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“At the same time” STFU you literally voted for “on day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history”
A joint statement from Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association regarding the ongoing ICE operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas: “The Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association are closely monitoring reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity affecting agricultural communities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. Our organizations respect the responsibility of federal agencies to enforce the law. At the same time, cattle producers, feedyards, dairies, livestock markets, processors, and other rural businesses depend on a stable workforce to care for animals, protect food safety, and keep the supply chains operating. Sudden workforce disruptions can create immediate animal-welfare, operational, and economic consequences that extend well beyond an individual business. These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving. Additionally, these types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers. Reported impacts to our organizations throughout the past few days have been: - Thousands of fed cattle slated for shipping to processors now delayed, resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue and additional costs. - Workforce disruptions at numerous supply chain chokepoints such as feedyards, dairies, processors, feed and grain companies, transportation hubs, and community services. These disruptions come at a time of enhanced focus and pressure on the cattle and beef supply chain. They are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain. Frustratingly, the harm these actions cause to cattle producers last for days and weeks after such operations conclude. We urge federal officials to conduct enforcement actions in a lawful, orderly, and transparent manner; respect due process; and communicate clearly with affected employers and communities.”
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I am against illegal immigration. I don’t think these employers should be able to employ and take advantage of undocumented workers. If they believe immigrants are necessary for their business, lobby for more legal immigration and guest worker programs and vote for Democrats.
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Well said
Replying to @txcattlefeeders
I'm a 5th gen Texan and the direct descendant of some of the earliest ranchers and plantation owners in Texas. Question: why don't you work with the politicians you already own to leverage seasonal, short-term visas to cover critical gaps while you create a plan to hire Americans everywhere else? They come, they work for 3-5 years and they go home. No dependent visas, etc. Right now this system built on under-the-table labor transfers the profits to you and the externalities for housing, educating, medical, etc. to the taxpaying citizen. In other words, you're perfectly comfortable with privatized gains and socialized losses, and those politics are no longer tenable. If your business can't function without access to unlimited indentured labor, you probably need to be looking into investing into automation as well.
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Don’t give up. One day you too may become a crypto trader in Japan.
9-5 is a trap
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Dogmatic idealists comfortable in their cheap rent controlled apartments unwittingly conspire with rich NIMBYs in homes that keep appreciating while their property tax doesn’t, resulting in pushing out people replaced by new rich and keeping other newcomers out
One thing that’s unclear to me is if San Francisco actually wants more housing? Have lived here almost twenty years and the whole city seems pretty lethargic about addressing what probably should be an emergency issue Maybe San Francisco likes high prices and falling apart buildings? Or doesn’t dislike it enough to do anything about it The whole thing is baffling, but it’s hard for me to visualize a future where a lot of housing gets built. Like in my mind, I just can’t even visualize a scenario
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Chuy’s Fiesta on Folsom, highly recommend
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$12.75 for that plate of Quesabirria taco and Al pastor vampiro taco chuysfiestas.com/menu/
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List of my favorite vs “best” shows. Honorable mention to True Detective, Homeland, Community, Succession, Game of Thrones. Some I haven’t watched like The Shield and Deadwood I suspect would make my list.
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TD first season GOAT contender for me. But consistency played a big part in my selections.
Replying to @devahaz
I’d put TD or Succession over Barry Never seen Parks & Rec but my wife says it’s her goat
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I’ve watched a season or more of 25/100 on this list, so def could be missing many great ones on my list
The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?
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Between this and lesbian bar covid masking, loving a timeline dominated with silly squabbles that don’t actually matter at all, much better than politics and race war timeline
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So much of SF has been looking great lately, including lots of downtown and SOMA. But 16th & Mission is still a real mess.
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Same game as ever, different networks and credentials. It feels worse because there is so much more capital deployed so much earlier and faster, based more than ever on vibes. Which leads to the insider advantage effect getting highly magnified.
Amelia is getting at the heart of why tech sucks now. the same people keep getting funded, promoted and hired regardless of whether the work is actually good or the outcomes justify it. the link between talent and reward increasingly feels replaced by prestige and patronage.
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The last two years of the Trump admin are gonna be a masterclass in corruption and looting
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People crying about this stuff now aren’t ready for what’s to come
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12 Trump voters characterize him like this, but Paxton won the primary runoff vs Cornyn in a landslide with 64% of the vote
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Occam’s Razor still applies for this admin. Most likely they took one of these Getty pics and asked a cheap AI model to make a few edits and as a bonus it also messed up some other image details. Very common for faces to get morphed like that.
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
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Note how my image matches the Xi and Trump positions perfectly vs Aaron’s Getty image where they’re aligned way off. And the jet overhead. But they changed Trump expression to the serious one. Other AI slop artifacts if you look closely.
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This is a mix of fact and opinion/speculation, but it’s a great (very long) primer on a subculture that is a key piece in this big, complicated puzzle
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“I nothing him”
#AlaskaSenate NYT: “Fuck that retard,” Ms. Peltola wrote this year in the text message, after a commercial fisheries executive posted a selfie with her that caused a political headache because she is opposed to large-scale commercial trawling. “Honestly. I nothing him.”
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