Just FYI

[conuly]

There is a giveaway for a free Kindle Paperwhite. Good luck.

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Scientists are making carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum

The Impossible Task of Reconstructing the Rules to an Ancient Board Game

California's water saving brings bonus effects

Most common passwords. Is yours here?

Healthier kids? Just hand their families cash.

China's women break silence on harassment as #MeToo becomes #WoYeShi

The Fight for the Future of Local News

We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. This is how well your district does.

Overhauling Japan's High-Stakes University-Admission System

The decline of mass incarceration is good for everyone

The human feet that routinely wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest, explained

Death as Entertainment at the Paris Morgue

That Time I Was a Lawyer and Never Let My Brain Deal With All the Systemic Sexism

I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter

How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list

Persistent Precarity: The making of a generation.

Encyclopedia of the Missing

The US Military Is Set to Meet With the Russian General Who Called For Cyberattacks Against the West

The souls left in Guantanamo Bay won't just disappear

The US retail industry is hemorrhaging jobs – and it's hitting women hardest

Medicaid payment increases tied to greater pediatrician participation

Kentucky Just Made It Harder For Poor People To Get Health Care

U.S. ultimatum on nuclear deal, new sanctions draw Iran threat

Israel's BDS dilemma: Is it wise to blacklist the boycotters?

Innocence Deniers: When convictions are clearly wrong, these prosecutors don’t just hinder justice—they actively work against it.

In Namibia's abortion debate, echoes of a repressive history

Nigeria's Benue clashes: Mass burial after farmer-Fulani clashes

Native Americans Say They’re Targets Of Shootings And Jailhouse Rapes By White Law Enforcement

A Foreboding Similarity in Today’s Oceans and a 94-Million-Year-Old Catastrophe

Gang raped at 17. Therapy at 65.

Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018 (Including that asshole Arpaio. Fucking fuckety fuck.)

Comments

[wpadmirer]

The Paris Morgue. Well, considering executions were considered public entertainment, I'm not terribly surprised.

Human beings are weird.

[siderea]

Medicaid payment increases tied to greater pediatrician participation

Okay, I don't understand what they mean by "Medicaid" in this article. In MA, Medicaid insureds have a choice of what plan they want, and different plans pay providers differently. So, if I have a Medicaid patient who has MassHealth Standard PCC (which comes with MBHP as the behavioral health carve-out), I get paid more for seeing them than if I see a Medicaid patient on Neighborhood Health Plan (which comes with Beacon Health as the behavioral health carve-out). When the article talks about what "Medicaid pays" I have no idea what they think they're talking about, since that's, to put it in comp sci terms, an array not a scalar.

[author_by_night]

I wish password settings would let you combine random numbers instead. Because sure, we can caution about obvious passwords, but eight characters can be a lot to remember. But why not four digits that have a coherent meaning you'll remember? If you got married in June of 2012, 6512. June fifth, 2012.

Also, I don't get the other extreme, where the password will be something like 322222ruby2oceanpig3. Even if you do bring around a password pad with you, that's not remotely easy to type into a computer.

[conuly]

Well, 6512 is pretty easy to guess if you know the person was married on June 5th, 2012.

[rivendellrose]

Oh, good! I had somehow missed Vox's explanation of the feet that wash ashore in the Pacific Northwest. I'd sooooort of assumed that the answers would be similar to what they ended up with, in terms of why feet, but I hadn't quite twigged to the part about drownings and suicides being a sufficient explanation for the bodies they came from.

[randomdreams]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games is some interesting reading on similar attempts to recreate Viking/Celtic ancient board games, where we have complete sets and significant amounts of written documentation about how the games were played, and we still don't know exactly how they worked.

WRT republican convicts, it's pretty astonishing how quickly and totally they abandoned personal character as a defining criterion for public office over the last eight years.

[conuly]

Isn't Thud supposed to be a Tafl-style game?

[conuly]

Still creepy as heck.

[conuly]

The weirdest thing about us is that we can sit and judge how weird we are :P

[rivendellrose]

Yeah, I still don't love the idea that I might find a foot on the beach someday while I'm looking for beach glass, but... at least no serial killer is likely to be involved.

[wpadmirer]

Although maybe that's the best thing about us. We can realize that we're weird!

[mommy]

I'd like to see spaces and punctuation included in the permitted characters. I can remember "A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down." more easily than I can remember "H4ppyD4yz!" I would imagine full sentences are harder to crack, too.

[mommy]

I used to live near a reservation. White authorities have been abusing Native Americans for ages. I have no doubt law enforcement has committed the actions mentioned in that link.

[conuly]

To my knowledge, Native Americans are the only racial group with a higher per capita rate of police shootings than blacks.

[conuly]

Obligatory XKCD

[greghousesgf]

Not only is my password not there, my name isn't even there.
I hate sexual abusers as much as anyone else, but why throw food in the trash? why not give to hungry people?

[conuly]

Not only is my password not there, my name isn't even there.

Yay.

why throw food in the trash? why not give to hungry people?

Nobody is hungry enough to eat those cinnamon rolls. More seriously, you cannot just walk out the door and give an unwrapped pastry to a "hungry person". Like, would you eat food from a stranger that came to you in this way?

[greghousesgf]

I've given food to homeless people. they usually appreciate it.

[conuly]

I usually give money, or *wrapped* food.

[greghousesgf]

and we go back to the original subject: last time I gave money to a homeless person he sexually harrassed me.

[conuly]

Ew. But, I mean, that could've happened when you handed over food.

[greghousesgf]

also, if I give them food they're gonna eat it, if I give them money who knows what they're gonna spend it on?
and this is how gross I am. the only guys who find me attractive are skeevy homeless guys.

[conuly]

Or they could trade the food away for drugs or sex to somebody even worse off than they are. I mean, who knows? So you might as well give them the cash and let them spend it on food they enjoy, or soap, or new socks, or, yeah, drugs and alcohol.

[adafrog]

That first link is very cool. Thanks.

[conuly]

:D