The solution for inequality? Give away your children
Here's the best things I found on the internet this week!
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Every week, without fail, the internet provides more fascinating, thought-provoking, and hilarious content. The problem is, it’s normally buried in mountains of crap.
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This column suggests that the most effective way, the only way, to truly end inequality is for parents to quite literally give up their children to the state after they’re born. I know it’s an effective column because it’s a shocking idea, I absolutely hate it, and yet the logic actually makes sense to me. It’s a reminder that we actually value a lot of things above equality.
There are simply no words to appropriately describe this singing, dancing nurse’s public comment at a Dallas City Council meeting.
The president of Turkmenistan reportedly wants to close to the Gates of Hell. No, literally. The giant pit of nuclear waste has been burning non-stop since the 1970s, looking so much like the pits of hell that it became a tourist attraction. This isn’t the first attempt to smother it and, I predict, it won’t be the last.
Real Life Rom-Com: A woman in China went on a first date to a man’s house who wanted to cook him dinner. Then the region went into strict lockdown. The date didn’t go well, but a week later when she talked to reporters, she was still stuck with him. It’s a plot so ready-made for a movie, it actually already was one called Two Night Stand starring Miles Teller (except in that instance it was a storm and not a pandemic). That movie is meh, so maybe this one could be better.
This truly appalling video of Joe Rogan spreading Covid and vaccine misinformation that went viral this week is a textbook example of the power of confirmation bias. Even when Rogan is presented with clear and definitive evidence that he is wrong, he’s unwilling to accept it. Can be seen as a microcosm of our society or an indictment of a person with as big and influential a platform as Rogan does.
The Atlantic dares to ask: What If We Just Stopped Being So Available? In an age of total connectedness, why do we feel so guilty about the time it takes to reply to people, and what would happen if we just…didn’t apologize?
Our long read of the week comes from Bloomberg, the story of a master lockpicker who discovered a major flaw in a popular security device. He took it to the company to fix, and when they dragged their feet he took the information online. It’s a fascinating look into a really quirky subculture.
Derek Thompson is back with another really smart take, wondering how many problems in our society can be solved by simply an abundance of…everything. Covid tests, housing, immigrants, solar panels. How much better would society be if we “stopped venting and started inventing?”
The future of food is drones delivering food to you in a matter of minutes. Is that a good thing? At a convention in Las Vegas, one Eater reporter discovers that the people shaping the next generation of food delivery might be missing the beauty in inefficiency.
Thanks for reading and sharing! There’s no featured movie to talk about on Friday but don’t worry, I’ve got something special planned that I think you all will really enjoy. Talk to you then!