august 2020

g and I subscribed to NYT and The Atlantic this month (she has one, I have the other and we're sharing between the two) so I think you'll start seeing a LOT more NYT articles, lol. I also set up a password to access my dad's LA Times account too!

Loving Vincent (2017), The Speed Cubers, ford vs Ferrari (2019), spirited away (2001), Ed Astra (2019), joker (2019), class action Park (2020), an american pickle

Wave 3 - Kentucky town hires social workers instead of more officers - and the results are surprising

BBC - Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children

Vogue - How Hair Salons Are Mobilizing to Help Clean Up the Mauritius Oil Spill

Asia Society - Asian Americans Then and Now

The Atlantic - American Passports Are Useless Now

Mother Jones - Please Excuse My Lack of Gratitude Over a Female Vice President

Taste - The Convenient Truth of Rotisserie Chicken

Mother Jones - Protesters Arrested in Tennessee Could Now Lose Their Right to Vote

Vice - How a Joke Twitter T-Shirt Exposes a Frustration Many Asian Women Share

NYT - America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them.

YT - Sweatpants Forever

The Guardian - From farm to factory: the unstoppable rise of American chicken

Wired - Meet the Star Witness: Your Smart Speaker

ABC News - Virus causes uncertainty for state lotteries

The Guardian - White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

The Smithsonian - Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind

Alta - California’s Lone Wolf Pack

The Smithsonian - Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue

BBC - Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed in DNA study

Mental Floss - The Forgotten Uses of 8 Everyday Objects

The Atlantic - Now We'll Know What the Recession Feels Like

Ideas. Ted. - How to make your arguments stronger (hint: longer is not the answer)

Political - The Racist History of Tipping

Vox - MacKenzie Scott is donating her billions much faster than her ex Jeff Bezos

The Conversation - 5 takeaways from MacKenzie Scott’s $1.7 billion in support for social justice causes

The NYT - We’re 20 Percent of America, and We’re Still Invisible

"People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States, but for the most part, we remain invisible."

Ideas.Ted - Want to fight climate change? Educate a girl

"Educating girls is one of the most cost-effective, high-impact ways for every nation on earth to fight the rising temperatures and atmospheric changes that threaten us all. It’s a simple and basic reality. But why hasn’t more been said about this? Why hasn’t this been the topic of media coverage worldwide? I can only imagine it’s because the climate change discussion has been largely driven by Western nations — and in Western nations, girls’ education is a given. It’s not a topic most Westerners think about."

The Atlantic - Americans Are Determined to Believe in Black Progress

"In 1963, the median Black family had about 5 percent as much wealth as the median white family. Respondents said close to 50 percent. For 2016, the respondents estimated Black wealth to be 90 percent that of whites. The correct answer for that year was about 10 percent."

"For instance, there’s what might be called the generational fallacy: Many who acknowledge the reality of racism see salvation in the ebbing presence of older white people and their replacement by a surging mass of enlightened younger people. But generational change is not so simple. Young people’s racial attitudes are more like their parents’ than they may realize. (It is also the case that this “solution,” even if effective, would be very slow.)"

"The mythology of racial progress is corrosive in countless ways. It provides a reason to blame the victim: If we’re converging on equality, then those left behind must not be trying. And it diffuses moral responsibility for actively and significantly reforming the American system: If we’re converging on equality anyway, then why do we need laws and other measures to promote it?"

CNN - Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters

good. what would even be the point of actual people voting if the electoral college can vote for whomever they want? ...tho seriously, we should just rid of the whole electoral college.

The Atlantic - The Lesson Americans Never Learn

liberals WANT government to be providing these things. it's the conservatives who don't because, at least the poorer ones, have been brainwashed to believe that choice is the most important thing. rich conservatives don't care about privatization of resources because they have the resources to spend and they're the profiteering of it.

Refinery29 - Why Have Incarcerated People Been On The Frontlines Of California Wildfires?

“The inmates should have been put on the fire lines, fighting fires,” Mike Hampton, a former corrections officer who previously worked at an inmate fire camp, told the New York Times. “How do you justify releasing all these inmates in prime fire season with all these fires going on?”

...um, NO. that's not their job. we abuse them by asking they fight fires for us, but they have no obligation to do so. it's stupid w should depend on such labor. ...more stupid, of course, is that we have so many people in prison to begin with.