Going alone can be nice, depending on what you want to see/do vs what other people want to see/do. My mother isn't a fan of crowds either, but makes an exception for the state fair.
I'm going to try new stuff like the indigenous food lab that the other commenter mentioned, but yeah, I've also got favorites that I save room for. In my case it's the fry buckets, and the earth wings at French Meadow.
Neat! I wonder if the food lab is associated with Owmani. I went there a while back and had the cricket popcorn, which was weird but weirdly good. I really liked the food there, so I'm excited to see that there's something similar at the fair.
I'm split between a sarcastic "Won't anyone think of the corporations?!" response, and a "This is probably the only way to get real climate change action, when it affects their bottom line" response.
I also wonder how much time and money we're going to spend on breeding and genetic engineering to fix things that didn't need to break in the first place. Based on companies like Monsanto patenting seeds, I'm not enthusiastic about that future. "We've changed the climate so that you can't grow anything but our seeds that only work once" would be a great premise for some dystopian sci fi.
I wonder if that's where this character got his name from. He's from around the same time period
Neat! I can understand some of that, and I'd like to understand the rest. Is there a guide or explainer?
Sounds great right up until the dogs get heartworm and die young
Are they unable to stand up straight? Is this some sort of contagion?
This meme isn't entirely a joke
Is there a good report card on how well Biden stuck to his promises for his term? Something neutral-ish and/or nuanced? There's this, but it's hard to know how much is just the administration pumping itself up. It's also kind of vague:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
There's articles like this that talk about only 7 EV stations being built out of $7.5B spent, but from what I understand that's because the money was spent on setting up standards so that we'd get stations that actually worked and could self-report if they were broken, as opposed to a bunch of crap, and things should move much more quickly now.
Oh thanks 👍