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Before Jell-O, Colorful Gelatin Desserts Were Haute Cuisine
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New York City adds 5-cent fee for paper bags after state bans plastic bags (It's really not that big a deal to reuse the same cotton tote 52 times, or 300 times, or 1000 times, like all these articles imply.)
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A Plastic Recycling Revolution Is Brewing ... in China
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Coming to store shelves: cameras that guess your age and sex
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For thousands of women, working at the nation’s largest jewelry retailer meant unequal pay, harassment or worse.
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Date: 2019-04-23 11:51 pm (UTC)Besides the shortcomings described in the article, there's a more crucial flaw. All the background check system can do is check for people who aren't legally allowed to have a gun.
People who "shouldn't" have a gun are a set that only has *some* overlap with the set of folks who aren't legally allowed to have a gun.
And, as much as we'd like to ignore it, "mental health" checks aren't going to improve things.
Y'see most mass shooters seem to be completely sane. the problem isn't their sanity, it's their *beliefs*
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Date: 2019-04-24 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-24 08:16 pm (UTC)*If* you've been diagnosed with certain things *and* if it was reported properly, *then* it may show up in the background check.
I do recall reading somewhere that even the 3-day waiting periods reduce suicides.