moldybluecheesecurds

Critiquing the rationality of public policy, ruminating on modern life,
and exposing my inner nerd.

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Setting up a used Apple TV (3rd generation) with no remote

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 I'm going to save you a lot of Googling and tell you how to do this right. I bought an Apple TV 3rd generation off eBay with just a pow...

DIY Project Pride - a Garage Door Open Indicator

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 I can't remember the last time I wrote a real post, so here's one about a fun DIY project to solve a problem - an indicator light f...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Warning of ‘Pig Zero’: One Drugmaker’s Push to Sell More Antibiotics

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Warning of 'Pig Zero': One Drugmaker's Push to Sell More Antibiotics : But at last year's big swine industry trade show, th...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Stop Creating Corporate Goliaths

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Stop Creating Corporate Goliaths : Letting T-Mobile merge with Sprint would hurt consumers, workers and the economy. The editorial board re...
Saturday, June 01, 2019

Why Fiction Trumps Truth

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Why Fiction Trumps Truth : We humans know more truths than any species on earth. Yet we also believe the most falsehoods. Mr. Harari is a h...
Sunday, May 05, 2019

What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With

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What 'Good' Dads Get Away With : Division of labor in the home is one of the most important equity issues of our time. Yet at this ...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

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Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind : There's an anecdote that Ruth Wilson Gilmore likes to share about bei...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich : It's about curtailing inequality and saving democracy. Mr....

Organizing in Trump country with George Goehl: podcast & transcript

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Organizing in Trump country with George Goehl: podcast & transcript : Chris Hayes speaks with grassroots organizer George Goehl, the di...

Jay Rosen on Twitter

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Jay Rosen on Twitter : 'Campaign coverage: the road not taken.' There was a path the American press could have walked, but did not....

The Tyranny of Convenience

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The Tyranny of Convenience : Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human dec...

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

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What if the Placebo Effect Isn't a Trick? : The Chain of Office of the Dutch city of Leiden is a broad and colorful ceremonial necklace...

Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor’s Race “Stolen”

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Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor's Race "Stolen" : Many Democrats are understandably angry about efforts to...

Uber and the False Hopes of the Sharing Economy

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Uber and the False Hopes of the Sharing Economy : Not long ago arrived word of a new start-up, Wonderschool, which as its website explains,...

What the Mystery of the Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Could Reveal

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What the Mystery of the Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Could Reveal : One spring evening in 2016, Lee Niegelsky's underarm began to itch. An i...

California Shields Big Soda From Local Taxes

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California Shields Big Soda From Local Taxes : SAN FRANCISCO—State lawmakers banned all local taxes on groceries for 12 years in California...

The trouble with recycling: It's a plastic paradox

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The trouble with recycling: It's a plastic paradox : Americans were not set up for success in recycling plastics. Even before China sto...

The Las Vegas Union That Learned To Beat The House

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The Las Vegas Union That Learned To Beat The House : LAS VEGAS ― Monie Stewart-Cariaga recently decided to leave the townhouse she's re...

Justice reforms take hold, the inmate population plummets, and Philadelphia closes a notorious jail

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Justice reforms take hold, the inmate population plummets, and Philadelphia closes a notorious jail : This article has been updated to corr...

A Credible and Bold Basic Income

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A Credible and Bold Basic Income : Thomas Piketty: Is our basic income really universal?: After our call « For a credible and bold basic in...

The Rise and Fall of the Word 'Monopoly' in American Life

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The Rise and Fall of the Word 'Monopoly' in American Life : For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and ...

How Child Care Enriches Mothers, and Especially the Sons They Raise

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How Child Care Enriches Mothers, and Especially the Sons They Raise : As many American parents know, hiring care for young children during ...

Paying Taxes Is More Popular Than You Think (Episode 41)

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Paying Taxes Is More Popular Than You Think (Episode 41) : Taxes, like death, are inevitable. However, that conception of taxes doesn't...

The Tortilla Cartel

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The Tortilla Cartel : Several years ago, while researching a story about gourmet tacos, I called Diana Kennedy at her home in Michoacán in ...

A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses

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A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses : PANIPAT, India — Shivam Kumar's failing eyesight was manageable at first. To bett...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich : It's about curtailing inequality and saving democracy. Mr....
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