I know every generation has their class struggles, but let me tell you about the summer of 1990 when Supersoakers hit the market and only a few kids could afford them and the rest of us were hunted for sport.

While everyone argues about data centers and water, California almonds quietly use up to 80x more, AND the whole industry only survives because of trucked-in "livestock"... Every February, beekeepers transport nearly every commercial honeybee colony in the United States (around 2.8 million hives) to California to pollinate almonds. It's the largest "managed-pollination" event on the planet. Almonds cover 1.4 million acres and need bees to pollinate so they set nuts. So why do we need to truck them in? Well, almonds are grown in huge monoculture orchards, meaning the native bee species are all but eradicated...there's nothing for them to eat most of the year. To fix the problem WE created, we ship in bees from across the country. I interviewed the creator of the 2019 documentary The Pollinators, which followed this migration and brought a lot of this story into public view. First off, honeybees aren't native to North America. They were brought from Europe in the 1600s. The "bee crisis" you read about, with national colony losses around 55% last year and some commercial keepers losing 60 to 70% in a single season, is happening to a managed, introduced species. It's a livestock collapse driven by long-haul transport, pesticide exposure at bloom, hives packed together spreading mites and viruses, and a monoculture diet. Meanwhile, North America has roughly 4,000 native bee species. Most are solitary, don't make honey, don't sting, and quietly pollinate everything from squash to blueberries. Research out of UC Davis and UC Berkeley has been direct about this: when blue orchard bees, bumble bees, and other natives forage alongside honeybees in almond orchards, fruit set goes UP, not down. The presence of wild bees changes how honeybees move through the trees and makes the honeybees themselves more effective pollinators. So the fix isn't more honeybee hives. It's hedgerows, wildflower strips, bare ground for ground-nesting bees, and uncut field edges, aka habitat for the natives who were doing this work long before we started trucking in livestock. Honeybees are livestock. Native bees are the wildlife, and we should be planting to include them in our agriculture.

No. idahocapitalsun.com/2026/05/…

I’ve never been more right-wing in my life, and I’ve never identified with the Republican Party less

How would knowing that Covid came from a lab - assuming for the sake of argument that it did, and that we could know that with certainty - have saved lives? What would have been different about our response?

Is there a good tick genocide charity? This seems like a better option than throwing money at my local hospital

アラフォー以下のキッズたちに知ってほしい。 40代って突然老けてきて、それまで若見えしてた人たちも年相応な「オバチャン」に だけどずーーーっと老けずに20代にしか見えん人たちもいる。それは、夜更かしをしないだとか、運動をしっかりするとかでもなく、実はある事を「しない」だけだった。

Slovakia did it. Slovenia did it. Singapore did it with a city and no resources. Alberta has a multi-trillion dollar resource base and more GDP than 150 countries. The idea that Alberta independence isn’t possible isn’t supported by historical reality.

All I want for @America250 is an “American Made Products” filter on Amazon dot com

Warren Zevon voice

Virginia is in our DNA.