2020
New Viking Stereo Compact, 1960 via
“I’ve Done It!’ MARTIN KLASCH via
‘People don’t get it’: inside the world of hyper-realistic baby doll collecting
… a doll “doesn’t turn into a teenager who wants an iPhone 11”.
Where Medicare-for-all is real Today, Explained]
Looking at the healthcare systems in Taiwan, which has universal public healthcare and the Netherlands, which offers universal private health insurance. Two very different approaches, same goal.
Why liberals keep losing: We confuse slacktivism for activism
Eitan Hersh’s Politics Is for Power explains why liberals keep losing
Sean Illing at Vox:
If you spend a lot of time consuming news, there’s a good chance you’re doing politics wrong….
This is the thesis of a new book called Politics Is for Power by Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts University. …
He coins the term “political hobbyism” to capture the problem. “We participate in politics by obsessive news-following and online slacktivism, by feeling the need to offer a hot take for each daily political flare-up, by emoting and arguing and debating, almost all of this from behind screens,” Hersh says. Many of us think we’re politically active — but in fact, we’re doing little more than signaling who we are to other people. We may be emotionally invested in politics, but we’re not actually committed to solving problems….
Hersh argues you need to get out in the community and engage with other people to make change. Work locally, where individuals have an impact, not nationally, where our voices barely matter. Bottom up, not top down.
Conservatives get this, which is why they’ve been winning, Hersh says. Liberals are mostly clueless in this area.
Yep.
Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race
It’s a race to the bottom.
She didn’t die eating a ham sandwich. The ham sandwich on her nightstand the night she died was untouched.
It probably wasn’t obesity that killed her. She weighed 220 pounds at the time of her death. That’s fat, but likely would not have been fatal at her young age. More likely it was years of yo-yo crash diets that was fatal.
Broughton worked “as an assistant at a porn studio during her early college days.” Part of her work involved cleaning the sets at night.
She says, “Dealing with the inevitable bodily fluids made me feel my own humanity and then the vulnerability of the models who had performed for the camera that day.”
Playful dog enthusiastically fails service dog tests.
Alternate title: Me on a job interview.
The Register: Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about this: Good for privacy – or an alarming move towards further internet centralization?
Also, governments and ISPs are concerned that DSN-over-HTTPS will make it harder to filter Internet traffic. That’s actually a plus, unless you need the government or your ISP telling you what you’re not allowed to look at.
Mike Dano: Mirantis co-founder targets 5G ‘oligopoly’ with private networks startup FreedomFi:
A new startup in the wireless industry has set its sights on nothing less than tearing down “the oligopoly of a few large players” by leveraging unlicensed spectrum and open source technology.
After all, “he who controls 5G, controls the universe,” writes Mirantis Co-Founder and CMO Boris Renski.