Also on the other side of the lichen trail this view. Winter wonderland view of Canadian Rocky Mountain landscape reflected in the dusty turquoise waters of Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada.

This may be the Deathcap Amanita. Deadly poisonous. Please compare... without touching.

Wait till someone tells Magas about downward price stickiness....
There is a windfall coming. But not to consumers. Dang it! So much for Trump's newfound "Affordability" PR campaign.

Wait till someone tells Trump about downward price stickiness....
There is a windfall coming. But not to consumers. Dang it! So much for his newfound Affordability PR campaign.

Wait till Trump finds out how the multiplier effect of tariffs really work. Tariffs cement increased prices for the tariffed goods AND, where applicable, prices of the locally produced equivalent.
The supply/retail chains are not walking back on windfall profits now that sourcing will be cheaper.

Ugh! What an ice cold thought of "reasons to be cheerful"

Forgot to add
4b) On these newly acquired from auction and now new Big Agri land, use selective labour. (Read: imported, white only, farmers from South Africa)

Pic 3. Probably Witch's hat mushroom (Hygrocybe conica)?

Compare with
Phallus hadriani, commonly known as the dune stinkhorn.

Madness 100%.
Method:
1: cancel subsidies approved by Biden to farmers, do not refund farmers for money spent.
2: Implement tariffs on input costs.
3: Piss off international agri good buyers.

= Farm failure

4. Let Big-Agri buy out bankrupted farmers.
5. Give tax breaks to Big -Agri "friends"

Schumer was 100% a 'Yes'. But someone else had to eat his "yes" so that he could pretend to be a a "No"

Asking for a friend. Can the real democrats please stand up and walk over and JOIN Bernie in the Independent aisle? Then we get a better idea of who was ACTUALLY voting No.

Never gets old. 🙂

Speaking of boots and inequality. Author Terry Pratchett via one of his famous characters says it well.

[Noting that this is a current week post by DJT]
This has NOT aged well. 😂...being wrong before it even can be proved to be wrong at a later time.

In the interest of winning the AI space wars... recording your voice to add to their voice libraries?
Follow the money?

Ugh yes. First half of podcast they polish each other's knobs. Second half they promote their own or guest's next book.
<Long Sigh>