We did get sun yesterday followed by a very chilly night. The temperature should get up into the low 50s. It is still too cold over night to put any transplants out. I think I will put off getting any for another two weeks. The local supermarket moved all their transplants inside for a bit. I look but they have nothing I want to grow.
East Palestine update. So far it is following a familiar pattern: disaster strikes, pledges of help until "every person is made whole," intense press coverage, then it all falls away and the most vulnerable are left to somehow get by.
Now they wait for the snow to melt and pray.
I have heard a lot over the last 40 years of "grade inflation," the practice of giving a student a higher grade they didn't earn. But we always thought military medals like the Bronze Star were for combat valor. Evidently not.
All over the world working people have been engaging in strikes and other actions to get higher wages and benefits in the wake of drastically increasing prices for everything. This piece in the Guardian features the Chief Economist at Bank of England who thinks they should all chill our and simply accept that they are poorer. That reminds me of Medieval priests telling their people that they were in the stations to which god had placed them and aspiring to anything more was heresy. For that economist for whom the inflation is most likely an inconvenience to suggest others who can't cover their heat, or electricity, or rent, or food should accept poverty is just about as clueless.
Well, the Supreme Court has decided to let the climate and disinformation suit agains Exxon and Shell go forward. A lot of information is out in the ether about the decades long effort by the oil giants to obfuscate and deny what the burning of their products are doing to the environment. What ever the lower courts decide I am sure the case will come back up to the Supremes.
Shortly after finding that Guardian story above I found this one. The Chinese government is not very happy with young graduates from universities who don't want to turn a wrench after working for years to get their educations. I guess no one is really happy with the younger generation.
When factory "farming" becomes insane. So many economist talk about efficiency but a totally efficient system is brittle and can fail spectacularly.
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