Tuesday, March 21, 2023
New mutual bank for NE/NY argiculture
Always wanted to be part of a mutual.
A mutual is a company owned by its customers, depositors in this case. They'll be focusing on supporting farmers, etc in the local area.
If it opens its doors as planned in January 2022, Walden Mutual Bank will be the first new mutual bank charter in New Hampshire in a century and the country’s first new mutual charter in five decades.
A mutual is a company owned by its customers, depositors in this case. They'll be focusing on supporting farmers, etc in the local area.
Monday, March 20, 2023
Acid Rain a scam?
Apparently the whole thing wasn't real, it was a side effect of the end of slash and burn farming?
According to Krug and other researchers, the reason that many lakes went from hosting aquatic life to becoming relatively sterile was not the advent of acidic precipitation, but rather the way that people had used land in the lake watersheds over the centuries. During eras when land use involved slash-and-burn agriculture, the soil runoff was relatively alkaline, thus allowing the lakes to support life.
Labels: science
RIP lower rungs of the economic ladder
Louis Rossman pointing out that due to manufacturers locking down their supply chains, it's becomming more and more difficult for people to start in the repair business. None of this benefits consumers, it all benefits Apple.
Labels: economics
