June 25, 2022

Question

What are the online resources for people needing abortion access information - focus on those in "Red" states.

I am half wondering if this something that DU can "lift" up - not sure if this is a "pinned" page somewhere. I really should ask EarlG I suppose.

June 4, 2022

Open question about Netflix Series that are gone

Specifically Netflix specific content.

I've not ever really seen any of original Netflix content ever be made available by DVD/Blue-Ray. Can anyone explain why this is the case? Would seem like a nice secondary profit for shows which have fallen out of play.

Specifically looking for Queens Gambit.

May 31, 2022

Richard Scarrys Busy Busy 21st Century Classroom

https://twitter.com/amy_siskind/status/1531684837874192386?s=21&t=6zINmDMImXFyKV44Zav3tQ

March 21, 2022

How vaccination status might predict views on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Toronto Star)

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1505642779795283968

No surprises here... Probably even more sharply drawn in the US.

March 20, 2022

Don't Worry Be Happy - Ukraine Naval Band (Odesa)

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1505366263442259971

March 15, 2022

A Russian Youtuber talks about her family's flight from Russia

Very matter of fact discussion. I have followed her for about 9 months, but this move by her is truly heroic.

Watch and listen if you want to understand things are not black and white in Russia.

March 14, 2022

Ukrainian kids on their first day at their Italian school

https://twitter.com/nickknudsenus/status/1503235697615900672?s=21


Picked a bad time to cut onions

February 22, 2020

Stupified

https://aeon.co/essays/you-don-t-have-to-be-stupid-to-work-here-but-it-helps

How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door

Just thought this might appeal to several people like me who work, or have worked, for large corporations.

June 7, 2016

How World War II scientists invented a data-driven approach to fighting fascism

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/how-world-war-ii-scientists-invented-a-data-driven-approach-to-fighting-fascism/

Many good quotes:

Though their experiences with the Holocaust suggested a causal connection between hatred of Jews and the rise of fascism, it turned out that people with authoritarian tendencies were more accurately described as ethnocentric. Authoritarians believed their own group was superior and expressed racism against a wide range of other people.

Another discovery was that authoritarians tended to distrust science and strongly disliked the idea of using imagination to solve problems. They preferred to stick to tried-and-true traditional methods of organizing society. Many believed that force was the best way to deal with conflict, partly because war is an inevitable outgrowth of human nature. Another personality trait that emerged had to do with sexuality. Authoritarians were rigidly opposed to homosexuality, occasionally suggesting that homosexuals should be killed or at least jailed. But more generally, they were fascinated by regulating other people's sex lives, often speculating about the "wild sex life" of groups they hated, whether those were artists, "weak" politicians, or racial minorities.