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Growers in the Pacific Northwest are anticipating a strong crop this year, with a higher yield than last year’s harvest. But what they weren’t anticipating was a workforce shortage that’s being driven by the fear of immigration enforcement raids.
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the fear of potential enforcement activity led to a 50% reduction in available workers for most cherry farmers in the region at the start of harvest

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 187 points 6 days ago

"Everything will be better if we just feed a fifth of the population to the alligators!"

Absolutely insane.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

I saw these in the wild, but couldn't get a pic without being a creep.

Yeah, know it's not a shirt. But someone else got away with the same thing two months ago, so I'm gonna take a chance. Mod, do what you feel is right in your heart.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

I took yesterday off work to hit a new spot! It was hot, dry, rugged, and awesome.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 138 points 1 month ago

90's internet was awesomer. It was simple and chill and small. We hand-wrote our silly little HTML pages and freely published our email addresses. I once mailed some random person a check to pay for a piece of shareware. They were the true halcyon days of the internet.

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[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 222 points 2 months ago

Relevant quote from St. Basil:

"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the defrauder? One who takes away what belongs to everyone. And are not you covetous, are you not a defrauder, when you keep for private use what you were given for distribution? When some one strips a man of his clothes we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not—should not he be given the same name?

The bread in your hoard belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. All you might help and do not—to all these you are doing wrong"

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 151 points 4 months ago

Echoes of late 2022 when Twitter abruptly fired thousands of people, then turned around days later and tried to rehire many of them. I'm sure it's purely a coincidence that one person is closely tied to both incidents.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 149 points 7 months ago

I really like the maps that also indicate population, like this dot density map:

https://media.wired.com/photos/5b59eab77756071a9b78f1ee/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Dasymetric-Dot-Density-w.jpg

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 186 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world is a meme god.

@PugJesus@lemmy.world keeps history alive and the Confederacy in check.

@anon6789@lemmy.world is our resident owl afficionado.

There are many others, of course, but I seem to notice these three a lot in my Subscribed feed.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 149 points 11 months ago

Beware the myth of the self-made man.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 144 points 1 year ago

Sorry, the connection was choppy. Can you say that again?

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 136 points 2 years ago

If we work together we can stay one step ahead of the orphan crushing machine!

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 136 points 2 years ago

We are homeschooling one of our kids because his particular needs were not being met by the local school. Meeting other homeschool families is always nerve-wracking for me. I never know if they're going to be a normal family adapting to an unusual situation, or tinfoil-hat nuts using homeschool as an excuse to hide their children from the outside world.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 121 points 2 years ago

I had the same thought and hesitated before posting this, but the facial expressions on the women really made the image and I couldn't help myself. Especially the woman on the right with blue sleeves.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 186 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

TL;DR, the AG asked for a bench trial, Trump's defense team didn't respond, and so Trump gets a bench trial. It's possible that a jury trial would have been disallowed in this particular case under New York law, but the defense didn't even bother to ask.

Whelp, that's on your people, Donald. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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