OMM (On My Mind)
~ Week 3, February 2023 ~
On a positive note, the % of global population who live in extreme poverty has been steadily dropping since 1820.
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40% of Americans say they are dissatisfied with U.S. immigration policies (according to Gallup polling) and want less new immigrants coming here. Let us all remember how everyone who is not indigenous arrived in this place.
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2021-2022, several states lost residents:
- California
- New York
- Illinois
Who gained?
- Florida
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Texas
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About 40% of Facebook users say they use the app daily.
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A list of countries where at least half the citizen say they want to leave:
- Sierra Leone
- Lebanon
- Honduras
- Gabon
- Afghanistan
- Republic of Congo
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Albania
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Guinea
- Kosovo
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A big and emotionally honest sports moment.
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Go see the OG “bean” in Chi. It makes more sense… Look at the weird placement of this new thing.
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How many writers does it take to write a Top 100 hit?
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How often you need to wash different types of clothing.
Personally, I wash the majority of things after a single use.
One exception: pants.
One more exception: dress shirts only worn briefly (like say for a Zoom call)
One thing people don’t wash nearly enough: jackets (and other outerwear) (ok, it’s a pet peeve… especially for those of us with allergies…)
Experts say: Most modern washers clean sufficiently on “warm”. “Hot” is really only needed if items are badly soiled.
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So what did Neanderthals like to eat? Crabs.
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This Gen Z BORG creation is not about Star Trek.
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How do people meet partners nowadays? I think you will not be terribly surprised.
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Problems of compression and high fidelity across the board.
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[on] soulmates
"The problem with some of the classic soulmate imagery is not the idea of sharing a life, but the idea that doing so overcomes our incomplete nature, rather than modifying it."
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Sadly, not surprising mental health issues (tw: suicide) associated with being a veterinarian. I’ve talked to quite a few of those in the field and they are often seemingly super upbeat but the way they talk about what they do has a lot of dark energy.
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Snacks, like all foodways, are cultural and historical. Americans are always being sold. When you look at what people eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and yes, snacks, in cultures that are not WASP-y white folks, you realize that a lot of us have been taken for a ride. Why do we eat what we eat? Maybe because we’re being told what to eat by large corporations who are more concerned with dollars than your life expectancy. #NotJustBigTobacco
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Allegedly, America’s Best Places to Work
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Real life detectorist.
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Walmart as an economic indicator.
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Banksy Valentine’s Day mural addresses domestic violence.
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The 2023 WoW List (Architectural Digest)
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Apparently, some folks love planes so much that they want to live in them.
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