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Toots for the Week of June 17th, 2024 |
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This week, we have the CFPB, Trump, addiction recovery, offices-to-apartments, effects of gun violence, plate-readers, New Caledonia, and LGBT Pride. |
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As [discussed previously]({% post_url 2019-12-31-new-year %}), on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don't include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I don't notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I don't feel restricted by message length.
Also, I don't generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
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The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD from Pluralistic
creating a registry of habitual corporate criminals. This rogues' gallery will make it harder for other agencies – like the DOJ – and state Attorneys General to offer bullshit "delayed prosecution agreements" to companies that compulsively rip us off.
Hashtags: #CFPB #USPol #Economy
We need so much more of this, but it shows that we can have an economy that doesn't completely hollow out the country.
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.
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Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
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Trump had one honest thing to say at his rally—and the media missed it from Daily Kos
“We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,” he said.
Hashtags: #Trump #GOP #USPol
Honestly? It actually surprises me that Republicans haven't jumped on this to praise his statement. After all, they've spent decades spinning the story that "you can't tell the difference between parties," except that they (despite all evidence to the contrary) tell the truth about their base motivations. In that light, you'd almost expect them to make not caring about Americans their slogan...
They burnt down all those gardens and groves. That paradise of idol-worshipers became like hell.
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Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
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Addiction Recovery Is Hard. Funding It Shouldn’t Be from OtherWords
Nationally, about 2.5 million people aged 18 and older had an opioid abuse disorder in 2021 — and nearly 300 people died of overdoses every single day. Yet only 36 percent of those experiencing addiction received any treatment at all.
Hashtags: #Addiction #Health
This situation especially irks me, because I've seen so many studies over the years linking drug use to loneliness and boredom. That simplifies the dynamic, for many reasons, but we could almost certainly reduce the number of people dealing with addiction over time through outreach alone. But we have governments that won't pay for that, won't pay for drugs that reduce addiction, and won't fund programs that help people break addictions.
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
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Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning from The Conversation
Despite these challenges, if residential conversions bring people and energy back to downtowns outside of the workday, stores, restaurants, entertainment and other amenities of a vibrant lifestyle will follow.
Hashtags: #Cities #Housing
We absolutely need more of this. Despite management's obsession with controlling employees, the pandemic made it absolutely clear that companies have thrown their money away maintaining lavish offices and workers get more done if they don't need to carve out a chunk of every day to commute.
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
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Gun violence exposure harms health of Black Americans from Futurity
This research shows that we must start thinking about and providing support to address the health implications of being exposed to gun violence—the day-to-day exposure, experienced directly and indirectly, and the effects that accumulate over time.
Hashtags: #Guns #Race #Violence
Like the addiction story above, this doesn't seem like something that we want to make more difficult, and yet...
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didn't fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
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Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger from 404 Media
The unusual case highlights that stalkers or other malicious third parties could piggyback off surveillance systems that are used by the police if not enough protections are in place to stop the distribution of such data. And it comes as automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are an incredibly common sight in towns and cities across the U.S.
Does anybody want to bet that precincts do this in hopes of getting the public to turn against freedom-of-information laws...?
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New Caledonia cries, ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’ from Global Voices
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived on May 23 to defuse tension in the Pacific territory, but his visit failed to quell the unrest as he merely suspended the enforcement of the bill instead of addressing the demand for a dialogue on how to proceed with the decolonization process. He also deployed an additional 3,000 troops to restore peace and order which only further enraged the local population.
This seems like a bad move while Macron also considers handing his government over to fascists, but I admittedly don't know anything about modern French colonial politics.
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Credits: Header image is Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty.
