The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled.

This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.

Curious: How did it become standard for people to react to stressful situations with self-destructive behaviors (smoking, drinking, eating our feelings, etc)?

For anyone who need to watch their spending, here's this list:
www.newsweek.com/american-bus...

Does anyone remember like 10 or 15 years ago when we all joked about Musk becoming a supervillain?
Jokes on us now, looks like.

I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...