I feel like an important message is trying to be communicated to me but I have no idea what it is
Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! This is super useful for so many things, especially paper production! In addition, hemp takes in carbon dioxide 4x as fast as trees do, which makes it especially valuable in the act of reducing CO2 emissions/greenhouse gases! đ˛đ˛đ˛Â sourceÂ
Important reminder that industrial hemp canât be used as a recreational drug, so if anyone tries to pull that card you can just stop them then and there. There are no real arguments against using industrial hemp, even if youâre rigidly against the legalization of any recreational drugs.
the best part is that if hemp is legalized there wonât be anymore hemp activists
I work in hotels/resorts, and honestly, take the little shampoos and soaps! We throw them away when you leave (we donât know if youâve opened them and messed with them or whatever, so for health and safety it all goes in the trash) If you stay at the fancier places or chains, theyâve actually done some bit of thought into the scents for the toiletries, in that if you use them while at home youâll remember the time you stayed at the hotel and be more likely to return.
Just donât take the towels or the robes or any of that shit, itâs expensive.
This is true, all soaps, shampoos, and the like are tossed after a guest checks out of the hotel even if itâs clearly unopened because it is considered a health hazard violation in most places if theyâre left there. If someone were to somehow get sick from it, a hotel can be shut down. Just take the toiletries, theyâre ordered in bulk as is and only cost the hotel a few dollars to order them by the hundreds
And even if you donât use them, you can donate them to your local homeless shelter or other similar charity and give someone something they could use that would otherwise go to waste.
PLEASE TAKE THE SOAPS. PLEASE DONATE THE SOAPS. Itâs one of the biggest requests shelters/supply banks get. You want to make their fucking day? Show up with socks, undies, diapers, and toiletries.
Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.
This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.
I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.
After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, âWell, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!â And theyâll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like Iâm just now understanding it. Then I explain, âThere might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.âÂ
If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. Thatâs why eight year olds can understand equity.Â
I remember reading somewhere once âwe should be speaking of equity instead of equalityâ and that is a principle that applies here me thinks
It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. Theyâre just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.
Keep in mind that the instability of our currency is a *feature*, not a bugâwhen the dollar gets weak, it makes domestic products cheaper for foreign buyers, which naturally encourages investment in our products by foreign trade partners. Essentially, the instability of our currency makes our recessions less bad, and less long-lasting, than they would be if we were backed by gold or if we couldnât print our own money to pay our debts.Â
Thatâs why, for example, Greece is in as bad a situation as it isâthey donât control their own currency (the Euro), which means their currency essentially has a fixed value. Itâs not truly fixed, but it is related to the economy of Europe as a whole rather than to Greece in particular, which means the only way it encourages foreign investment is if all of Europe suffers a recessionâwhich it is terribly unlikely to do outside of a worldwide recession that would prevent it from benefitingâplus what influx they do get from a weak Euro is not to the benefit of a single economy, but distributed amongst multiple separate economies.Â
This is one of the big weaknesses of the EU as a political entityâwhile it has a lot of benefits in terms of encouraging trade and immigration amongst its member states, economically speaking it doesnât go far enough to unify the European economy and therefore actually *weakens* its member states that donât retain their own currency. And despite this, leaving the EU after already having become a member hurts the economy *even more* than joining it in the first place did (see for example how badly Britain is being affected by the clusterfuck that is Brexit).
Thus, Greece was in between Scylla and Charybdis when their economic blunders hit home. They couldnât print their own money to pay their debts, and they also werenât enjoying the benefits of a truly unified European economyâthey were forced to take loans from other Euro-states like Germany who imposed austerity measures as terms of their loans that were *even worse* for their economy. It might be generations before Greece is again a healthy economic entity, and while in large part this was due to mismanagement of their governmentâs spending practices, the reason itâs going to be as long-lasting an effect as it is was because their currency was too stable for them to easily bounce back.
tl;dr: Instability in currency might make the economic highs less high, but it also makes the economic lows a lot less low. The net effect is beneficial.
And yes, Iâm well aware Iâve put far too much effort into a reply to a silly thread about the economic ramifications of hamburger coins. Iâm just passionate about the importance of fiat currency and deflating the âcommon senseâ belief a lot of people have that a currency that has a stable value is superior.
I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said Iâm not registered
PLEASE, especially if youâre a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org
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