#Louisiana passed a bill prohibiting online services from allowing people under 18 to sign up for accounts without parental consent, and allows parents to cancel contracts underlying their children’s accounts on sites like #TikTok and Roblox
The Louisiana Industry Defense Council has rebranded itself as the Louisiana Industry Sustainability Council, but don’t let that fool you, their message is the same: ignore locals’ desires for a clean, healthy #environment and promote #industry at all costs.
In an area known as #CancerAlley is it really unreasonable to be weary of new development?
The oil and retail industry have profited the most. Crazy, deeply immoral and unethical.
The poor folks at the bottom of the supply chain earning mere pennies, and the consumer at the end overpaying significantly. All to the benefit rich shareholders.
The other day I tooted about laurel leaves going from Turkey to Netherlands, and in that short chain rising from 0.33 to 850 Euro/kg.
@tobi@HaruCoryne@ProPublica Yes, because most urban/suburban areas aren't designed for bikes, so living somewhere where biking is even an option is, to a small degree, "elitist".
Now, riding your bike to the bus and then riding the bus across town to work every day... that's how the "real" poor folks live.
Anybody here ever listen to WBRH in Baton Rouge, LA?
The blues Legend, Tabby Thomas, used to host an amazing local Blues show there and send out dedications to people he met at blues shows over the weekend.
He would say, "This one goes out to you, you and you!"
His son, Chris Thomas King, played the blues singer at the Crossroads in O Brother Where Art Thou?
I come from the land of very good music and very good food.
I didn't really know where to put all the rage and grief over the current legislative session here in #Louisiana, so I made a new podcast (as one does, of course).
"Sophie's Legislative Review & Authoritarian Bingo Extravaganza'' serves up everything one needs to know about each anti-#trans / anti-#LGBTQ+ bill in 15 minutes or less. It's updated as the bills move through committee
If you have a chance to listen, I'd love to hear what you think :)