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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>Saying Her Name</strong> - Remains that were found to be those of a Black teen who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen. How was her identity known and then forgotten? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/saying-her-name">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Policing Politics Takes Over the New York City Mayoral Race</strong> - With the spectre of crime suddenly top of mind for many voters, the language of “defund the police” has been deemed a political liability. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/policing-politics-takes-over-the-new-york-city-mayoral-race">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Japan’s Olympic-Sized Problem</strong> - The government’s inept response to the coronavirus pandemic has led to widespread discontent about hosting the Games. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/japans-olympic-sized-problem">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The G.O.P. Looks for New Ways to Ignore January 6th</strong> - As a House vote on a bipartisan commission to study the Capitol insurrection made clear, it’s Trumpists vs. the truth. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-gop-looks-for-new-ways-to-ignore-january-6th">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Tensions Inside a Mixed Jewish-Arab City in Israel</strong> - Cities such as Lod are experiencing the worst bouts of internecine violence since the country’s founding. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-tensions-inside-a-mixed-jewish-arab-city-in-israel">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Why the world’s most famous car race is in Monaco</strong> -
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It’s got a lot to do with taxes.
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On May 23, the world’s most famous car race will take place somewhere you may not know much about. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/monaco/">Monaco</a> is the world’s second-smallest country, spanning roughly 2 square kilometers of Mediterranean coastline in the south of France. In 1929, it used all the space it had to create a remarkably unique racecourse and hosted <a href="https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/march-2007/62/street-theatre">the first</a> Monaco Grand Prix.
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Drivers must navigate <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.formula1.com%2Fen%2Fracing%2F2021%2FMonaco.html&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fvideos%2F22446074%2Fmonaco-grand-prix-famous" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">78 laps around a 3.3-kilometer circuit</a> that runs right through the heart of Monaco — down city streets, up a cliff, through a tunnel, and around the famous harbor. Over several decades, the “<a href="https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/17797/the-race-of-a-thousand-corners-the-monaco-grand-prix/">race of a thousand corners</a>” created some of the sport’s most dramatic moments, making it the event every driver wants to win.
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But the racing is only half of why the Monaco Grand Prix is so famous. You should also understand why so many of the world’s rich and famous come to watch it.
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To find out how Monaco created the world’s most famous car race, watch the latest episode of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMRip0eRER8">Vox Atlas</a>.
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You can find this video and all of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/videos">Vox’s videos</a> on YouTube. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom?sub_confirmation=1">Subscribe</a> for the latest.
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<li><strong>The new Ford F-150 is not the electric vehicle we’ve been waiting for</strong> -
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<img alt="The all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning performance pickup truck is revealed at a livestream event at Ford World Headquarters on May 19, 2021 in Dearborn, Michigan." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0v2fSl5tnp-YCnpli2afEA8wnk8=/326x0:2931x1954/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69322212/GettyImages_1232993388.0.jpeg"/>
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The electric Ford F-150 Lightning is slated to go on sale next year. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
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To truly change the game and reach the mass market, electric vehicles need to be much cheaper.
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Ford’s electric version of America’s most American pickup truck, the F-150, is here. “This sucker’s quick,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday when he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/politics/biden-ford-test-drive/index.html">took one for a spin</a> in Dearborn, Michigan.
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The Lightning’s debut is a big moment for the auto industry and for truck buyers. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Ford was selling on average <a href="https://www.autoweek.com/news/trucks/a32945300/ford-averages-over-100-f-150-pickups-sold-per-hour-247/">100 F-150s per hour</a>. The model has been the bestselling light truck in the US for more than four decades, and the whole Ford F-series line generates <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fords-pickup-trucks-alone-would-be-more-profitable-than-mcdonalds-or-3m-morgan-stanley-says-2018-06-06">more profit than McDonald’s</a>.
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Five of the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/pickup-trucks-dominate-americas-10-best-selling-vehicles-of-2020.html">10 bestselling vehicles in America</a> last year were pickup trucks, adding up to 2.4 million units. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/012821-us-ev-sales-tumble-in-2020-but-ev-load-increases-with-more-charging-stations">total electric vehicle sales</a> in the US from all manufacturers in 2020 were less than 300,000. So getting even a tiny sliver of these trucks to run on electrons would give electric vehicles a massive boost.
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But at nearly $40,000 for the base model and more than $90,000 for one that’s fully loaded, the truck is still far from the mass-market electric vehicle that’s needed to shrink the climate impacts of the auto industry and push gasoline and diesel off the road.
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President Biden has made electric vehicles one of the tentpoles of his strategy to limit climate change. Cars and light trucks produce <a href="https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions">60 percent</a> of greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, which is the largest source of carbon dioxide in the US. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/31/22357179/biden-two-trillion-infrastructure-jobs-plan-explained">White House’s $2 trillion infrastructure</a> proposal carves out $174 billion for electric vehicle subsidies, charging stations, and more. So electrifying the most popular trucks in the country provides a jolt to Biden’s climate ambitions.
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At the moment, however, electric vehicles make up a paltry 2 percent of new car sales in the US. Evidence from <a href="https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123160_why-norway-leads-the-world-in-electric-vehicle-adoption">countries like Norway</a> shows that buyers will switch to electric cars if they cost less, which right now requires a suite of subsidies and incentives to accomplish. Estimates show that between <a href="https://rmi.org/1-in-5-cars-need-to-be-electric-by-2030-what-will-it-take/">20 percent</a> and half of all light-duty cars and trucks would need to be electric by 2030 to meet goals of limiting global warming this century to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
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Getting to this level of electric penetration will require more than strapping batteries to already popular cars; the auto industry will need to invest far more in building and marketing electric vehicles much cheaper than Ford’s new offering, even at the expense of their fossil fuel-powered offerings.
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The F-150 Lightning has a long road ahead
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The <a href="https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022//?intcmp=hp-bb-f150-lightning">Ford F-150 Lightning</a> has an <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22442777/ford-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-specs-price">impressive list of specs</a>: A range between 230 and 300 miles, up to 10,000 pounds of towing capacity, 563 horsepower and 775 pound-feet of torque, and enough juice to outrun its gasoline and diesel brethren.
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It can even do things that conventional pickup trucks can’t, such as store cargo in its 14.1 cubic foot <a href="https://www.motortrend.com/news/2022-ford-f-150-lightning-ev-frunk-trunk-details/">frunk</a>, or front trunk, and power a home with its battery for up to three days. Ford is already taking reservations and is poised to start selling the truck next year, fulfilling a <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/1/24/18195880/ford-f150-ev-electric-pickup-truck">pledge made more than two years ago</a>.
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The competition is raring to go. The Lightning will go wheel-to-wheel with electric trucks from dedicated EV manufacturers like <a href="https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck">Tesla</a> and <a href="https://products.rivian.com/">Rivian</a>, which are roughly in the same price category (though none have begun sales yet). GMC is also planning an <a href="https://www.gmc.com/electric/hummer-ev">electric Hummer</a>.
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Though the prices for these trucks may discourage some buyers, new technologies often start at the top of the market and trickle down. Large-scale production could drive down costs, and the success of these trucks could inspire further electrification in other cars.
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But in the US, trucks are not simply utility vehicles. They’re an aspiration, and a statement about the driver, as much as they’re towing or hauling machines. They’re fodder for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzXuW2QOd3M&feature=emb_title">country music</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pickup-trucks-a-media-rorschach-test">front in culture wars</a>. (No one is writing songs about <a href="https://www.deere.com/en/gator-utility-vehicles/">Gators</a> and <a href="https://www.bobcat.com/index">Bobcats</a>.) For many truck buyers, having a big, gurgling engine under the hood is the point.
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Lawmakers could provide subsidies to attract more price-conscious buyers, but the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/18/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan-supercharges-the-future-of-transportation-and-manufacturing/">White House</a> has explicitly said that “incentives will not go towards expensive luxury models.” Ford still qualifies for the federal tax credit available for electrics, so the sticker price for the base model Lightning could drop to around $32,000. Its conventional counterpart, the <a href="https://shop.ford.com/build/f150/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZiFBhD9ARIsAGxFX8DJHoz7poTpK7Y_xt0vaA5bY7dimOKvVJYg244vZv1uV5vqRBwx2loaAo-aEALw_wcB&searchid=841801418%7C%7C%7C&ef_id=Cj0KCQjwkZiFBhD9ARIsAGxFX8DJHoz7poTpK7Y_xt0vaA5bY7dimOKvVJYg244vZv1uV5vqRBwx2loaAo-aEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!2519!3!272517223328!e!!g!!ford%20f%20150%20super%20cab&gclsrc=aw.ds#/select/Config%5B%7CFord%7CF-150%7C2021%7C1%7C1.%7C100A.X1C.....XL.SCAB.RETAIL.SS6.%5D">Ford F-150 SuperCab</a>, starts at $33,000. But the tax credit <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.edmunds.com%2Ffuel-economy%2Fthe-ins-and-outs-of-electric-vehicle-tax-credits.html&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F22445531%2Fford-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-tesla-ev-hummer-rivian" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">will eventually run out</a>, as it already has for Tesla, after Ford sells <a href="https://www.irs.gov/businesses/plug-in-electric-vehicle-credit-irc-30-and-irc-30d">200,000</a> electric vehicles.
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<img alt="US President Joe Biden drives the new electric Ford F-150 Lightning at the Ford Dearborn Development Center in Dearborn, Michigan on May 18, 2021." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/I7A7qyAyhSA3JQUl6C1ta_UbwWU=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22528400/GettyImages_1232969953.jpeg"/> <cite>Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images</cite>
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President Joe Biden has made electric vehicles like the F-150 Lightning a plank of his climate change strategy.
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Ford also is trying to get back to the F-150’s utilitarian roots. A key part of its target market for the Lightning is fleet buyers and businesses that need trucks for hauling and towing. Since electric vehicles typically have lower operating, maintenance, and fueling costs, they can save money over time, even with a higher sticker price. Those savings multiply when buying in bulk.
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However, to truly gain ground, electrics can’t just imitate conventional cars and trucks — they’ll need to overtake them in terms of price and performance. That’s one of the lessons of wind and solar power, which became the dominant source of new energy around the world — and are poised to become the <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020">largest sources of electricity</a> — because they are cheaper than conventional power plants. In some markets, building new renewable power <a href="https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2020/Jun/IRENA_Power_Generation_Costs_2019.pdf">costs less than running existing coal generators</a>.
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Car companies are indeed developing lower-cost, mass-market electric vehicles. Chevrolet has the $31,000 <a href="https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev/build-and-price/trim">Bolt</a>. Nissan has the $31,000 <a href="https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf.html?dcp=psn.58700004658395136&ds_rl=1253905&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZiFBhD9ARIsAGxFX8CbDwX5DYuaMQIxKC7BwxOnjhS2rZM5b6LKDvyT9PvfucK_26zyWEkaAtHjEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds">Leaf</a>. But they’re still far more expensive than compact cars in the $20,000 range like the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic. The real game-changer will be an electric vehicle that both does more and costs less.
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And for the manufacturers, the toughest test may end up being whether their electric vehicles can generate a profit without any subsidies. If they can, then they’ll have their own incentive to keep developing and marketing electrics.
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We also need to start thinking about driving less overall
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Electric cars are better than gasoline and diesel, but building and charging them still takes resources. Even better is not driving at all.
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Many parts of the world are still dependent on cars and trucks, with few alternatives for getting around. So electric vehicles still have an important role to play in these markets. But in the US, three-quarters of vehicle trips are <a href="https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1042-august-13-2018-2017-nearly-60-all-vehicle-trips-were-less-six-miles">less than 10 miles</a>. That’s a major opportunity for other electric alternatives like buses, bikes, and scooters.
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Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans have been driving less — a total of 2.83 trillion miles in 2020, compared to 3.3 trillion in 2019, according to the <a href="https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/us-driving-last-year-was-lowest-two-decades-new-data-show">Federal Highway Administration</a>. That reduced emissions by nearly 170 million metric tons and caused a 2 percent drop in roadway fatalities. What the numbers show is that driving less reduces pollution and improves public health and suggest that continuing to reduce driving will have major societal benefits.
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It’s unlikely that a major auto manufacturer like Ford would want to drive consumers away from their products by telling them to stop driving. But reducing greenhouse gas emissions overall requires a more holistic approach, and it will take more than tax credits and chargers to make it happen. High-end electric trucks can be part of the journey, but they’re not the destination.
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<li><strong>Asshole bosses are an entrenched part of Hollywood. Are they finally facing consequences?</strong> -
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Ellen DeGeneres accepts an E! People’s Choice Award in 2020. | Christopher Polk/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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From Ellen DeGeneres to Scott Rudin, the entertainment industry’s coddling of jerks is coming under examination. Sort of.
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<em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show</em>, the long-running daytime talk show hosted by the beloved comedian, will end its run in 2022, after its upcoming 19th season. In an <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ellen-degeneres-show-end-1234951571/">interview with the Hollywood Reporter</a>, DeGeneres said, “When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged — and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore.”
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Much of the entertainment industry and the journalists who cover it reacted to DeGeneres’s statement with a shot-for-shot recreation of the <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/20-years-after-its-release-a-very-brady-meme.html">“Sure, Jan” gif</a>. Over the last couple of years, DeGeneres has gone from selling herself as one of the nicest people in show business to a figure steeped in considerable controversy.
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Talk show hosts do tend to get burned out after that many years on the job. Oprah Winfrey, for instance, ended her show after 25 seasons, and the longest-running syndicated daytime talk show, <em>Donahue</em>, ran for 26 seasons. Though DeGeneres is a bit short of that mark, she’s not so far off that people in another world wouldn’t take her at her word.
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But DeGeneres isn’t just leaving the air voluntarily. She’s leaving the air voluntarily after a <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ellen-employees-allege-toxic-workplace-culture">July 2020 BuzzFeed report</a> detailed allegations from many former <em>Ellen</em> employees who said the show was a horrible, hostile workplace, full of angry and abusive behavior. The article followed <a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ellen-crew-furious-over-poor-communication-regarding-pay-non-union-workers-during-coronavirus-shutdown-exclusive-1234582735/">earlier reports</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kevintporter/status/1241049881688412160">viral Twitter threads</a> about DeGeneres’s behavior and the toxic environment on her show. <a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ellen-degeneres-producers-ed-glavin-jonathan-norman-glavin-kevin-leman-jonathan-norman-1234737854/">Three top producers</a> of the show were fired in response to the complaints, but DeGeneres herself did not step down. That said, <em>Ellen </em>lost 1 million viewers during its 2020-2021 season, knocking it off its longtime perch (alongside <em>Dr. Phil</em>) as one of daytime TV’s top talk shows.
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Even before that, in a moment that had nothing to do with what went down in 2020, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/12/2/20991074/dakota-johnson-ellen-birthday-feud">Dakota Johnson had pointed out</a> a bald-faced lie DeGeneres told on her very show back in 2019. In hindsight, that moment feels like it was the start of DeGeneres’s long slide.
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In a recent <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/ellen-degeneres-interview-end-of-show-toxic-workplace-1234971866/">interview with Savannah Guthrie on <em>Today</em></a>, DeGeneres said the toxic workplace complaints were an “orchestrated” and “misogynistic” campaign against her. Yet stories about <em>Ellen</em>’s awful work environment have been whispered throughout Los Angeles for years, and the show has long had a reputation among Hollywood assistants as a bad place to work. (A few assistants I talked to for this article — none of whom have worked for DeGeneres — pointed to the show’s frequent posting on job sites over the past decade as a telltale sign of substantial turnover due to terrible working conditions.)
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DeGeneres’s fall is ironic because of how her show’s alleged backstage environment clashes so heavily with her public “queen of nice” persona. After all, this is a woman who initially adopted “Be kind” as a promotional mantra (something she also reflected on in <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ryan_schocket/video/6961812122779094277">that surprisingly bitter <em>Today</em> interview</a>). If her real-life demeanor isn’t particularly kind, that undercuts a lot of her appeal.
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But the end of <em>Ellen</em> is part of a larger, if still nascent, movement in Hollywood. The announcement of its final season arrived shortly after a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior-4161883/">Hollywood Reporter story</a> about Hollywood super-producer Scott Rudin — the man responsible for a vast array of stage productions and films, from <em>The Book of Mormon</em> to <em>No Country for Old Men</em> to <em>Zoolander</em> — alleged a longstanding pattern of <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/scott-rudin-as-told-by-his-assistants.html">horribly abusive behavior</a> toward those who work for him. Rudin has <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-04-27/scott-rudin-steps-back-hollywood-broadway-skylight-consequences">subsequently stepped back</a> from his day-to-day duties on his current projects.
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“Much has been written about my history of troubling interactions with colleagues, and I am profoundly sorry for the pain my behavior caused to individuals, directly and indirectly,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/scott-rudin-broadway-producer-abuse-allegations/2021/04/17/f3d0ba88-9f0c-11eb-9d05-ae06f4529ece_story.html">Rudin told the Washington Post</a> in a written statement.
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Though it’s taken a while, these recent developments surrounding DeGeneres and Rudin suggest Hollywood is finally inching toward addressing its well-established asshole problem. But will it ever do enough? And what would “enough” look like?
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Horrible bosses have long been central to Hollywood’s business model
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<img alt="2017 Tony Awards - Show" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ZJrHwgbJzRi7TcBmPD-J2pwuJ6o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22528568/695007432.jpg"/> <cite>Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions</cite>
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Scott Rudin accepts the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for <em>Hello, Dolly!</em> in 2017.
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One assistant I talked to, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retaliation, told me just one story from their first week on the job at a major agency. Their boss asked them to send an email to a client, but the phone connection between the two was poor, so the assistant asked the boss to spell out the email address. “Great,” said the boss. “You’re a fucking idiot.” The boss wouldn’t speak to the assistant or take their calls for a month after that, instead speaking with other assistants on different desks about the projects they were supposed to be working on.
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That account certainly sounds bad in isolation, but consider it outside of isolation, as part of a collection of similar stories from assistants and low-level employees in the entertainment industry. When even a boss described as “not the worst” this assistant ever had called them “a fucking idiot” for a patchy phone connection, it’s indicative of a much larger problem.
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Hollywood’s reckoning with its coddling of humongous jerks has been a long time coming. For more than a century, the entertainment industry has been unfortunately rife with big names who treated their employees like dirt, to the degree that “difficult asshole” has become synonymous with “brilliant artist” for too many people.
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Plenty of good bosses work in Hollywood, of course, and there are many brilliant artists who are decent people. But the industry tends to give a lot of leeway to successful people who get results, allowing those people to express their worst selves. The slowly unfolding reckoning probably began with the surge of the Me Too movement in 2017, which followed on the heels of stories about the sexual abuse and harassment inflicted by many Hollywood bigwigs, most notably <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/11/21174920/harvey-weinstein-sentence-23-years">Harvey Weinstein</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/3/16602628/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-allegations-house-of-cards">Kevin Spacey</a>.
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Yet what’s happening now is altogether more difficult to solve for an industry built atop the braying of jerks. Technically, being a dick to an employee isn’t illegal like Weinstein’s crimes were. But it does create a hostile workplace, and toxicity breeds toxicity, which is how you end up with a culture so wedded to its assholes that Jeremy Piven (himself <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/jeremy-piven-three-more-women-sexual-misconduct">the subject of sexual misconduct allegations</a>) won several Emmys for playing his <em>Entourage</em> character Ari Gold, an asshole we were supposed to like to some degree.
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Consequently, rooting out Hollywood’s assholes will be even harder than it was to root out its sexual harassers (a process the industry has mostly reduced to a handful of <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ncis-new-orleans-producer-brad-kern-fired-by-cbs-1148613/">occasionally effectual HR investigations</a> so far). That may be why recent reporting on Rudin’s abusive nature didn’t spur much immediate action; studios and others associated with the super-producer very slowly cut ties with him over the course of about three weeks, and many did so only after direct protest from actors such as <a href="https://apnews.com/article/karen-olivo-theater-scott-rudin-d369cf4ab75329d74c7715b40e691c36">Broadway star Karen Olivo</a>. Rudin himself didn’t voluntarily step down for 10 days after the initial Hollywood Reporter article.
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The problem extends beyond big names like DeGeneres and Rudin. There is a huge number of assholes in Hollywood who aren’t as well known or high powered, which might be why the industry seems unlikely to do much to combat toxic workplaces<strong> </strong>outside of gently nudging people whose behavior makes the news to retreat from the public eye or shift their talents to other arenas. (And they <em>are</em> talents! Scott Rudin is a great producer! Ellen DeGeneres is a great talk show host!)
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But the asshole archetype is so intrinsic to Hollywood culture that for the press to catalog every single instance of a jerk with power would be a Sisyphean task. So fixing this problem is really a job for the industry itself — and one it is clearly reluctant to take on.
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Fixing Hollywood’s asshole problem might mean changing an entire industry
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<img alt="Louis B. Mayer, seated between two unnamed women, circa 1947." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/HBVD8C4eaM-7US7klBnWl-c4tVk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22528573/50507824.jpg"/> <cite>Ralph Crane/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images</cite>
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Hollywood’s terrible bosses hark back to its very beginning, including old-time studio moguls such as MGM’s Louis B. Mayer.
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Cycles of abuse perpetuate. Abusers are often victims of abuse themselves. As one longtime assistant who finally left the entertainment industry told me, many of Hollywood’s most toxic bosses were once the assistants who suffered the worst behavior of other toxic bosses. For those former assistants, their experiences normalized the idea that with great power comes great awfulness. Now that they actually have power, it’s all too easy to excuse their own bad behavior by either believing what they’re doing is better than what was done to them or by assuming that’s just how things are supposed to work.
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Plus, both of these excuses are kind of true. The majority of bad Hollywood bosses aren’t as bad as, say, Scott Rudin is alleged to be. They might scream and scream and scream, but they’ve never thrown a baked potato at an assistant, as Rudin is said to have done. (And workplace toxicity is the kind of thing that is spread throughout the entertainment industry.) But even if you insist you’re “not that bad,” you’re still some sort of bad, which leads to further perpetuation of the cycle of abuse.
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A tendency to normalize the abuse that you yourself faced is especially interesting to theorize about when it comes to DeGeneres, whose early career as a comedian was marked by Showtime naming her “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204883304577223660033498208">the funniest person in America</a>” in 1982, a title that quickly earned her suspicion from longtime comedians. Comedy has always been a male-dominated space, and it was only more so in the ’80s. Even today, it remains an area where aggressive teasing and taunting (and worse) is common among comedians. It’s easy enough to imagine how these attitudes might have influenced DeGeneres.
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The asshole problem is not unique to Hollywood. As we saw with Me Too, every single industry has issues with toxic figures at the top. Hollywood’s plight is just more public. The only industry with arguably more visible jerks is politics, but that doesn’t mean other industries don’t struggle with this problem. Hollywood’s reckoning should likely be a cultural reckoning writ large.
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But putting the impetus on abusers to fix abuse in any industry by asking them to just be better people or simply go away (even if they seem to go away of their own volition, as with DeGeneres) is the wrong approach. The right approach would be something along the lines of aggressive corrections to existing systems and established Hollywood power structures — to the way things have always been — spearheaded by HR departments that don’t just exist to make problems go away quickly (as HR departments mostly do now) but can actually issue disciplinary actions, or by organizations within Hollywood’s trade unions that can act as checks on bad behavior among their membership.
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Because so many bad people are entrenched so heavily throughout Hollywood, I’m really not holding my breath. But toxicity in any capacity destroys too many people to be conscionable as a way to keep building an industry. Hollywood and America’s reckoning with this idea shouldn’t stop at painting figures like Rudin and DeGeneres as bad apples, but how much do you want to bet it will?
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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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>Covid-19 | Table Tennis association announces financial assistance</strong> - TTFI finalises the amounts and conditions afor affected players and coaches.</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>Players need to be more athletic, says India women fielding coach Abhay Sharma</strong> - Indian women cricketers are not as strong and athletic as their foreign counterparts.</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>Lionel Messi given early holidays, might have played final Barca game</strong> - Should Messi not sign a new contract then his final game for the club would be last weekend’s game against Celta Vigo.</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>Wrestler Anshu Malik is living her father’s dream</strong> - Anshu Malik has competed in only six senior tournaments thus far and won medals in five of them, becoming the 57kg Asian champion in the process.</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>First Dronacharya awardee coach in boxing O.P. Bhardwaj dies</strong> - Bhardwaj was India’s national boxing coach from 1968 to 1989 and also served as a national selector.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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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>GST on oxygen concentrators imported for personal use ‘unconstitutional’, says Delhi HC</strong> - “Oxygen concentrator, on the face of it, is a life-saving device,” the court says.</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>Residential hostel converted into COVID Care Centre</strong> - Currently 50 beds have been utilised for the centre</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>Alert issued after dengue-causing viruses found</strong> - The Health Department issued an alert on Friday after four types of viruses causing dengue fever were found in the district.The department has urged t</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>HRF criticises holding of environmental public hearings during pandemic</strong> - ‘It is violation of norms that are to be adhered to when partial curfew is under way’</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>Bombay High Court disposed of plea seeking medical bail for Sudha Bharadwaj</strong> - Her counsel urged the court to allow Ms Bharadwaj to talk to her family members and lawyer after a hospital visit.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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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>Coronavirus: Spain to lift restrictions for UK and Japanese travellers</strong> - UK tourists will be free to enter the country without a negative Covid-19 PCR test from Monday.</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>Zelensky v oligarchs: Ukraine president targets super-rich</strong> - Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky vows to build a country without oligarchs, but can he deliver?</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>HSE cyber-attack: Hackers bail out Irish health service for free</strong> - The government says it did not pay for a decryption tool, as hackers threaten to publish stolen data.</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>Climate change: EU official backs German Greens on curbing flights</strong> - The Greens’ leader - a strong candidate for chancellor - wants to ban short-haul flights.</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>Belgian national park shut in hunt for far-right soldier</strong> - The manhunt for the heavily armed weapons trainer continues in a vast area near the Dutch border.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls</strong> - FragAttacks let hackers inject malicious code or commands into encrypted Wi-Fi traffic. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1766544">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Ferrari Portofino M, reviewed</strong> - We engage in a little spot of grand touring in Ferrari’s entry-level GT. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765505">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rocket Report: A new space race in India, Elon’s hat is safe for now</strong> - “This is not the time to cut corners on environmental review.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1766456">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What mimes interacting with invisible objects says about visual perception</strong> - Mimes “make us feel like we’re aware of an object just by seeming to interact with it.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1766305">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Snap debuts true AR glasses that show the potential (and limitations) of AR</strong> - Limited availability, battery life, and FOV make for a curiosity, not a product. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1766403">link</a></p></li>
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And they tell them: “You have full rights as employees, but you’re not allowed to eat anybody.”
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Things go well for several weeks and then the CEO calls the Tribe into his office. The CEO says:
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“Somebody has been reported missing. Did you eat them?”
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The chief of the Tribe checks with his people and says:
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“No sir, we have not eaten anybody. It must be a coincidence.”
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The CEO is skeptical but he has no evidence so he dismisses the Tribe.
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Once they are away from the other employees, the chief turns to his Tribe and asks: “Okay, which one of you idiots did it?”
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A tribesman sheepishly puts up his hands and admits:
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“I ate a secretary.”
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The chief smacks the tribesman and yells:
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“You fool! We’ve been eating middle management for weeks and nobody has noticed. Then you had to go and eat someone that does actual work!”
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<li><strong>“I want a divorce” I told the judge. "All my wife does every night is go from bar to bar to bar.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“What is she doing that for?” Asked the judge.
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"Fu***ng looking for me."
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April: Oh, Professor. My parents will be so mad. I’m sure we can fix this. I’ll do annnything to pass.
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Professor: {gulp} anything?
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April: YES! Anything you can dream up.
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Professor: Will you…… study?
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<li><strong>The world leading expert on wasps is walking down the street when he passes a record store.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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In the window he sees a record called “wasps of the world, and the sounds they make”. Intrigued, he walks into the store. He says to the shopkeeper “I’ll have that wasp record in the window please. You know I’m the world leading expert in wasps, there are thousands of different species of wasp, and I can identify any one of them just by listening to the sound it makes!”
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He smiles smugly as the shopkeeper fanes interest. The wasp expert pays and leaves. When he gets home he puts the record on.
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“Bbzzzzzzzzz” it goes, but the man is stumped, he doesn’t know what type of wasp this is! He waits for the next track.
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“Bbbbzzzzzzzzzzzz” and again, he can’t identify which species of wasp this is!
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It gets to the fifth track and he breaks down in tears. He can’t identify a single wasp yet he thought he was the world’s leading expert! He calls his old professor round to the house to help, when he arrives he explains to him,
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“I thought I was the best in the wasp business, but I can’t identify a single wasp on this whole record!” He says, still in tears.
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The old professor ponders for a minute as he looks at the record.
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“Ah, I know what the problem is”
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Says the professor.
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“What? what is it?!”
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-“you’ve got it on the B-side”
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<li><strong>How many redditors does it take to change a lightbulb?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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How many redittors does it take to change a lightbulb?
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1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.
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14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
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7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
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17 purists who use candles and are offended by light bulb discussions.
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6 to argue over whether it’s ‘lightbulb’ or ‘light bulb.’
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Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.
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22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being jerks.
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2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is ‘lamp.’
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15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that ‘light bulb’ is perfectly correct.
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49 to post memes and gifs (several are of Michael Jackson eating popcorn).
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19 to post that this page is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a light bulb page.
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11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant here.
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24 to discuss the merits of LED/swirly fluorescent light bulbs.
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44 to claim LED and fluorescent bulbs will kill you.
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12 to post F.
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8 to ask what F means.
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36 People to post pics of their own light bulbs.
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15 People to post “I can’t see S<span class="math inline"></span>”
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4 to say “Didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”.
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13 to say “Do a search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs.”
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1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that (insert politician of choice) isn’t the brightest bulb. This usually takes place within the first three comments.
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50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.
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5 admins to ban the light bulb posters who took it all too seriously.
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1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.
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