This isn't uplifting, just an opportunity to ignore the inevitable trajectory of water in the Western US - too many straws vying slurping up the same limited water supply

Happy cake day - now quit talking the truth.

The person you are replying to is saying 200,000 per pill.

Many places use a . where you are used to seeing a ,.

He's also sold 600 bags of pretzels and they describe his business as booming. I mean.. Elon Musk has autism.

We need to just stop all of it.

It wastes our water, and brings in relatively little money, Without it, we have all the water we need to live here.

If people want salad, they can grow the stuff elsewhere.

Oh for fucks sakes don't cure cancer publicly. They will have to invent something worse.

It would probably cost more. But to be quite honest I think that growing in the winter in the southwest probably is not the worst decision, it’s growing in the summer, combined with flood irrigation that is an egregious waste of water. Even if irrigation moved to drip or more water conserving sources that would be a help. And the govt needs to STOP subsidizing certain crops to be grown in arid regions for export. Also also water laws in the SW are bananas.

I see it as inspiring those with autism or any disability that they too can also run successful businesses as well. That self-sufficiency is possible with autism or disabilities. In the article, he didn’t feel self-sufficient in his workplace so he decided to create something of his own.

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Fine with me; what's taking so long?

I'm also autistic and have accomplished something great with the support of another.

Without their support I would have never done that.

So I understand and unfortunately we often do not get the support we need to do great things.

Or just grow it in greenhouses in the southeast US.

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>wait does my lettuce in NJ come from Arizona? Why would they even do that.... oh money.

80% of the lettuce in the US after September comes from Arizona, because it's too cold to grow it elsewhere.

Agriculture uses around 85% of our water, but accounts for about 2% of our income.

We need to tack on a $5 per head water use surcharge.

wait does my lettuce in NJ come from Arizona? Why would they even do that.... oh money.

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I hope you understand you are making a claim, in saying that california is different from national statistics. In any scenario this article says it’s 3% according to the california association of realtors: https://infogram.com/international-buyers-in-california-1h1749ngpedd2zj

Autistic person here, what's with the title? It sounds like it's implying autistic people are deficient in some way and therefore its awe inspiring that one owns a business

Said better than I could. I'm thankful that that was available for them.

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I'm not the one making the claim, its not my perogative to, also again, Australia/Canada doesn't apply to California

They've been moved outside the environment.

A lot of these possibilities are due to having very strong support networks and many autistics need to rely on running their own business to function in this world unfortunately.

I'm glad for his success and wish him the best.

Man that article was depressing if anything.

>we need to get farms out of the arid climate

Agreed. Stop eating lettuce in the winter.

Edit: I love the down-votes; everyone loves to tell us how to live in the desert, but they get upset when we point out that they're part of the problem.