Hello American Ninja Warrior Auditionees,
As we all work from home for the remainder of the week for fear of coming into contact with any other living beings, I suggest you use the time to read some of these hot fire linkies. The first section is all about bad things. Enjoy!
The Fossil-Fuel Companies Expect To Profit From Climate Change. I Went To A Private Planning Meeting And Took Notes.
Gimme Dat Synopsis Quickie:
A reporter goes to a Shell conference about the future with a heavy dose of skepticism and was not disappointed in what he found. Fossil Fuel companies don’t necessarily see the green revolution as a bad thing, they just see additional ways to make money.
And A Quote From The Article Please:
There’s little doubt that fossil-fuels are, culturally speaking, on the wrong side of history. But there is still a lot more money to extract from those wells, and the fossil-fuel businesses are intent on extracting as much as they can. It’s not necessarily such a bad time to be an oil and gas company, in other words, but it is a bad time to look like one. These companies aren’t planning for a future without oil and gas, at least not anytime soon, but they want the public to think of them as part of a climate solution. In reality, they’re a problem trying to avoid being solved.
And Tell Me Why I should Care:
The most interesting thing brought up in this article is the consideration of what types of affects the necessary changes to our current practices will have. Like will these new green initiatives lead to a reduction in exploitation of commonly exploited people? Will more accidents occur? What will we do about all the waste? Climate change is an undeniably complicated thing and at its core, profit still seems to be the biggest driver of change for these large companies, rather than, you know, saving the world.
Waiting For The End Of The World: Apocalypse Camp At The Dawn Of The Great Extinction
Gimme Dat Synopsis Quickie:
A liberal writer spends a weekend at a doomsday prepper camp in North Carolina. The attendees are overwhelmingly right wing. This is a rather long account of her experience at camp, and, spoiler alert, people really like guns there.
And A Quote From The Article Please:
I understood then that being a woman alone in this place was already unusual; far worse, I was wearing East Coast liberal-arts-college clothes, a Patagonia fleece, and a North Face backpack. I looked like a good bourgeoise, the kind of woman who drinks kombucha and does yoga and reads Harper’s before bed.
And Tell Me Why I should Care:
Shit is falling apart. The world is getting worse. This is an interesting account on how while we, as Americans, are more divided than ever, a little empathy and looking at things from the other perspective could actually be really beneficial. And also that we should all maybe become slight doomsday preppers given The Day After Tomorrow is looking more and more likely.
Wikipedia Is The Last Best Place On The Internet
Gimme Dat Synopsis Quickie:
Wikipedia started as an impossible dream laughed at by the tech community. Now it’s one of the most visited sites on the internet and the source of information for many a college essay. A super engaged and passionate community is what keeps it going, but it’s of course not without its faults.
And A Quote From The Article Please:
More than an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has become a community, a library, a constitution, an experiment, a political manifesto—the closest thing there is to an online public square. It is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web. A free encyclopedia encompassing the whole of human knowledge, written almost entirely by unpaid volunteers: Can you believe that was the one that worked?
And Tell Me Why I should Care:
Ok so this one is less about how crappy our world is and more about how great one thing in a crappy world (the internet) of things is. You should care because Wikipedia is such a unique product in today’s tech/business world that more lessons should be taken from how it works. And you know, free information without annoying ads. Donate every once in a while you cheap bastards.
Interesting Things That You May Or May Not Care About
This new learning platform, known as booklets.io, aims to provide high level learning experiences in bite-sized digital booklets that can be taken on the go.
The newest celeb endorsed product trend appears to be the candle. Don’t you just want to have your entire home smell like something your favorite celebrity designed? I’m all in on that Post Malone signature candle fragrance.
If you’re in the market for a car, here’s a few lawyers talking about the most common illegal things car dealerships will try on you. Drive and buy safe my friends.
So Y’all Trying To Get Some Grub Or What?
One writer dives, maybe a little too deep, into why we are so into crispy foods and how brands capitalize on it. My initial guess is that crispy is one of the defining characteristics of anything fried, and deep down we’re all fat little pieces of shit. Try not to salivate as you read this. I dare you.
A look into how the New York Department of Health operates and lightweight hustles restaurants out of money to give them good grades. Just like all things in life and New York, it’s a bit of a scam, but it’ll have to do. Still not eating anywhere with a C though, I’ll tell you that much!
Starbucks is approaching 50 years in age and over 30k stores. That’s a lot of beans and I must admit I’ve been to about 30 Starbucks in the past few months and bought nothing but used a lot of toilet paper. I’m sorry Howard Schultz.
Newsy Things Related to Bizness
Apparently investors are not happy that Jack Dorsey is double dipping on CEO duties. Who would have thought running two giant companies was going to make some people who only care about one of those companies unhappy. So he might be on the way out at Twitter.
Because this is America, a bunch of old white ladies got mad that Target ran a commercial about a black-run cosmetics business they carry and how the female founder wants to inspire young black women to start their own businesses. Luckily the sane people of America responded by buying more of her products.
So while Canada already has a buncha weed companies that are publicly traded, their first ever psychedelics company is about to hit the Toronto-based NEO stock exchange.
Pretty Weird Random Things. Maybe You’ll Like Them.
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen, often gets shithoused and destroys people in online chess tournaments under a litany of funny user names like “DrDrunkenstein” and “DannyTheDonkey” all while live streaming his domination. However, sometimes he gets too drunk and doesn’t do so hot.
One Journalist laments how far the United States is behind Tokyo when it comes to quality toilets. The title says it all: Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race.
Musician Zola Jesus (who is awesome if you don’t know her) calls out Spotify for having some more possible fake music on their streaming platform. It’s by someone named Jan Thiel, perhaps Peter’s Scandinavian cousin?
Stuff You Might Want To Buy, But I Don’t Really Care If You Do Or Not
A book featuring 40 first-person stories from the children of super famous people all about what life was like at home with pops.
These prints from German Artist Yeye Weller are fun as hell and feature colorful illustrations with goofy inspirational messages. Affordable too.
As far as Air Max 90s go in the pantheon of Air Max glory, they’re middle of the road for me, but these new Air Max 90 Premiums are spicy.
Lists Are What The Internet Was Made For!
What Is Ben Affleck’s Best Role?
A debatable list.
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