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"Wickliffe said it’s virtually impossible to prove a certain contaminant directly caused a certain disease in a person... diseases can have numerous causes, and people who develop those cancers may have been exposed to multiple toxic substances that could be contributing to their disease."
One big, commonly held misconception seems to be that younger people prefer remote work, while older generations want people back in the office.
For every middle manager who wants to micromanage their employees, there is also a young worker desperate to connect with their colleagues in real life.
With >50% from "brand partnerships"....
One of the great frustrations of my life the inability to learn all there is to know about everything that has ever existed. The idea that you could ever exist in the world with no desire to learn anything beyond what passively floats into your purview is mind-boggling.
This piece gets at one of the more confounding features of American culture now — a complete disinterest in curiosity. This disinterest spans the political spectrum, and seems to be deepening. Where is the desire to truly engage in the big ideas and challenges of the world?
”The reality is that no matter how intelligent you are, if everyone you trust is telling you something false, you are likely to believe it. And if everyone you distrust tells you something true, you are likely to disbelieve it.”
I also worry this pattern helps conspiracies slip into the zeitgeist -- if certain people are mostly rational and then sometimes nuts, you're more inclined to believe the nuts because "well, everything else they say seems right to me"
"The ecosystem selects for people who just aren’t that insightful and occasionally fire off a real humdinger" explains pretty well the things I find annoying about this website too
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Half the fun was laughing at these characters, half the fun was the horror of realizing you are these characters
Of the Asiatic subspecies. Many other cheetahs still in parts of Africa.
Huh, that does sound eerie
No juncos at all this winter?
One thing I'm watching for in the wake of the war in Iran: what happens to the Asiatic cheetah. This subspecies now only lives in Iran, with a population of just a few dozen, and wildlife never fares well in the wake of war and destabilization. 🌏🧪
Your life will change once you start orienting your sense of time by when the juncos come and go, when the cicadas are loudest, when the warblers are in bright plumage and when they're drab again
If you get seasonal depression, may I recommend becoming obsessed with your local phenology
Saw some tulips popping up today, proving that Chicago is still alive somewhere
The zeitgeist's recent corrective against the 2010s-era anti-David Foster Wallace fervor also means you are once again allowed to acknowledge your love for "Calamity Song" by The Decemberists
Because we have never asked this question before, we don’t know whether a majority of Americans have long held a skeptical view of the ethics of fellow Americans, or if it’s something new – and if so, what’s driving it. But partisan politics appear to play a role. Democrats and independents who lean toward the Democratic Party are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to rate fellow Americans as morally and ethically bad (60% vs. 46%). And previous research has shown that rising numbers of both Republicans and Democrats say people in the other party are immoral. However, this partisan pattern is not unique to the U.S. In more than half of the countries surveyed, people who don’t support the governing party are particularly likely to view their fellow citizens as immoral. Another possibility could be that Americans are more moralistic, in general, than people in other countries – that is, they’re more inclined to judge various behaviors to be immoral or sinful. But the results of other survey questions don’t support the idea that the U.S. public is especially judgmental.
Isn't it yeah? Worst of all the countries polled
I think most Americans want to be good to others, and vice versa. I also think that by turning every aspect of our civic/personal/financial life into a quantifiable winners/losers dynamic, we are priming each other to tear ourselves down.
Chart showing how many people in 25 countries see their fellow citizens as morally good -- US scored the worst, 47% see people as good and 53% see them as bad
This is a very depressing chart
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
Go bucs
The world does not have endless resources – but there's no reason why "abundance", as an ideal, can't mean abundant wildlands and biodiversity; abundant, universal, and quality health insurance; abundant, dense housing with abundant, dense public transit, etc
Really quite a shame that, at least on here and in a lot of coverage, "abundance" has come to stand for/represent a particular genre of centrism – when it really should just mean what the word literally means, the idea of abundant and universal improved welfare
If the IRA had thought seriously about helping big city residents and renters instead of focusing on suburban homeowners, this could have been done at a federal level a few years ago too
"The average payback time for a system purchased today is about five years. The cost for plug-in solar is forecast to drop from nearly $3/watt today to just under 60¢/watt within 2-3 years of enabling legislation in a critical mass of states."
You can't understand how fast I'm gonna click "Add to Cart" on one of these bad boys once/if the Illinois law passes
Whole new meaning of this cartoon just dropped
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
