Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The NYPD Is Still Stopping and Frisking Black People at Disproportionate Rates https://theintercept.com/2021/06/10/stop-and-frisk-new-york-police-racial-disparity/
#ACAB

"Give me a break don't tell me
That life is great in the big city
It's all based on money and greed
Everything you'll never need"
- Subhumans (UK) from Big City

"Spent my whole life in the city
Where junk is king and the air smells shitty
People puking everywhere,
Piles of blood, scabs and hair
Bodies wasted in defeat
People dying on the streets
But suburban scumbags they don't care
They just get fat and dye their hair"
- Fear from "I love living in the city"

It’s raining “forever chemicals” in the Great Lakes https://grist.org/science/its-raining-forever-chemicals-in-the-great-lakes/

Secret IRS Files Reveal Just How Little the Wealthiest Pay in Income Tax https://inthesetimes.com/article/irs-taxes-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-warren-buffett

Flipped by Jen Sorensen https://thenib.com/if-we-treated-our-homes-like-we-do-the-earth/

Should we blame society for high cholesterol?

Software development processes have got to be the longest running con game in the industry. They are never backed by anything more than anecdotal data, and they are always extended into development areas outside of even their slim anecdotal evidence.

scrum has to be one of the worst, as it is just thinly veiled Taylorism.

U.S. Southwest, already parched, sees ‘virtual water’ drain abroad https://grist.org/agriculture/u-s-southwest-already-parched-sees-virtual-water-drain-abroad/

It’s not just your imagination — ticks are out of control this year https://grist.org/article/its-not-just-your-imagination-ticks-are-out-of-control-this-year/

#climatechange

How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules https://grist.org/accountability/oil-gas-bankruptcy-fieldwood-energy-petroshare/

New York City Unions Prepare to Shift Retirees Off Medicare https://theintercept.com/2021/06/07/medicare-new-york-public-sector-unions/

@dynamic it was just an example of impact analysis. There are many tradeoffs associated with living choices.

@dynamic Food production is another scenario where large scale change trumps individual choices. Current methods overproduce and impact the environment in other unnecessary ways.