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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Happened to the Washington Post?</strong> - After a decade of growth, the paper is laying off staff and was reportedly on track to lose money last year. Its publisher and C.E.O. says it’s all part of a bold strategy. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/what-happened-to-the-washington-post">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Democratic Party’s Political Gift to Ron DeSantis</strong> - Republicans’ sustained and successful courting of Latino voters in South Florida could be a road map for the G.O.P. in 2024. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-democratic-partys-political-gift-to-ron-desantis">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet</strong> - A cornerstone of life online has been that platforms are not responsible for content posted by users. What happens if that immunity goes away? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/two-supreme-court-cases-that-could-break-the-internet">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Police Folklore That Helped Kill Tyre Nichols</strong> - A 1992 study claims that officers who show weakness are more likely to be killed. Law-enforcement culture has never recovered. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-police-folklore-that-helped-kill-tyre-nichols">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Israel’s Anti-Democratic Practices Against Palestinians Are Infecting Its Political System</strong> - Rising violence is drawing new attention to the alliance that Benjamin Netanyahu struck with the far right to return to power. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/deaths-in-jenin-and-east-jerusalem-draw-new-attention-to-netanyahu">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Compost yourself</strong> -
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<img alt="Green Burial Gethsemane Cemetery" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lnpSEjyBZ3uzHDVLayNcYgkKu34=/228x0:4601x3280/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71917475/1315359987.0.jpg"/>
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Gethsemane Cemetery executive director Tim Kolasa points out a plot marker in the Section of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the new natural burial section of the cemetery in Laureldale, Pennsylvania. | Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
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Human composting, now legal in six states, is on the rise as an alternative to burial or cremation.
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If you’ve thought at all about what to do with your body after you die, it’s probably come down to one of three options: burial, cremation, or donating your remains to science. But there are a lot more options now, including ones you might not have thought of.
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In recent years, there has been a groundswell of interest in <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/1/15/21059189/death-millennials-funeral-planning-cremation-green-positive">alternative options</a> for disposing of human remains, especially in methods that minimize death’s carbon footprint. After all, the cremation process <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/is-cremation-environmentally-friendly-heres-the-science">emits</a> hundreds of pounds of carbon dioxide, and the toxic chemicals used to embalm, bury, and cremate pollute the environment. Cost is also a factor, with traditional funerals costing $7,000 to $10,000 on average.
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New York recently became the <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/new-yorkers-can-now-compost-themselves-after-they-die.html">sixth US state</a> to legalize natural organic reduction (NOR), a practice better known as <a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/23307867/human-composting-process-return-home">human composting</a>. The process involves putting the body in a reusable steel cylinder packed with biodegradable materials such as alfalfa, straw, and wood chips. The bacteria that already lives in the body will break down the remains in about a month, after which the bones are removed and ground down in a process similar to cremation. Another two to six weeks later, you’re left with several hundred pounds of soil that can be used for gardening or can be spread in designated memorial grounds or forest conservation areas. Five US-based companies have established NOR facilities so far.
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Another option that’s gaining interest is alkaline hydrolysis, or water cremation, in which bodies are dissolved in water. That option is legal in about two dozen states.
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Efforts to “personalize” death also include the rise of custom-made eco-friendly caskets, and home funerals in which families and loved ones can spend more time saying goodbye to the deceased.
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While such practices are just beginning to gain traction, some of them mark a return to how bodies have been handled for most of human history.
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“I like to refer to green burial and natural organic reduction as neo-traditional,” said <a href="https://law.wfu.edu/faculty/profile/marshtd/">Tanya Marsh</a>, a professor of law at Wake Forest University School of Law and the author of <a href="https://www.lawyersandjudges.com/products/the-law-of-human-remains?variant=6027975619"><em>The Law of Human Remains</em></a>. “We’re not inventing some radical new way of disposing of human remains. We’re just basically going back to basics,” she said.
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Marsh is a legal advisor to <a href="https://recompose.life/">Recompose</a>, a Seattle-based green funeral home and the first in the US to offer human composting. She’s been closely watching the rapidly changing death care industry in the US, and spoke to <em>Today, Explained</em>’s Noel King about how funeral homes, cemeteries, and other businesses are struggling to keep up with changing attitudes and needs about what to do with our bodies after we die.
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Below is an excerpt of the conversation between Marsh and King, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so listen to<em> Today, Explained</em> wherever you get your podcasts, including <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/today-explained/id1346207297">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3pXx5SXzXwJxnf4A5pWN2A">Spotify</a>, and <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/today-explained">Stitcher</a>.
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Noel King
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When did humans start getting more formal with how we dealt with bodies after we die?
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Tanya Marsh
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Every society and religion handles human remains in their own particular way that is formal and that they perceive to be respectful. And that’s one of the things that separates humans from other animals: We attach a lot of meaning to the disposition of human remains. But what one society or religious group views as respectful, another may view as extremely disrespectful. So there’s a lot of variety in the formality, but it is universal.
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The prevailing norm in the United States for the 20th century was embalming; open-casket viewing of the body; a casketed burial in a vault or a grave liner. That really started, with all of those component parts, in the late 1800s. It was really the period between WWI and WWII, and certainly by WWII, that embalming became the norm for disposition in the United States.
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Noel King
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Prior to that, would it have just been, you go in the ground?
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Tanya Marsh
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As long as we’ve had cities, there have been differences between disposition methods. In more densely populated areas, because people didn’t have space and they didn’t have as ready access to land, it would be more common earlier in US history to have employed an outside person to help with preparing the body for disposition and maybe even transporting the body to the cemetery. In rural areas, families tended to do it all themselves. Before we had funeral directors, undertakers typically made caskets and they provided transportation to the cemeteries, and in a lot of small towns they also sold furniture.
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Noel King
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Oh, that’s so interesting. And actually, it makes complete sense.<strong> </strong>Now, in 2023, I would say I know a fair number of people who have been cremated or who would like to be cremated. When did that become more popular?
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<strong>Tanya Marsh</strong>
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The rising popularity of cremation has been absolutely phenomenal. It was legalized in the United States, starting in the late 1800s. In 1980, we were still right on the verge of double digits, from upper 9 percent to 10 percent. But in 2021, which is the most recent number for which we have statistics, the cremation rate was 57.5 percent. So between 1980 and 2021, it went from 10 percent to almost 60 percent. That’s just a meteoric rise in a very short period of time.
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Why did that happen?
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Tanya Marsh
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First of all, cost. Cremation can be much less expensive than the full casketed funeral and burial. The second reason is flexibility. If I’m going to put a body in a grave, I have to pick a cemetery and I have to make that decision very quickly around the time of death. But if my body’s going to be cremated, I can decide later how I want those remains to be divided among family members or scattered in different, meaningful places. And the final reason is that we have a much more mobile society, and so with a diminished connection to a particular place, do you want to leave your body in a cemetery where nobody’s ever going to visit, or would you rather have your remains scattered in places that were meaningful to you?
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Are there other practices that are growing in popularity that you think are interesting?
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Tanya Marsh<strong> </strong>
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Natural organic reduction is definitely the one that has risen in popularity the most quickly in recent years. The other one that’s emerging is called alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation. It’s a way of reducing the human body to a substance that’s similar to cremated remains, in a process that involves water and a base solution. It is perceived as more environmentally friendly than cremation. It consumes less energy. It costs about the same. It’s been legalized in about half the states but hasn’t really taken off in terms of popularity. We don’t have great numbers for it, but it’s not crowding out cremation, by any sense.
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Noel King
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I was surprised to see New York State has legalized human composting because, I guess, as an American, I always think we can do whatever we want, right? But no, this did have to be made legal.
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Tanya Marsh
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This is all state law. It’s not federal law. And so each state defines by statute which methods of disposition are legal in that state. So, back in the late 1800s, they had to go state by state to get cremation legalized, and now they’re having to go state by state to get NOR and alkaline hydrolysis legalized. The states regulate the methods of disposition, and then they also regulate who can practice funeral services. By restricting the group of folks who can practice in this area, that’s another way of limiting innovation.
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Noel King<strong> </strong>
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How are cemeteries and funeral homes adapting to the fact that customers now want something different?
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Funeral homes and cemeteries are adapting in different ways. You’re going to see a lot of small funeral homes closing, especially in more rural areas, because the economics just don’t fundamentally work. You’re seeing more consolidation, more economies of scale in more urban areas. You have a couple national publicly traded companies in this area. You also have some privately held aggregators that own a number of funeral homes. They can compete better, even with falling margins, as people spend less on funerals and choose less expensive alternatives. Cemeteries were all built at a time when you had nearly 100 percent of deaths resulting in burial. And now we’ve got about 40 percent of deaths resulting in burial. Those economics are fundamentally skewed. So you’re going to see a lot of abandoned cemeteries and cemeteries having to put up cell phone towers or invite people in for using it as green space or becoming members or friends of the cemetery. For some cemeteries in urban areas that’ll work, and for some cemeteries it just won’t.
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So when a cemetery goes bankrupt, it’s either, go to the public, or find some way of getting money, or just cease to exist.
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Right. But unlike other types of real estate, a cemetery can’t be redeveloped. It’s not a shopping mall that can be torn down. So for most abandoned cemeteries, the folks who are running it or owned it, they’d just walk away. And then it’s either left to get overgrown and become a nuisance for the area or the state is going to come in and take over maintenance obligations. We haven’t really had a conversation that I think we need to have with the states. They’re going to start needing to think about how to step up and provide some financing to take care of some of these cemeteries. This is a big land use in the United States. There’s a lot of cemeteries. And for the health of our communities, we need that space to be taken care of.
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I’m from a rural area, and all of what you’re saying tracks for me for rural cemeteries. I feel like once or twice a year I come across a story about a cemetery in a big city that is just too full. What are the options there? Is it to somehow pack more people in or say, look, this cemetery is closed?
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We have a lot of closed cemeteries. There are cities in this country where you’re not legally allowed to bury another body. In fact, New York City started closing down cemeteries in the early 1800s. So that’s definitely an option on the table. But most of the large urban cemeteries that are still open are trying to find less land-intensive ways of disposing of bodies. So maybe we don’t have room for single graves anymore. But could you stack graves? Could you build a multi-story mausoleum or columbarium? Could you create scattering gardens? There are some urban cemeteries that are really interested in grave recycling, which is something that’s routinely practiced in Europe, and we just don’t have much of a tradition of here. So you might rent a grave for 50 or 75 years, and then when your lease is up, whatever is left is going to be put in a communal part of the cemetery, and then that grave can be released to someone else.
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Industry professionals — conservative, entrenched, traditional cemeterians — are asking me about the chances for legalizing grave recycling. I think there’s a lot of interest there. So I do think we’re going to see grave recycling within the next 10 years. It’s just really exciting. This is the most fundamental change in death care and disposition practices in a thousand years.
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I think that we’re entering an era where a lot of funeral directors are in their 60s. They’re going to retire. They’re not going to be replaced by members of their family. You’ve got consumers demanding a lot of change. The laws are an immovable object and changing consumer demand is an irresistible force. So I think we are going to see a lot of messy change in the next 10 years.
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<img alt="In a navy suit, white shirt, and red tie, Trump speaks emphatically into a microphone behind a podium bearing his last name. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. Henry McMaster, and other South Carolina politicians applaud behind him." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/9-RaEJdPZXsUHlwvTqDK4gLMQok=/0x0:5333x4000/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71916849/GettyImages_1460354312.0.jpg"/>
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a January 28 campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
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Trump tried cast himself as both a great Republican leader and the ultimate outsider.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina — The South Carolina statehouse’s second floor is a study in profound historical contradictions. A full plaque engraved with the state’s resolution seceding from the Union in 1860 faces a portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune. A statue of John C. Calhoun stands feet away from where Nikki Haley announced that Tim Scott would be the first Black senator since Reconstruction and where she, years later, finally removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds.
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It’s also the place where Donald Trump tried to brand himself as both an incumbent and an insurgent while being neither.
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In the first public event since he announced his 2024 presidential campaign, the former president struggled to achieve the synthesis of the anti-establishment impulses that helped him capture the presidency in 2016 or the air of total control and inevitability that led him to avoid any serious primary challenge in 2020 despite colossal midterm losses — and the first of what would be two impeachments.
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Introducing Trump, first-term Rep. Russell Fry declared, “Never before in the history of the South Carolina primary has a presidential candidate received this much support this early in the day.”
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More than a year before the primary, Trump unveiled the backing of the state’s governor, lieutenant governor, senior senator, and three of its six Republican members of Congress. It would be an astonishing lineup of endorsements for an insurgent candidate. When Trump was endorsed by then-Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster in 2016, that alone made national headlines. But Trump is no longer a political outsider: He is a former president. If he went to any state before his 2020 reelection bid where half of the congressional delegation didn’t show up, he would be viewed as weak.
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The question is how to interpret just what the former president’s political strength is right now. No defeated former president has mounted a comeback bid since Grover Cleveland, who was controversial for his support for lower tariffs as opposed to, say, inspiring an attack on the US Capitol in an effort to overturn a presidential election. Other Republicans, of course, see Trump as vulnerable. It was pointed how he appeared in a space with such political significance to potential rivals like Nikki Haley or Tim Scott and while other potential rivals like Ron DeSantis sniff around.
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Joe Wilson, a longtime Republican Congress member in the state, told Vox that Trump was “much stronger” than he was in 2016 when he faced his last competitive primary election in the Palmetto State. Wilson, who was supporting Trump, thought that the former president had “a real leg up” based on his record in the White House and cited what “he did for our country for jobs, for economic development, for national security, for the military, to the courts.”
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The challenge is whether Trump can recapture the magic that helped propel his unprecedented 2016 presidential campaign this time around. His speech was a familiar mix of bellicose rhetoric off a teleprompter and an array of Trumpian riffs where he informed attendees about topics like the Taliban’s treatment of dogs and the fact that he, a millionaire real estate developer, is not much of a cook.
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It also laid bare the contradictions facing his campaign. He started off with a denunciation of “RINOs” while standing next to Sen. Lindsey Graham, a comparative moderate in the modern Republican Party — the sort of Republican Trumps needs to win the nomination again. Graham was later heckled by the crowd because he did not accept Trump’s false claims about the 2020 elections. Trump went on to denounce electric cars next to McMaster, who has pushed for South Carolina’s automotive industry to become a center of EV manufacturing.
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Earlier in the day, Trump spoke at the New Hampshire state GOP convention. There, the former president tried to reinforce his commitment to the race after not campaigning publicly for months, telling the crowd, “I’m more angry now and I’m more committed now than I ever was,” in the course of a Trump stemwinder of the type the former president often delivered in 2016.
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The question is just how committed he will be in the course of the nearly two years remaining in the 2024 campaign. The former president is no longer the television personality who can lob bombs freely at all comers ranging from elected officials to Rosie O’Donnell based on his moods and the promise that his much-touted real estate expertise can solve all problems.
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But he also isn’t the all-powerful president of the United States with all the resources that provides. Trump is caught in a middle ground without any measuring stick to gauge how he’s doing or precedent to put him in perspective. Instead, he has to navigate a maze of contradictions where it’s hard to tell just what Trump is or how he fits in — save, of course, the fact that no one is confusing him with Grover Cleveland.
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<li><strong>The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained</strong> -
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People attend a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyre Nichols at the Tobey Skate Park on January 26, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Five Memphis police officers are facing murder charges over Nichols’s death.
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Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died earlier this month after he was pulled over by Memphis police who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/tyre-nichols-timeline.html">violently beat him for three minutes</a>, an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/28/23573241/tyre-nichols-death-police-brutality-video-release">incident</a> shown in <a href="https://twitter.com/CityofMem_Media/status/1619123186502889472?s=20&t=d9wkMkLueiRFmttLn7Cyhg">footage that was released Friday</a>.
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Lawyers for the Nichols family said in a press conference Monday that Nichols had been treated like a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-JExNfIDlQ">human piñata</a>.” Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said in a video statement Thursday that the attack was “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpD2FDjBBr8&t=5s">heinous, reckless, and inhumane</a>.” Protests, most of them peaceful, sprang up across the country on Friday after the city of Memphis released video footage of Nichols’s brutal assault.
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Five Black officers for the Memphis Police Department — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith — were fired after an internal departmental investigation found them to be “<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/police-chief-warns-memphis-not-to-react-violently-after-release-of-tyre-nichols-video/">directly responsible</a>” for the beating. They also were found to have violated departmental policies regarding excessive force, duty to intervene, and duty to render aid.
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Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/us/tyre-nichols-memphis-thursday/index.html">announced</a> Thursday that each would face charges of “second-degree murder, aggravated assault, two charges of aggravated kidnapping, two charges of official misconduct, and one charge of official oppression.” They could each face <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/us/tyre-nichols-memphis-thursday/index.html">up to 60 years in prison</a> for the murder charges alone.
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Two Memphis Fire Department workers who were involved in Nichols’s initial care have been “<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/24/1151150396/tyre-nichols-memphis-fire-department-employees">relieved of duty</a>,” according to the department. It’s not clear whether they could also face charges.
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The US attorney for the Western District of Tennessee also <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/statement-united-states-attorney-kevin-g-ritz-0">announced</a> that there is an open civil rights investigation into Nichols’s death, which could result in federal criminal charges.
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Police stopped Nichols for reckless driving on January 7. Memphis’s police chief later told <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNThisMorning/status/1618952068793868289">CNN</a> that investigators have “been unable to substantiate” the claim that Nichols was driving recklessly, however. Nichols expressed confusion about the stop, saying in the footage that he was “just trying to go home.”
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The officers who initially stopped him responded by threatening to “knock your ass the fuck out,” and to break his bones. Nichols fled from the stop; once he was caught, those threats were carried out. Officers encircled Nichols, and repeatedly punched, kicked, and hit him with a baton — sometimes while he was restrained on the ground.
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He was taken to a hospital after his arrest, where he<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/us/what-we-know-tyre-nichols-death/index.html">died three days later of injuries</a> sustained in the beating.
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Memphis’s special police unit turns deadly
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It’s not the first time that police have turned <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-killings.html">a traffic stop into a deadly altercation</a>. Deaths like Nichols’s are all too common, especially for Black Americans, who nearly every available study shows are <a href="https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/">stopped more often than white Americans</a>.
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As Lauren Bonds, the executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, told Vox in an interview Friday, “so many of the high-profile police killings that we’ve seen in recent years have started out as a traffic stop — started out as an expired tag, reckless driving, fines or warrants due.”
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“One thing I’d say about the murder of Tyre in particular is that these officers were all part of a specific unit that was essentially designed to engage in, more or less, broken-windows policing, enforcing low-level offenses in order to identify higher-level crimes,” Bonds said.
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The unit that Bonds referred to is called SCORPION, or the Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods; it was founded in 2021, ostensibly to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyre-nichols-former-memphis-police-officer-scorpion-unit/">address violent street crime in Memphis</a> by flooding high-crime areas with officers from the hand-picked special unit. In 2021, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/us/memphis-shooting-gun-violence.html">New York Times</a>, Memphis had 346 homicides; in September, the city was on edge after a teacher was abducted and murdered, and days later a gunman shot and killed four people.
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Officers from the SCORPION Unit — 40 in total, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/27/scorpion-tyre-nichols-memphis-death/">the Washington Post</a> — were trained to use routine traffic stops as opportunities to find and arrest people for more serious offenses.
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Ben Crump, an attorney for Nichols’s family, indicated the unit has had previous issues with excessive use of force. “We believe that this was a pattern and practice and that Tyre is dead because this pattern and practice went unchecked,” Crump said, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/27/scorpion-tyre-nichols-memphis-death/">according to the Washington Post</a>.
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On Saturday, the Memphis Police Department <a href="https://twitter.com/mem_policedept/status/1619446919683796992">announced</a> that it had disbanded its SCORPION unit, which had <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/TNMEMPHIS/bulletins/3455dba">previously been suspended</a> after Nichols was beaten by officers in the unit.
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The fact that both Nichols and the officers accused of his murder are Black isn’t unusual, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-27/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-race#:~:text=In%20the%20Memphis%20Police%20Department,2%20percentage%20points%20since%202021">either in Memphis</a> or in other incidents of police brutality. Memphis is “a pretty Black city,” Bonds said; both the city and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-27/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-race">its police department</a> are majority Black, and the department is led by a Black chief of police.
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Ultimately, Bonds said, the race of those carrying out the violence is incidental.
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“It’s systemic, and it’s ultimately state violence, which doesn’t really have a color except for the color of the people who are in power in this country,” she said. “So to say that there are no racial implications because there’s a Black victim and Black officers involved is a really myopic way of looking at the problem.”
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Comprehensive data on police brutality is lacking, particularly when it comes to looking at violence other than shootings and information broken out by race, William Sousa, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-27/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-race">told the Los Angeles Times</a>. But available information indicates <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/">there hasn’t been meaningful change</a> in police violence since <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/06/how-policing-has-and-hasn-t-changed-since-george-floyd">the murder of George Floyd</a> by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020.
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Still, Bonds noted, prosecutors are more likely to bring cases against police officers involved in civilian killings since Floyd’s murder, which sparked a <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/4/21276674/protests-george-floyd-arbery-nationwide-trump">national protest movement</a>, and there have been recent high-profile convictions, like <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/20/22387556/derek-chauvin-verdict-guilty-murder-manslaughter">Chauvin’s</a>.
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Why traffic stops can be dangerous for Black Americans
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Black Americans are often taught — at home, through personal experience, and by the news — to see encounters with police, particularly traffic stops, as dangerous, if not potentially fatal.
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The deaths of Americans like Nichols, or <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/12/22379984/daunte-wright-minnesota-police-killing-traffic-stop-brooklyn-center">Daunte Wright</a>, Sandra Bland, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/13/21290334/atlanta-police-shooting-wendys-video">Rayshard Brooks</a>, validate that teaching. But it’s not just Black civilians who learn to fear traffic stops. As University of Arizona law professor Jordan Blair Woods wrote for the <a href="https://michiganlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/117MichLRev635_Woods.pdf">Michigan Law Review</a>, police are taught to view stops as dangerous as well — not for those they’re stopping, but for themselves and their colleagues.
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“Police academies regularly show officer trainees videos of the most extreme cases of violence against officers during routine traffic stops in order to stress that mundane police work can quickly turn into a deadly situation if they become complacent on the scene or hesitate to use force,” Woods wrote.
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That training belies the fact that police officers are rarely injured in traffic stops. In Woods’s analysis of Florida traffic stop data from 2005 to 2014, the professor finds police had a 1 in 6.5 million chance of being killed during a traffic stop, and a 1 in 361,111 chance of being seriously injured. Overall, more than 98 percent of stops saw zero or minor injury to officers.
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Data in other states mirrors Woods’s findings. In their <a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jPpTDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA24&dq=police+traffic+stop+injury&ots=TU0nqv7B72&sig=cu1ChcCCLQraJYBCb-Fwfre2Zrs#v=onepage&q=police%20traffic%20stop%20injury&f=false">book <em>Suspect Citizens</em></a>, UNC political science professor Frank Baumgartner, University of Texas government professor Derek A. Epp, and University of South Carolina political science professor Kelsey Shoub found that North Carolina “officers encountered violence about 24,000 times, or just over once per 1,000 stops.” When someone was injured at a stop, it was usually the person being stopped, the authors found.
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Complicating matters for Black individuals is that the data suggests they’re <a href="https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1065&context=dflsc">stopped more often</a> than white people — in some localities, by a large margin. The <a href="https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/">Stanford Open Policing Project</a>, a database of more than 200 million traffic stops, found that in St. Paul, Black drivers are a little over three times more likely than white drivers to be pulled over; in San Jose, California, Black drivers are six times more likely to be stopped.
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Arguably, drivers of all races ought to be stopped at about the same rate — anyone of any race or gender could engage in the reckless driving Nichols was allegedly stopped for. This has led to a number of researchers trying to understand the disparity in who is stopped. In general, their results suggest that the issue has to do with officer bias, conscious or unconscious, that casts Black people as inherently more dangerous than their white counterparts.
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Tied to this idea is the question of what stops are for. As a group of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Dartmouth College researchers led by Baumgartner wrote in a <a href="https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1065&context=dflsc">2017 paper</a>, in many departments, traffic stops are meant to serve a dual purpose: to deter illegal behavior and as a chance for officers to investigative past or potential crimes. In many ways, this system is akin to stop-and-frisk, a practice <a href="https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/2/14/21136892/stop-and-frisk-bloomberg-activist">most prominently used in New York City</a> that was meant to uncover criminal behavior through street searches. The program was ruled unconstitutional.
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As Baumgartner wrote, “officers are trained to use traffic stops as a general enforcement strategy aimed at reducing violent crime or drug trafficking. When officers are serving these broader goals, they are making an investigatory stop, and these stops have little (if anything) to do with traffic safety and everything to do with who looks suspicious.”
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If Black drivers are seen as more suspicious and police are trained to view traffic stops as dangerous in general, this creates a serious problem. When a Black driver is stopped, the interaction is more likely to begin with the officer even more on guard for trouble than they might otherwise be.
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This can lead to the kind of rapid escalation seen in Nichols’s case, in which officers ended the stop through violence. Some officers favor beginning with violence, perhaps out of fear, like during the encounter that ended George Floyd’s life. Body camera footage released during Chauvin’s trial, for example, shows an officer drawing his weapon shortly after approaching Floyd’s vehicle and yelling at him to “Put your fucking hands up right now.”
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These tactics, as well as the fear and bias that fuel them, put Black drivers in mortal danger. Law enforcement representatives have argued the stops are necessary — “we find drugs, evidence of other crimes … it’s a very valuable tool,” Kevin Lawrence, the Texas Municipal Police Association’s executive director, told the <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/09/03/police-pretext-traffic-stops-need-to-end-some-lawmakers-say">Pew Charitable Trusts</a> in 2020 — but those discoveries are rare. Nationally, about 4 percent of stops resulted in searches or arrests in 2015, according to the <a href="https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp15.pdf">Bureau of Justice Statistics</a>.
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This has a number of activists and elected officials questioning whether the risks traffic stops pose to drivers — particularly Black drivers — are worth such a small number of arrests.
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Is there hope for meaningful change?
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Politicians both on the national and local levels have expressed sadness and outrage over Nichols’s death. <a href="https://twitter.com/elaserdavies/status/1619063942705455104?s=46&t=sI3kW-ANzi23z8J0vQsqng">President Joe Biden</a> called Nichols’s mother, RowVaughn Wells, and his stepfather, Rodney Wells, on Friday to express his condolences, and Vice President Kamala Harris <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/27/statement-from-vice-president-harris-on-tyre-nichols/">urged Congress in a statement</a> to “act with urgency and pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. To truly honor Tyre Nichols’s memory, and the memory of so many others before him, we must demand that our justice system lives up to its name.”
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A version of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22295856/george-floyd-justice-in-policing-act-2021-passed-house">George Floyd Justice in Policing Act</a> passed the House in 2021 before dying in the Senate; the bill would have ended <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21277104/end-qualified-immunity-police-definition-george-floyd">qualified immunity</a> for police officers, among a raft of other reforms.
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Crump, one of the attorneys for Nichols’s family, <a href="https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/attorney-tyre-nichols-end-to-memphis-police-scorpion-squads/522-965e1dea-5f67-49e6-9b81-206e86dbb5b2">put out a statement</a> Wednesday calling for better data on police use of force in SCORPION and similar special units, insisting on “reform, transparency, and better oversight of these ‘saturation’ units, or for their removal as a tactic in American policing.”
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He also called for the introduction of “Tyre’s Law,” which would create a “duty to intervene” for police who <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1619051122307567629?s=20&t=XboPcpIB9TAIPranRhhtnw">witness crimes being committed</a>.
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Some police departments have also taken steps to address inequitable and sometimes deadly traffic stops. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/berkeley-police.html">Berkeley</a>, California, for instance, approved a plan in 2021 to prohibit officers from conducting traffic stops for violations that have nothing to do with safety; <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/To-curb-racial-bias-Oakland-police-are-pulling-14839567.php">Oakland</a> has a similar policy in place. <a href="https://theappeal.org/traffic-enforcement-without-police/">Other places</a>, including <a href="https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/01/montgomery-co-police-commission-to-hold-hearing-on-traffic-enforcement/">Montgomery County, Maryland</a>, and <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/09/03/police-pretext-traffic-stops-need-to-end-some-lawmakers-say">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, have contemplated such measures as well. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/10/01/bowser-does-an-end-run-around-dc-council-transfers-speed-red-light-camera-program-ddot/">Washington, DC</a>, stripped its police department of some of its authority to regulate traffic laws in 2019, empowering its transportation department to do enforcement instead. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/bronx-arrests-traffic-archive-new-york-c93fa5fc03f25c2b625d36e4c75d1691">New York’s attorney general</a> has recommended New York City make a similar change, and in 2022, <a href="https://www.police1.com/traffic-patrol/articles/nypd-no-longer-permitted-to-prolong-traffic-stops-to-check-for-warrants-3hauyE9SLWyQP77n/">New York City police</a> announced they’d no longer use stops to randomly check for open warrants.
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The long-term effectiveness of such measures remains to be seen. But they represent a small step away from the kind of policing that left Nichols, and so many before him, dead.
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<em><strong>Update, January 28, 5:20 pm ET:</strong></em> <em>This story was originally published on January 27 and has been updated with additional context from released video footage and the death of Tyre Nichols.</em>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>La Liga 2022/23 | Pedri leads win at Girona in 100th game for Barcelona</strong> - Pedri started on the bench as Xavi rotated his lineup ahead of a week with games against Real Betis and Sevilla</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Djokovic beats Tsitsipas to win 10th Australian Open, 22nd Grand Slam</strong> - In addition to the championship, Novak Djokovic claimed the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australia in India | Peter Handscomb in reckoning for Nagpur Test</strong> - If Cameron Green does not recover from a fractured fingure in time for the series opener from February 9, Handscomb could make a return to the Australian Test side</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Woman, children found dead in Thrissur</strong> - Charred remains of their bodies found on the balcony of their house</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Fans demand Karnataka Ratna for Vishnuvardhan, CM Bommai assures positive action</strong> - The chief minister’s speech was continuously interrupted by fans who raised placards in support of their demand</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How tanks from Germany, US and UK could change the Ukraine war</strong> - German Leopard 2 tanks and US M1 Abrams tanks will spearhead attacks on Russia - but is it enough?</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The flight tracker that powered <span class="citation" data-cites="ElonJet">@ElonJet</span> has taken a left turn</strong> - ADS-B Exchange is now owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913176">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Apple computers, Kindles, 4K TVs, charging cables, and more.</strong> - Dealmaster also has iPads, storage solutions, and computer components and peripherals. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913220">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>D&D maker retreats from attempts to update longstanding “open” license</strong> - Negative response to latest draft was “in such high volume” as to force WotC’s hand. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1913223">link</a></p></li>
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At around 3 AM, drunk as a skunk, he headed for home. Just as he got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly he realized she’d probably wake up so he cuckooed another 9 times. He was really proud of himself, having a quick, witty solution, even when smashed, to escape possible conflict. Next morning, his wife asked him what time he got in, and he told her 12 o’clock. She didn’t seem disturbed at all. Then she told him that they needed a new cuckoo clock. When he asked her why, she said "Well it cuckooed 3 times, then said ‘oh fuck’, cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3, giggled, cuckooed 2 more times and farted.
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Employee: A graphic display of convergent asynchronous load distribution.
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