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There's a sign for that.

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It's wonderful that Jeff Bezos has found love — but see the problem here?

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"Everyday millionaires" are defined as those with net worths between $1 million and $5 million.

Even accounting for inflation, the number of everyday millionaires in 2024 was 2.5 times what it was in 2000.

And

State of play: Driving this growth in the U.S. are home prices, which have skyrocketed in recent years, and the rapidly aging population … * More and more boomers are sitting free and clear on homes that have seen their values rise. … * This is also a population that has hugely benefited from federal tax policies, like the mortgage interest deduction, and the ability to put money into 401(k)s tax free. Between the lines: Boomers are the first generation to rely on private savings for retirement, mostly through 401(k)s. * These plans don't generate steady and predictable income like a pension would. A pension doesn't show in your wealth tally the way a 401(k) does. * So even though 401(k)s might make you technically wealthy, they do leave many feeling perpetually insecure, Axios has reported.

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2025 June 20

Major Lunar Standstill 2024-2025 Image Credit & Copyright: Luca Vanzella, Alister Ling

Explanation: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, planet Earth lies on the horizon. in this stack of panoramic composite images. In a monthly time series arranged vertically top to bottom the ambitious photographic project follows the annual north-south swing of sunrise points, from June solstice to December solstice and back again. It also follows the corresponding, but definitely harder to track, Full Moon rise. Of course, the north-south swing of moonrise runs opposite sunrise along the horizon. But these rising Full Moons also span a wider range on the horizon than the sunrises. That’s because the well-planned project (as shown in this video) covers the period June 2024 to June 2025, centered on a major lunar standstill. Major lunar standstills represent extremes in the north-south range of moonrise driven by the 18.6 year precession period of the lunar orbit.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250620.html

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I guess protein bars are just candy bars now, huh?

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From the link above:

In May of 1982, Budapest-born artist Agnes Denes congregated with a small group of volunteers at Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park Landfill. They planted wheat berries onto the plot of land, which, once grown, created a lush field of wispy stalks juxtaposed against the city’s skyline. Visually striking, the ecological artwork was in part a protest against exploitation, greed, and the destruction of people and the environment.

She's still at it, this time at a former industrial site in Montana called Tinworks.

As part of Wheatfield—An Inspiration, in a partnership with the agriculture department at Montana State University in Bozeman, Tinworks has been giving out spring wheat seeds to the community and inviting people to plant in solidarity on any fallow piece of land around town. In the autumn, Tinworks will have small mills on site to process harvested grain into flour, which will be used in bread by the neighbourhood bakery Wild Crumb and distributed by a local food bank.

In an NYT story about the work, it says the soil at Tinworks was tested, but learning that random fallow plots of land may be contaminated with pollution makes me feel uneasy about the safety of the flour made from these sites.

‘The War of Art’ Charts the Catalyzing History of Artists’ Protests in the U.S.

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I've been curious about foraging forever, but have always been afraid that I'll pick something poisonous that happens to look just like an edible species. And now to learn that even if you've picked the right plant, it may be contaminated by pollutants. Yikes.

🚨IT IS CURLY DOCK SEASON IN UTAH🚨

IF YOU SEE THIS PLANT:

YOU CAN TAKE IT HOME, SAUTE IT FOR 10 MINUTES ON MEDIUM-LOW HEAT (BE CAREFUL IT WILL TURN INTO GOOP IF YOU OVERCOOK IT) AND HAVE A PLATE FULL OF GREENS THAT TASTE LIKE SPINACH AND LEMON AND POTATOES.

It is a RIDICULOUS amount of free and delicious food. I passed a whole field of these growing by a bike trail. Like, ten leaves is enough to be very filling. That’s maybe a quarter of a plant. I only meant to eat them as a side but I was so full I’m just gonna save my chicken nuggets for tomorrow.

They’re not like, isolated to Beautiful Mountain Waterfalls on anything, I found mine growing in an abandoned lot by a parking lot. They’re just a little known delicacy.

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On the one hand, the received opinion that the long dash is a product of generative AI that basically didn’t exist in years past is a worrying sign about public literacy: Celebrated poets and philosophers from Emily Dickinson to Friedrich Nietzsche have been known to flaunt them in expressive ways, and many people serious about the craft of writing find them useful. Having no basic familiarity with it as a mark on the page is perhaps a measure of one’s limited reading. (That said, famed grammarian and lexicographer Bryan Garner has called it “perhaps the most underused punctuation mark in American writing,” so that could be a factor.)

Well, I use em dashes — proper ones, that is — when I feel like being fancy, but I wonder if their underuse is at least partly because there’s no such symbol on the keyboard and people just type them up as double hyphens?

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Also,

(Joe Raedle, Getty Images)

From the Netherlands

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Jeff Koons: make see-through electronics great again.

If you buy one of these, will people know it's a Koons collab, or will they think it's just some kitsch electronics stuffed into a balloon dog reproduction? Will you feel the urge to tell them, or will you sit back and bask in the "iykyk" smugness?

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Remember: every accusation is a confession.

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In short, it's bad. As bad as you think it would be. But you do have options.

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Saw an off-road Ford Super Duty pickup with a disabled veteran license plate reading "MAGADV." While the vehicle and sentiment fit the stereotype perfectly, one has to wonder what the driver thinks of Trump's attitude towards disabled veterans -- or if his information bubble would even allow that news to leak through.

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“Young people wasting money” is such a cliched topic. People were writing the same stories about Millennials 15 years ago.

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Their antennas are tuned to different frequencies.

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Well, it took me a whole year, but I just realized the reason that the median net worth above seemed so high is because it includes home equity. Based on DQYDJ's net worth calculator (I love that site; y'all should check it out), if we take home equity out of consideration, then the 50th percentile sits roughly at $67,000, which -- well, I don't have an exact number in mind, but it feels about right. A far cry from being a millionaire.

Oh, I looked up the median US home value too: it's about $420,000 (Redfin, Federal Reserve, and DQYDJ again). A simple (or simplistic) subtraction of this from the median net worth means the average American would be nearly a quarter million dollars in the hole ($193k minus $420k) if we take away their houses, but the real numbers tell me that's not how it works.

The Average American Is a Millionaire

Astounding, but true: the average American household is now worth $1.06 million. However, keep in mind that the headline statistic is the mean, and a more representative measure would be the median — in which case the average net worth drops to around $193,000.

(Which tbh still seems high, but maybe I should spend more time around rich people and adjust my expectations upward.)

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Can the bootlicking stop already? 🤮