This isn’t always just limited to produce either! Several CSA farms near me do livestock as well, from chicken to lamb to venison and everything else.

Might be a nurse, too. I have met some nurses who very clearly weren’t taught to do things like solve problems or think critically.

All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that’s $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don’t align with the earmark, it’s incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can’t really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can’t really do anything else with it.

That doesn’t even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There’s so few real options that it’s incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it’s collusion.

So someone else also pointed out grand jury members in TX are appointed positions of “respectable” members of society.

Sadly, this just sounds like the Good Old Boy Network doing exactly what it’s supposed to do.

A lot of PDs and federal forces get taught by the IDF, who are notorious for targeting genitalia and eyes.

I can’t see them conducting it so close to a city, unless it’s meant to be a show of force or some bullshit.

Hell yeah we need the USS Admiral Kuznetsov.

Very few, I’d imagine. At best, this is propping up failing parts of their empire - a lot of mining companies have switched to something easier than coal because coal is getting harder to mine, and a lot of energy companies are diversifying because of the slowdown of effective mining. This seems to simply be “because I can”.

I was about to say, I’m surprised she hasn’t just been black bagged and deported anyway. That’s the normal goon squad MO right now, because the law works a lot slower than a plane. Once you’re in a foreign prison or whatever, you’re officially a problem for the State Department.

They’ve stated elsewhere that even though they’re deploying “age inference” (whatever that is), verification is mandatory if you don’t want your account to be restricted to PG-13, basically.

To cheer everyone up a bit, here’s a bit about that time a WV town got a bridge built by asking the USSR.

These positions are also typically salaried so they can claim they don’t need to pay OT.

Especially considering it’s a court order. Literally saying “no I don’t think I will” to a federal judge is wild.

This also seriously depends on the employer. One of the first things that gets slashed during benefit cuts is reitrement accounts, because they’re an easy target and you’re not “losing” the money.

Yup, it’s not “this meeting could have been an email”, it’s “this meeting could have been a gunfight”.

Now he’s also retooling Tesla facilities to build his Optimus humanoid robots.

The idea is clear - your kids should literally be working from the moment they hit 14. There’s been a bunch of labor law rollbacks on child labor for just this reason.

Except your managers might think it’s important, or you’re a shitty manager trying to fill their time and look important by micromanaging your employees.

From my friends who do foraging: you only eat stuff you 1000% know doesn’t have an imitator in the area, and even then you’re tossing out about 3/4 of what you forage just to be safe.

Buy your mushrooms from the store.