Orange juice? Disease due to climate change.

That’s very recent.

A more historical look at orange production - particularly in Florida - shows it peaked in the early '00s at 250M boxes, then plunged to 12M boxes thanks to disease, hurricanes, and real estate development.

But the root reason is that orange surpluses were thinning profits. Drastic reduction in production pushed up unit prices without materially increasing costs.

Orange agribusiness is doing fine. It’s the retail purchases who are eating shit

Remember olive oil going up in price? Crop failure due to bad weather.

The destruction of historical olive groves has been a major Israeli tool for displacing native Arab peoples.

This isn’t just bad weather. It’s manufactured poverty through ethnic cleansing.

We’re seeing similar events in Central Africa, Ukraine, the Kashmir region of India, and now the US military campaign against Venezuelan fishermen.

Yes.

The third story is a sorority party not having enough money to pay the pizza delivery man

They happily voted for a guy who had a health care policy that amounted to “concepts of a plan” for like a decade now.

They were the same guys voting for Romney in 2012, the man whose health plan was good enough for Obama to crib wholesale.

I can’t think of a single time from last election season where this was agreed upon as a bipartisan issue.

Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years

What Bloomberg campaign?

He’s the thirteenth most prolific campaign financier in 2024

This is like the “I’m calling ICE on my neighbors that I know have undocumented family members because one of them voted for Trump”.

I’m sure liberal has done this IRL. The desire to punish brown people for voting incorrectly is strongly bipartisan.

Did they vote for the clowns running this circus?

Giving every die hard Ted Cruz supporter a free pass

Did they bring it about? I seem to recall “Entitlement Reform” as bipartisan issue.

FFS, look at the Michael Bloomberg campaign. And he’s practically running the national party at this point.

It echoes the old 1954 animated film practically to the point of plagarization, at least at the start. By the end its drifting off into 1984 territory.

Given the folks making them movie have a history of heavy handed adaptations of Bible stories, I suspect we’re going to get some Ayn Rand tier monologuing at multiple points in the film. Wouldn’t bank on it being “salvaged” in any meaningful sense. This is going to be pure slop. I suspect it’ll make for some entertaining memes, though.

Gotta wonder how many of these trained, blooded combat veterans are going to take this abuse laying down.

Their blockbuster title “Sound of Freedom” is, curiously enough, a story intended to be a hagiography of Tim Ballard, a man with numerous sexual misconduct allegations

And now they’re making a movie about “King David”. Don’t even get me started on that creep.

It’s still nice. Honestly, the reciprocation of appreciation/affection is its own glamour filter. The girl who thinks I’m hot is made hotter as a result.

Guy who is extremely confident he will not go bald.

As for the concern about markets, I think it’s exaggerated. Nobody in their right mind is expecting to keep their assets in foreign banks if they pursue a war of agression.

Glances at the US and Venezuela

Glances at Israel and… everyone else

The important thing is to point them at the correct aircraft.

The liberal wholehearted embrace of Evil Bad Foreigner rhetoric, combined with their cuddling up to AI / Crypto / Silicon Valley MIC, is not giving me a bright picture of the future.

I’ve got a mixed bag of neighbors and we mostly avoid talking politics. If they’re hosting the bbq, I’m not sure why you’d complain. Seems like they’ve got no grudge against you

“It’s so hard to make friends”

“What are your neighbors like?”

“Idk, I’ve never talked to them”

I used IAU for the few instances I banked gold as a hedge. But I’ve never held longer than a year and it’s never outperformed by overall portfolio returns.

It’s just not a good long term investment.