January 21, 2018

How Chobani Is Winning America's Culture War

Man of Culture: Chobani's Hamdi Ulukaya - "In 2012, Chobani opened its second U.S. production facility—the world's largest yogurt plant at 1 million square feet—in Twin Falls, Idaho. Again Ulukaya reached out to find workers from the local refugee center. Approximately 30 percent of Chobani employees are immigrants, speaking more than 19 different languages."
posted by kliuless at 9:41 PM PST - 65 comments

"still sounds better than the snare sound on St. Anger"

"Enter Sandman," but the drums are played with dildos (need I say NSFW?)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:11 PM PST - 46 comments

Mardi-Gras Dog Krewe

Pretty much what the title says. Lots of fabulous pictures.
posted by MovableBookLady at 6:55 PM PST - 8 comments

what is egg coffee?

Scandinavian egg coffee uses the egg whites to clarify, while Vietnamese egg coffee uses just the yolks to create a creamy texture. [more inside]
posted by freethefeet at 6:49 PM PST - 25 comments

“Cryptocurrency can’t crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes.

It's a terrible time to buy a graphics card [PC Gamer] “Not too long ago we warned of a potential impending surge in graphics card prices. Unfortunately for those looking to upgrade graphics cards or buy a new GPU, that prediction has come true, and then some. Right now is the worst time in the history of graphics cards to buy or upgrade this all-important gaming component. I've run through the list of current generation GPUs, and I've even looked at previous generation GPUs. The price changes in the past two weeks are staggering.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 1:29 PM PST - 164 comments

Effective graphic design can help communicate your message

Floor Charts.com | Join me as I archive government charts & props from Congress, the White House and more. (Avg. cost per chart: $20 - $60)
posted by Going To Maine at 12:06 PM PST - 9 comments

I Don't Think People Say "The Furtive Genius of Foxboro."

John Malkovich gets you pumped for the AFC Championship Game!
posted by buzzkillington at 11:51 AM PST - 32 comments

Perri-Air

Fresh air for sale Before long, Lam and Paquette had developed a small industry and others began to cotton on to the opportunity. There is now luxury air, cold-pressed air, 100% mountain air. There is air canned for the benefit of mothers (“Keep awake and command the household in a natural way.”) There is air for work. Air for kids. Air for grandparents. [more inside]
posted by indubitable at 9:38 AM PST - 56 comments

The Asparagus tells you to get out of Bitcoin

"She has made dozens of accurate predictions in recent years, including the demise of Gordon Brown, the credit crunch, and Oscar glory for British film The King’s Speech." In the Vale of Evesham, the paganistic rites of the Asparamancer have resulted in predictions for the year ahead. "...her unusual methodology came from her dislike of tea and her lack of success with broccoli..." 2018 predictions include a revival in books, that humanity will survive, the UK will do poorly in sport, and it doesn't look good for Theresa May's future. A recent prediction, that winter will bring wet weather and flooding in Britain, has proven to be astonishingly accurate. 'Mystic Veg', as seen on daytime TV, can also be found on Twitter; her predictions for the last two years.
posted by Wordshore at 9:20 AM PST - 32 comments

The Limits of Empathy

People who study empathy have a thousand different terms and semantic distinctions when it comes to what empathy is and what forms it can take. “There are nearly as many definitions of empathy as there are scientists who study this phenomenon,” writes Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. But most people agree that there is a distinction between empathy in the form of listening, and trying to understand someone’s experience—what many researchers call “empathic concern”—and empathy that takes the form of actually trying to take that experience on yourself—something called “personal distress.” (via RPS)
posted by curious nu at 9:15 AM PST - 15 comments

Cashing in the Coin

An accidental investor battles to cash out from the bubble of the century. "I tore through old boxes of odds and ends I’d hoarded over the years. I found the coin mixed in with some euro pocket change, with the unmistakable B with vertical slashes embossed on it. The coin itself was worthless of course, but the cryptographic private key printed on the back, underneath a tamperproof holographic sticker, was linked to an anonymous digital wallet holding 1.0 BTC. Discovering I hadn’t thrown it out brought a momentary wave of relief, followed by acute anxiety, as I realized the single coin in my hand could buy a new Ford Fiesta, and I had no idea what to do with it."
posted by storybored at 8:53 AM PST - 29 comments

The West's Leftist Male 'Intellectuals' Who Traffic in Genocide Denial

There was no wave of mea culpas from the 'anti-imperialists' who denied the Bosnian genocide after Ratko Mladic's guilty verdict (Previously, Previouslier, yet Previouslier). That's because conclusive evidence, even criminal convictions, wont stop those war crimes deniers, who are now actively whitewashing Assads war crimes
posted by Blasdelb at 7:29 AM PST - 77 comments

Sun's coming up like a big bald head poking up over the grocery store

Things got a bit weird-but-fun in 1984 when performance artist Laurie Anderson released her album Mister Heartbreak [40m]. Side A: Sharkey's Day [video], Langue d'Amour, Gravity's Angel [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 7:08 AM PST - 21 comments

If you really care about something, you have to act on it

Before Roe v Wade, Jane was a network of women who provided abortions to Chicago women. The service was launched in 1965 by Heather Booth, then a 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago. Her friend's sister was pregnant and desperately wanted an abortion. Booth found a doctor who was willing to perform the procedure secretly. "By the third call, I realized I couldn't manage it on my own," Booth says. "So I set up a system. We called it 'Jane.' " At first, Jane connected women with doctors. But eventually, the group's members started performing abortions themselves. With time, Jane grew into an all-women network with dozens of members, ranging from students to housewives.
posted by stillmoving at 3:16 AM PST - 11 comments

African White-capped Hocky Owl

When A.I. gets into birding [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:02 AM PST - 10 comments

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