Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
Many farmers weren't inclined to help him out. Especially in the first years after the law was passed. Limas recalls the initial reaction: "At first it's like, 'You're crazy if you think you're going to come on my place and ... figure out how much I'm pumping. That's my water.' "
Externalities don't exist if I say so!
This is the mindset that has been given to like 95% of rural Americans who think they’re like Yeoman farmers because they hunt twice a year and have a pot of tomatoes on their patio.
In a new push to stop further depletion of California's shrinking aquifers, state regulators are turning to technology once used to count Soviet missile silos during the Cold War: satellites.
Ah yes satellites
A brief history of satellites:
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Werner Von Braun defects (post-war) to the US
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During the Cold War, American satellites are used to count Soviet missiles
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In 2021, satellites are repurposed to look at water consumption by agriculture
There's all you need to know about the wonderful world of satellites!
They were just hanging out in space doing nothing until they could figure out they could do this with them
I THOUGHT I WAS THE LITTLE TEAPOT I SAID SO IN THE SONG
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God forbit the central cal farmers actually pay for the water they use to grow water sucking almonds grown for export or water intensive beef.
Relishing the thought of revolutionary justice wrought upon those who have stolen the most water for profit
Imagine if we meme'd all of final fantasy 7 into a left-wing dogwhistle.
Cloud Strife became our pepe or some shit like that.
I’d take Barret too, since I feel he’s the dedicated revolutionary.
“Blowing up a mako reactor” is a nice dogwhistle :soviet-playful:
