That looks delicious, and well plated to boot - great job!

Ehh, they serve customers in the suburbs and city dwellers hoping to recapture a sense of not-being-in-the-city too. Us rural folks have dozens of places to go and pick up hay and shave and feed instead, so just like every other time some corp has done the right thing and then backtracked, they’ve lost the group that got all hurt about being included in a bigger tent, they’ve lost the group that was newly included, and they’re left holding a presumably smaller portion of the market than before they failed to hold to their convictions. Make stupid moves, win stupid prizes.

We get asked by one of our nearby tractor supplies to participate in their market days during the summer, along with several other small businesses around us. I can think of several, besides us, that will tell them to pound sand and won’t lend our credibility to their outreach programs - especially if that outreach is only for the benefit of some of our neighbors.

Eff that ish

Certainly not the U.S. citizens

@rikudou@lemmings.world is the contact point for this bot - you could reach out if they don’t respond to being tagged

Oh sure. Not all of them, certainly, but a good number of friends and I will hug to say hello/goodbye. Some of those guys prefer the handshake-bro-hug variety, others go in for the full bear hug. A handful of them, my oldest friends, are comfortable with cuddling, snuggling, or other non-hug physical contact so that’ll happen on the occasions we get to see each other.

Thank you! It was delicious

Thanks!

Again, but differently in this instance.

Really just further clarification on which laws should protect, but not bind, their in-group.

My neighbor here in Maine came down the road to see if we had felt it too. Apparently my wife felt it in the house, and while I didn’t feel the quake I definitely noticed it when all the trees dropped their snow loads at the same time.

As someone who appreciates your efforts in threads and is old enough to get this reference, I salute you

Overcoming someone’s apathy towards voting is a huge success, don’t let yourself get down about how many you convinced.

is not possible under the circumstances presented

Of my client’s entire history dealing with others

It’s so good! I’d love to see our neighboring states make the move to it or STAR voting

I think you made the right call, and your explanation is wonderfully eloquent. Thanks for all your efforts

@t3rmit3

I tend to vote most idealistically in local races, and most strategically in top line races. With local ones I can also have an outsized impact on the folks who are voting in those races by volunteering or even just (at minimum) talking positively about a given candidate to those who are on the fence or those who vote but don’t spend the same time I do researching positions. It’s my feeling that producing a major shift in policy is most achievable by a surge in local voting, due to the brittle nature of political strategies that rely on low engagement.

If they know what it is, they can identify what is happening if some of these adults behind this movement are trying to take advantage of them. With a fifth of the state population meeting the definition for illiteracy and the whole of it being #47 for education in the country, it’s not exactly surprising that the voters (writ large) aren’t familiar enough with how libraries work to prevent being duped into supporting this.

Leave your personal device and IDs at home

If you’re able, bring a burner to record and distribute evidence of civil rights infractions - be safe and don’t be obvious about recording.

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I’ll figure out where to drop it off eventually, maybe