Seemingly out of nowhere, half of you decided to post about Pillowfort.io

[conuly]

Let me know if it goes anywhere!

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Why Cities Should Support, Not Exclude, Street Vendors (Not mentioned, but I've heard before: crime goes down when you have vendors in the area, because nobody likes a witness.)

A Brief History of America’s Appetite for Macaroni and Cheese

Why Does Sweetness Taste So Good?

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

The Vanishing World of Neon Motel Signs

When America Invested in Infrastructure, These Beautiful Landmarks Were the Result

The Death and Life of a Great American Building

The Fading Battlefields of World War I (Photos)

Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown

Chinese border forces plan to visit old foe India amid reset in ties

How the Soviet Union Saved Vulcan

Coke claims to give back as much water as it uses. An investigation shows it isn’t even close

Africa’s next civil war could be in Cameroon

What will we eat in 2050? California farmers are placing bets.

‘Almost No One Agrees With Us’: For Rural Students, Gun Control Can Be a Lonely Cause

Customs agents took $58,000 from Ohio man at airport. He's suing to get it back.

U.S. scraps rule requiring states to measure tailpipe gases

Anti-Trump Protesters Cleared of Charges After Gov’t Caught Withholding 69 Critical Recordings

Study Puts Puerto Rico Death Toll From Hurricane Maria Near 5,000

The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism

White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says

Cops Are Dying By Suicide — and No One Is Talking About It

Hidden Horrors of “Zero Tolerance” — Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents

Cruelty Is Trump’s Only Immigration Policy

Donald Trump accuses Mueller team of 'meddling' in midterm elections (Typical. Whenever they can't rebut an argument, they claim that really, it's the other side who's doing whatever-it-is.)

The Chilling Effect of Trump’s War on the FBI

Comments

[monanotlisa]

ANOTHER reason that A Taco Truck At Every Corner would have saved the US..

[ioplokon]

I'm glad that avocado article takes a broader look at the actual realities of farming. (tho i do wish ppl would like chill on avocados - I miss when you could buy like 5 for a dollar in season!) A bunch of my family studied Ag at Davis & it's cool to see like, holiday conversations published on a wider scale!

And yeah, I think the biggest thing to keep democracy strong is that... you have to trust other people and..... I think for a lot of white Americans, they barely interact with people who aren't their family & maybe their church. So then when the political discourse is also saying, you should fear these people - they're responsible for everything wrong with your life - they're dangerous and need to be controlled... It does lead people to believe they need a tyrant.

[larryhammer]

20 states don’t set any minimum statutory age for marriage

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[conuly]

I know :(

[conuly]

Yup.

[conuly]

I think for a lot of white Americans, they barely interact with people who aren't their family & maybe their church.

It's such a weird way to live, really.

An interesting website!

[nodrog]

http://nowiknow.com/oneteen-and-twoteen/

See, to me, this kind of thing is far more interesting than dreary Federal Socialism forcing upon people what they should want instead of what they do want.  That gets tiresome, as Eastern Europe eventually proved - tho’ the lesson is slow to catch on here.

[nodrog]

If you go into the black sections of any city, the only white faces you see are on TV and in cop cars.  Not even Hispanic - the black areas are huge, and purely black.

Meanwhile, self-segregation among blacks at college campuses is rampant.  They want nothing to do with whites, and get their way.

Oops…  [That's different, of course.  Somehow.]

[greghousesgf]

I live in a mixed neighborhood and I'm proud of it, there are Black, White, Asian and Middle Eastern people here and I've been living here since 1992 and have only seen one incident of racial tension in my neighborhood in all that time.

[conuly]

I live in a heavily black and hispanic area of NYC. You don't know what you're talking about.

Meanwhile, self-segregation among blacks at college campuses is rampant.

The college I went to was about 50% black and non-white hispanic, 30% white. You don't know what you're talking about.

Re: An interesting website!

[conuly]

If we had federal socialism, or even socialism-lite, I might be willing to engage with you on this issue. But... we really, really don't.

[siderea]

If you go into the black sections of any city, the only white faces you see are on TV and in cop cars. Not even Hispanic - the black areas are huge, and purely black.

Even if that were true, and it certainly isn't in this major urban area, black neighborhoods are overwhelmingly residential neighborhoods, and the overwhelming majority of adults living there have to go into the rest of the city for their jobs. Just like everyone from all the bedroom communities.

Would that the ghettos were economically self-sufficient, such that most people living didn't have to leave them to find the better sorts of work! But alas, they are not, for obvious historical reasons.

There may indeed be areas of the US in which black people can live without having to encounter white people, but those areas are not sections of any city

[conuly]

And while it may or may not be true that many minorities prefer to live with others of their group - I mean, hell, if the alternative is to get the cops called on you every time you sit on your stoop with a beer, I would too! - the fact that we have racial ghettos is not a result of this simple preference. It's the result of explicitly discriminatory real estate practices for decades and decades.