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www.spokesman.com Washington cherry growers struggle to find pickers

The threat of federal agents raiding orchards is forcing a labor shortage that has caused some Washington producers to leave cherries unpicked or delay their harvests until fruit gets over ripe, which means they are getting paid less for the fruit at processors.

Washington cherry growers struggle to find pickers

A majority of people in Wenatchee voted Trump. They’re having the day they voted for

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SpaceX rocket explodes into a massive fireball during test
  • Unfortunately that’s incorrect. As much as I hate Elon, ULA would have been billing NASA cost plus for launches instead of the relatively cheap SpaceX ones.

    SpaceX/Starlink is also a good illustration of why you can’t leave that much power in the hands of one man in the private sector

  • Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO
  • Not what I said. I in fact said the specific company doesn’t matter because all VC money seeks to make more money and the easiest way to do that is parasitically jacking up costs to customers every quarter no matter what until the company collapses. Then rinse and repeat, making money each time. Does this screw people over? Absolutely. Are there legal consequences? Nope, so they can do it as many times as they want, forever