It’s not that that’s a stupid question, it’s just so broad as to be largely unanswerable. Every mineral and constituent nutrient is going to come in a variety of forms depending on the type of food and the specific nutrient. For magnesium, sure, some may be in oxide form, but also magnesiums salts, permanganates, constituent parts of various enzyme complexes, receptor binding sites… the number of permutations is nearly indescribable.
This. The infrastructure to take large scale labor action has been systemically dismantled over the past 50 years. We need to focus on networking and building up institutional infrastructure for large scale collective action. It’s not a fast process, and you can’t coordinate the logistics for this kind of collective action in a year or two.
The civil rights movement took decades to achive anything. The union labour movement took generations to build enough legitimacy to have an impact. Organizing on that scale is not something you can do in weeks or months.
The specifics are going to need refinement, yes. The broad principles should hold though. One tax that forces them to spend down accumulated wealth, one to punish trying to offshore profits to tax havens.
As an elder millenial I might have some insight. You know how when we were kids people used to get all up in their feelings when you weren’t smiling. That’s this. “Gen Z stare”, is just “Resting Bitch Face” or “You look prettier when you smile darlin’” repackaged and rebranded. They’re mad that the young people in general and women in particular aren’t running around with goofy forced smiles on their faces to make them feel special.
Two prongs. One, tax loans against stock options and publicly traded shares. Two tax foreign investment dividends that constitute more than 10% of the total value of a publicly traded company. Step one makes them live off of dividends and realized assets. They can’t live off other loans of other people’s money and just keep hording assets, two pins them down and keeps them from trying to take their money and run to a tax haven.
They will eventually find a way around those, and you will have to adjust the tax code to accomodate, but that’s going to be true regardless. It’s a bit like digital hygene and cyber security. An endless arms race between states trying to build more effective risk management tools and people trying to exploit and the system and thus the people living within the system.
Jiggle the handle a bit, and see if it stops.
Also, check if the water level is like, right at the lip of the empty pipe in the middle. If it’s one of the old style “ball on a metal arm” floats, bend the arm down a little bit so the water shuts off before it reaches the lip of that pipe. If it’s one of those new floats there should be a little screw that lets you set the water level down a little bit.
Advertising itself is deeply offensive and morally contemptible. Every ad I see for a company lowers my opinion of them, so no, I don’t think it’s a good idea or worth putting effort in to.
Several of those are going to be perennial and end up competing with mono-culture crops the following year(s) (not that I’m trying to defend mono-culture crops, but that’s what they’re planting). It’s a good idea, but not necessarily as simple as you’re implying. Still it’s an idea that’s not without some merit. The biggest obstacle to adoption is no one is making a significant profit off of it, so it’s unlikely to see much uptake.
Listen friend, I don’t know how much brain damage you’ve suffered, but if you hadn’t noticed I’m using complete sentences and proper punctuation, so I’m quite likely older than you are. You should probably try to cut back on the substance abuse. Anyway, people don’t tend to invest locally. That’s not how investment usually works unless you spent decades learning how to invest, instead of learning how to be a celeb/influencer. The smart ones stick their money in index funds, the ones that think they’re smart stick their money in crypto, and most spend themselves into the poorhouse, with more debt than they started with before they made millions. If you are looking for seed capital to open a laundromat or something you’ll want to find a bank or investment firm to pitch your business idea to, not the kid on the corner who makes more money taking pictures of his lunch than you’ve made in your whole life. I’d recommend some remedial English lessons before the pitch meeting though. Maybe Pedro down the street, he seems to be more comfortable with English than you do.
It’s broken English with poor grammar. “Why not perpetually money” doesn’t even constitute a complete thought, let alone a complete sentence. Most ESL people I know with more than a few months of practice can express themselves in English better than that.
Counter-sue as hate speech that they implied a symbol of a peaceful belief system was definitionally hateful. let them FAFO.
Significant portions of the demographic you identified don’t realize New Mexico is in the US, and couldn’t find Canada on a map, and you’re expecting them to realize there’s more countries than just Mexico to the south?
Right, but in the mean time it makes any attempt to claim “The Democrats stand for [insert policy position]” a lie, because while an individual democrat may believe in those things, the part as a whole can’t agree on anything at all. They can’t even align themselves on their own platform, let alone apply pressure to the Republicans. At best they’re nothing but a speed break for more republican policy. You’re still getting republican policy, just slower, and they can’t move the needle in the other direction even if they win because they’ll simply surrender in advance.
Wasting more time and more money trying to slow the rate the US collapses into a burning train wreck is an exercise in futility. The only real solution is to try and build a “coalition of the willing” to preserve what is left and the Republicans drive the rest, screaming incoherently, off the cliff they’re headed for. Small scale organizing, networks to help move people to safety “underground railroad” style, to move material and finances in ways that circumvent federal control, create safe-havens that can resist federal encroachment and operate outside of federal regulation meant to break down resistance. Register some “Churches” that can provide physical plant and meeting grounds, as well as offer support services when federal support is ripped up. Build a nation within a nation.
Voting for Democrats isn’t going to stop this spiral. They have no vision, no will, no unity, and zero political capital to actually create change. Sure, vote blue to slow the bleeding, if you’re still allowed by next election, but as long as they’re a party so big tent they have no direction at all, they’re just a slower, more painful collapse.
Think of it in terms of video games. Soft-launch is like an Early Access game. It’s very explicitly not feature complete, lacks the refinement of a finished product, and exists as a kind of crowdsourced quality assurance tool to figure out what works, what doesn’t, and gauge the opinion of people who aren’t professional developers who may have biases and blind spots as someone who understands the product at a deep level. A soft launch usually has minimal if any marketing done, and explicitly targets people with special interest in the product, while the hard launch is the polished final product and gets a much wider marketing push.
People have to have a conscience to be shamed into resigning.
This right here ☝️. The grassroots democrats I could support. It’s the Chuck Schumers and John Fettermans that will undermine the party from within that make supporting democrats difficult.
I love Shadowrun. Sure, it’s still a grim dark dystopia where megacorps and their puppet states are grinding mankind into paste with senseless war, murder, destruction and debauchery, rogue AIs are devastating us while tech industries keep us pacified with digital drugs and bigotry is keeping us weak and divided, but at least there’s actual elves and dragons and stuff.
They are trying to some degree, but a lot of Canadian Greens also fall on the more conservative side,which under the current circumstances is a wild position, but it’s there all the same.
Also, unless you’re selling literally everything, they can pad their margins on what you don’t provide, and pound you into the ground with loss-leaders, ON TOP of volume discounts. That’s how Walmart destroyed local businesses, by taking “acceptable losses” selling below cost for a while until it broke the competition.
Counting on politicians to fix this, regardless of party is an exercise in futility. We need to be building community organizations whether it’s Trump in power, Kamala, or Bernie. The Dems can’t fix this, the best you can expect from them is the bleeding slows down. We won’t get something better until we build it ourselves, with or without liberal permission or approval.