Did you see the beautiful red fox he snared? 🦊 Glad to see his fur season worked out well for him, it will make him a little money 💰 and put long-lasting, natural and organic fur on the market instead of disposable plastic furs. 🌎
The wind is really whipping around, with a little bit of snow blowing around. 28 degrees but the wind chill makes it feel like the single digits. I guess it’s winter …
Two teenage Wyoming boys wanted to get out of the house over their holiday break, so they decided to hop saddle up and go grab a bite to eat.
Joel Perez and Trajen Collins rode their horses into town and decided to bring an extra passenger, a goat.
FIRE (short for Financial Independence, Retire Early) is served in many flavors, all of which are based on core ingredients listed on Reddit’s financial independence sub-reddit.
At first blush, the principles look like they’ve been copied and pasted from your garden-variety personal finance blog: spend less, grow your income, harness the power of compounding. But FIRE really is more of a life philosophy than anything, combining personal finance with a DIY work ethic, opportunistic side hustles, life hacking, and the tenets of anti-consumerism.
I've always been interested in this not because I do the more extreme things by the FIRE people, 🔥 but I do put a priority on saving, investing, and working towards retirement. I would like to retire closer 55 then 65, 👴🏽 at least from my 9-5 job, so I have time in my life to enjoy my off-grid property, 🏡 do a little hobby farming, 🐐 hunt, trap and enjoy life before I'm too old. And maybe even burn some stuff too.
WBJ's latest annual report, a mix of new and previously released data derived from facilities around the country, offers an in-depth look at the implications of looming capacity crunches in certain areas. While permitted expansions and possibly even new sites can be expected to change that equation, they haven't kept up at the same pace to offset capacity losses in recent years. And even though some U.S. landfills still have many decades or more of space left, it is becoming increasingly complicated to export the waste to wherever that capacity may be.
The Northeast is still the only region with net waste exports, according to the report. And as the area's list of active MSW landfills continues to shrink – with minimal appetite for expansions, let alone new sites – it is widely expected this trend will continue. The Northeast's concentration of incinerators and other waste-to-energy facilities are also largely at capacity, with similar resistance to any expansions.
Many advocates for women's rights are watching Virginia closely, as the state's legislature goes into session Wednesday. That's because the Equal Rights Amendment has a good chance of being ratified by Virginia lawmakers.
The ERA nearly passed there last year. The then-Republican-controlled Senate approved the amendment with solid Democratic support, and it was one vote shy of getting a floor vote in the Republican-led House after that. November's elections then swept Democrats into control of both the House and Senate.
If lawmakers pass the ERA this session, Virginia would become the 38th state to ratify it, and an amendment needs 38 states to be fully ratified and added to the U.S. Constitution.
However, it's not clear what would happen after that. Here's what the ERA would do and why its future is so murky.
