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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925

The New York Times editorial board, making deft use of hypertext, has published a powerful endorsement that covers so much ground, yet fits entirely in a single concise paragraph. In its entirety:

You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.

If you really get under their skin they can hold a grudge for a very long time.

It’s protection money, she says, the price of knowing you will not be attacked from the sky.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/science/crows-grudges-revenge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V04.JJHy.WCOE_uNi_3VX

Walking and biking and scootering to school is better for the child, better for the family, and better for the environment.

Physical activity in general is vital for preventing obesity.

https://grist.org/cities/london-fining-polluting-cars-more-active-kids/

it was a heavy pill to swallow when someone that you put on a pedestal is normal.

He’s a genius, he’s majestical, he’s sexual, he’s flawed, he’s trash, he’s divine, he’s all those things.

https://kottke.org/24/09/the-prince-documentary-you-might-never-see

What you have with a restaurant that you visit once or twice is a transaction. What you have with a restaurant that you visit over and over is a relationship.

https://kottke.org//13/09/on-the-regular

“Be grateful. Remember, wealth has nothing to do with money. Divest your ego of the want to prove itself through struggle, sacrifice, and hard work. Practice radical self-love. Nourish, nurture, savor. Feel how rich you are already.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20190504200952/https://sister.is/12-principles

The fringe, amplified, stops being the fringe.

So the next wave of fringe must be even fringier.

Amplifying the fringes

In 1975 the rate of traffic deaths there was 20 percent higher than in the U.S., but by the mid-2000s it had fallen to 60 percent lower than in the U.S.

Widening or expanding the number of streets only incentivizes more people to drive.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

At the borders of those societies, they fight the most destructive within-species conflicts, in terms of individual fatalities, that the planet has ever known.

there are roughly 200,000 times more ants on our planet than the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.

individuals from the same species or group can be expected to accept and cooperate with each other even when they have never met before.

Human efforts to control ants are regularly described as a war

As our world turns alien, trying to think like an alien will be a better route to finding the imagination and humility needed to keep up with the changes than looking for ways in which other species are like us.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics