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Thomas Tassin

Sunday Review #164 (11Aug2024)

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

📖 What I’m Reading:

​A Stalled American Dream – Chris Arnade​

  • “America’s diet, outside of a minority of successful neighborhoods, has gotten worse since my last American Dream trip, with everything now somehow bigger, sweeter, and fattier: Mass produced, highly processed gunk, that has as much connection to what the rest of the world considers food as pornography does to intimacy.”

​Why are Republicans red and Democrats blue? – The Verge​

  • “In 1976, NBC debuted its first election map on the air, with bulbs that turned red for Carter-won states (Democratic), and blue for Ford (Republican). This original color scheme was based on Great Britain’s political system, which used red to denote the more liberal party.”

​Americans don’t get enough sleep. Can magnesium supplements help? – NPR​

  • Mg rocks. I take Mg glycinate before bed. Mg is the new vitamin D.

☝️ Word of the Week:

concatenate (v) kon-KAT-n-ayt

To connect or link in a series or chain.

From Latin com + catenare (to bind).

“To deal with the deluge, you may want to subscribe in digest mode, in which the day’s messages are concatenated and sent as a single message.”

💬 Quote of the Week:

“and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.”

-dril

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ps: Swedish jump setting at its finest (YouTube)

pps: greatest groove switch ever? @ 1:08 (YouTube) (Spotify)

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