There is a dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi the size of New Jersey. Here is what feeds it.
- Synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, sprayed on the corn belt every year
- The soil cannot hold it all, so the excess washes down to the Gulf
- It feeds algae blooms that strip the water of oxygen
- Almost nothing survives. It hit a record 8,776 square miles in 2017.
- Over 40% of that corn is grown to become ethanol, a fuel additive
Cattle get a documentary made about their burps. The corn monoculture quietly suffocates an area the size of a small state every summer, and keeps its halo.
“When America says you can be whatever you want… it really means go grind yourself to death chasing money.”
Tim Dillon broke it down clearly.
People are sold this nonstop hustle, be a boss, build an empire, work yourself into the ground, as the only route to happiness.
The real translation? Exhaust yourself… while someone else relaxes on their boat.
What do you think, are people being sold a fake version of success?
Screwing Michigan: Sell 13 Michigan dams to a Wall Street private equity firm for $1 each, then force 1.9 MILLION ratepayers to buy the power back at DOUBLE the market price for 30 years, and hand the utility a $270 million profit on top.
That is the deal Consumers Energy is fighting for right now.
The out-of-state buyer's plan? Split the dams into 13 separate LLCs so it can pocket the profits and dodge the liability when these century-old structures need repairs. And when a state judge called the deal 'highly problematic' and 'unreasonable,' Consumers' answer was a threat: approve it as-is, or we tear all 13 dams down.
Your rivers. Your money. Your safety. Sold to Maryland financiers and handed back to you with a bigger bill.
The Whitmer-appointed Public Service Commission decides by September. They work for you, not for Consumers. Make sure they hear it.
Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸
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@MindWisdomMoney It doesn’t matter if anyone else cares about your story. It’s your story. If you love your story, then the people who care about you will love it too. Nothing else matters.
Anthony Bourdain once said RATATOUILLE is the best food movie of all time.
“The best restaurant movie ever made, the best chef movie. The tiny details are astonishing:
•The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists.
•The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks.
•The attention paid to the food.
•And the Anton Ego ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest–literally breathtaking.
I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults–and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once–a long time ago–all about:
Audible surprise, delight, awe and even a measure of enlightenment.
I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my miniscule contribution (if any) early early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right.’”
A reminder from Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
A moment we still can't quite
believe.😳
We were watching two humpback whales behaving a little differently than usual. They were staying close together, surfacing frequently, and taking very short breaths as they moved up and down through the
water. Something seemed unusual, so we kept watching.
Then, after one slightly longer dive, a red cloud appeared beneath the surface. As the whales surfaced again, we suddenly realized there were now three whales. Except one of them was tiny, pale in colour, and staying close to its mother. We couldn't believe our eyes... we had just witnessed the birth of a humpback whale calf!
The magic of refinishing - sanding an old desk layer by layer until it feels brand new. Warm wood tones reappear, imperfections fade, and a classic piece gets its second wind. Beautiful work.
Guangzhou Circle (广州圆大厦) is a landmark building located in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
It takes a reference from an idea of the Italian Renaissance, "quadratura del cerchio" (squaring the circle)
[📹 World Construction News]