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I fondly remember my organic chemistry lab professor giving us all a lecture that was something like this:

"I see that you children have learned how good acetone is at cleaning glassware. And you are correct: it is excellent. However, you cannot pour it down the sink and we have to pay for hazardous waste disposal. So use soap, water, and elbow grease instead."

In modern American usage, more or less. "Libertarian" used to be much broader - ancaps cleaved it off of libertarian socialism in the 20th c.

Meanwhile in America, my old ll tried to tell me I couldn't have my deposit back because "it's summer and the bank is on vacation"

The US made a lot of its own sugar in the past either though sugar beets, or by growing cane in the extreme south, but that era is largely over (ignoring corn syrup): it's cheaper to import it from places where imperialism keeps wages low.

Most US food is not local, unless you go to a farm share or market.

The petition is being organized by Alphabet Workers Union, the minority union trying to organize Google, its sister companies, and contractors.

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/campaigns/job-security

This is literally a product of their minority union

A common, reasonably evidence based, protein target for bodybuilding is 1-2 g/kg, with the cursed unit of 1g/lb being about the upper limit of what's useful. That's probably what this post is referencing.

I love that I can easily correct and annotate bike lanes

And at least I'm North America there's another Maté relative, Yaupon. Both are holly species.

Huh! Mine popped when I planted them in the fall, and haven't gone dormant at all - they hung out with the garlic being green all winter.

I'm excited that my saffron bulbs overwintered. I'm growing in containers in NYC (7b). We'll see if they survive the summer!

It is a pill though.

Pops one