 here just a few miles north.

extreme capitalism becomes oligarchy (as we are seeing now). every system becomes corrupt eventually and needs to be cleaned out and a reboot becomes necessary. The main problem with a for profit system is it does not address the harms that corporations do to the environment or to society as a whole. Benefit capitalism addresses that by making companies accountable not just to shareholders but to the environment and to society as a whole. The Nordic nations do that well and have a longer life expectancy and far better health and environment because of it.

Marl Karx haha I like Mark Larx better

the population growing like that isn't a good thing though, it causes a bunch of other issues. But it's more of a developing world problem rather than us since we've managed to balance out our population.

you're a vampire dude why do you wear a hoodie? do you have some sort of allergy to sunshine?

The problem goes back to the population of course. We never should have let it hit 8 billion. But on a side note, I've been reading up about more efficient ways to do farming to where we can feed more people without damaging the environment. It would have to be a transition of course. It involves no till farming and advanced nutrient retention methods that limit runoff.

Yes and thats all unsustainable. It was only supposed to be a stop gap measure. Developing countries are switching back to organic farming because of how the so-called green revolution destroyed the nutrients in the soil via destructive fertilizers and pesticides are responsible for the mass extinction of pollinators.

We're not talking about childhood crap, we're talking about the raging diabetes epidemic, food allergies, rising cancer rates (especially among young people.) None of those other things matter anymore, what we have to deal with now is much worse.

we're also much more diseased and unhealthy than we were before, in spite of our longer lifespans.