While the electoral college is problematic, it isn’t relevant in this regard. First past the post is the issue.

Buckshot for Jesus

High road allll the way to losing. Yeeehaw!

Just learned to fucking wrangle a pig in the mud. It’s been done.

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I believe generally interpreted as legal occupant, not owner.

Those things are generally not illegal.

It’s illegal to buy/sell tobacco as/to a minor. It’s not illegal to use tobacco.

Most of the restrictions on smoking are not by law, but policy. 12 states don’t have any sort of ban on tobacco use.

Devil’s advocate: are they a million times better?

Monocultures, moldboard plowing destroying soil structure and creating an Ap horizon, organics depletion and excessive application of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides…

Suspending any personal beliefs in the matter, it is truly easier to empathize with people, mammals, then others animals because we better understand their experience. We cannot understand the abstractions of a plant’s lived experience. Humans are only just starting to examine the intricacies of plant familial systems through root and mycorrhizal networks.

Isn’t this Army jurisdiction? Is pressing charges even relevant?

Ah, I should have specified the pasture-raised standards:

R 1: Pasture area

a. Must consist mainly of living vegetation. Coarse grit must be available to aid digestion of vegetation.

c. The minimum outdoor space requirement is 2.5 acres (1 hectare)/1000 birds (~109SF).

g. Birds must be outdoors 12 months per year, every day for a minimum of 6 hours per day. In an emergency, the hens may be confined in fixed or mobile housing 24 hours per day for no more than 14 consecutive days.

Free-range are only required to have 2SF and don’t have a mandatory outside time.

Certified humane (pdf): https://certifiedhumane.org/wp-content/uploads/Standard_LayingHens-2023.pdf

“Go outside” for free-range is also a tiny little pen that chickens don’t really know how to use.

There’s another option: Pasture-raised, certified humane. They have >100SF of outdoor space per bird, shelter, and eat a mix of insects and supplemental feed.

Aldi sells them for about 75% more than conventional eggs.

Find pasture-raised eggs at your grocery store. Added bugs to the diet helps with the rich yolks.

Just like Rudy!

Beakman’s episode on teeth lives on my mind rent free.

https://archive.org/details/beakmans-world/Beakman’s+World+-+Season+2/Beakman’s+World+-+S02E10+-+Video+Games%2C+Beakmania+%26+Teeth.avi

Oh, for sure it is work. I just chuckled at the innuendo.

“hella crazy exercise… doing this horse stuff”

Not sure how this isn’t a car issue since:

Roads cover much larger areas,

Consume area that could otherwise be used for source control of stormwater, and

In my experience, are much more regularly and heavily salted.

ItS moStlY sALt

An issue near me: a major plant is fined every time they exceed emission limits and those fines go back to the community.

“Mr. Walz offered an inversion of that old Radiohead single at his introductory rally on Tuesday night. “These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell,” he smilingly charged. From his mouth the word comes across as a somewhat spicy Midwestern revision of the coastal freakout, common during the Trump presidency, that almost every day was “not normal.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/arts/tim-walz-trump-weird.html