Person who uses highway system cringes at the thought of things being run as non-profits for the benefit of the public good rather than the wealth of rich investors. Film at 11:00.

> It is not uncommon ... for those charities to purchase goods or services from companies owned by the family.

Actually, that's a lie. It's very uncommon, as charity watchers freely admit. They will also state it's not technically illegal, but it's pretty sleazy and scummy behavior.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/12/09/as-wreaths-across-america-has-grown-so-has-scrutiny-about-its-practices/

Prices are only going to get worse in the next decade. People should be making every effort to get off oil as a heating source for your home. Take advantage of tax credits and discounts in the next few years on heat pumps and solar, get your home electrified and immune to fossil fuel price hikes.

Innocent until proven guilty. And right now, zero research has proven the lobster industry is guilty of the crime of killing right whales. Period. You don't punish someone for things you haven't shown are true, but simply because they won't comply with the rules you made up in the total absence of any evidence they would correct a problem that is occurring somewhere else.

It's 2022, people don't even need an ez pass now. They just tag your plate and send you the bill later. Which is perfect for folks who rarely drive through toll roads like me.

Yeah, I always found it really too expensive. Especially when I was a kid growing up, we just couldn't afford skiing. But I'm glad folks are excited if this is what makes their winter pleasurable.

You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh darn it, we really like you.

This has always been the way it works. By looking at WHERE the already counted vote is coming from (precincts put in all their counted votes at once, so they are done counting when they submit), people can determine what's left to count. You can then match that up with voting registration records to know if areas left to count are predominantly GOP or DEM, and then look at the turn out in those places. If it's heavier than expected, well... there you go.

There have been almost no races ever called that switched back. The only prominent one in my lifetime was Bush versus Gore, when it was called for Bush, but the count in Florida kept edging closer and closer, and it switched back and forth after that. Gore ended up ahead, and probably would have been the winner if not for Supreme Court intervention when they were doing the final hand vote counting. The previous count of limited districts gave Bush the state by some tiny margin.

I support a petition to pass a law that says once a petition has been voted on and has passed or failed, you can't put it up for petition again for at least ten years.

I think they have some value at the local level, where there aren't ads up the wazoo all the time reminding us who to vote for. You know, like your city council, school board, etc. Giving those folks name recognition when someone is in the ballot box going "who are these people? Fuck it, I'll vote for that name I keep seeing on George's dooryard."

Here in Frederick, MD, they have the Apple Ballot. Put out by the teacher's union every year with their slate of preferred candidates for the school board. School board candidates don't have D or R beside their names, so having those available is very helpful to understand who is going to be doing work to help students learn, not help indoctrinate them into right-wing politics.

Janet Golden, professor at Rutgers, wrote an article about Maine rescinding its child labor laws (under butt nugget LePage of course) based on the "A Modest Proposal" work of Jonathan Swift, highlighting the ridiculous stupidity of such a plan. She's been instrumental in the field of history as it relates to child healthcare and well being for decades now and is well respected.

https://golden.camden.rutgers.edu/

A Modest Proposal to Rescind Child Labor Laws

And now you've learned something. You're welcome.

Dems: "Let's do student loan relief, let's fix the broken immigration system, address global climate change, let's increase spending on infrastructure, look into high speed rails, modernize our schools, improve rural internet, preserve the right of women to make their own reproductive choices, let's end price gouging on insulin, let's increase voting security while ensuring all who legally could vote can vote, end billionaire corporate tax exemptions that shift tax burdens to the middle class and poor, and then we'll..."

You: "Democratic party only hates on Republican ideas!"

No, Alaska's season is entirely separate from Maine, they're not related. But it IS a warning sign of what might happen to the lobster industry if the Gulf of Maine continues to warm.

Yes. Are you struggling to understand the correlation here? It's pretty simple: fishing areas are changing rapidly due to climate change, and the shellfish industry is an early indicator of the growing crisis. What is happening to snow crabs could be an indicator of what will soon happen to the lobster industry.

None of this is hard to understand or incorrect. Scientists and policy makers routinely extrapolate from incomplete data to draw conclusions, and so far it's turned out the climatologists who have warned us since at LEAST the 1950's of this problem have been dead right on.

And still we do nothing. Because fuck the world, fuck us, let's let the entire food chain collapse and twist and morph disrupting our ability to feed 7 billion people even as we demand higher birth rates to create "growth" for the corporations who are dragging us into this shitty abyss. Starvation and mass deaths is in our near future, but hey... corporations don't care, that's the price we pay for "free markets" and our "free dumbs!"

California sets it's own state standards for cars, it doesn't dictate what other states do. And what the Monterey Aquarium is doing is entirely separate from what the state of California does. This is the aquarium's watch list, but it influences what the seafood industry does in terms of what they buy/sell on the open market.