{"id":25889,"date":"2021-01-17T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25889"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:20:23","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-canned-milk-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25889","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Canned Milk Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Debt and Deficits, Yet Again – Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/a>
    \n“The deficit hawks will be screaming that the Biden package will over-stimulate the economy, leading to rising interest rates and inflation. There is some truth to these claims, but we have to think clearly about what is at issue.”<\/li>\n
  2. Black US doctor dies of Covid alleging racist hospital care – BBC News<\/a>
    \n“”He made me feel like I was a drug addict,” Dr Moore said in a Facebook video. “And he knew I was a physician. I don’t take narcotics. I was hurting.””<\/li>\n
  3. Jimmy Dore and the Left\u2019s Na\u00efve Cynics Have Turned on AOC<\/a>
    \nThe headline is about AOC, but I’m linking it for its discussion of the (non)viability of an immediate vote on Medicare For All. “If politics is a tool for minimizing needless suffering \u2014 rather than a theater for performing one\u2019s personal convictions \u2014 then a tactic is only as morally sound as it is likely to succeed.”<\/li>\n
  4. The anti-porn religious lobby just destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of pornographers | Salon.com<\/a>The headline is a bit misleading – the article itself has virtually no emphasis on the “religious” lobby in particular, and honestly part of what makes the anti-porn lobby so difficult to address is that it’s in effect a coalition of religious conservatives and anti-sex-work leftists. But despite that misleading headline, the article is very good.<\/li>\n
  5. The top priority in America right now is getting vaccines into arms as quickly as possible. And we\u2019re just not doing it.<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. “I\u2019ve had a long time to think about what I did when I was 13. That was how old I was when I ceased to be a daughter, sister, niece, student, and friend and became instead a murderer, super predator, killer, felon, criminal, and inmate.”<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Rejected Tintin cover design sets record for comic book art with \u20ac3.2m auction price | The Art Newspaper<\/a>
    \nThat’s $3,868,864 in U.S. dollars. “Like all markets, it\u2019s a question of supply and demand and there is practically no supply.\u201d<\/li>\n
  8. Why immigration doesn’t reduce wages – Noahpinion<\/a>
    “In this post, I\u2019m going to explain why immigration doesn\u2019t lower wages for native-born people (except possibly a little bit, in a few special circumstances). But before I do that, there\u2019s one thing you really have to understand: No one is going to be persuaded by this post.<\/em> There are two reasons for this.”<\/li>\n
  9. Separated by Design: How Some of America\u2019s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing \u2014 ProPublica<\/a>
    A great deal of this story is set in Westport, CT, where I was raised from fifth to twelfth grades. In some ways the story gives a false impression – the majority of Westport homeowners don’t live in mansions or on beachfront – but it’s nearly entirely on target.<\/li>\n
  10. Mimi Choi – Google Image Search<\/a>
    \nChoi is fantastic. I love this sort of illusion-based face painting, and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone do it better.<\/li>\n
  11. Why $15 minimum wage is pretty safe – Noahpinion<\/a>
    \nThe best evidence indicates that raising the minimum wage to $15 won’t cause a significant amount of unemployment. I found the graph at the top of the post, showing how economists’ opinions on this have changed over time, to be very striking, and as someone who has been saying this for decades I admit it has made me a little bit smug(ger).<\/li>\n
  12. The 1994 Crime Law Hogs The Legal Reform Spotlight. But A Lesser-Known Law Deserves More Attention. – The Appeal<\/a>
    “…Reformers should focus on the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which restricts the ability of incarcerated people to protest their conditions of confinement.”<\/li>\n
  13. A twitter thread from UK trans podcast “What The Trans”<\/a> giving a history “on how absurd the UK is on transgender issues and how the UK got so transphobic.” (And an alternate non-Twitter version<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  14. In Poland, Protests Over Abortion Ban Could Revolutionize Politics – The New York Times<\/a> (And an alternate link<\/a>.)
    \n“Hundreds of thousands of women, teenagers and their male allies have been turning out every few days on the streets of cities and small towns across the country for weeks, braving tear gas, court orders, harsh police tactics and surging Covid infections.”<\/li>\n
  15. A thorough (and thus lengthy) rebuttal of Kathleen Stock’s anti-trans arguments.<\/a>
    \n“”If you really think I’m an ‘anti-trans’ activist you really had better spell out why, and with evidence,” she said on Twitter yesterday. I will do that here.”<\/li>\n
  16. Lindsey Stirling – Crystallize (from Home For The Holidays) – YouTube<\/a>
    \nDancing and playing the violin while suspended from the ceiling by your hair may be a stunt, but it’s one I really enjoyed watching. I looked at it and thought “I guess that isn’t as painful as I’d imagine it to be,” but then I watched     her vlog about learning to hang from her hair<\/a>, and oh my god it’s so much more painful than I imagine. (CW for weeping due to pain.) I know some violinists sneer at Stirling’s violin abilities, but I think they’re missing the point – she’s not one of the best violinists, or one of the best dancers, or one of the best video makers, but she might be the greatest dancing violinist videomaker.<\/li>\n
  17. I’m really enjoying Marvel’s new TV show WandaVision<\/a>. Although I wonder what the show’s like for viewers too young to be familiar with 1950s and 60s sit-coms.<\/li>\n
  18. Countdown to Biden’s inauguration<\/a>. 2 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes, 47 seconds as I type this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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