I didn't say "Local Corner Stores" I said "other grocery stores." We don't shop at local corner stores for groceries because as you point out they are so much higher. She is comparing Whole Foods prices for fresh food to the largest chain grocery stores in our area including Walmart Neighborhood Market, Tom-Thumb, Kroger, Albertson's and the one smaller oddball - Sprouts.

There is a lot of pseudo-science BS and greenwashing in the organic community. But I also think your impression of it is a common misconception. Organic practices are constantly progressing through scientific research, or best practices being rediscovered to enhance yield. It isn't all anti-science back to nature romanticism.

Yields don't have to be much lower. Growing organic is more expensive because it requires more labor hours, which is the big reason industrial farms were so easily honeymooned by Monsanto and other agri-businesses to use the latest pesticides with minimally studied safety profiles, fertilizers, and genetically shotgun spliced crops that cost a fortune to the farmer and lock them in to business with those companies. It also allowed farmers to forget the hard won knowledge over generations of how to maintain their soil and do proper crop rotation to prevent degradation of their land.

My wife grew up in rural Illinois. She remembers having to come in when the spray planes would fly overhead, and the stench that lingered in the air afterward. She got a non-cancerous brain tumor that will probably reoccur over her life. She has had lots of friends from the area live with and die from various cancers before they've turned 40. There is no hard scientific evidence this spraying was the cause. But those chemicals are generally studied in isolation, in labs for several years, not together in the environment with humans over decades. She has some concern that we may learn many decades later there is a link.

And as one other poster alluded to, if you are concerned about calorie yield per acre, you'd do much better by not (or rarely) eating beef as it is very land intensive to grow the feed for cows and they have a high global warming contribution through their methane emissions.

My wife likes to buy organic fresh vegetables, fruit and free range meat because of the less intensive farming and ranching practices. She claims Whole Foods prices are generally cheaper than other grocery stores and even our farmers market for those items. But the processed and prepared food is much more expensive.

For the first 5 years he had no periods of decline that didn't occur during the few times he was off glucosamine. It was only after glucosamine wasn't sufficient after 5 years that the vet prescribed Metacam, which seems to barely make a difference, but we've left him on it.

I'm aware of the potential for observation bias and anecdotes aren't scientific. I'm also aware of the low threshold for efficacy even for approved drugs, and while a study may not find statistically significant correlation on the whole, that doesn't mean some individuals weren't greatly benefited. In the end if you feel something is really beneficial and the risks are low, you just got to Let the science be damned . Sometimes the science catches up with you.

That is way low for 2 of our dogs and way high for the other 2.

But or dog has had hip trouble for 6 years. The first 5 we did nothing but keep him on glucosamine. The few times we took him off due to laziness or questioning it worked due to the Vet mentioning conflicting research, our dog noticeably declined. And within 2 weeks of him going back on it, he got better.

And it is against the law for them to spy on Americans on US soil. Didn't slow them down.

I have the exact same thing in my kitchen and was super easy to pop out the current keystones and rewire them for the new Robertson silent switching ballasts I bought on Amazon for about $20, no ground required. Was a lot easier than trying to remove and install new 8 foot fixtures.

If it is really only good to 100 m, then it seems like a significant problem. My pole drop to first jack is 40 m. In even a decently compact residential street that would only get you 6 lots out from the node not including their pole drop.

How do you think cable works?

Seems like it would be easier to allow traffic discrimination, but that automatically loses that company's exclusive franchise agreement, and the jurisdiction must then allow other companies to use the right of way to run last mile connections at the same rate charged to the incumbent franchise.

You are referring to the 9th amendment in the Bill of Rights I believe. "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people". There is no right in the Constitution to individuals being provided every free service available for the functioning of government entities funded by taxpayer dollars. This really isn't a Constitutional question. Arresting the guy was unnecessary, there are almost certainly local and state laws in GA that cover taking low value goods and services you are not explicitly entitled to, and it probably warrants a ticket. But he doesn't have a Constitutional right, or protection from taking free power from the school district without explicit authorization.

In the USA my understanding was PCI requirements were going to make all companies switch to non-imprintable cards? All of my cards issued in the past year are completely flat.

It is based on whether the seller has nexus in the buyer's location. If it has nexus it is the seller's responsibility to collect sales tax and remit it, if it doesn't then it is the buyer's responsibility to remit use tax to their taxing jurisdictions. The problem Amazon is having is jurisdictions trying to expand the concept of nexus.

One thing states have been doing is saying if someone in for example North Dakota posts a link to a product on their blog, that constitutes nexus in North Dakota for Amazon even if they have no other operations there. I don't agree with that one.

The other problem they are having is Amazon does not own their distribution centers. They set up a separate company to own and operate these locations that their parent contracts with. They want to use this corporate structure to avoid nexus in places like Texas and other states. This I think is a sketchy dodge, but on the other hand it is a slippery slope to say it is nexus when in fact they are separate companies.

If I followed the thread right, parent posts didn't reference flat tax. We currently have a progressive taxation scheme with so many loopholes and deductions that in actuality it is regressive. So if the choice is to not change the status quo, or to make our current tax law less regressive, I'll pick the latter.

But if the option were to tear up the entire system and institute a flat tax with almost no deductions (except maybe one standard deduction per person) and then provide direct subsidies to the poor, then I agree that is most preferable and arguably the most efficient.