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best description of bees of all time
https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast260.htm
https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast260.htm
Charles Gaba📣 NEW: With Trump & House Republicans saying the're going to war with the #ACA *AGAIN,* how many Americans are enrolled in ACA exchange plans in YOUR Congressional District?
Unfortunately I only have Congressional District-level data for 32 states +DC for the moment. Hoping to acquire it for the remaining 18 states soon.
Note that this doesn't even include the ~23M Americans on Medicaid via #ACA expansion or the ~1.3M enrolled in BHP coverage!
How many ACA enrollees does YOUR Congressional District have? (32 states)
Welp. With last weeks news that House Republicans have decided to once again go to war with the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") if they gain a federal trifecta this November, it's time once again to take a look at just how many of their constituents are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage entirely or, at best, facing massive premium increases (which in most cases would have the same effect by making their coverage cost far more than they could possibly afford). Alongside this weekends release of the final, official 2024 ACA Open Enrollment Period (OEP) data, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has also pulled together estimates of how many residents of each Congressional District selected ACA exchange plans during the 2024 OEP: This file contains estimates of the Health Insurance Marketplaces 2024 Open Enrollment plan selection data by congressional district, including total plan selection estimates for health plans and estimates of health plan selections with advance payments of the premium tax credit (APTC).
John BullOf the many nuggets of oral history I've found digging into Vector Graphic and its founders, Lore Harp and Carole Ely, I think this is legit my favourite. From when they were running their memory board production out of Harp's spare room.
Just a quiet moment of lifting someone else up with them. #computing #history
Ann LiptonI ... don't know where to start re: this (sour grapes) lawsuit.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-sues-openai-ceo-sam-altman-breach-contract-2024-03-01/
John Carlos BaezCamembert is an endangered species! It relies on a mold that had lost the ability to reproduce sexually... and now, thanks to inbreeding, this mold has also lost the ability to reproduce using spores. Roquefort is also in trouble, but for Camembert it's worse:
"The world over, this other symbol of French gastronomy is inoculated exclusively with one single strain of Penicillium camemberti, a white mutant that was selected for Brie cheeses in 1898 and Camemberts in 1902.
The problem is that ever since then the strain has been replicated by vegetative propagation only. Until the 1950s, Camemberts still had grey, green or in some cases orange-tinged moulds on their surface. But the industry was not fond of these colours, considering them unappealing, and staked everything on the albino strain of P. camemberti, which is completely white and moreover has a silky texture. This is how Camembert acquired its now-characteristic pure white rind.
Year after year, generation after generation, the albino strain of P. camemberti, which was already incapable of sexual reproduction, lost its ability to produce asexual spores. As a result it is now very difficult for the entire industry to obtain enough P. camemberti spores to inoculate their production of the famous Norman cheese.
Worse still, while the Roquefort PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) standard retains a degree of microbial biodiversity, the PDO specifications for Camembert require farmers and other producers to use P. camemberti exclusively."
What to do about it? Switch to eating American cheese, or Velveeta? Read on....
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Joshua Holland"In interviews with 22 people who were near the scene, all but one said they did not hear officers identify themselves or give any commands before opening fire."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/michael-reinoehl-antifa-portland-shooting.html
Ticia VerveerThe British Library is still paralysed following an attack last October. The library is likely to remain in what we might call its current pre-digital state for some months yet, its online catalogues out of use, and access to its collections limited.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/writers-left-in-a-bind-by-british-library-cyber-attack
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/writers-left-in-a-bind-by-british-library-cyber-attack
Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦In 2023, Cargill jacked up the price of Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt
Their goal: increase annual revenue more than 10-fold, from $3 million to $50 million.
How? REDESIGN THE BOX + Jack prices
Early 2020
~$3.49 for 3# box.
Today, Diamond Crystal store price on Amazon:
- $108.95, case of nine 3# boxes, delivered ($12.11 per box)
- $13.29, 3# box delivered
- $8.99, 1# box delivered
I am #CrowdSourcing US price info:
https://forms.gle/ncvBB34tXwFBTmY1A
Form does not track!
TIA for help/boost!
Rod HiltonWillis Gibson is a bad-ass motherfucker and this Sky News lady's name doesn't show up until the fourth paragraph of this article
By the way for anyone following this whole thing, fractal161 got the killscreen yesterday as well
