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• "Here in the Netherlands, where there is little land and a lot [o]f rain, hydroponic farming is almost all there is."
• "But the Democratic Party establishment distanced itself from the Wisconsin uprising. Notably, President Barack Obama did not go to Wisconsin..."
• "We think, condom on a banana, and that’s enough, and then we’re confused as to why there’s a consent problem. We’re still teaching the golden rule and we should be teaching the platinum rule: to treat others the way they want to be treated."
• A view of the Over Lode trail in Blue Mound State Park.
• "Eric Adams won the Democratic nomination in the race to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio — squeaking out a narrow victory in the ranked choice primary..."

"Here in the Netherlands, where there is little land and a lot [o]f rain, hydroponic farming is almost all there is." Posted: 07 Jul 2021 06:04 AM PDT "Frankly, the vegetables and fruits such as strawberries have almost no flavor. Tomatoes taste like red sponges. It's efficient but that's it. Many of us live for the summer to travel to France, Spain or Italy where fruits and vegetables are grown in the ground and have real flavor." From the comments section on this NYT article: "No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology/A new breed of hydroponic farm, huge and high-tech, is popping up in indoor spaces all over America, drawing celebrity investors and critics."

"But the Democratic Party establishment distanced itself from the Wisconsin uprising. Notably, President Barack Obama did not go to Wisconsin..." Posted: 07 Jul 2021 05:43 AM PDT "... during the Act 10 protests, betraying a campaign promise to 'put on a comfortable pair of walking shoes myself' and 'march on that picket line with you' if collective bargaining rights were ever under attack. (Vice President Biden did not go to Wisconsin either.) Outrage over Act 10 prompted an effort to recall Mr. Walker that garnered nearly a million signatures and forced him to face a new election in 2012. But Mr. Obama deliberately avoided campaigning with Tom Barrett, the governor's Democratic opponent. 'This is a gubernatorial race with a guy who was recalled and a challenger trying to get him out of office,' Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama's deputy campaign spokeswoman, told NBC News. 'It has nothing to do with President Obama.' The fallout from the financial crisis, and Mr. Obama's tepid economic response to it, helped enable the Tea Party backlash, allowing the movement's funders to realize long-held ambitions of weakening the labor movement and the public sector under the guise of austerity. That effort was made easier by the Democrats' embrace of their framing. A few months before Mr. Walker announced Act 10, his predecessor, Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, bragged that he made steeper cuts to size of the state employee work force than any governor in Wisconsin's history. Mr. Obama, too, championed public austerity, imposing a two-year wage freeze for federal workers just after the 2010 election...." From a NYT op-ed titled "Scott Walker's Wisconsin Paved the Way for Donald Trump's America."

"We think, condom on a banana, and that’s enough, and then we’re confused as to why there’s a consent problem. We’re still teaching the golden rule and we should be teaching the platinum rule: to treat others the way they want to be treated." Posted: 07 Jul 2021 04:11 AM PDT Said Justine Ang Fonte, quoted in "A Private-School Sex Educator Defends Her Methods/After nine years at Dalton, why was Justine Ang Fonte suddenly being pilloried by parents?" (NYT). The W.H.O. guidelines state that between the ages of 5 and 8, children should learn to "identify the critical parts of the internal and external genitals and describe their basic function" and "recognize that being curious about one's body, including the genitals, is completely normal." "I equip them with a way that they can exercise body agency and consent, by knowing exactly what those parts are, what they are called, and how to take care of them," Ms. Fonte said. "That was paired with lessons around, what are the different ways to say 'no'? And what's the difference between a secret and a surprise? And why you should never have a secret between a grown-up and you. Because it's never your responsibility as a child to hold a secret or information of a grown-up."... "I wanted to believe that Columbia Prep was a school that was ready to take on these issues in an educational, intellectual way and at least one person at that school trusted that I could do it," she said. "And I did. But they weren't ready to back it up, and it cost me my safety."

A view of the Over Lode trail in Blue Mound State Park. Posted: 06 Jul 2021 05:32 PM PDT This is designed as a mountain bike trail — on the difficult/very difficult level — but I love it as a hiking trail. It's too challenging for me to mountain bike. It's funny how hard it is to take a still photograph of a trail in the woods. I don't know how to make it look as steep as it is. You might think it's bad sharing a trail with mountain bikers, but it's not. At least not in a place like this, where there are few people out there at the same time. I only saw one other walker, and maybe there were 10 bikers in the space of 4 miles. You can tell when bikes are catching up to you, you can easily step to the side, and they're always nice and, when they pass, they say "thanks" and maybe some other pleasantry like "Have a nice hike."

"Eric Adams won the Democratic nomination in the race to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio — squeaking out a narrow victory in the ranked choice primary..." Posted: 06 Jul 2021 05:11 PM PDT "... according to a preliminary count of the final vote tally Tuesday. Adams emerged narrowly ahead of Kathryn Garcia, 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent.... Adams declared the primary race over in an evening statement. 'While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: an historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City,' he said."  The NY Post reports. I'm so glad that happened. It would have been very hard for people to accept a different outcome. Who could trust what happened inside a computer that shuffled and recounted votes for weeks if it didn't match in the original, simple version of the count?

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