Everything is part of the culture wars, even milk cultures. But identifying your political milk ilk is a little more complicated than choosing sides in other partisan battles. A couple decades ago, raw, unpasteurized milk was mostly popular among Whole Foods shopping, boxy Volvo-driving, hippy-clinging lefties who liked to use it wash down the personal blend of GORP they custom mixed by scooping just the right ratio of organic, artisanal, raw pumpkin seeds, sun-dried chia-powdered chard, carob-covered banana chips, and all-natural sugarless, tasteless granola from fairtrade plastic grocery bins into their hemp-based reusable shopping bag. At the time, reversing this trend would have seemed like milking a duck, but in a condensed period of time, this group's love for raw milk evaporated and an entirely different group of voters, let's call them the Milk Men—intolerant of everything but lactose—were chugging the raw stuff double-fisted on the hood of a gun-racked, gas-converted Tesla cybertruck—partly to quench thirst, partly to own the libs, and partly because the milk mustache hid the fact they couldn't grow a natural one—and were milking legislatures to allow unpasteurized goods to bypass science and adopt a new American socio-dietary movement: Teat to Table. Was there a moment when these two groups briefly met and found common ground. Alas, udder disregard persevered. Think, I'm milking it? Trust me, you'll be hitting the tiger's milk by the time you get done reading Marc Novicoff's piece in Politico Magazine: How Raw Milk Went from a Whole Foods Staple to a Conservative Signal. "So how did raw milk go from the darling of the organic liberals, deserving of sympathetic coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Yorker, to the conservative culture war signal that is a sweetheart of deep-red state legislatures? First, liberal elites gave up on it ... At the same time, conservatives discovered that raw milk fit neatly inside a worldview that was increasingly skeptical of credentialed expertise." American politics, where the cream never rises to the top. 2Thirst TrapLast week, we discussed the ways AI is creating so much demand for energy that our electrical grids may not be able to keep up. Well, the computers aren't just sucking up our energy, there also gulping down our water. Thirsty Bots Are Drinking Our Scarce Water. 3Words, Sticks, StonesIt turns out political speech geared towards an increasingly rabid base can have real world impacts. WaPo (Gift Article): In states with laws targeting LGBTQ issues, school hate crimes quadrupled. "At the same time, calls to LGBTQ youth crisis hotlines have exploded, with some advocates drawing a connection between the spike in bullying and hate crimes, and the political climate." Ya think? 4Round Here"We've all been there: A store cashier asks if you'd like to donate money to the local food bank. Or the PIN pad at the checkout counter prompts you to round up your payment for charity — spare a little change for a worthy cause. Those 'round-up' campaigns have become ubiquitous in recent years — at grocery chains, gas stations, retail stores and online merchants." Well, keep opting in. That spare change you donate at checkout is adding up to millions for charities. 5Extra, ExtraSeen But Not Hur: If you can stomach it (full disclosure: I can't), the House Judiciary Committee is grilling Robert Hur, "the special counsel who impugned Joe Biden’s age and competence in his report on how the president handled classified documents." Only one candidate faces criminal charges related to classified documents. And in terms of cognition? Biden remembers that the constitution is good and Hitler is bad. He wins the memory battle. Seriously, we're gonna spend six hours listening to testimony about Biden when Trump just announced that one of his first acts as president will be to "free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!" 6Bottom of the NewsAirBNB has banned indoor cameras and outdoor ones that point at things like saunas and outdoor cameras. Oh well, looks like I'm gonna have to go back to packing my own video equipment.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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