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A city might have other reasons to build the stores (e.g. filling in food deserts), but there are some pretty obvious good faith reasons to think this is not the best policy to achieve the goal of making food affordable.

I mean, also, shouldn't an economist understand that grocery stores are modern miracles of logistics and there's no way in hell a municipality can compete with the major private chains? Given that, subsidizing things on the demand side seems like it would be more efficient.

And all while we seem to be turning and turning in something? Rude!

Iirc the book version of this is set in NYC. Wonder how we snagged the tv setting for this.

Let’s not be too harsh here. At least gmail will offer me an AI summary that I didn’t ask for of the emails I didn’t want included in my search results.

I think the map tracking is erroneous because it looks like a repositioning flight from one Tampa area airport to another. And if you zoom in on the near cuba map location the end/start point there is in the sea, not on land.

Love it. I could also see John Milton being a co-conspirator.

Brb, imagining Chris Nolan's Old Custer.

Greta Gerwig's feminist adaption of Paradise Lost. Because let's be serious, Eve is the only compelling character in there.

I was at a shore town recently and there was a street preacher with a PA on the boardwalk and he was talking in a normal voice, not saying anything provocative, and sounded largely like a sane, generically Christian individual. I was dumbfounded. People were listening and engaging with him.

Yeah, while I'm sure that some people don't want to see persons experiencing homelessness because they dislike them at a personal level, most people don't want to see them because they don't want people to experience homelessness.

First I hear she's sold a million copies of her translation and now she's the main character for a day. Really good work for a classics professor.

PR wise better to have a local place for show that he basically never uses.

Can't wait to see Bron stuck in traffic on 295 or Route 70.

Think the clyburn/jefferies thing is a stretch because it’s not like either of them in their D+> 20 districts have faced a meaningful primary or general election challenge in a bit. Also, at least with Jeffries, the same people who voted for him also voted Mamdani.

To me the problem is with the standalone phrase “the final solution” without any qualification or judgment. It was, iirc, the obfuscatory phrase that the Nazis chose.

man I cannot overemphasize how many people I know fell into some form of madness because they could not accept that their kid got an autism diagnosis and that maybe that was just how life was going to be

In 8th grade social studies class in the 90s we had lots of history posters on the wall. One was a photo of stacked corpses from the holocaust with the phrase “the final solution” written on it and I still don’t understand how that was ok for a classroom.

Oddly my local cvs isn’t locked up at all and neither are the vibrators

Yeah, I can only assume that the decision is moralistic, but at a certain point it seems like these restrictions probably mean near zero sales and they shouldn’t stock them at all.