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Interesting, there's a carrot cartel in the US.

Forbes:
"At least 60% of those carrots are produced by just two companies, Bolthouse and Grimmway, both of which were acquired by buyout firms, in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

“There’s only two sources,” Adam Waglay, cofounder and co-CEO of Bolthouse owner Butterfly Equity, told Forbes. “We joke around — it’s kind of like the OPEC of carrots.”

Cartels are less funny for neighbors of the two producers in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, who are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2023/11/21/inside-the-two-companies-that-dominate-the-us-carrot-crop/

#carrot #cartel #monopoly

At least 60% of those carrots are produced by just two companies, Bolthouse and Grimmway, both of which were acquired by buyout firms, in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

“There’s only two sources,” Adam Waglay, cofounder and co-CEO of Bolthouse owner Butterfly Equity, told Forbes. “We joke around — it’s kind of like the OPEC of carrots.”

Cartels are less funny for neighbors of the two producers in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, who are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot over the amount of water their farms are sucking out of the ground. In 2022, Bolthouse and Grimmway together were responsible for 67%, or 9.6 billion gallons, of the area’s total water use.

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The starling’s plumage is so very impressive and beautiful up close. #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Nikon

Four photos of starlings on my garden feeder. The plumage is brown, purple and green with light speckles

@liztai You do look nice! Love your hair AND mask.

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The National Test Positivity Rate from the Walgreens COVID Index has exceeded 40% for the first time in the entire pandemic. Source: https://www.walgreens.com/healthcare-solutions/covid-19-index

#xbb #xbb15 #CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19

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A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023

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#COVID Poll - Have you had COVID?
Please boost to get a bigger response.

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Here's some New Years perspective to start your 2023.

Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, & Martin Luther King, Jr. were all born in 1929. Yet while we were just with Ms. Walters days ago, those two icons are portrayed as ancient history.

But the ideals they fought for weren't in some distant past—they're a contemporary reality we must continue to fight for today. We control that narrative. Let’s keep fighting for that justice in 2023 & beyond.

Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

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For those who keep saying they don't understand why we are so focused on masks: Mask mandates are the policy that would instantly make a huge difference to the lives of higher risk people. It would mean they could go on public transport, access medical care, & other basic needs.

#COVID #COVID19

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Newly-minted socialists would REALLY do well to acquaint themselves with the history of fascists using antisemitism with pseudo-socialist characteristics to peel people off left movements.

It's a pretty core trait of Euro/US fascism, and the popular left keeps falling for it.

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two shots in the evening sun #nature #naturephotography #sunset #macrophotography

a leaf skeleton silhouetted against a grey and pink sky with the setting sun visible through the leaf

dead flower with cluster of hairs and twigs silhouetted against an orange sky with the sun just visible bottom left

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My own advice that I never follow:

If you believe you don't have time to take 2 minutes to do a breathing exercise to reboot your sympathetic nervous system. You likely need it.

Stress triggers the sympathetic nervous system and engages you in fight or flight.

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Brittle (by me)

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“Do something that makes you uncomfortable every day.”

Me: *gets out of bed*

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Let's play some Would You Rather?

Would you rather have telekinesis (the ability to move things with your mind) or telepathy (the ability to read minds)?

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It’s wild that we can see images like this from NASA’s Webb Telescope - galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away, stars being born & dying - and yet carry on ravaging the planet as if it’s not miraculous that somehow, we’re here.

A tiny speck of sand in the vastness of the cosmos. #space

$Carina Nebula The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI$

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Apple announces physical Security Key support for Apple ID two-factor, new iMessage verification technology https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/07/apple-security-key-apple-id-imessage-verification/

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in Norway, "up and not crying" is a not uncommon response to "how's it going" type questions, and I feel like that's a very reasonable standard to hold oneself to nowadays

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This feels like a good time for lots of non trans people to loudly state the truth that trans people are good and more out and visible trans people is good for society.

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So fascist transphobes vandalized multiple power substations last night in NC, leaving 40K people without electricity - all to disrupt one drag show.

If you still think you can debate these folks in the "marketplace of ideas" I'm begging you to think again.

They'll just burn down the market.

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Covid is associated with a >60% increased risk of newly diagnosed diabetes
A systematic analysis replicated by 2 independent groups
https://nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24185-7…
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-022-02656-y…

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