Update: this is the best post I’ve ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.
Election Day is nearly here, and if you haven’t already mailed in your ballot or gone in for early voting, you might need a ride come November 5.
Here’s a roundup of some of the freebies, discounts, and information on getting to the polls that organizations are offering.
Lyft
Lyft announced that riders can preload the code VOTE24 for a half-price discount of up to $10 on rideshare, bike-share, or scooter rides on or before Nov. 5. The code is only valid between 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. every time zone.
Uber
Uber also announced it will offer half-off rideshare costs of up to $10 on Election Day for users in most states.
Using a new “Go Vote” tile displayed on the app, users can book a ride to the nearest poll with the discount unless they are in California or Georgia. The offer works between 4 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. local time on Nov. 5. The company will also offer 25% off food orders up to $15 with a minimum order of $25.
Lime
Lime is offering free rides to and from your polling place to vote early or on Election Day. Riders can use the promo code VOTE2024 to get two free 30-minute rides in the U.S.
Bird & Spin
Bird and Spin are also offering two free rides as part of their Roll to the Polls initiative. Riders can use the code RockTheVote2024 in the app.
Rideshare2Vote
Rideshare2Vote helps voters in need of a ride get to their local polling facilities for free. Ridshare2Vote is available in seven swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), as well as Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. If you live in one of these states and have a car, you can also volunteer to drive others to the polls. Go to Rideshare2Vote.com or call 888-977-2250 for more information.
Rides to the Polls (Georgia Only)
The New Georgia Project’s Rides to the Polls program will give free rides to voting sites for Georgia residents on Nov. 5 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Go to newgeorgiaproject.org/rides or call 800-874-1541 for more information.
Moovit
Moovit has integrated tens of thousands of polling locations from 130 counties across 11 states into its trip-planning app. The app also provides users with quick access to voter registration information and which transit agencies are offering free rides.
Transit Agencies / Public Transportation
There are countless transit agencies offering free rides on Election Day — everywhere from Detroit to Des Moines to Durham — so be sure to check with your local authority.
Please share any additional resources you’re aware of. Let’s make it easy for people to get to the polls!
Ok but you need to understand that if your business has shareholders, this is literally illegal.
In the U.S. it is federal law that a business must do everything within its power–including environmental damage and worker exploitation–to maximize investor profits every year, or those shareholders are entitled to sue the business and it will be dismantled to pay what they are legally owed.
Shareholders have too many rights.
The system needs to be overhauled massively, but shareholders should be able to sue for less and should be able to be sued (and prosecuted)for more.
You want to invest? Fine. That’s what you’re doing, and that’s all you’re doing. If you don’t like the business’s plans or how they handle their money, you sell your stock and go someplace else. You take the dividend payout you’re given, and you’re the last person in line when handing out money.
Your investment doesn’t work out? That’s what gambling is. Better luck next time.
We also need a law that says that if a company is convicted of a crime, it’s board of directors and CEO are automatically guilty of committing that crime via conspiracy, and subject to the “for humans” laws rather than the “for companies.”
That means if Wal-Mart steals millions in worker wages, the CEOs and Board are prosecuted as if they’d robbed a bank of that same amount. If Hobby-Lobby smuggles artifacts, the people at the top are prosecuted as smugglers and thieves. If a company dumps toxic waste into a river against regulations, well, if any individual human did it, we’d call them a terrorist.
And we need a law that makes it so that companies that settle with the government cannot admit “no wrongdoing”.
This is also why enshittification begins almost immediately when a startup goes public.
This is misinformation! If you buy into it, it only strengthens the myth that companies must prioritise investor profits above all else.
You can blame Milton Friedman, the inventor of neoliberalism, for this legal mythmaking.
Let’s look at a US Supreme Court Judgement: ’modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else’.
Friendly reminder that almost half of the states in the U.S. have same day registration! This means you can go to the polling center for your location, register there, and cast your vote same day. So if you are over 18, are a U.S. citizen, and live in one of the states listed below, it is not too late to register and vote! I’m going to put notes for some of the states where voting is extra important due to the political climate of the state.
California
Colorado
Connecticut
D.C.
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa – recent polls indicate state could flip from red to blue
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina – swing state! Could go red or blue
North Dakota – voter registration not required
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin – swing state! Could go red or blue
Wyoming
You can go here for more info on voter registration
Reading articles about MrBeast’s dominance of YouTube is fucking bizarre because, from my perspective, the dude isn’t even on YouTube. I’ve never watched one of his videos. YouTube has, to the best of my knowledge, never recommended one of his videos to me. Every thumbnail screenshot of his looks like something you could tell me was a photoshopped parody of YouTube culture, and I’d believe you. No one I follow on YouTube ever mentions him, even negatively or in passing. The first time I ever heard his name was in regards to the quality of his ghost kitchens. The only way I know he isn’t a mass, shared hallucination is that I’ve witnessed the thoroughly mid-looking chocolate bars he sells at Walmart for some reason
Given the apparent eleventeen ongoing scandals it feels appropriate to bring this one back
Okay. Okay. I’m still not over this, but I’m starting to piece it together in my head.
This is NOT an accurate telling of the history of corn mazes. This is just a hypothesis.
So. What do we need for a corn maze? Well, we need cornfields, and we need the concept of a vegetation maze.
Hedge mazes are a European concept, first created in the mid 16th century.
And while indigenous Americans obviously had corn, they typically grew it alongside other plants and not in vast monocultures.
And so corn mazes can only exist after the widespread adoption of maize by Europeans AND the existence of hedge mazes.
But during this time, is a corn maze a good idea?
A corn maze isn’t something you make on a whim. It’s something that has to planned well in advance— and not only that, but with every path you draw, you’re losing some of your crop! And if you’re a farmer, that’s your entire livelihood! While the wealthy elite can afford to splurge on a purely decorative plant to make a maze from, you certainly can’t do the same with your product.
So a field with a maze needs to somehow bring in more money than a field without a maze to be worth considering. How does that happen?
Agritourism.
Agritourism only works as a concept when most of the population doesn’t already live on a farm. There’s no reason to draw people to your farm in colonial America, where 90% of everyone there sees a farm every day.
So this rules out any year before 1900 on principle alone.
Not only that, but to earn any actual revenue, you need a lot of middle and even lower-class people from cities and towns actually coming to your farm specifically. This isn’t feasible without the widespread adoption of the automobile.
And so corn mazes can only exist after 1920.
But why would anyone in 1920 focus on agritourism? The added costs of labor, advertising, and crop loss would far outweigh any revenue gained. The vast majority of family farmers were doing fine without it!
Until they weren’t.
As farming became more consolidated by massive corporations, family farms were suddenly seeing less and less money. All of a sudden, agritourism became a viable option. If you aren’t making that much money off of your crops in the first place, then it doesn’t matter too much if you hack them up a bit.
And when do we see a significant dip in the profits of family farms?
(from the USDA)
A large dip in 1975, and a nearly vertical slope around 1989.
Now the idea of a corn maze is a feasible one. Especially when the pressure to create new, novel experiences in your farm starts really packing on near the turn of the decade.
Corn mazes can only exist after 1989.
corn mazes are possibly a direct result of unchecked corporate oligopolies
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