prolepylene

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the last year or two we've finally hit a point in the United States where the price, availability, and reliability of solar assemblies makes solar farms cheaper and more reliable than fossil fuel plants, and where individuals could get solar panels installed in the roof of their home or business for the cost of a used car.

This tariff throws that progress away. So much for the Biden regime's stance that market mechanisms will solve climate change.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago (2 children)

University of Minnesota students tried to set up an encampment last night similar to the one in Columbia. At 7 this morning police came through the camp, arrested 10 of the core organizers, and tore down the tents and signage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The other says:

BOYCOTT

American

and

Israeli Goods

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For any interested comrades, the sign that everyone is holding up says:

Allah Akbar

Death to America

Death to Israel

Curse/Damn the Jews

Victory to Islam

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

bloomer Its minkey mouse but no-fash!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It is also worth noting that of that 900 million acres, only a portion of it goes towards food for humans or livestock. Most of the corn and soybeans grown are used industrially for ethanol, lubricants, acids, starches, and rubber. We also grow things like tobacco, medicines, and cotton, which may be needed, but are not food. A significant portion of corn is also traded as a currency "commodity crop" in a market I don't understand at all.

If I recall correctly, roughly 40% of farmland is dedicated to food production for livestock, and 2% is dedicated to food for direct human consumption. So assuming you already have all necessities, and only need food without any change to an average american diet, we may need as little as 1.05 acres per person, following your math.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Honestly that sounds like a lovely place.

Fun fact, the original shopping mall in the US was designed by a Bavarian architect who though that Minnesota winters prevented people from developing as strong of a sense of community, and aimed to build an indoor town square. Of course, the project was funded by the Daytons, so they used the spaces primarily for commercial use and left off the part where there was supposed to be attached apartments/housing, but the idea itself really made me rethink what malls can do, in a better world.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

new site tagline, perhaps

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this case, and most of the south states post civil war, white people still own the farm land but rent it out to the black former slave families who would live there and do the actual farming.

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