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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: The Dutch roll back teh stupid
Date: 05/17/24 9:46 PM
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The Netherlands are a marvel of agriculture. Pound for pound, they're a marvel of agriculture.

nationalgeographic.com - Holland agriculture sustainable farming

One more reason to marvel: The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1,300 inhabitants per square mile. It’s bereft of almost every resource long thought to be necessary for large-scale agriculture. Yet it’s the globe’s number two exporter of food as measured by value, second only to the United States, which has 270 times its landmass. How on Earth have the Dutch done it?

Naturally, of course, the Greens want to close all this down because Reasons.

At any rate, the Dutch had enough and swung their government to the right for the first time in a long time. And now...

Hope, Guts, and Pride.

Maybe we'll get the US back to that one day.

dutchnews.nl - Hope guts and pride the new right wing dutch coalition plans

*Tougher amnesty rules, including mandatory Holocaust education
*No more compulsory livestock reductions
*Nuclear power is back, big time
*More nat gas
*Wind farms to go offshore, except for where fishing fleets need to be
*Tougher crime laws
*Anti-public violence laws

And more! We need some of this in the states!

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