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@economymedicine.bsky.social

Theology, urbanism, economics, Michigan. Full stack Excel developer.

created October 12, 2023

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Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Right, running school year round to make up for lost learning, increasing the number of teachers and resources. Instead we have been seeing cuts to public education and gutting of higher education.

1/9/2025, 7:30:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Obama is Hanania confirm

1/9/2025, 7:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted

Important reminder for anyone who thinks you can feed photos of Trump through AI filters and believe you’re getting a more accurate picture of reality.

1/9/2025, 5:17:37 PM | 401 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted

The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.

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Profile picture Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) reposted

Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/9/2025, 7:15:18 PM | 236 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

About a billion a year in federal grants go to local cops. Majority of funding is local but losing federal grants matters to a lot of places. This is not the same as getting old military equipment.

1/9/2025, 7:18:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Which are often not covered for exactly that reason

1/9/2025, 7:13:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Because you need one for each person

1/9/2025, 7:12:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

It is a multigenerational family now as they have aged over time

1/9/2025, 7:11:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Just condition the federal grants they all rely on to make their budgets work

1/9/2025, 7:09:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Need more cops with accounting and computer science degrees

1/9/2025, 7:08:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Usually only a couple of years but they are 100s to around 2,000 a month which is expensive but not crazy. Hormones are around 10-50 a month.

1/9/2025, 7:06:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

No wonder Ashli Babbet saw a kindred spirit

1/9/2025, 7:02:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

The AML investigation into this should leave none of them with a penny of this remaining

1/9/2025, 7:02:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture doomsmoker (just memes) (@doomsmoker.bsky.social) reposted

Why dating is hard for guys? Arch users TempleOS Users Ubuntu/Pop! Os Users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of Linux distributions Mac Users Windows users
1/9/2025, 6:54:33 PM | 39 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

But I identify with how little neo-hitler seems to like his wife and children

1/9/2025, 6:59:40 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

The people around him melted down about the idea of being told what to do

1/9/2025, 6:55:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Being forced into spending time with my wife and kids is why I voted for neo-Hitler.

1/9/2025, 6:54:03 PM | 43 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

It is distracting from the correct priority of debating the 2016 Democratic primary

1/9/2025, 6:52:20 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel (@escargotpro.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Look we have a little fun at these rallies dont we folks - but I just want to acknowledge first that this is stolen land

1/9/2025, 6:15:26 PM | 179 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture GIGAHERTZ THE SPACE ROBOT $0/30 (@jhohos.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We have so many pronouns now, the best pronouns, everybody should try neo pronouns, my new pronouns are gli/glim, Barron helped me with those, he did a great job too

1/9/2025, 6:36:21 PM | 41 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel (@escargotpro.bsky.social) reposted

What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now

1/9/2025, 6:13:16 PM | 1444 357 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Desert Mage (@desertmage65.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

A big burly man came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, "Sir, I never felt comfortable trying to live as a woman."

1/9/2025, 6:34:43 PM | 75 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

and yet they destroyed USAID because they thought it was the secret slush fund that paid people to be woke

1/9/2025, 6:44:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

If I remember correctly Gonzalez was reunited with his father under a treaty related to adoption and parental rights. His father wanted him back and requested his return. I believe the case was ultimately about parental custody not immigration.

1/9/2025, 6:43:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

I trust Elon's wisdom on proper medication management

1/9/2025, 6:40:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

I tried to explain the shutdown of USAID in terms of them all believing in the conspiracy of the Cathedral to non online people, it did not go well

1/9/2025, 6:35:15 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

But who will do the job of beach?

1/9/2025, 6:33:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Only expensive one is puberty blockers. Hormones are really cheap.

1/9/2025, 6:31:44 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

He did publicly advocate for undoing both of those supreme court opinions. Public option has been pushed as well as an expansion of subsidies on the exchanges being passed. Can't magic policy change into being

1/9/2025, 6:27:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Meter readers, sanitation police and IRS auditors are the cop ideal and we should be promoting them instead of Chuds on toxic amounts of gear

1/9/2025, 6:24:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

We need more weird looking transit like this. Most buses and trains are boring.

1/9/2025, 6:22:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Also conspiratorial thinking tends to lead to a lot of really bad places and we need to be really careful not to give into it.

1/9/2025, 6:18:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RedditCFB (@redditcfb.com) reposted

People who were born the day Appalachian State beat Michigan are turning 18 today. 🎂

1/9/2025, 6:15:15 PM | 43 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ☀️ Starshine (@starshine.bsky.social) reposted

megan mcardle was cooking when she said most hotel/house/apartment tubs are too small

1/9/2025, 6:12:42 PM | 56 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Beaver trade

1/9/2025, 6:02:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Massive expansion in both the number of people covered and what insurance covers.

1/9/2025, 5:58:55 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Guillotine is also more humane than what we do now

1/9/2025, 5:57:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Makes sense if you ask who Giuliani considers to be the victim in a situation when emergency workers are called out to deal with domestic violence

1/9/2025, 5:55:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 (@lowrhoufo.bsky.social) reposted

Oh my god

1/9/2025, 4:55:23 PM | 53 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Eating our seed corn with glue on a pizza

1/9/2025, 5:50:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

The balance between allowing genuinely weird behavior and allowing the Andy Rubin's of the world to sexually blackmail their employees into BDSM is a challenge (not that boring corporations are good at preventing sexual harassment and abuse)

1/9/2025, 5:45:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Spayed and neutered feral working cats are actually really useful but take work as you still need to feed them and provide litter.

1/9/2025, 5:37:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Call a scot a Brit and see how they feel about it. Britain and Scotland are part of the UK the entire thing isn't Britain.

1/9/2025, 5:35:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

I fully oppose the death penalty but I can also say the prioritizing how it appears at the expense of making the process more cruel is depraved. If the state is going to execute, the method must be as quick and painless as possible and gas like lethal injection has been shown to be slow and painful.

1/9/2025, 5:33:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Why didn't Dems get to be upset that they followed the rules and the right wing movement made the pandemic worse by being whiny babies that refused to do anything that involves responsibility? It is about having a movement that is able to define itself as the authentic voice of the people.

1/9/2025, 5:28:06 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Stand for the anthem

1/9/2025, 5:17:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Malaclypse the Middle (@malaclypse.bsky.social) reposted

They can keep that heritage, if the rest of us can have this one back:

1/9/2025, 11:39:05 AM | 90 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sean (@titaniumman91.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I would also accept We Shall Overcome. youtu.be/AsrYA28CtYQ?...

1/9/2025, 2:37:41 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Chicken tikka masala isn't British food it is Scottish

1/9/2025, 5:14:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Germany have a shrinking economy but they avoided spending money, a thing that makes them very sad

1/9/2025, 4:49:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 (@davidgerard.co.uk) reposted

the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

1/9/2025, 3:02:34 PM | 340 261 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Going to create the conspiracy that the mango of his shit means he is part of Mao's mango cult

1/9/2025, 4:17:33 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

As Villaneuve said, Dune is about the plight of French Canadiens. Also Montreal Hockey and the history of the Expos.

1/9/2025, 4:15:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Using a photo of Koresh

1/9/2025, 4:54:58 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grimm ☀️ (@mugrimm.bsky.social) reposted

Unfortunately it's too late, I've already portrayed myself as the cool dog stealing sausages and you as the humidity riddled furious kitten.

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1/9/2025, 3:09:47 AM | 2058 514 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Same weird language family

1/9/2025, 4:41:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Will get washed away by all the urine

1/9/2025, 4:22:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Goals

1/9/2025, 4:18:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

The fact that Hungarian is a crazy difficult language to learn with a small population of speakers really does limit how much attention outsiders pay to what is going on inside Hungary.

1/9/2025, 4:14:17 AM | 84 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

American exceptionalism

1/9/2025, 4:09:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

If you can't be constantly be reminded of your sinful nature why even exist

1/9/2025, 4:07:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture timothy faust (@tbone.malware-virus.biz) reposted

happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.

3 hours for work 6 hours for rest 15 hours for posting
1/9/2025, 1:09:31 AM | 5678 1392 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Reconstructionist (@unavaleable.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

also haha the idea of an AI cult infiltrating the highest levels of government, who could imagine that

1/9/2025, 3:38:09 AM | 70 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Remember when we turned Chris Kyle into a hero after he claimed to be sniping civilians from the roof of the Superdome (he lied about this and a bunch of his history)

1/9/2025, 3:55:28 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Oops! All scheming viziers is always going to have governing problems not having a king just makes it slightly worse

1/9/2025, 3:53:35 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Going to be fun when none of them can agree on the things he secretly signed

1/9/2025, 3:51:45 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

TIL that the Mooch has an American History Podcast

1/9/2025, 3:44:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

He loves to call in to Fox and Friends on the weekend

31/8/2025, 11:49:25 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Republican party remains the party of people who look both 12 and 50 at the same time

31/8/2025, 11:35:44 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Confederates to this day remain thin skinned little babies.

One member of Davis’s party later described the captive’s rough treatment: “A private stepped up to him rudely and said: ‘Well, Jeffy, how do you feel now?’ I was so exasperated that I threatened to kill the fellow, and I called upon the officers to protect their prisoner from insult.”
31/8/2025, 8:02:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Just putting out the most insane Q content

31/8/2025, 4:02:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why pulling the FBI from investigating cryptids to walking around Washington DC like beat cops is bad

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Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s

As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
31/8/2025, 12:19:11 AM | 1868 599 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

One of the things I really like about Taskmaster is that they don't send someone home every episode. Elimination does not always help a show.

31/8/2025, 3:45:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Marco Rubio was an advocate for that plan...

31/8/2025, 3:10:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture STEMthebleeding (@stemthebleeding.bsky.social) reposted

To all the people who tried to whitewash away her saying that Nazis were fine IRL, there may be no edit button, but you can delete your posts. Or if you have any integrity at all, your account. By the way, that word that's blacked out? It's not the word you think. It's worse.

31/8/2025, 2:08:28 AM | 17 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Gelatin was for super fancy food and then got cheap so they started putting everything in gelatin

31/8/2025, 2:17:13 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted

I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS

30/8/2025, 8:31:57 PM | 6507 1277 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

You forgot that in Hegseth's military they are all operators

31/8/2025, 1:32:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Thank God for Michigan. So talented they even made Custer look competent during Gettysburg.

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Hunters hate them but wolves are not killing the same deer as what the hunters want

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Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Some also migrated from Canada and Northern Wisconsin/Minnesota. Over 750 wolves in the UP currently.

31/8/2025, 12:34:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

They migrated to the mainland over the ice during winter over a decade ago

31/8/2025, 12:30:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

I hate that bringing back gray wolves to the lower peninsula is politically toxic. They would solve a lot of issues.

30/8/2025, 6:59:50 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Bernie needs to grab a big stick and get marching anything else is capitulating

30/8/2025, 6:58:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) reposted

Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?

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Profile picture Matthew Noe (@noethematt.bsky.social) reposted

Shared with me by a friend: New Zealand libraries are beginning to suspend international ILL to/from the United States due to the Trump administration tariffs. 📚

Due to the implementation of US Tariffs and subsequent halt on deliveries by postage providers, the Library will be temporarily suspending the requesting of physical items from the United States for the purpose interlibrary loan. Please be aware that this may impact the availability of some interlibrary loan requests. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice might be worth a look when I get a new car. Not much on the market that is small but has space anymore.

30/8/2025, 6:55:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

We have lots of research on individual aspects of what is called traditional Chinese medicine. Most of the herbs either do nothing or served to create more effective medications. Acupuncture and cupping haven't shown more success than placebo. 5000 years of use is not the same as effectiveness.

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Profile picture Gareth Mills (@garethmills.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Reminds me of one of my favourite political campaigns. youtu.be/AoT13m8-Kxo?...

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Profile picture Charles PM (@charlespulliam.bsky.social) reposted

Sat down with the head of another startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry with gen AI, and I came away from the conversation even more deeply convinced that all of this stuff is a morally and artistically bankrupt scam

29/8/2025, 8:19:42 PM | 587 160 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

Some people still doubt the greatness of America

30/8/2025, 6:46:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social)

One of the better arguments for the FDA is how all the Silicon Valley people destroyed their brains on Russian research chemicals over recent years.

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Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Dutch farming is very efficient and they recently tried to overthrow the government because they wanted to not follow laws about nitrogen runoff causing algae blooms + wanted more subsidies

30/8/2025, 6:41:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, Cuban history is one of my niche interests and I go a little overboard on points because of how many weird Castro was perfect vs Batista was actually good people floating around having cursed discussions.

30/8/2025, 6:39:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Definitely a mixed bag

30/8/2025, 6:38:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

We love corn, soybeans and cotton. Water rights out west are a complete mess with how it is distributed and priced but data centers are not driving the problem. They are a bigger impact on electricity demand and prices which has reversed a downward trend.

30/8/2025, 6:37:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes but specifically for cane cutters life massively improved quite quickly then stalled out. Insanely brutal slavery to literacy, basic health services, and enough food is a big improvement. Don't have to love the Castro regime or what they did other places to recognize that.

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Profile picture economymedicine.bsky.social (@economymedicine.bsky.social) reply parent

Life for a cane cutter got massively better after the Cuban revolution. I don't think people realize just how bad it was on plantations under Batista.

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