Ha wow, maybe it’s just my area here in MA - it’s rare to see half gallons at less than $3 nowadays.

Milk was $0.06. Six cents! I can’t make out the units in the photo, I’ll assume maybe a pint or half gallon. That is super cheap even adjusting for inflation. It would still only be $1.34 in 2024 dollars.

This is definitely worth a read and I very much hope the author’s predictions come true, but I think it misses the mark in two big areas.

1. This article presumes these platforms will remain the same. In reality these companies will pull out all the stops to incentivize users to stay, and if that doesn’t work they will just buy up and acquire the competition, wherever the users are. Look at what’s happening with tiktok.

2. Some users - believe it or not - want a way to keep up with IRL friends and acquaintances. Instagram and Facebook provided a great way to do this (however less “great” nowadays). Still, I don’t want to email or text every single person I know just to share a photo or a recent event. And honestly I also don’t want every acquaintance I have sharing every detail of their lives over text or email or phone. Even with an alternative, we’d have to find and rebuild our personal networks all over again.

I think one lesson from history that we must never forget is that the appeasement of dictators never brings peace. It always leads to more aggression, more suffering, more wars, because dictators do not see compromise as an invitation to compromise back. They see it as a sign of weakness, and they become more aggressive.

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I’d love to see this but her chances are likely worse than Harris. And that’s assuming we have an honest election in '28.

Yep. The only real election fuckery is fox news, christianity and russia poisoning people’s minds.

Agree. The “lesson-teaching” mindset has got to end.

Dude, she had like 100 days to put together a campaign. She had to make a gamble and trust that the 2020 Dem voters were already in her corner so she could go after some big fish with the little time she had.

The right are perpetually angry. They are angry when they win and angry when they lose. It’s a hallmark of their cult. There’s no pleasing these people because they don’t know what they’re angry about, they just prefer to be angry.

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The fill came mostly from Needham

The firm of Goss and Munson extended railroad lines to quarries in Needham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) away; a 35-car train carrying gravel and other fill arrived every 45 minutes, day and night.[11] When the Needham gravel pits were exhausted, additional fill was found in Canton, Dedham, Hyde Park, and Westwood.[12] William Dean Howells recalled “the beginnings of Commonwealth Avenue, and the other streets of the Back Bay, laid out with their basements left hollowed in the made land, which the gravel trains were yet making out of the westward hills.”[13]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston

Cohen did time for the exact same crime

Intense exercise, particularly cardio. Search for a good interval workout and push yourself to a barely-sustainable threshold pace. You’ll find yourself saying, “When is this going to end!? I can’t wait for this to be over!” Also do this in the mornings so you feel like you have the entire rest of the day to enjoy.

At press time, Arizona lawmakers revived a bill from the 1860s that would allow teachers to publicly hang any students accused of “sass mouth.”

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Still a good read but this article is itself almost 10 years old.

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When it’s in your:

• Uterus: Your state has the power to tell you what can be removed.

• Election Ballot: lol your state has no power to tell you what can be removed.

Nor Politico, Economist, The Guardian. But at least we have Tom’s Guide here in case you wondered if Tech guides have a bias…

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