I admittedly can’t imagine people wanting such a thing. They really are of a different fabric it seems, hurt people hurting people. I guess all the rest of us can do is support letting people know there’s another option and helping them escape that trap if desired.

They don’t want to live like us, fostering the mind over breaking down the body. So be it, I guess.

Missing the point, dumb.

We need food, the jobs were available and I want people doing the work to have rights too. I don’t want to pick strawberries. I will gladly pay someone to get some for me, if the price is right.

Are you a “brown person”? I guess I am as well.

I mean mush actually telegraphed that, “there will be some economic pain”…

Fuckin’ glad I’m not your son, my dad was a real man who actually put the work in to help me become a caring and effective man, not watch me founder and mentally shrivel.

I mean look at your comment. No shame, in spite of the supposed first hand experience. I feel for you, and for this country we both call home. Your crops, or your neighbors crops, may very well rot in the field while ripe, until the factory farm decides nearby decided to pay pennies on the dollar and take your land from you.

All legal, all what we progressives didn’t want. You’ll understand after 4 years of further hardship in your community. Competition and a free market are good, if they are fair.

Apparently I can’t curse at you & your low energy understanding of the world, last comment removed.

I stand by what I said before, I believe all workers should be paid fairly, have access to things like bathrooms & water, and be able to easily come and go as they need & desire.

Try getting better nutrition, it’ll help with your energy problem.

I hear what you’re saying. What boring people to be afraid of novel cultures.

Anyway, fine, close the border and make it so only US citizens can do all the labor nobody wants to do. Watch how much doesn’t get done; the economics behind work and such don’t change rapidly. I’ll bet most small farmers get destroyed with fields full of rotting, previously ready to harvest crops because nobody can offer a citizen enough to do the work, in a way that still yields a profit.

The billionaires with factory farms and prison labor will likely win out again.

I agree that it’s low-hanging… nope. Bailing on that one.

I do think quality farm work is critical for our health as a nation, and I don’t mean economically.

Can we automate it? Maybe. Till then, someone’s gotta do it, and for those who go into it, there’s gotta be a floor on job quality, seemingly basic things like bathroom and water breaks.

I’m interested in supporting mutual aid. Any good reference sources?

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Sure, the unborn work for that too.

I just wonder what is so scary about immigrants to people?

Why is there such an obsession with immigration?

Do you want to pick strawberries? It’s back-breaking and sucks.

E: thanks for all the replies. I wrote this while pissed about the results, it was supposed to be rhetorical.

At this point, work on helping immigrant friends and neighbors however you can, whether by helping with immigration paperwork or "other"methodologies.

Hiram.

Yep. I’m on a bike older than me, she’s light and dependable even in the Seattle rain. Street bike, but I still camp with it 👍

Be safe and don’t forget to get there, https://shouldispeed.com

Shit I thought HB was bad.

I got a long one from red wing while getting the boots, as a “freebie”. Solid steel.

I didn’t like how it handled, but it was way way more comfortable and predictable than a tesla 3.

I miss Dana point, and Santa Ana (fuck Irvine & Tustin), riding my bicycle past the suggestive concrete of San Onofre generating station, all the way down to imperial beach.

Thanks for this pic, lots of good memories.

The rest of us will do what we can. Maybe others will join, maybe not. Onwards we go.

Dayum. How often do they need refilling? With rebco magnets out there, surprised we’re not using more ln2 instead.

Maybe just older machines?

Lower compression ratios are a common trick to increase longevity and fuel compatibility. You reduce horsepower and fuel efficiency, but gain reliability.