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Fort Bragg Cartel (good/great)

Abundance (great)

Anxious generation (great)

Ishmael (great)

Who we are and how we got here (great)

Big fan of the Notebooks. Hope the offline verison is hardened and available on windows soon enough.

These data viz are great dashboard builders but need a local/offline solution for my needs.

A revolutionary product to disrupt sustainable agriculture.

Thus my point. Cognitive dissonance at its finest (worst)

Think most commenters are correct and that tech and screens have usurped more “medicinal” drugs.

What I find interesting is the general lack of care among folks here at HN. There was a comment thread about some person in AL alluding to not being able to find qualified workers at their government contractor implying a morale hang up on “weapon systems”

I’d argue tech kills more folks than these contractors but people can easily look past that.

One of the best blogs on the internet right now!

Wonder if Laundando and associates lurk HN. Surely they are comments about carbon robotics.

Agree, but from a political standpoint it's cheap. The subsidies are overall not expensive and it's good to incentivize over production of crops from a nation security standpoint.

Below comments are correct, EVs will ultimately be the equalizer

That’s an average calendar year most likely. A corn crops roughly needs 20 inches of water to be viable. Corn is usually only grown in 1/3 of the year.

We just shouldn’t subsidize crops in this region. If people want to make a run at it, more power to them and it may work in some years. But no subsidy

We don't need western Kansas agriculture's production from a national supply perspective. All of those row crops can be grown in other rainfed places.

260 acres is… nothing. Literally.

I’ll drink to that!

Come on, we are relying on 17/18/19 year olds to do a proper financial risk analysis on _debt that can never be bankrupted_? Adults have created this mess, don't put the blame on students 'doing what they've been told' e.g. go to college (more prestigious the better, too)

The population of the US is roughly ~330M

No we are not immune. At all

Correct. A lot but not all of these are likely legit drug seizures, but there should be absolutely no way LE has free reign like this. Physical cash/gold/asset possession should be protected by all countries IMO

I think it's simply a matter of bad incentives. Cops get to keep 50% (or some number) of what they seize? A bunch of anonymous people driving through with no ties to the community? Open season is the prevailing thought.

Don't know where you put seized assets though because it gets sticky wherever they go.

They don't need funding. Seward county is virtually no/low crime. They likely could get by with a handful of officers, which the tax payers would likely gladly pay. No a lot of need for LE with 10K residents in the county in arguably the middle of no where (yes, it's ~20 from the capital of the state)

All of the above. Id say >90% don't have a warrant and make up some weak PC (the mentioned air freshener in rear view mirror is popular).

Nice wad of cash you got there, be a shame if you had to prove provenance...

Drive through this county everyday. The tricks they got up their sleeve are impressive if you don’t have a local plate. RIP to Illinois and Cali plates.

ETA: Yes, everyday you drive through this county you will see cops searching vehicles (usually out of state plates, CO/CA/IL the most obvious). Almost feel bad for legit people driving through I80 with out of state plates, but the's what happens when you have a low population state with a major thoroughfare. They have some really clever social engineering tactics too that a former worker of mine tipped me on.

Cadalliac desert by Marc Reisner

As a user of both native D3 and the new Plot, it’s a game changer for non-programmers to access this level of plots. My highest recommendation

Whew, never thought I'd see TLI on HN....Work with those scientist on a different project. Interesting stuff. Acreage on Kernza has been slow to take off though.

Same, don't know though

Oh its possible, just not with non organic corn/soy. 100 acres of pumpkins might clear $1M though (yes, decorative pumpkins)

Possibly a little clickbaity, but it was a first hand experience from the author. There are likely thousands of examples of this exact scenario playing out every year: $old_family_member needs assistance and all of the options cost $small_fortune. What do we do? I think the theme is important rather than the _exact_ details of this particular situation.

Correct, society has definitely changed with women now in the workforce and the velocity(?) of people moving from where they grew up. I know my family has scattered after high school and had no intentions of returning home. Difficult for parents to relocate to children after living life in one community all their life.

Agreed, and having watched the older generations go through heartbreaking experiences to squeeze out 2-3 months of 'living' has solidified me in insisting on never putting my family through that. My hope is multi-generational households become more prevalent in the US (I thin they are still common in Latino and Asian communities in the US).

Leads to interesting debates/arguments on what is living versus simply being alive

Can relate to TFA. Cost near the end of life are eye-popping the in the US, but the alternative is murky too. Just let elder relatives live in your home? Likely won't last 3-4 days, its hard. Cost of these facilities is astronomical and ironically the staff is usually underpaid and overstressed.

Assisted death will get a lot of callout as its becoming popular but its not 100% the answer either. Legitimately wondering how older generations dealt with this problem. Did old people just die randomly and then they were buried and that was that?