Random stuff worth reading on the internet thread

[Art Vandelay]

Scholars call for the Pulitzer for an essay to be rescinded. For the silly reason that her premise has no scholarly or historical support....but it was super woke.


https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/pu...ah-jones-prize

[swampfrog]

Scholars call for the Pulitzer for an essay to be rescinded. For the silly reason that her premise has no scholarly or historical support....but it was super woke.

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/pu...ah-jones-prize

Motte-and-bailey

[Northwestcoug]

Interesting story about generational business in Japan. Did you know that Japan is home to 40% of all the world’s businesses that are 100 years or older?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/b...companies.html

[Lost Student]

The Lion, the Polygamist, and the Biofuel Scam: How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Pretty interesting story from the Kingston polys and their biodiesel plant in Plymouth, where they pretended to process a whole lot of fuel.

Despite his misgivings, the Lion apparently kept chasing his prey. In March 2015, Washakie banked $164 million in IRS tax credits. Jacob claims Dermen insisted they up the ante. Early the following year, Washakie filed for credits totaling $644 million. At that point, the company wasn’t producing a single gallon of biodiesel.

[BigFatMeanie]

Wow. That is a long but fascinating read. It's always been common knowledge around the SLC area that the Kingstons are crooked and I try to avoid any known Kingston businesses (often hard to tell), but that fraud with Washakie is a "whole nuther level".

[Bo Diddley]

This is an interesting article that talks about how the Plague might have started a century earlier than we thought.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...ght-180977331/

[Pelado]

This is an interesting article that talks about how the Plague might have started a century earlier than we thought.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...ght-180977331/

Freaking Mongols.

[Northwestcoug]

Cool info graphic type story on the Tulsa race riots:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-massacre.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

Cool info graphic type story on the Tulsa race riots:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-massacre.html

Ugh. That is super painful to read.

[Bo Diddley]

So sad. It's crazy to me what people do to other people.

[Northwestcoug]

Ugh. That is super painful to read.

Yeah, ‘cool’ as in ‘neat way to tell a story that I had no idea happened until this past year and makes me realize why this country has such a hard time with race issues’.

[smokymountainrain]

that is depressing.

[MartyFunkhouser]

https://tattmag.com/american-traditional-tattoo/

Really great article on history of American traditional tattoos and symbolism.

[BigFatMeanie]

I confess that I scrolled through the pics in that article rather than reading the whole thing.

My initial thought was that a woman's tattooed back looks way better than a dude's hairy tattooed back.

This one also caught my eye:

A tiger tattoo design may be well suited to someone who considers themself a leader or pioneer.

Yup, "leader" and "pioneer" were definitely first in my mind when I saw that dude's head.

[Bo Diddley]

This is an interesting article that talks about the widespread racial violence we've had in this country post Civil War that has benefitted white people.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021...merica-racism/