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You get 8, evenly spaced holidays per year and they have nothing to do with Blue Eyed Jesus OR capitalism!! And they work just fine if you're an atheist, you can just celebrate the Earth's relative position to the sun.

Add the full moons and you're never far from a holiday.

I've started using the Celtic calendar to mark the seasons. I don't have kids or a summer break, so it just helps avoid frustration at the weather. It fits better with the seasons where I live. It puts the solstices and equinoxes as the "peak" of the season instead of the beginning of the season like US calendars do. This is closer to how the weather works where I live in California.

Summer starts in the beginning of May (Beltane/May Day), peaks in June on the longest day of the year (Midsummer/Litha/Summer Solstice) and ends in the beginning of August (Lughnasadh/Lamas/First Harvest).

This also means that Christmas/Winter Solstice/Yule is peak winter, not the "first day of winter" which always seemed stupid to me, and Halloween is the closing of Fall.

Ew.

There are a few in my town and it's really hard not to stare as they go by, even after seeing them around a bit. I imagine a few accidents have happened by now because people can't stop rubbernecking and going "Holy shit, it looks even stupider in real life!!" >> crash.

Yeah, I think it's this one:

They're melting!

That's really neat, thanks for explaining!

OH, I get it. The pick up price is the purchase price. That's pretty clever. Does that mean the trash collectors have to pick every bag up by hand and glance at the contents? How many categories of trash/bag are there?

Interesting! Does the curbside program bill you by weight as well? That sounds labor intensive, compared to here where you just rent the $small, $$medium or $$$large bin and pay quarterly regardless of use. And recycling and composting are free.

That is neat! But since it charges you to put things in, wouldn't that encourage people to just throw their food in the trash? Or is that discouraged somehow?

The county I live in (Northern California) requires that household food waste go into the curbside compost bin, or home compost. They do random checks to make sure you haven’t put any food in the landfill bin and you can get a fine.

It gets turned into compost for landscaping, along with the yard waste, not food though.

While Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin has warned that climate change threatens “our very way of life,” GOP challenger Eric Hovde compared clean energy tax credits to “corporate welfare.”

I thought they were into that..?