They’ll start with the union leaders, and work their way down until the organization is broken enough that everybody goes back to work.

Some CSAs will deliver weekly, which may help.

Small farmer here - we keep exactly one less production bird than the maximum legal requirement, as most farmers of our scale do.

When you think about it, there were a lot of populist movements growing through Twitter. It probably pissed a lot of wealthy, powerful people off.

Then Musk and Zuckerberg were called to private meetings with the president, weren’t they? And Twitter was taken over and shut down. Then Threads, owned by Facebook who is known to help out law enforcement quite happily as well as track everything, takes off as an alternative.

They tend to shut up when you ask them to actually help in any meaningful, concrete way. They’ll sure protest though.

I was using chatGPT to design up a human/computer interface to allow stoners to control a lightshow. The goal was to collect data to train an AI to make the light show “trippier”.

It started complaining about using untested technology to alter people’s mental state, and how experimentation on people wasn’t ethical.

Me, with 20 years experience making software: yes, totally happy about this. (This makes it much easier to keep up with the latest newfangled bullshit.)

We live in a more geographically isolated part of Canada (ie: not a big city) and at this point, our monthly grocery bill is approaching our mortgage payment amount. I still have to drive to three different stores to buy basics, because they’re all frequently out of stock for common items (like milk, sometimes). It’s not uncommon to pick up 3-4 bags of groceries (no meat) and pay $150-$200.

We garden, and have birds, and even started raising dairy sheep to reduce costs, but it’s still too much.

Yet, there are seven cannabis stores in town, and they’re all well stocked, somehow.