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Go on, geezer.
This is fantastic. Would it benefit the Democrats if that Loser created a third party?
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This is fantastic. Would it benefit the Democrats if that Loser created a third party?
Why haven't we banned private jets yet?
Also, in other but related news, as wealth continues to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, there is an epidemic of child poverty that affects people to a point that many doctors consider it a disease (and the sad thing is that this article is from 2013):
Recently, there has been a lot of focus on the idea of toxic stress, in which a young child’s body and brain may be damaged by too much exposure to so-called stress hormones, like cortisol and norepinephrine. When this level of stress is experienced at an early age, and without sufficient protection, it may actually reset the neurological and hormonal systems, permanently affecting children’s brains and even, we are learning, their genes.
Toxic stress is the heavy hand of early poverty, scripting a child’s life not in the Horatio Alger scenario of determination and drive, but in the patterns of disappointment and deprivation that shape a life of limitations.
At the meeting, my colleague Dr. Benard P. Dreyer, professor of pediatrics at New York University and a past president of the Academic Pediatric Association, called on pediatricians to take on poverty as a serious underlying threat to children’s health. He was prompted, he told me later, by the widening disparities between rich and poor, and the gathering weight of evidence about the importance of early childhood, and the ways that deprivation and stress in the early years of life can reduce the chances of educational and life success.
“After the first three, four, five years of life, if you have neglected that child’s brain development, you can’t go back,” he said. In the middle of the 20th century, our society made a decision to take care of the elderly, once the poorest demographic group in the United States. Now, with Medicare and Social Security, only 9 percent of older people live in poverty. Children are now our poorest group, with almost 25 percent of children under 5 living below the federal poverty level.
Also, in other but related news, as wealth continues to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, there is an epidemic of child poverty that affects people to a point that many doctors consider it a disease (and the sad thing is that this article is from 2013):
Recently, there has been a lot of focus on the idea of toxic stress, in which a young child’s body and brain may be damaged by too much exposure to so-called stress hormones, like cortisol and norepinephrine. When this level of stress is experienced at an early age, and without sufficient protection, it may actually reset the neurological and hormonal systems, permanently affecting children’s brains and even, we are learning, their genes.
Toxic stress is the heavy hand of early poverty, scripting a child’s life not in the Horatio Alger scenario of determination and drive, but in the patterns of disappointment and deprivation that shape a life of limitations.
At the meeting, my colleague Dr. Benard P. Dreyer, professor of pediatrics at New York University and a past president of the Academic Pediatric Association, called on pediatricians to take on poverty as a serious underlying threat to children’s health. He was prompted, he told me later, by the widening disparities between rich and poor, and the gathering weight of evidence about the importance of early childhood, and the ways that deprivation and stress in the early years of life can reduce the chances of educational and life success.
“After the first three, four, five years of life, if you have neglected that child’s brain development, you can’t go back,” he said. In the middle of the 20th century, our society made a decision to take care of the elderly, once the poorest demographic group in the United States. Now, with Medicare and Social Security, only 9 percent of older people live in poverty. Children are now our poorest group, with almost 25 percent of children under 5 living below the federal poverty level.
Poverty as a Childhood Disease
More doctors are growing concerned about the effects of childhood poverty in an age when income inequality is increasing and social mobility is declining.
archive.nytimes.com
Nee Lewman
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I’m kind of over it. Since the gun lobbyists are always countering gun control measures with you’ll just come for our guns. Fuck it, let’s go for their guns. Why do we let this shit keep happening?
The fight to build more public bathrooms in America
Today’s cities are almost completely devoid of public toilets. An unfolding movement is trying to change that.
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Interesting read.
100 years ago there were plenty of public bathrooms. Now we have record low numbers in our cities.
The first decline in public bathrooms came with the automobile. And a relocation of downtown public bathrooms to gas stations, which more often than not, weren't downtown and required a car to get to.
Gas station bathrooms were very nice in their hay day. I remember reading an article about how until the early 60's, they were considered a draw to the gas station, and were used in advertisements as having the cleanest bathrooms. Then they declined when the interstate system was built and gas prices started to rise.
Another issue is maintaining public bathrooms is expensive. And by the 80's and 90's most cities have slashed them from their budgets.
A common argument to cut their funding came down to them being known as "dirty and dangerous places".
Bull Shannon
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It’s such a self-fulfilling prophecy. Mess and perceived danger lead to closing up of public space and accessibility which drives up the unfamiliarity and fear.The fight to build more public bathrooms in America
Today’s cities are almost completely devoid of public toilets. An unfolding movement is trying to change that.
Interesting read.
100 years ago there were plenty of public bathrooms. Now we have record low numbers in our cities.
The first decline in public bathrooms came with the automobile. And a relocation of downtown public bathrooms to gas stations, which more often than not, weren't downtown and required a car to get to.
Gas station bathrooms were very nice in their hay day. I remember reading an article about how until the early 60's, they were considered a draw to the gas station, and were used in advertisements as having the cleanest bathrooms. Then they declined when the interstate system was built and gas prices started to rise.
Another issue is maintaining public bathrooms is expensive. And by the 80's and 90's most cities have slashed them from their budgets.
A common argument to cut their funding came down to them being known as "dirty and dangerous places".
LiamGallaghersBucketHat
Go on, geezer.
Nee Lewman
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So gas prices going up which should equate to more profit.... meant they couldn't up keep the restrooms?The fight to build more public bathrooms in America
Today’s cities are almost completely devoid of public toilets. An unfolding movement is trying to change that.
Interesting read.
100 years ago there were plenty of public bathrooms. Now we have record low numbers in our cities.
The first decline in public bathrooms came with the automobile. And a relocation of downtown public bathrooms to gas stations, which more often than not, weren't downtown and required a car to get to.
Gas station bathrooms were very nice in their hay day. I remember reading an article about how until the early 60's, they were considered a draw to the gas station, and were used in advertisements as having the cleanest bathrooms. Then they declined when the interstate system was built and gas prices started to rise.
Another issue is maintaining public bathrooms is expensive. And by the 80's and 90's most cities have slashed them from their budgets.
A common argument to cut their funding came down to them being known as "dirty and dangerous places".
See this is why capitalism has to go...
Nee Lewman
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“Observably stupid” - Dave Chappelle
AnthonyI
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Jan
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That guy seem like a walking advertisment for stricter concussion protocols in zhe NFL
Jan
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All hail Jeff Bezos the philanthropist! The rest of us will just keep paying our taxes | Marina Hyde
The Amazon founder says giving money away ‘is really hard’. Luckily, poor people do far more of it than he does, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
debianlinux
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Damn, girl! Get it!All hail Jeff Bezos the philanthropist! The rest of us will just keep paying our taxes | Marina Hyde
The Amazon founder says giving money away ‘is really hard’. Luckily, poor people do far more of it than he does, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
also, fauxlanthropy, love it
Jan
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I really enjoy those Marina Hyde columns in the guardian. They are mostly centered on UK politics but always biting and funny.
Jan
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Meanwhile, Russia is hitting ukraine with massive missile attacks on the infratsructure. For the first time, it seems that a stray rocket hit a town in Poland with 2 people reportedly dead. Which could escalate the whole thing even further.
abcnews.go.com
Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2
Poland says a Russian-made missile fell in the country’s east, killing two people
abcnews.go.com
avecigrec
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Meanwhile, Russia is hitting ukraine with massive missile attacks on the infratsructure. For the first time, it seems that a stray rocket hit a town in Poland with 2 people reportedly dead. Which could escalate the whole thing even further.
Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2
Poland says a Russian-made missile fell in the country’s east, killing two people
Fuck.
Max Sterling
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I don't like or want war, but I really wish someone would do something about Russia...
Actually, gas prices going up only met more profit for the oil companies, not the gas stations.
The gas stations found that as gas prices increased, consumers stopped caring about which gas station provided the best service and more about which gas station had the lowest prices.
Gas stations pretty much switched from a service based industry to a consumption based industry. There was a point in time when every gas station was full service. But around this time they switched to pump your own gas, stopped focusing on bathrooms as their main draw and so on to keep gas prices down.
Trump has now formally announced his 2024 bid.
He is officially running for president again.
He is officially running for president again.
There's some evidence that the missile that fell in Poland was not from Russia.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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