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This whole thing makes me so sad and frustrated. The system is broken beyond repair...

Hands down the best thing I’ve read in 2020!

I’ve been saying for a few months that the worst is yet to come. We shall see

These stats are super interesting. Great read.

half of my effort wasn’t effort at all, but just unnecessary stress that made me feel like I was doing my best.

Quite the lesson

Oh no... this is very bad! You need to read it all and please make it to the end where it explains the below quote (you’ll know why I wrote this!)

Right now, the best we can do is an ad hoc defense of democracy. Begin by rejecting the temptation to think that this election will carry on as elections usually do. Something far out of the norm is likely to happen. Probably more than one thing. Expecting other­wise will dull our reflexes. It will lull us into spurious hope that Trump is tractable to forces that constrain normal incumbents.

If you are a voter, think about voting in person after all. More than half a million postal votes were rejected in this year’s primaries, even without Trump trying to suppress them. If you are at relatively low risk for COVID-19, volunteer to work at the polls. If you know people who are open to reason, spread word that it is normal for the results to keep changing after Election Night. If you manage news coverage, anticipate extra­constitutional measures, and position reporters and crews to respond to them. If you are an election administrator, plan for contingencies you never had to imagine before. If you are a mayor, consider how to deploy your police to ward off interlopers with bad intent. If you are a law-enforcement officer, protect the freedom to vote. If you are a legislator, choose not to participate in chicanery. If you are a judge on the bench in a battleground state, refresh your acquaintance with election case law. If you have a place in the military chain of command, remember your duty to turn aside unlawful orders. If you are a civil servant, know that your country needs you more than ever to do the right thing when you’re asked to do otherwise.

This topic is super interesting but he article doesn’t explain well enough that Oracle/Walmart don’t actually own TikTok. They literally just took a 20% stake and agreed to host US data within the US. That’s all. Nothing else changes.

What really is concerning is the excise about the suicide video. That was originally streamed on Facebook. Facebook immediately removed it and stopped it from being shared further. It made its way into TikTok where it continued to spread.

Great article. I feel like we ended up in a really weird dimension of the universe

the reality that you just can’t tell from the outside whether something is a dream job—or whether it’ll end up being a nightmare job, or a just-OK job

True that

👏💪🙏

If you’re into this sort of analysis of social media, check out the social dilemma on Netflix!

Great article. I wasn’t aware of the para-military army that’s being built.

For me, this has long been the key question:

why does it seem like no amount of logic, evidence, or factual information about Trump has any impact on the support of a typical white Trump voter?

Omg, what a circus

It's not that it's impossible to find love on dating apps—it certainly isn't. But it is a brute force trial and error approach

Oh man, I’m so glad I’m out of the dating business.

I disagree with a lot of what the author writes. It’s not Amazon’s responsibility to decide if a book is true or false. All Amazon is supposed to do is sell books that people want to buy. If the government wants to block books from being sold, they can do that but I have a whole other issue with such government imposed censorship.

Great read. Really well written.

Also, didn’t expect to find this gem sentence in here:

Work all day to make a rich dude slightly richer! He might thank you, but probably not!

Interesting. Not an article I’d normally read but thanks for ReadUp I’ve just learned a few new things.

oh this is such as slippery slope

Looks like Singapore is walking away laughing while the US, India and China are fighting

“We focus upon harm and priority regions like the United States and Western Europe,” Zhang wrote, adding that “it became impossible to read the news and monitor world events without feeling the weight of my own responsibility.”

🤯😵😤🤬😭😖 (The best way to express how I feel about this article)

Well, that’s something different

Oh man. This is so depressing. I’m generally not a fan of government intervention but here it seems like we need it.

... and the dominos have started falling

Wow, loved reading this

Moving the needle by 10% is a lot, that means a lot of employees have to be hired or a lot have to leave, and it still doesn't change the culture

Well... no! You could have focused at diversity from the get go then you didn’t need to move the needle

Fascinating. I’d have loved to see the original version though

Oh this was so good!! What a gem. This honestly made my day. Great twist on a super ironic story.

Can’t wait for this to come out!

just swipe left, and the algorithms will know never to interrupt your dream state with such real news again.

Disgusting.

Love it!!

I’ve heard this one before and 100% believe in it:

Show up. Keep showing up. Somebody successful said: 99% of success is just showing up.

Everyone knows at least one person like him 😅

wow. imagine how much they expect to save thanks to WfH if they are willing to pay such a high price to get out of the lease

What?! I say, this is Darwinism at work 😬

Interesting. I never thought of that approach

The system is broken

Yeah that’s concerning

Yelp estimates that 60% of restaurants around the United States have closed

😟

I can’t help but feel for the people who were so unlucky to have been born there

Makes me wonder how much of this is still going on.. and maybe more so, how much of this has already been going on. And I’m surprised the guy is allowed to talk about this