EDUCATION: What City Kids Learned on My Farm: ‘Hens don’t lay on demand. Tomatoes aren’t ripe in June. And animals don’t care about your feelings.’

“Overprotected as they are, a lot of city kids are missing out on so many important encounters with material reality: with death or danger or manual labor. These encounters can be unpleasant, even painful. It’s understandable that we want to save our children from them. But they lose something essential …

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Multiple Russian banks are preventing clients from logging in because they don’t have liquidity to give clients their money

BREAKING: Rosbank’s website is down. Customers can’t login. Multiple Russian banks are preventing clients from logging in because they don’t have liquidity to give clients their money, due to new US sanctions. Is this the start of a Russian bank run? pic.twitter.com/swI1LUv7st — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 13, 2024 Russian …

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Australia battles cashless shift; businesses face $25,000 fines if they don’t accept cash, aiming to preserve physical money circulation.

Australian businesses and companies could soon cop huge fines if they don’t accept or carry cash. Politicians Andrew Gee and Bob Katter have introduced a bill that aims to keep physical money in circulation. With the rise of digital payments and wallets, the use of cash has been declining rapidly …

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So many people don’t know how inflation works

via Reddit: Just a rant here. Whenever I’m scrolling through non-financial subreddits, especially the car subreddits, I find it amazing that so many people have a very poor grasp of how monetary supply, debt, and inflation works. All I read is about greedy corporations, greedy dealers and misplaced anger. Did …

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Don’t worry he’s a perfect Presidential candidate for 2028

“Climate change” will now become the excuse for every Democrat failure. https://t.co/ChMwT087pR — Phil Cooke (@PhilCooke) May 12, 2024 Reporter: Can we explain to Californians how we moved from $100 billion surplus to such a significant deficit in just a few years? Gavin Newsom: Climate Change pic.twitter.com/ngYw8JfjJv — Kevin Dalton …

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“SoftBank’s implosion is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You know the outcome, but you just don’t know how many frames are left before you get there”

“SoftBank's implosion is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You know the outcome, but you just don't know how many frames are left before you get there” https://t.co/NStRjrwJml pic.twitter.com/3GA2FX4Ra7 — JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) May 13, 2024 This is one of my favorite #Softbank 2023 shenanigans so far 🤭 …

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YOU DON’T SAY: IMF’s Gopinath says high U.S. deficits fueling growth, higher interest rates.

As the IMF’s Gita Gopinath highlights the repercussions of high U.S. deficits on global economic dynamics, concerns arise over the sustainability of economic growth amid rising deficits and the need for comprehensive fiscal reforms. Important Information and Details: IMF’s Gita Gopinath highlights the impact of high U.S. deficits on global …

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Rand Paul — I will allow FISA 702 spying bill to expire if I don’t get a vote on my amendment.

https://twitter.com/RedWave_Press/status/1779991441516765220 Check these quotes from Rand Paul. Senators in both parties are warning the expanded surveillance authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) could lapse after Friday because of a battle over amending the House bill, which has become a target of conservative Republicans and some Democrats. Opponents of …

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