Friday Finds, VII
The 8 Best Melting Cheeses, For Your Cheese Pull Pleasure (Bon Appetit)
Cheese makes me farty, and I'll never stop eating it.
And speaking of Bon Appetit, their YouTube channel is one of my favorite things right now and I can't recommend it enough. I know all of the main chefs/editors' names and their unique personalities. The two most popular series are “It's Alive!” and “Gourmet Makes”. So good and so funny.
Can Elizabeth Warren Win It All? (The New Yorker)
On many economic issues, Warren has been remarkably prescient. She has spent decades warning Americans about the pernicious effects of income inequality, predatory corporations, and consumer debt, and about the failures of our financial system—issues that are at the heart of the 2020 Presidential campaign.
Income inequality is one of my biggest concerns, and I think she's got the best message about it. Still my first choice—with increasing excitement.
Facebook lawyer says users ‘have no expectation of privacy’ (Daily Dot)
“There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,” Snyder said.
Is it then also true that most people don't care either?
Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace (NY Times)
In The Matrix, Agent Smith said this to Morpheus:
I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague[,]...”
Although, to be fair, so is english ivy. Gotta make myself not care somehow, right?