Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024
On this day in 1938, The League of Nations unanimously outlawed “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
There’s a phenomenon where someone writes an essay about this or that but someone else wants to discuss something that has not yet made it to the front page.
This is unfair to everybody involved. It’s unfair to the guy who wrote the original essay because, presumably, he wants to talk about his original essay. It’s unfair to the guy who wants to talk about his link because it looks like he’s trying to change the subject. It’s unfair to the people who go to the comments to read up on the thoughts of the commentariat for the original essay and now we’re talking about some other guy’s links.
So!
The intention is to have a new one of these every week. If you want to talk about a link, post it here! Or, heck, use it as an open thread.
And, if it rolls off, we’ll make a new one. With a preamble just like this one.
California just legalized marijuana cafes. (This is after the governor vetoed Farmer’s Markets for weed.)
The sticking point was California’s “no smoking” laws.
So they hammered out that the staff in the back that makes the food would be protected from the smokers in the front.
I guess that, to this point, California’s lounges worked like Colorado’s taprooms. You could buy the beer and drink the beer in the taproom but the taproom couldn’t produce or serve food.
So there was usually a food truck parked next to the taproom and you could wander back and forth between the two.
I don’t understand the farmer’s market veto but, hey. If those farmer’s markets were like the farmer’s markets when I was a kid, it’s probably related to the whole haggling/cash thing. It was easy to sweet talk a farmer and get an extra ear of corn or a bonus pint of blueberries. Doing that with stuff that’s still federally regulated? That’s just asking for trouble. Probably.Report
One of the many downstream impacts of Biden’s intervening in the railroad workers strike last year is that business will now expect him to intervene in everything for the rest of his term – and by extension will expect Harris to do so as well.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5124956/dockworkers-strike-shipping-east-gulf-coast-portsReport
The media continues to sanewash for Trump. CNN is stating that Trump is offering a message for unity after Helene. He is doing nothing of the sort: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/more-sanewashing-from-the-national-mediaReport