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> "support local farmers!". ME: "but the price difference is almost double form Kaufland/Lidl/Carrefour/etc for the same thing!"

But it isn't the same thing. Locally grown food tends to taste much better and have higher nutritional value.

Plus, something I didn't expect when I started buying most of my food from my local farmer's market-- these farmers are like friends. Every meal I sit down to eat, I have a direct connection to it's source. Of course I go to "grocery stores" for staples, and it always feels so weird, empty, fake.

>As soon as the government takes control of something it must be quantified and standardized. It immediately turns abstract goals like “increase opportunity for poor children” into easily tracked and digestible goals like increasing test scores or spending more money.

Title IX would like to have a word with you.

This prohibited sex discrimination in education and athletics, which enabled womens sports among other things.

The drive for easily tracked goals is not inherent in government, it is an artifact of current political process.

It's the teenage asprin that you really have to watch out for. It just doesn't know when to stop!

so you mean how academics search for relevant publications on a topic, which is the direct inspiration for the original Google ranking algorithm, back in the happy days when the web was young and had not optimized itself around short-term money making.

I wonder what would happen if the Canadian Prime Minister then decided to file charges of treason against Musk, and issue an arrest warrant?

> So far he has not disobeyed court orders,

Actually, yes he has. The courts have ordered funds released, he has not complied.

And he has publicly attacked the courts for trying to stop him.

You may believe that he is right to disobey the court, and I'd be much happier if his defenders were honest enough to actually look at facts

Here are some stories on Fox News showing that trump isn't complying. Note the source. Fox isn't known as a haven of liberals.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-appeal... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-100-disagrees-federal...