I’d like the USPS to stop delivering all the junk that goes directly to the trash.
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In Switzerland, the vast majority of junk mail is delivered by the post office at a special rate of “deliver to all households in postal code XXXX”, without a stamp or address label on the mail. The Swiss post office does not have a special preferential rate for bulk mail sent to specific addresses, and since postage is so expensive (the post office is not only profitable, but subsidises the Postbus service throughout the country), few advertisers pay to send their junk that way.
Since the “all households” mail is easily identified, you can put a sticker on your mail slot like:
and the postman simply doesn’t put any of it in your box. Problem (largely) solved.
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Abstract
We conducted a surreptitious, prospective, cohort study to explore how often physicians nod off during scientific meetings and to examine risk factors for nodding off. After counting the number of heads falling forward during 2 days of lectures, we calculated the incidence density curves for nodding-off episodes per lecture (NOELs) and assessed risk factors using logistic regression analysis. In this article we report our eye-opening results and suggest ways speakers can try to avoid losing their audience.
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I especially love ‘tweed jacket’ and ‘losing place in lecture’, although the latter could induce the exercise effect of repressing laughter?
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During this Pride Month, we would like Bulletin readers to understand that the visible representation and meaningful participation of queer people matters for nuclear policy outcomes. Discrimination against queer people can undermine nuclear security and increase nuclear risk. And queer theory can help change how nuclear practitioners, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons.
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Queer theory: changing the narrative. Queer identity is also relevant for the nuclear field because it informs theories that aim to change how officials, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons. Queer theory is a field of study, closely related to feminist theory, that examines sex- and gender-based norms. It shines a light on the harm done by nuclear weapons through uranium mining, nuclear tests, and the tax money spent on nuclear weapons ($60 billion annually in the United States) instead of on education, infrastructure, and welfare. The queer lens prioritizes the rights and well-being of people over the abstract idea of national security, and it challenges the mainstream understanding of nuclear weapons—questioning whether they truly deter nuclear war, stabilize geopolitics, and reduce the likelihood of conventional war. Queer theory asks: Who created these ideas? How are they being upheld? Whose interests do they serve? And whose experiences are being excluded?
Queer theory also identifies how the nuclear weapons discourse is gendered: Nuclear deterrence is associated with “rationality” and “security,” while disarmament and justice for nuclear weapon victims are coded as “emotion” and a lack of understanding of the “real” mechanics of security. The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, a 19-year protest against the storage of US nuclear missiles in the United Kingdom, called attention to the gendered nature of nuclear weapons. The camp’s inhabitants—many lesbian—recognized that the same male-dominated power structures underpinned the oppression of women and nuclear armament. Their protests, often involving feminine-coded symbols like pictures of children, defined nuclear weapons by the existential threat they pose, instead of the protection they supposedly offer. From the queer perspective, the allegation of “derailing” substantive discussions through a non-traditional perspective on nuclear weapons is itself an attempt to exclude marginalized voices and reinforce the idea that nuclear weapons are a domain only for “serious” and “rational” (i.e. male) actors.
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Emetic!
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After an extended silence, during which their sales dropped more than 26% since their last foray into repositioning Bud Light to appeal to a more diverse market, Anheuser-Busch is back with a new commercial for their processed, beer-like, liquid.
“I’ve got it!” the agency said. “Let’s mock our existing customers as incompetent idiots. That’ll bring them back!”
As of an article posted on ZeroHedge at 12:45 UTC on 2023-06-23, the one minute advert, posted on Twitter, had received 1600 “likes” and more than 22,200 derisory comments, which I just learned today is called “getting ratioed”.
Mad Men indeed….
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Real gender confused persons of genius?
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Thinking Beyond The Sale Propaganda
Making the issue a miscommunication or false accusation.
The propaganda is of course that government sanctioned monopolies like Amazon should be violating the first amendment.
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Ahh… More revealed truth, preached with fervent self-confidence, from the altar of scientism (also, as @Roxie said - highly emetic). It there a trigger warning for incipient projectile vomiting?
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Tired: cryptocurrencies, altcoins
Wired: NFTs, air-drops
Inspired: blockchain yoga nation
Everything happens so much faster in the 21st century. First we have the 2022-07-04 publication of The Network State, and now we have grifters peddling scams in promoted tweets on Twitter.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
— Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
Only in America can they do it in less than a year.
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Mainstream media reacts swiftly to the shifting winds of power.
The French newsreels immediately before and after the fall of France in 1940 and around the liberation of Paris in 1944 are also a spectacle to behold: often it was the same narrator praising the present regime and inveighing against the enemy.
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Almost appears……staged. I’ve never before seen footage out of a war zone where you see a persons getting a selfie with the combatants. The soyboi in the photo seems to be missing his latte.
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Apparently, the straw that broke the camel’s back was attendants refusing to fill Molotov cocktails:
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Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino allegedly chalked up phony results tied to studies, including one focused on honest behavior, the New York Times reported.
She’s been placed on leave, according to her business school web page, which the Times reported showed she was still on the job as recently as mid-May.
She has published 135 articles since 2007, according to the Chronicle for Higher Education.
In a blog, called DataColada, run by three behavioral scientists, it alleged fraud in four academic papers that Gino co-authored.
They said they presented evidence of fraud to Harvard in the fall of 2021 tied to a 2012 paper and another three papers she was a part of.
Replication crisis, shmeplication crisis—it seems like a professor at the university whose motto is “Veritas” (truth), can’t even tell the truth about lying.
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Yes, but notice the spelling of ‘mamma’…
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But of course it would "change how people think - about most anything. Consider just how mental illness can change thinking, if allowed to flourish. FIRST we would see thinking of reality in an unreal manner. Also, logic would have to be suspended, and illogic substituted in its stead.
So this is just another call to suspend reality - for some goofy reason that has no real importance except to promote a flawed social stance.
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OR - she is telling truth and it is embarrassing to the powers–that-be. Note the story originates from the NYT, a highly suspicious source for anything that is actually truthful.
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Saving the world by cutting back on pizza. Once they get the massive life altering pollution from wood pizza ovens under control they’ll start to demand that they’re gluten free and no longer use CO2 producing yeast to make them rise. Will beer yeast be next?
We have a pre-EPA OWB (outdoor wood boiler), wonder if the FBI will be investigating them
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