“In much the same way that the toilet paper industry was overwhelmed by the coronavirus quarantine, so, too, is the agriculture industry dealing with a sudden and unexpected shift in their priorities.”
“While the killing of George Floyd has galvanized support for tearing down statues, renaming sports teams and otherwise removing markers of a (more) racist past, the renewed push for change hasn’t really touched the nation’s prison system. But some say it should. Across the country, dozens of prisons take their names from racists, Confederates, plantations, segregationists, and owners of slaves.”
“What am I getting at here is that everyone has different things that they want to see or experience at Comic-Con and too many of then act like the whole convention should only be about that.”
“We find that the workers who experienced larger increases in UI generosity did not experience larger declines in employment when the benefits expansion went into effect. Additionally, we find that workers facing larger expansions in UI benefits have returned to their previous jobs over time at similar rates as others. We find no evidence that more generous benefits disincentivized work either at the onset of the expansion or as firms looked to return to business over time.”
“Deep Space Nine‘s Radical Depiction of Black Love”.
“This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail“.
“Before the iPhone, Venmo, or Spotify, there were ringtones. You might remember them fondly as those lo-fidelity sounds we used to communicate our highly refined music tastes every time someone called our cell. But ringtones were so much more than that. A billion-dollar industry silenced seemingly overnight, ringtones laid the foundations of modern mobile consumer technology and set the stage for the app store and mobile commerce as we know it today. And they are proof that even silly-seeming products can have an impact long after their memory fades away.”
“Big majorities make it possible to do big things, and that’s what the country needs right now.”
“Be strong. Be of good cheer. Don’t cower. But keep notes of the unfolding crimes before our eyes. Because accountability must come. And it will.”
“Rezba’s exercise in psychological self-protection evolved into a bona fide mission. Soon she was spending a couple of hours a day scouring the internet for the recently dead; it saddened, then enraged her to see how difficult they were to find, how quickly people who gave their lives in service to others seemed to be forgotten. The more she searched, the more convinced she became that this invisibility was not an accident.”
Oh, just swimming a lap in the Olympic pool with a glass of chocolate milk balanced on my head. You know, the usual.
“Federal judges should not have to live in fear, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas of the District of New Jersey said in a video statement Monday.”
“But a zombie movie purposefully trying to tap into the public’s current fears about killer viruses would do well to draw on the real world’s uneven response to the spread of covid-19, a dark part of our reality that isn’t likely to come to an end anytime soon.”
RIP, Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist and author. I found what Jelani Cobb had to say about him to be thoughtful and provocative.
Please don’t drink hand sanitizer. Thank you.
“The Trump administration could be in the process of planning several October surprises, which would mean even more chaos in the run-up to the November election.”
A brief peek inside the Astrodome. I don’t know how old that picture is, but it’s cool regardless.
RIP, Terry Cannon, founder of the Baseball Reliquary.
Good odds Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky ain’t going anywhere in 12 months with that glass. A very solid majority of Japanese overall and a slim majority of Tokyo residents are looking at ever more burgeoning cost overruns, along with likely drops in attendance, and want their city and country to just drop the whole thing.
RE: the toilet paper industry overwhelmed (then booming)
My Eureka moment today. Hurrah! … finally figured out the genesis of the seemingly irrational early run on the rolls…
The plebs at large actually gave a shit, and readied themselves to sit it out at home, while some certain leaders pretended there was no problem.
But then again there is always a competing hypothesis. So here: being shat upon on a daily basis by those same faux reassurers.
Either way, the more rear-end product, the more need for absorbent, the more pinched the supply of the comfort tissue. Luckily, the supply will catch up with the demand and restore equilibrium in good time. The free market running at its smoothiest.
File under: Shitshows