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They’re working on making it safe to hold midterms by disenfranchising large swaths of the electorate – all the bestest dictatorships (Hungary, Russia) hold elections, they just make sure the “right” party wins a solid majority.
I keep coming back to this – so it implodes. Then what? I just can’t see anything other than horrible people doubling down on being horrible. And they’re busy remaking the military into their lackeys unrestrained by law.
Re: Checks & Balances – the problem is we’ve found out they are a lot like the pirate code from Pirates of the Caribbean: “The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules."
Musk is looking closer to himself than the “big banks.” I was just reading that there had been talk about developing regulations for the sort of financial systems that X and Facebook want to add to make themselves all-in-one systems. The CFPB would handle such regulation if it came to be.
“it’s been decades since I’ve run into an orchard keeper who’d even heard of them” — apparently in New England you can find Grimes Golden at Nye Hill Farm in Roxbury, NH, and Autumn Hills Orchard in Groton, Massachusetts — according to newenglandapples DOT org.
Of those I’ve tried, I adore Cortland for eating. Fresh off the tree, not faded, it tastes exactly like, to me, an apple should taste! Though if I have to get a supermarket apple, Pink Lady is pretty good. Honeycrisp was missing something. (I shocked a seller at a farmer’s market with that pronouncement after I tried a taste!)
I had looked it up before getting to your comment — according to an article on SFGate, the mansion is gone, but “[t]he legally mandated public access staircase next door — part of a bitter, decades-long battle between Geffen and beach advocates — remains intact.”
Darius Green and His Flying Machine: “If ever there lived a Yankee lad, / Wise or otherwise, good or bad, / Who, seeing the birds fly, didn’t jump / With flapping arms from stake or stump, . . .All I can say is, that’s a sign / He never would do for a hero of mine.”
They’re working on making it safe to hold midterms by disenfranchising large swaths of the electorate – all the bestest dictatorships (Hungary, Russia) hold elections, they just make sure the “right” party wins a solid majority.