{"id":25981,"date":"2021-03-13T01:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25981"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:49:08","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-quarter-eating-mechanical-owl-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25981","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Quarter-Eating Mechanical Owl Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Biden\u2019s COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal<\/a>
    \n“This is how progressives have been begging their party to govern for more than a decade: Ignore the Beltway\u2019s fetish for bipartisanship and deliver big, clear gains to the American people. The Democratic leadership has now affirmed that counsel in both word and deed.”<\/li>\n
  2. 5 Simple Things Restaurants Can Do to Be More Accessible to Fat People \u2013 Fluffy Kitten Party<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. \u2018I Miss My Mom\u2019: Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Own Parents<\/a>
    \nWithout any success. :-(<\/li>\n
  4. Brazilian butt lift: behind the world’s most dangerous cosmetic surgery | Plastic surgery | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Opinion | \u2018There\u2019s No Natural Dignity in Work\u2019 – Ezra Klein<\/a> And an alternate link<\/a>.
    \n“Bush\u2019s comment was an extreme expression of a common \u2014 and bipartisan \u2014 sentiment: Work is good, more of it is better and policy should be a conveyor belt from the moral torpor of idleness to the dignity of wage labor.”<\/li>\n
  6. …But see also this thread responding to Klein<\/a> by Jill Filipovic on Twitter.
    \n“But while the argument that at-home work is just as valuable as paid work may be morally correct, in our capitalist reality, not working outside of the home leaves women incredibly financially and physically vulnerable.”<\/li>\n
  7. Study of Racism and Confirmation Bias<\/a>
    \n53 partners from different law firms were asked to evaluate a young lawyer’s legal memo. It was the exact same memo, except half identified the writer as Black, half as white. The “Black” writer’s work was consistently seen as less competent, by evaluators of every race.<\/li>\n
  8. Raya and the Last Dragon\u2019s Kelly Marie Tran Believes Her Disney Princess Is Gay | Vanity Fair<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. The deadly cost of charging patients more for prescriptions<\/a>
    \n“… the conventional wisdom in health care has been that charging patients small copays will lead them to make better decisions about what care to get (or not get), and their health won’t be harmed. But a new study suggests giving patients too much “skin in the game” can actually lead to the greatest health harm of all: death.”<\/li>\n
  10. The Fed should give everyone a bank account – Slow Boring<\/a>
    \nEveryone should have access to a bank account’s basic features – including electronic banking – even if they don’t have enough money to open an account at a commercial bank.<\/li>\n
  11. The Most Ambitious Effort Yet to Reform Policing May Be Happening In Ithaca, New York | GQ<\/a>
    \n“…calls for service will be evaluated to determine whether an armed or unarmed respondent is necessary, or another public agency altogether would be best to respond. Mental health calls would be outsourced to a standalone unit of social workers based on the CAHOOTS program pioneered in Eugene, Oregon. The goal, ultimately, is to have far fewer encounters between citizens and armed government agents.”<\/li>\n
  12. Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them? | Science | AAAS<\/a>
    \n“Brave” is an odd way to put it, but the article makes the point that cats are harder to study than dogs in part because cats are less likely to put up with being bored. “In the first study to directly compare how cats and dogs communicate with people, he and colleagues conducted the pointing test at pet owners’ homes. The cats performed as well as the dogs. But, foreshadowing a headache that would plague the field of feline social cognition, several cats “dropped out” of the study, according to the research paper. Some stopped paying attention. Others simply walked away from the testing site.”<\/li>\n
  13. Immigration arrests have fallen sharply under Biden, ICE data show – The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. What the GOP voting restrictions actually do vs. what proponents claim – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nWhat legitimate purpose is served by outlawing bringing water to people standing on long poll lines? The GOP would outright ban voting if they could.<\/li>\n
  15. Supervision, once intended to help offenders, ups mass incarceration<\/a>
    \n“Almost 25% of people entering prison in 2017 were incarcerated for a technical supervision violation, rather than a new offense.”<\/li>\n
  16. Photos by Ronan Furuta<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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