2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2022 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Affected person readers, in the present day’s Water Cooler is transient, to not say austere, as a result of I need to hustle alongside to complete a submit on airplane air flow. So discuss amongst yourselves! –lambert

Contact info for crops: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a examine if you’re allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me pictures of crops. Greens are high quality! Fungi and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! If you would like your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize by utilizing your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Danpaco:

Danpaco writes: “This can be a very joyful cactus on the base of a Norway maple on a previous tree lined avenue in downtown Toronto! The place am I?? In response to the neighborhood this isn’t some seasonal transplant, it’s there all 12 months spherical. Judging from the patch behind the tree I might say it’s doing properly.”

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