[So1] This wins.
[So2] How brewing became a boys’ club when women owned the ground floor. Coffee, on the other hand, women were not as fond of.
[So3] This is really interesting: They’re building “memory towns” for people with dementia, and it has ramifications for the rest of us.
[So4] History is bad. Science says so.
[So5] This is sort of a back alley argument for lightened copyright restrictions. A lot of this stuff they don’t care enough to offer, but also don’t want to give away. We can make the choice for them!
[So6] Derek Thompson writes about the effect of meritocracy on sports. The arguments about parental involvement are good, though “If it’s not a traveling league why bother” says more about a defect in our culture more general than inequality.
[So7] The last line of a couple dozen shows. The Savage shows, Wonder Years and Boy Meets World, got the most mileage out of theirs. The sad ones are the “What now?” ones.
[So8] I know I say this about a lot of things, but isn’t there a middle ground here? Garfield was designed around merchandising and it shows, but Calvin and Hobbes gear would have bought joy to people and instead of that we have pissing Calvin as the primary cultural artifact. More on Calvin and Hobbes.
[So9] I just don’t think you’ll ever do better than Corporate Merger Jesus.
[So0]
More people should know the great story behind the history of nachos. pic.twitter.com/2ECKAyABdz
— ATTN: (@attn) September 27, 2018
So3: I remember reading about the first of these, I think it was in Holland. But my understanding was that the idea there was that it was a RESIDENTIAL center as well as a hangout, so people needing memory care could move there and live there – and not have to be driven and dropped off, as they suggest in the article about the commodified US version of it.
I dunno. Part of me goes, “Maybe this is a way of using all those dead malls for something useful,” part of me cringes a little bit at the idea that it’s a place to warehouse people/that it’s probably expensive for people to use, given how this kind of thing goes in the US.
I have aging parents (in their 80s). At this point they are both mentally fine and one is physically capable, but I shudder to think if that were to change. I’m not sure what I would do if they needed round the clock care; I live 700 miles away and have a career where I can’t easily take an indefinite leave of absence. I know that lots of nursing homes are horror-shows and even the good ones aren’t great places to be…
I also worry for myself: no spouse, no kids, and while my health is good now and I come from long-lived stock that tends to stay able to care for themselves until they drop dead, still, I worry. (My university recently terminated its long-term-care insurance policy thing, and you can’t pay into one – at least not reasonably – as an independent individual)
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