Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election
Alabama town’s first Black mayor wins election after being locked out of office
Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton overwhelmingly won election four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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After intensive lobbying by tech companies, Colorado has delayed implementation of its landmark artificial intelligence law
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writesSerena Oduro (Tech Policy Press)
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In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writesSerena Oduro (Tech Policy Press)
Scena di un episodio di X-files che non ritrovo più
Non ho riguardato molto della serie e preferisco gli episodi "Mostro della Settimana", ma ricordo una scena di un episodio della "Mitologia" in cui Mulder fa una rivelazione piuttosto teatrale in cui un documento che qualcuno voleva distrutto e perso nella memoria viene passato attraverso la tradizione orale di una tribù di nativi americani in perpetuo.
Non riesco a trovare alcuna prova della sua esistenza, né possono farlo i miei amici, tanto che stiamo iniziando a temere l'effetto Mandela.
Potete aiutarmi almeno con il nome dell'episodio se non un link alla scena stessa?
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‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’ | The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.
‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’
The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.Tom Bartlett (The Atlantic)
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FTC chair claims Google shunting GOP emails into spam folder
The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson wrote [PDF] to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, citing a recent New York Post report that alleged Gmail was routinely flagging Republican fundraisers' emails as spam, while not doing the same to missives from their Democratic counterparts.
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam
: Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QEDDavid Meyer (The Register)
La mia giungla fediversica.
Oltre a Mastodon con snowfan.masto.host, mi sono divertito a mettere su anche qualche “condominio digitale”:
- Lemmy 👉 lemmy.casasnow.noho.st
- GoToSocial 👉 goto.casasnow.noho.st/@snow
- Pixelfed 👉 pxlfd.searxng.noho.st
…senza dimenticare il mio server Matrix, searXNG e Piped.
(Se serve una chiave di casa, suonate pure… ma vi avverto: ho un mazzo intero 😅).
Ora, ci sono ospiti che si fanno comodi su Snowfan, altri (pochi) che preferiscono Lemmy o Pixelfed, ma il mio cuore… beh, il mio cuore resta sempre al primo amore: Mastodon con Snowfan. ❤️
Non dico che sia perfetto (anche lui ha i suoi difettucci), non dico che gli altri non sembrino ancora in beta test eterni (ciao Lemmy, ciao GoToSocial 👋), ma una cosa la voglio ribadire: io non tradisco.
Gli altri li uso, li provo, li coccolo ogni tanto… ma Snowfan rimane la mia casa, e casa è anche di chi ci abita con me. 🏡
Mastodon
Istanza italiana aperta agli Amici che ne fanno richiesta. -ATTENZIONE- istanza NO-ThreadsMastodon ospitato su snowfan.masto.host
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Extreme rain in China caused $2.2 billion in road damage, further straining public purse
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/41276896
Extreme rainfall across swathes of China caused over 16 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) in road damage, the transport ministry said on Wednesday, highlighting how climate risks are placing additional pressure on the ailing economy's public purse.The preliminary estimate covers damage to roads since the start of flood season, Li Ying, a ministry spokesperson, told reporters, and includes 23 provinces, regions and municipalities - more than two-thirds of China's administrative divisions.
Flood season officially began on July 1, according to China's water resources ministry, and brought record rainfall to the country's north and south.
So far, some 540 million yuan in emergency road repair subsidies have been allocated to local authorities by the transport and finance ministries, Li said.
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Vlog 086 – I couldn't have said it better myself
Usually on social media the golden rule is "Never read the comments", but things are a little bit different in the Fediverse. I had a bunch of thoughtful and insightful responses to yesterday's video (Vlog 085) and so today I wanted to walk through some of the great ideas people shared with me. Welcome to Vlog No. 086.
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Vlog 086 – I couldn't have said it better myself
Usually on social media the golden rule is "Never read the comments", but things are a little bit different in the Fediverse. I had a bunch of thoughtful and insightful responses to yesterday's video (Vlog 085) and so today I wanted to walk through some of the great ideas people shared with me. Welcome to Vlog No. 086.My Newsletter: ewenbell.com/subscribe
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My name is Ewen Bell and I am a LUMIX Australia Ambassador and an Ambassador for Sigma Photo.#EwenTube #Photography #PhotographyVlog
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
privacy.thenexus.today/can-we-…
> "People who saw Bluesky as centralized nine months ago still see Bluesky as centralized. People who saw Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing) nine months ago still see Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing). Nobody's changing their minds in response to new information. It's basically the same discussions rehashed again and again.
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> One thing that's been really striking to me in this latest iteration of this interminable discourse is that so many people in the Fediverse present the fact that 99.99% of Bluesky users are still using infrastructrure run by Bluesky PBC as if it's a gotcha that people advocating for Bluesky and the ATmosphere aren't aware of.
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> No, actually, ATmosphere developers I talk to are very very aware of these limitations. They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation rather than arguing about the semantics of "decentralization."
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> That sure seems like a good approach to me.
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> So can we please stop arguing about this already?"
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
Nobody's changing their minds at this point, and the discourse is reallyJon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
South Carolina’s gubernatorial race has evolved into a brawl over who can curry Trump’s favor and secure a formal endorsement.
A crowded race for governor has turned into an all-out fight over Trump's endorsement
The crowded Republican race to be South Carolina’s next governor has erupted into an early, all-out battle to secure Donald Trump’s coveted endorsement.Melanie Zanona (NBC News)
[2023] Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
I checked the paper cited in that article, and it has an author correction published last week:
The Strang splitting maximum likelihood estimator had a minor error (thanks to Anders Gantzhorn Kristensen for identifying it). In the last step of the Strang splitting in the pseudo maximum likelihood estimation, the flow should have been evaluated in the observation at time t~i~, but was wrongly partially evaluated at time t~i–1~. When corrected, the tipping time estimate changes by 8 years.
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Author Correction: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - Author Correction: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulationNature
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Now we only need re-insurance companies to fund a tanker fleet of ~500 mega tons of salt to restart it.
Maybe even some kind of foundation could coordinate it, like it National Science one
Trump has declared war on wind and solar power. It’s time for the industries to fight back.
Trump has declared war on wind and solar power. It’s time for the industries to fight back.
Wind and solar are the cheapest power sources being added to the grid. But now under attack during Trump 2.0, the industries must build political power to preserve their future.Justin Gerdes (Quitting Carbon)
Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S. | Author Dan Wang talks about his new book, "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future"
And a much longer interview with Wang on technopolitics, grand opera, China's "industrial party", and why the Chinese and Americans are the two most alike people in the world, here.
Highly recommend it if you have time.
How to become President of China with Dan Wang
Episode five of the Works in Progress podcast is about why China outbuilds AmericaSam Bowman (The Works in Progress Newsletter)
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The Green Revolution Is Alive and Well — Just Not in the US
Global investment in renewable energy sources hit $386.5 billion in the first half of 2025 despite the pullback in the US.
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Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds
Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than its attracts, survey finds
Despite Elon Musk's exhaustive promotion of Tesla's FSD technology, U.S. consumers don't seem to want it.Lora Kolodny (CNBC)
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Wait, you mean people don't want to buy a vehicle that throws you into incoming traffic and hits children in the street at full speed?
Or maybe it's the Nazi that leads it who stole all our public funds for his little electric car and space race things.
Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit
Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit
Reddit, now worth more than $40 billion, would have never happened without Alexis Ohanian ditching law school in favor of entrepreneurship.Preston Fore (Fortune)
Texas Suit Alleging Anti-Coal ‘Cartel’ of Top Wall Street Firms Could Reshape ESG—and Wall Street Itself
Republican attorneys general accuse three of the world’s biggest asset managers of conspiring to depress U.S. coal output. It’s a first-of-its-kind and closely watched test of whether corporate alliances on climate efforts violate antitrust laws.
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Even John Bolton Doesn’t Deserve This
Even John Bolton Doesn’t Deserve This | The Nation
Trump’s former national security adviser is a very hateable figure. But he still needs defending from the president’s lawlessness.The Nation
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More dust storms called haboobs are coming to California, thanks to climate change
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More dust storms called haboobs are coming, thanks to climate change
As climate change increases heat and dryness in Southern California and the Central Valley, dust storms pose an increasing problem and health risk.Susanne Rust (Los Angeles Times)
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Climate change is making New Orleans hotter. You can even hear it [Audio]
Climate change is making New Orleans hotter. You can even hear it | Here & Now
Average temperatures have been going up in many cities, including New Orleans.Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom (WBUR)
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How the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina Radicalized Young People Into Climate Activists
How Hurricane Katrina's Horrors Created a Generation of Climate Activists
In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, combatting climate change, environmental racism, and structural inequality has become a calling for these young people.Siri Chilukuri (Teen Vogue)
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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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California must do better to make Big Oil pay for climate change | Wiener, environmentalists couldn’t pass bill due to lack of hard data on its impact, which next year’s effort will need
Elias: California must do better to make Big Oil pay for climate change
State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and environmentalists couldn’t pass a bill due to lack of hard data on its impact, which next year’s effort will need.njackson@bayareanewsgroup.com (The Mercury News)
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LLMs are a tiny energy use, 100 queries to chatGPT type models use about as much energy as a hair dryer for a few minutes. At current UK electricity retail prices (after tax, so significantly more than datacentres pay) 1 query costs somewhere between £0.00015 - £0.001 in power usage.
I cant see that being a significant factor in the price power companies charge over things like moving away from cheap but dirty sources of power or fluctuations of the natural gas price.
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36521221
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
Critical vulnerabilities in Pudu Robotics allowed unauthorized control of every Pudu Robotics Robot worldwide. They ignored emails until I contacted Skylark Holdings and Zensho about their compromised robot fleets.bobdahacker.com
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36521221
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
Critical vulnerabilities in Pudu Robotics allowed unauthorized control of every Pudu Robotics Robot worldwide. They ignored emails until I contacted Skylark Holdings and Zensho about their compromised robot fleets.bobdahacker.com
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
I Hacked BellaBot and Every Robot from China's Biggest Robotics Company (Pudu Only Fixed It When I Told Their Clients)
Critical vulnerabilities in Pudu Robotics allowed unauthorized control of every Pudu Robotics Robot worldwide. They ignored emails until I contacted Skylark Holdings and Zensho about their compromised robot fleets.bobdahacker.com
Into the Uncanny Valley: Human-AI War Machines
Into the Uncanny Valley: Human-AI War Machines
There is a universal tendency among mankind to think of all things as being like themselves, and to transfer to every object the qualities they are familiarly acquainted with.Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
'AI slop' videos may be annoying, but they're racking up views — and ad money
Spend some time scrolling on social media these days and you are likely to notice more and more videos made with artificial intelligence. Many are funky or fantastical. Others are downright bizarre. Some are intentionally misleading.Rapid advancements in AI have led to a proliferation across the internet of what critics are calling "AI slop," or short videos that are rapidly produced, often repetitive, and made using generative AI technology. Platforms are grappling with how to handle them.
RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers
RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers | Defector
True to the spirit of America, the most catastrophic thing to happen at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month was not the attempted mass shooting in Atlanta of the agency’s public health workers, but rather the sudden firing of it…defector.com
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Exclusive: San Francisco scores long-term conference commitment from Visa
San Francisco scores long-term conference commitment from Visa
San Francisco scores long-term conference commitment from Visa, which will brings its annual Visa Payments Forum to the city.Laura Waxmann (San Francisco Chronicle)
A Fediverse Permaculture
From Survival to Abundance: How Fediverse Permaculture Can Save Your Instance
(Article by Steven Tree Baxter)
Another Fediverse instance just vanished—swallowed by the familiar spiral of desperate donation drives and dwindling support. Will yours be next?
Fediverse permaculture offers a bold alternative: instead of living in fear of collapse, admins and developers can build resilient, self-reinforcing ecosystems where every interaction strengthens the whole. The goal? A mutually beneficial cooperative, designed to thrive through change.
How It Works: A Self-Sustaining Ecosystem
1. Merch & Artisan Creations
Users don’t just donate—they invest in the community. A merch buyer gains a tangible symbol of their support, while the instance earns funds to cover costs. Handmade goods and creative projects foster connection, celebrate talent, and turn supporters into active participants.
2. Community Events & Collaborative Projects
From virtual workshops to co-created content, these initiatives generate value while reinforcing bonds. Users contribute skills, time, or resources, and the instance gains both financial and social capital.
3. Niche Communities & Multilingual Support
Diversity is strength. By welcoming sub-instances, specialized groups, and multilingual users, you create a richer, more adaptive ecosystem. The message is clear: "You have a place with us!"
Permaculture Principles in Action
| Permaculture Principle | Fediverse Application | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Observe and interact | Monitor instance health, user activity, and trends | Spot early signs of stress or opportunity |
| Catch and store energy | Collect donations, host merch, offer premium content | Build a financial buffer for stability |
| Obtain a yield | Develop sustainable content, events, or services | Deliver value while generating resources |
| Apply self-regulation | Review engagement and governance policies | Continuously improve and adapt |
| Use renewable resources | Leverage volunteers, open-source tools, and shared knowledge | Reduce costs and empower the community |
| Produce no waste | Recycle content, reuse ideas, share code | Maximize impact, minimize redundancy |
Why This Works: Flipping Fear into Opportunity
Fediverse permaculture replaces anxiety with action. Instead of waiting for donations to dry up or users to leave, you create a system where:
- Every purchase, contribution, or collaboration strengthens the whole.
- Artisans, creators, and volunteers become stakeholders in the instance’s success.
- Diversity and adaptability turn challenges into opportunities.
The result? An instance that doesn’t just survive—it thrives as a hub of creativity, commerce, and shared identity.
Your Call to Action: Design for Abundance
- Identify Mutual-Benefit Loops
Start small: merch, micro-donations, or volunteer-driven projects. Every loop you create reinforces the ecosystem. - Embrace Diversity
Welcome niche communities, multilingual users, and sub-instances. The more voices, the richer the soil for growth. "You have a place with us!" - Apply Permaculture Principles
Observe, adapt, and iterate. What works? What doesn’t? Let the community guide you. - Celebrate Creativity
Reward artisans, creators, and contributors. Their work isn’t just content—it’s the lifeblood of your instance. - Collaborate & Share
Connect with other instances. Build a network of resilient ecosystems, where success is collective and shared.
The Choice Is Yours
The question is no longer "Can we survive?" but "How will we thrive?"
Fediverse permaculture is your path from fear to abundance. Take the first step. Watch your community bloom—and join a movement where everyone wins.
Let’s Discuss!
- What permaculture principles have you applied to your instance?
- What challenges have you faced in building a sustainable community?
- Share your ideas and experiences below!
#Fediverse, #Permaculture, #SelfHosted, #Cooperative, #CommunityBuilding, #InstanceManagement, #Artisans, #CreativeEconomy, #DigitalSustainability, #CommunityResilience, #CollaborativeProjects
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Op, I appreciate that you seem to be genuinely interested in these topics, and are not just farming engagement (which is kinda meaningless here on the Fedi, anyways...). If I may offer a suggestion, try to find a tone that doesn't sound like a roadmap for some corporate brand strategy. Most of us that are here and would be interested in a "fediverse permaculture" are severely put off by the structure of your post, not to mention it lacks in depth for most suggestions to be directly actionable (for example, the merch you would sell to support the insurance still needs to be made somewhere, by someone, who either needs to be paid for their time or are already independently wealthy).
Have you taken a look around !permacomputing@slrpnk.net ? Permaculture is not just about principles of mutual support but also a long process of experimentation to see which combinations of which plants and practices works out "for the best". You might foster more of the conversation you're looking for if you can bring some more concrete examples or proposals to serve as topics instead of an all-encompassing manifesto post.
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •Lame, Colorado is usually one of the most reasonable states. Polis is a decent Governor too. I never saw any of the bad stuff that was allegedly supposed to happen after we forced employers to post pay ranges with jobs, so I don't really expect anything bad to come from regulating AI.
If we put strict guardrails and penalties with teeth around AI companies, they may go elsewhere, where they can act more unethically. That's fine with me because Colorado already has water issues and I feel like we manage to be progressive without trampling all over personal liberties. I also feel like a good portion of people in this state are real people who haven't had the idealism trampled out if them completely and still give/get good intentions.
Shit, I'm getting the itch to submit a citizens initiative to make the whole state an AI free zone right now. As for the AI decision-making, how about real, concrete, enumerable criteria. Vibes are not a suitable way to make big decisions. Fuck-off with your AI datacenters and opaque algorithms. Coloradans deserve to know how they're being treated. Anything that complicates that or makes it harder to understand is a tool of tyranny.
Yes, that's going a bit overboard, but so is hammering me with AI propaganda from the moment I wake up until after I go to sleep every day.
ToastedRavioli
in reply to njordomir • • •As someone who has been living here for a while now, I would say Colorado moreso masquerades as a reasonable state than actually being all that reasonable.
For one, property values run everything in this state to an insane degree. Most starter size homes in the state, even in towns without a real grocery store or much of anything, will run you nearly a million dollars (if not more). Its blatantly unsustainable and yet nothing is being done to fix it.
TABOR is a stupid system that is only better than legitimate corruption, which is what people compare it to. Realistically it is worse than keeping the tax money and spending it on improving things here. I would much rather not get a few hundred dollars back in a check each year if it meant that local public services didnt have to keep jacking up sales taxes so that they can continue to function. Especially when, as stated beforehand, we could properly tax the absolutely insane property value. Even just taxing second/vacation homes would be great… and yet no one wants to do that because then the housing market might actually cool off.
Im not saying we dont have nice things. We do. But everything about how this state is run caters to millionaires and then tells everyone else to get fucked if they cant hack it. Teachers here get paid worse than almost every other state in the country, despite the fact that we should be able to have the highest quality education system anywhere. If we funded it with property taxes especially, but thats a non-starter of course.
My town’s school and fire department are both failing financially and all anyone seems to want to do to fix it is jack up sales taxes. No more taxes on property. No more taxes on lodging or STRs. No, lets just tax the working class people to death as they try to afford already inflated food prices.
This state is as stupid as it is beautiful much of the time, unfortunately. The whole thing is a house of cards type bubble just waiting to pop, and its gonna be violent when it goes