Random stuff worth reading on the internet thread

[Northwestcoug]

This...is something else:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.c68d8cac59aa

[cowboy]

Most of you have probably heard about Keaton Jones, the kid who was bullied and whose mother posted a video of him describing his treatment at school. It went viral, and the outpouring of support from athletes and celebrities has been wonderful to see. The video breaks your heart.

It's nice to see people reach out to a stranger just because they want to help. It reinforces my belief that many people are generally good. Watching it makes me reflect on my own kids. It makes me wonder if they are experiencing problems like this and not telling me. More troubling, it makes me question what my kids are doing to help (or hurt?) the Keaton Jones' in our school. It's going to be a topic of discussion tonight for sure.

So the people of the internet have done some digging and uncovered part of the reason Keaton Jones doesn't fit in at school: His mother is a little different, too. Great, now a kid who is obviously struggling will get made fun of because of something else he can't/doesn't know how to control. Why on earth anyone was under the illusion that young Keaton was getting picked on for no reason is beyond me.

We watched the video as a family last night, and I tried to make the point that kids often get picked on because they are in some way different or difficult to be around. The lesson to be learned is that they still have feelings, and don't deserve to be treated with cruelty. Apparently some of the people who tried to lend a helping hand were surprised that he didn't have the perfect home life and role models. They are now bitter, and feel duped, but they need to get over it. The worse the kid's role models are in everyday life, the more he needs help from people who were touched by his pain.

[BigFatMeanie]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/david-r...eek-1512494592

Some might say David Rockefeller, a scion of America’s greatest fortune and the veteran chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank, was a dedicated networker long before the age of Facebook.

That would grossly understate his horizons. Mr. Rockefeller recorded contact information along with every meeting he had with about 100,000 people world-wide on white 3-by-5-inch index cards. He amassed about 200,000 of the cards, which filled a custom-built Rolodex machine. He kept the 5-foot high electronic device at his family’s suite of offices in New York City’s Rockefeller Center for about half a century.

“In the annals of CEO history, the breadth and depth of this record of contacts stand out,’’ said Nancy Koehn, a Harvard business professor and historian. “This is a man with a large, long reach.’’

[cowboy]

Most of you have probably heard about Keaton Jones, the kid who was bullied and whose mother posted a video of him describing his treatment at school. It went viral, and the outpouring of support from athletes and celebrities has been wonderful to see. The video breaks your heart.

It's nice to see people reach out to a stranger just because they want to help. It reinforces my belief that many people are generally good. Watching it makes me reflect on my own kids. It makes me wonder if they are experiencing problems like this and not telling me. More troubling, it makes me question what my kids are doing to help (or hurt?) the Keaton Jones' in our school. It's going to be a topic of discussion tonight for sure.

[old_gregg]

You're going to have to fair-use that thing here.

Seconded.

the wsj is the one paywalled publisher worth subscribing to you cheap bastards

[Scott R Nelson]

I thought this was a great article/opinion piece explaining how liberals and conservatives view each other and why neither side seems to want to pay much attention to the other. Being an independent myself, I'm always trying to understand both sides and this helps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/o...ves-trump.html

If you have problems seeing New York Times articles, open it in a Private Window, or Incognito Window, or whatever your browser calls a window with no history and no memory of what you've seen.

[falafel]

You're going to have to fair-use that thing here.

Seconded.

[Walter Sobchak]

Really cool article about mormon funeral potatoes. Also cool stuff about Boulder, Utah.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/uta...ive-1511361725

You're going to have to fair-use that thing here.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Really cool article about mormon funeral potatoes. Also cool stuff about Boulder, Utah.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/uta...ive-1511361725

[Northwestcoug]

I think his real skill is self-promotion.

He is a speed learner, after all...

[Pelado]

Thanks. I just read the whole thing.

Do you think he could learn how to be a better president than we have now in a month minute?

fify

And, to answer the question, yes.

[Scott R Nelson]

Interesting article about a speed learner taking a month to learn chess, and then challenging the world's number one player:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-n...sla=y&mod=e2tw

Thanks. I just read the whole thing.

Do you think he could learn how to be a better president than we have now in a month?

[SCcoug]

Interesting article about a speed learner taking a month to learn chess, and then challenging the world's number one player:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-n...sla=y&mod=e2tw

I think his real skill is self-promotion.

[Northwestcoug]

Interesting article about a speed learner taking a month to learn chess, and then challenging the world's number one player:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-n...sla=y&mod=e2tw

[NathanBol]

Read a curious article about future of self-driving cars; they say that many people will choose living in self-driving motorhomes one day rather than buy/own overpriced property https://tranio.com/world/spotlight/s...y-market_5354/.