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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>Andrew Cuomo’s Resignation and the Real Meaning of “New York Tough”</strong> - The Governor’s address didn’t really dispel doubts about his judgment or his character. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/andrew-cuomos-resignation-and-the-real-meaning-of-new-york-tough">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Andrew Cuomo’s War Against a Federal Prosecutor</strong> - A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/andrew-cuomos-war-against-a-federal-prosecutor">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Will the Coronavirus Evolve?</strong> - Delta won’t be the last variant. What will the next ones bring? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/how-will-the-coronavirus-evolve">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Happened to Joe Biden’s “Summer of Freedom” from the Pandemic?</strong> - By banking so heavily on the vaccine and eagerly declaring victory, the President may have repeated some of his predecessor’s mistakes. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/what-happened-to-joe-bidens-summer-of-freedom-from-the-%20pandemic">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The U.N. Climate Panel Tries to Cut Through the Smog</strong> - Our social world is as polluted as our physical one—can we still see what we must? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-un-climate-panel-tries-to-cut-through-the-smog">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Working motherhood is getting harder. Let’s fix that.</strong> -
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and the other work." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TauNyq-2jns5DuZuaK3Qnn1VQtQ=/749x0:3000x1688/1310x983/cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69714692/Supporting_Mothers_Final_Kondrich__1_.0.jpg"/>
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Michelle Kondrich for Vox
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American motherhood versus the American work ethic.
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Melissa Danowski, an appellate attorney in New York state, is a feminist. She and her husband have two young sons and have usually divided household and child care responsibilities equally. But when the pandemic came and shuttered schools and child care services, Danowski’s feminist ideals smashed into reality. Like women across industries and regardless of experience and position, she makes less money than her husband. So as many Americans did at the time, her family made a simple economic calculation: She had to take care of the kids.
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The only way Danowski could meet the strict court deadlines for her job was by regularly working on weekends and through the night after her kids went to sleep.
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“It meant my own self-care and basic needs — sleep, exercise, downtime — came dead last,” she said. “I usually thrive under pressure, but this translated to frequent meltdowns, panic attacks, and a whole new level of stress I never before experienced.”
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She added, “I would rather retake the bar exam for two weeks straight than have to repeat the balancing act I miraculously achieved for months on end last year.”
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Danowski is one of millions of working American mothers who had a <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hgnfs/">similarly hellish experience</a> over the past 17 months. And, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/coronavirus-women-essential-workers.html">unlike many,</a> she was fortunate enough to be able to keep her income and to work in the relative safety of her home.
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Still, nearly two dozen white-collar women Recode interviewed in recent weeks said working from home during the pandemic stretched them beyond their limits.
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Mothers working from home during the pandemic have reported <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tdf8c/">higher rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness</a> than fathers. Last year, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-crisis-3-million-women-labor-force/">3 million women dropped out of the workforce</a> — and 1.6 million of them still have not returned. That means companies have lost employees with valuable perspectives that have been proven to <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/business-case-for-
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diversity-in-the-workplace/">make companies more innovative and profitable</a>. It also shrinks the talent pool for companies who are <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.monster.com%2Fcareer-
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advice%2Farticle%2Ftech-talent-gap-
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survey-0816&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Frecode%2F22605612%2Fworking-mothers-pandemic-
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childcare-ideal-parent-worker-remote" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">desperately seeking workers</a>.
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That all creates an unfolding crisis, not only for women and their families, but for society and the economy as a whole. And the root cause of this crisis long preceded the pandemic: The expectations for the American worker and the American parent are inherently contradictory — and something’s got to give. What happens next may significantly shape what the future of work is like for millions of Americans.
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“It’s so in everyone’s face right now, because you’re on Zoom calls and you see kids in the background because your coworker has caregiving responsibilities,” Jasmine Tucker, director of research at the women’s advocacy group National Women’s Law Center, said. “If this pandemic hasn’t laid bare that this is a real problem that needs to be addressed, then when is it going to be more clear?”
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The ideal worker
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The paradigm of the ideal worker who’s completely available for work is predicated on the notion that someone else (typically a female spouse) will take care of child care and domestic labor.
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“The ideal worker norm tells you that you have to be dedicated to your job 24-7, you have to have your cell phone with you at all times, you have to be constantly available for email, you have to be ready to drop everything to finish that report. Essentially, you’re supposed to be dedicating your whole life to your work,” <a href="http://www.jessicacalarco.com/">Jessica Calarco</a>, an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, told Recode. “Simultaneously, the ideal motherhood norm tells mothers that they are supposed to be dedicating their entire lives to their children, that they’re supposed to be willing to drop everything to meet their kids’ needs and to make sure that their kids’ well-being is put before all other things.”
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These expectations have only intensified over time. In the past several decades, highly educated and highly paid workers have been <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w11895/w11895.pdf">putting in even more hours</a>. That’s especially insidious in America, where <a href="https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm">people already work more hours</a> than in most other industrialized nations. The pandemic, again, made an already untenable situation even worse. Americans working from home put in somewhere between <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/04/remote-work-longer-days/">an extra hour</a> to an<a href="https://hbr.org/2020/05/the-pandemic-has-exposed-the-fallacy-of-the-ideal-worker"> extra three hours</a> of work per day last spring.
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<q>“I would rather retake the bar exam for two weeks straight than have to repeat the balancing act I miraculously achieved for months on end last year”</q>
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“I always need to be available for my team, clients, and also reporters, in addition to the day-to-day work that needs to be done,” Lauren Perry, a vice president at a PR agency who’s based in Massachusetts and who has a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old, said. To keep up, she multitasks and misses sleep.
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Her mother’s generation had it different, she says.
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“I see a really stark difference in how we work from simply looking at the number of hours,” Perry said. “While she limited her work to fit only within the hours her kids didn’t need her, I am constantly working and even looking for more time to give to my career.”
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Overwork, which can be defined as working 50 or more hours per week, has <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0003122414528936">contributed to maintaining the pay gap between men and women</a>, despite women having achieved higher levels of education.
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“When you zoom out to think about who can actually do that, who’s best poised to live up to that ideal in a way that would reward them in the workplace, it’s men,” Caitlyn Collins, an assistant professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13324.html"><em>Making Motherhood Work</em></a>, told Recode. They’re more likely to be able to devote their time to work rather than child care, and are compensated by their jobs accordingly.
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And because many women in heterosexual partnerships are making less money, that often pushed them to <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hgnfs/">take on an even larger portion of child care and housework</a> than they already disproportionately shouldered.
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“I felt like I had to be in a million different places at once: preschool on Zoom, my own Zoom meetings, and taking care of household duties,” Michelle Pietsch, a vice president of revenue at a software company and a mother of two toddlers in Boston, said. “There was no escape.”
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<q>“There is a whole term for what happens to women as they become mothers, and ‘the mommy track’ isn’t a compliment”</q>
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That hasn’t stopped many working women from trying even harder.
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“There is a whole term for what happens to women as they become mothers, and ‘the mommy track’ isn’t a compliment,” Martha Shaughnessy, a founder of a PR agency and a mother with two young children based in San Francisco, said. “Knowing there’s a pejorative term for what a male- dominated workforce thinks of working moms leads to pressure to be better and do more than male or non-mother peers.”
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Working from home and work-from-home technology have been a <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22568635/women-remote-work-home">double-edged sword</a> for working mothers: It gives women the opportunity to actually do their outsized share of labor.
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“While there’s no expectation for me to be responding to emails at all hours, I often feel the need personally to ‘get ahead’ or respond to colleagues in other geographies through email response in the evening after my kids are asleep,” Brenna Fitzgerald, a vice president of corporate communications in Boston and a mother to a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old, said. “It was a constant struggle to navigate trying to excel at work, take the best care of my children, be a partner to my husband, and clean up the hundreds of toys (and Legos, so many Legos) that were used each day.”
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The ideal parent
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Parenting has also become <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/parents-time-with-kids">more intense</a> in recent decades, with mothers <a href="https://qz.com/1143092/study-modern-parents-spend-more-time-with-their-kids-than-
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their-parents-spent-with-them/">spending an extra hour each day</a> with their kids than mothers did back in the 1960s.
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Indiana University’s Calarco said mothers’ increasing attentiveness to their children stems from a cultural backlash to women’s growing prominence in the workforce, beginning in the 1990s.
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“If you have women in the workforce in large numbers, they begin to be able to compete with men for positions and top jobs,” Calarco explained. “So if men want to maintain power and status in society, they have an interest in telling women to go back home.”
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What ensued was societal messaging that glorified motherhood — the more involved, the better. During the pandemic, research showed <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231211013128">Americans have shifted toward a more conservative view on women</a>: They are increasingly likely to say mothers should parent young children and stay at home. The same study also found, confusingly, that people increasingly think mothers should make money.
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“Amongst middle- class families there’s this assumption that parenting should be very intensive — time-intensive, as well as emotionally intense and financially intense,” Washington University’s Collins told Recode. (She added that unrealistic portrayals of motherhood on social media are also partly to blame.)
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Whatever the reason, women are expected to schedule almost every minute of their children’s lives.
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“When I was younger it was okay, and even expected, to just send your kids outside to roam the neighborhoods with friends and come home for dinner,” Whitney Hoffman-Bennett, a vice president of talent at a marketing platform in Atlanta and a mother of three, said. “Now parents are judged for this type of behavior.”
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<q>“It’s no wonder parents are burnt out, when some parents feel an expectation to work like they don’t have children and parent like they don’t have a job”</q>
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She added, “It’s no wonder parents are burnt out, when some parents feel an expectation to work like they don’t have children, and parent like they don’t have a job.”
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Several of the mothers Recode interviewed described guilt when their need to work interfered with their need to parent.
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“When I felt okay about my workload, I felt guilty that I wasn’t having meaningful face time with my daughter,” Amanda Reed, an account supervisor in Austin, Texas, and a mother of a 4-year-old and a 9-month- old, said. “When she and I would have a good day, I was hyperaware of the work that I was procrastinating on, or worried that I wasn’t meeting expectations at work.”
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Despite all the extra labor, most of the women we spoke to said the best part of working from home during the pandemic was the extra time they got to spend with their children.
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But Calarco sees that viewpoint as a salve for a situation that’s not quite fair.
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“When you’re in a tough position, when you’re forced to make a choice that isn’t ideal, oftentimes, you’ll find a silver lining and you’ll find a thing to look to that allows you to feel good about that choice,” Calarco said.
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“Because we have these cultural norms that tell women that they should be at home with their kids, it’s easy for them to turn to those norms and say, ‘Hey, look, I got to fulfill the norm, I got to do this thing that society has told me I’m supposed to be doing, to be there for my kid.’”
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Most of the women Recode spoke with said the pressure to be good workers and good parents was self-enforced. However, it’s also true that most insidious power structures can be difficult to isolate from personal preference.
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“Americans don’t want to think that anyone is influencing them to do anything. That’s deeply problematic, because first of all, it’s not true,” Collins said. “Second of all, when women think that they are only putting pressure on themselves, and then they can’t live up to those expectations, they blame themselves.”
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She added, “In fact, the cards are stacked against them. They’re operating within a system that is not set up to support them.”
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What to do about it
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Cultural norms don’t exist in a vacuum. And you can’t just wish them away.
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Changing the unfair situation for working mothers in American requires structural change that’s so far happened very slowly. It means paying women the same as men, so that their careers don’t come second practically by default. It also requires valuing child care more in the first place. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-
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highlight/21432940/child-care-bailout-covid-economy-work-parents-great-rebuild">future of the economy hinges on child care</a>, and yet we pay child care workers — who are mostly women — less than $11 an hour.
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The child care system in America is also overextended and can be prohibitively expensive, so it also needs to become more available and affordable. Millions of Americans live in <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/25/22345214/child-care-
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covid-19-daycare-american-rescue-plan">child care “deserts”</a> where the number of kids exceeds the number of slots available to care for them.
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”It really isn’t possible to have a full-time, busy career and also take care of your children full-time,” Fitzgerald said. “Child care was really the only thing that made my situation better.”
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Experts told Recode one of the core solutions to the crisis the US is facing would be to offer universal, high-quality child care starting for kids at a very young age.
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The Biden administration is working on it.
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Its <a href="https://www.vox.com/22310269/third-stimulus-
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update-2021-package">American Rescue Plan</a>, which was signed into law in March, set aside $40 billion to help bail out the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/25/22345214/child-care-covid-19-daycare-american-rescue-plan">struggling child care industry</a>. The plan also gives parents a <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22543868/biden-child-
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tax-credit-july-15-monthly-payment">child tax credit</a> of up to $300 a month per child — not enough to pay for full- time child care, but certainly helpful — and advocacy groups are hoping <a href="https://www.careforallchildren.org/">that benefit will continue indefinitely</a>.
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Biden’s American Families Plan could extend that benefit and go further, but the plan still needs to <a href="https://www.vox.com/22577374/reconciliation-bill-biden-medicare-climate">make it through Congress</a>. It would create universal free preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds and make child care more affordable for people with low incomes. The plan would also create a national paid family leave, which would give mothers and fathers more time off to care for their babies. Collins says it’s important that paid leave cover a high portion of people’s pay so that they’re more likely to take it.
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<q>“If we want women to come back to the labor force, then we’re going to have to make it so that they can afford to do so”</q>
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As National Women’s Law Center’s Tucker put it, “If we want women to come back to the labor force, then we’re going to have to make it so that they can afford to do so.”
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As for making work more hospitable for working mothers, many are advocating for remote work and flexible schedules to continue being an option when the pandemic is eventually over.
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Flexible work schedules, where women can duck out in the middle of the day to pick up a sick kid or get some chores done, aren’t a panacea, but they are a way to help women balance their conflicting demands. Women have long clamored for the ability to work from home and are more likely than men to <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flexjobs.com%2Fblog%2Fpost%2Fmen-
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mothers-pandemic-childcare-ideal-parent-worker-remote" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">want the privilege</a>. More flexibility, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22568452/work-workweek-five-day-four-jobs-
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pandemic">reduced working hours</a>, and more paid time off are the <a href="https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/new-world-
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of-work-flexibility/">top benefits</a> that people who voluntarily left the workforce said would make them return, according to a <a href="https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/new-world-of-work-flexibility/">new study</a> by Qualtrics, a company that surveys employees.
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And there are hopeful signs that at least some companies are taking these issues seriously.
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Elise Freedman, workforce transformation leader at management consulting firm Korn Ferry, says the “vast majority” of Fortune 1000 companies have put programs in place to help them retain and attract their female employees.
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“There’s been a lot of research that talks about diversity in general, but even specifically women in leadership roles, and how that can [positively] impact culture and financial results,” she said. “So organizations are very focused on that.”
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For now, mothers are dependent on a fraught child care system and work culture and policies that are often stacked against them.
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“I really hoped that the silver lining was coming, that there would be some more structural change,” Danowski said. “I’m not really seeing that.” She does, however, take solace in the next generation.
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“Their values are just different: they are the ones that leave the office a little after five, they don’t stay late, they are better at setting boundaries. I see the men taking paternity leave,” she said. “So I’m hopeful there’s some attitude changes, that people have just had enough.”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anti-mask hysterics at Tennessee school board meeting show how basic public health is now polarizing</strong> -
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Viral clips show anti-maskers melting down as a school board implemented a commonsense mask mandate.
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An explosive school board meeting on Tuesday evening in Franklin, Tennessee, illustrated how mask mandates, even in schools where students are too young to be vaccinated, have become a new front in the Covid-19 culture war largely being waged by anti-vax and vaccine-skeptical right-wingers.
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At the Tennessee meeting, where the Williamson County Schools Board of Education voted to require masks for elementary school students, staff, and visitors inside buildings and buses, <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/videos/news/local/williamson/2021/08/11/anti-
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mask-crowd-interrupts-williamson-county-schools-board-meeting-covid-19-protocols/5563328001/">Tennessean reporter Brinley Hineman</a> shot video of the proceedings being disrupted by extremely vocal, agitated anti-mask demonstrators who chanted, “No more masks!”
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Here’s the video I tried to tweet earlier but wouldn’t go through. A man was being disruptive during the Williamson County Schools meeting and deputies escorted him out. Dozens of enraged anti-mask parents followed. <a href="https://t.co/5LXDCJiInW">pic.twitter.com/5LXDCJiInW</a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">— Brinley Hineman (<span class="citation" data-cites="brinleyhineman">@brinleyhineman</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/brinleyhineman/status/1425295786284404737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2021</a></p>
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Even more disconcertingly, Tennessee journalist Matt Masters shot video after the meeting showing anti-mask demonstrators harassing doctors and nurses who had spoken in favor of the mask mandate as they tried to leave the parking lot. (The clip was later reposted on Twitter by Tennessean reporter Natalie Allison.)
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“We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you,” one man said, as police officers separated the crowd so the public health experts could drive away safely.
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The parking lot after a school board meeting last night in Franklin, the wealthiest place in Tennessee. Parents harassed medical professionals who had spoken in favor of masks in schools. “We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you.” <a href="https://t.co/SzR0uvMeE7">pic.twitter.com/SzR0uvMeE7</a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">— Natalie Allison (<span class="citation" data-cites="natalie_allison">@natalie_allison</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1425449438202548224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2021</a></p>
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The scenes in Tennessee are far from an isolated occurrence. On August 5 in North Carolina, anti-maskers erupted in similar hysterics after the Buncombe County Board of Education <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2021/08/05/protesters-object-buncombe-county-schools-mask-mandate-
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||
council-meeting-north-carolina/5507110001/">voted to continue</a> a district-wide mask mandate.
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The crowd is demanding a re-vote <a href="https://twitter.com/BuncombeSchools?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="BuncombeSchools">@BuncombeSchools</span></a> board has motioned for a recess. Board members have left the building. <a href="https://t.co/Cc2Vk9B6Ny">pic.twitter.com/Cc2Vk9B6Ny</a>
|
||
</p>
|
||
— Hannah Mackenzie (<span class="citation" data-cites="Hannahh_Mackk">@Hannahh_Mackk</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hannahh_Mackk/status/1423427038791323649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2021</a>
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As schools resume, the delta variant is driving a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/technology/covid-delta-misinformation-surge.html">throughout the country</a> — and especially in places like Tennessee, where vaccination rates remain low. Yet even as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kids-sick-covid-are-filling-children-s-hospitals-areas-
|
||
seeing-n1276238">hospitalization numbers for children rise</a>, anti-maskers are lashing out at officials who are trying to keep students, teachers, and faculty safe while allowing schools to open for in-person instruction.
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</p>
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It’s worth noting that kids under 12 years old — roughly sixth-graders and younger — aren’t currently eligible to be vaccinated. And the spread of the delta variant presents risks even for vaccinated teachers and staff, since it has demonstrated <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/11/22611272/what-breakthrough-covid-19-feels-like">a rare but still significant ability</a> to infect vaccinated people. (Cases among vaccinated people are generally much milder than those among the unvaccinated, however, and as my colleague German Lopez recently <a href="https://www.vox.com/22602039/breakthrough-cases-covid-19-delta-variant-masks-vaccines">detailed</a>, unvaccinated people continue to make up the vast majority of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.)
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="g0v9dv">
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Scientific studies have repeatedly demonstrated that <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118">face masks are effective</a> in reducing the transmission of airborne viruses, including the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Yet, dating back at least to April 2020 — when then-President Donald Trump announced he didn’t intend to follow <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-masks.html">his own government’s guidance</a> to mask up — and continuing through Trump’s repeated disparagement of Joe Biden for diligently wearing them on the campaign trail, mask-wearing has become an increasingly politicized indicator of how seriously one takes a pandemic that has now killed <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html">more than 618,000 Americans</a>.
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</p>
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<div id="HGvxH8">
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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Biden looks like he can barely believe it as Trump insists that masks aren’t necessarily good for slowing the spread of coronavirus <a href="https://t.co/okZf2pVsw0">pic.twitter.com/okZf2pVsw0</a>
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</p>
|
||
— Aaron Rupar (<span class="citation" data-cites="atrupar">@atrupar</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1311117689021227008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2020</a>
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</blockquote>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="UAwEBy">
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But while anti-maskers may be extremely loud, they appear to be in the minority. <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-parents-and-the-
|
||
pandemic/">Polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation</a> released Wednesday found that 63 percent of parents of school- aged children believe unvaccinated students and faculty should be required to wear masks at school. Along similar lines, despite all of the commotion at Tuesday’s meeting, Williamson County Schools Board of Education chair Nancy Garrett <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2021/08/10/williamson-county-schools-board-meeting-
|
||
covid-19-protocols-live/5540109001/">said</a> she received 781 emails from people in favor of the mask mandate and just 348 from those who oppose it. As Josh Kraushaar at the National Journal <a href="https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1425303056183447565">noted</a>, that data point — coming from a suburban county where Trump won 62 percent of the vote in the 2020 election — suggests mask mandates are generally popular even in some red areas.
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</p>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="i6Scpc">
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Nevertheless, railing against mask mandates even as Covid cases spike has proven to be a good way for Republican politicians to fire up their base. Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida — two of the hardest-hit states during the recent case surge — recently moved to ban mask mandates altogether, much to the ire of local officials who are <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/local-school-officials-spar-
|
||
with-state-gop-over-mask-mandate-bans">challenging them in courts</a>.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="PyWGH7">
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Tennessee, meanwhile, has been at the forefront not only of Republican efforts to turn masks into a wedge issue, but also of GOP efforts to translate vaccine skepticism into policy. As I <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/15/22577405/tennessee-covid-vaccines-
|
||
republicans-michelle-fiscus">detailed</a> in July, the public health department in Tennessee, under pressure from increasingly vaccine-skeptical Republican legislators, fired its top vaccine official, then prohibited state officials from engaging in any form of vaccine outreach to minors. Those moves came amid an ongoing wave of Covid cases in the state, with hospitalizations having increased by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/tennessee-covid-
|
||
cases.html">more than 100 percent</a> in the last two weeks. (<a href="https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-
|
||
health/states-ranked-by-percentage-of-population-vaccinated-march-15.html">Just under 40 percent</a> of Tennesseans have been fully vaccinated as of August 10.)
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="TqZ7QM">
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Unsurprisingly, following Tuesday’s meeting, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) posted a tweet endorsing the cause of parents resisting mask mandates, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1425292214402433027">writing</a>, “No masks for kids!”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="cjSH6A">
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While a number of public health experts and workers spoke out at Tuesday’s meeting on behalf of masks — “We would love it is if there was another way out of this pandemic, but what we have right now a way to vaccinate our students and our public and we can wear masks until all of that happens,” <a href="https://www.wsmv.com/news/williamson_county/williamson-county-school-board-votes-in-favor-of-masks-after-heated-
|
||
specially-called-meeting/article_313bb946-fa1f-11eb-b738-a3c87c94c8f5.html">said</a> one parent, pediatrician Dr. Jim Keffer — other developments during the proceedings highlighted that working in public health doesn’t necessarily mean someone understands best practices when it comes to basic public health.
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Outside Tuesday’s meeting, a reporter with the liberal Tennessee Holler talked to an anti-mask nurse who <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1425224731607932939">proclaimed</a>, “There’s no pandemic.” That nurse, wearing his scrubs, was later <a href="https://twitter.com/brinleyhineman/status/1425295786284404737">escorted</a> out of the meeting by a police officer.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="mh9b7c">
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Meanwhile, Tennessee Stands — one of the groups driving the anti- mask demonstrations in the state — on Wednesday urged its nearly 13,000 Facebook followers to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tennesseestands/posts/889225461703252">refuse to comply</a> with school mask mandates like the one just approved in Williamson County.
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A new UN interactive atlas reveals how climate change will shape weather around the world.
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Humans have warmed the planet by an average of <a href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/2020-was-one-of-three-warmest-years-record">1.2 degrees Celsius</a> since industrialization began in the 19th century. This small-sounding change has <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/14/22382445/california-wildfires-2021-drought-megadrought-climate-change-gavin-newsom-
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new-mexico">helped fuel severe wildfires</a>, record-breaking <a href="https://www.vox.com/22538401/heat-wave-record-
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temperature-extreme-climate-change-drought">heatwaves</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22577431/germany-flooding-
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europe-climate-change">floods</a>, and an ever-growing list of other disasters.
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What’s worrying is that Earth will continue to heat up — likely past 1.5 degrees — even if humans slash fossil fuel emissions immediately, according to <a href="https://www.vox.com/22613027/un-ipcc-climate-change-report-ar6-disaster">a landmark<strong> </strong>UN climate report released this week</a>. So does that mean weather will get worse, too?
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Now you can see for yourself. This week, alongside its report, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launched <a href="https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/regional-
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information#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">a new mapping tool</a> that shows how weather around the world will change under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="KVHAMC">
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While the IPCC Interactive Atlas didn’t get as much attention as <a href="https://www.vox.com/22613027/un-ipcc-climate-change-report-ar6-disaster">harrowing news stories about the report itself</a>, it’s a striking tool that projects regional temperature, rainfall, snowfall, and even sea level rise. It’s powered by the same models that produced data for the report, and represents some of the best climate science out there in visual form.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="dVXHfU">
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The technology behind the map is impressive, too. The atlas took three years to make and “over 1.5 million hours of computing time” on a supercomputer, according to Juan José Sáenz de la Torre, a spokesperson for Predictia, the company that helped build the atlas.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="dbFPfq">
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The map tries to strike a balance between the simplicity of, say, Google Maps, and a highly specialized scientific tool. The IPCC has received feedback that it’s “too dorky,” so it may update the user interface, said Linda Mearns, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was involved in developing the tool. At the same time, its features might be too limited for the most sophisticated users, said Michael E. Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. The atlas doesn’t, for example, display data on the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like fires and floods.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Mzx3nf">
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Nonetheless, it’s a major step beyond the static graphics in the IPCC report. And once you get a hang of it, you can clearly see the disastrous impact of climate change on every corner of the planet — from rising temperatures to rising seas — if countries and fossil fuel companies don’t quickly cut their carbon footprint.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qB7SFp">
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Here’s how to use the atlas, and some of the insights it reveals.
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How to use the IPCC atlas
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The basics
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Go to <a href="https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/">this website</a>, and click on the box “regional information.” That will take you to the map.
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By default, you’ll see the world under an average of 2°C of warming, compared to a historical baseline (1850 to 1990). You’ll notice that the Arctic and the American West, for example, are darker shades of red, indicating that they’re likely to warm faster than other areas under this scenario.
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</li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qwt5Hf">
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From there, you have a lot of different features to play with. Check out the tab “variable,” which allows you to choose what appears on the map — change in average temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and so on. You can also select sea level rise and other ocean variables.
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</li>
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<li id="YUAvbC">
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To lay out different climate scenarios, you can use the tab “value and period.” Again, the default is a world under 2°C of warming, but to factor in the possibility that humans will drastically reduce their emissions (or not), you can<strong> </strong>change it to 1.5, 3, or 4°C. You can also set the scenario according to a time period (such as 2081 to 2100) under one of four greenhouse gas emissions scenarios <a href="https://www.vox.com/22613027/un-ipcc-climate-change-report-ar6-disaster">laid out in the IPCC report</a>.
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</li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Szbxw6">
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If you want more regional information — such as to see what’s happening in the Western US — there are a few things you can do beyond zooming in. First, under the “dataset” tab, choose a “CORDEX” for whatever area you’re interested in (such as CORDEX North America). CORDEX models are more accurate on a regional scale than the default model, which is global. Then click on a specific region and a window will appear at the bottom of the map, with all kinds of information for that area.
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Other neat features
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qAzdKJ">
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There are a few additional features worth pointing out, such as the side-by-side function, which shows two different climate scenarios next to each other on a map. For example, you can compare the likely change in rainfall under 1.5 vs. 3°C of warming. To use this feature, click the “duplicate map” button on the right-hand side of the screen.
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</p>
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There’s also a neat graphing tool called seasonal stripes, which breaks down weather and climate changes by season. You can find this feature by clicking a region and selecting the “seasonal stripes” tab. (The tab to the left of it is neat, too. Each row represents the results of a different model.)
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qqxUIi">
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Lastly, check out the “point information” button on the right side of the map. It allows you to get information on whatever variable you’ve selected by just clicking anywhere on the atlas. There are a lot of other features, which you can learn about <a href="https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/regional-information/guidance">here</a>.
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</p>
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<h3 id="Xbqrjz">
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What the map tells us about our future climate
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Hji7T0">
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The IPCC report reveals in new detail just how connected extreme weather and climate change really are. The chance of intense heatwaves, torrential rainfall, and drought is likely to increase with each degree the planet warms, the authors wrote.
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||
</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="QuKM2d">
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Consider the American West. It will become much, much warmer as global temperatures rise, the map shows. It’s becoming drier, too, Mearns said, and together those changes increase the risk of severe wildfires.
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22774980/california.png"/> <cite>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</cite>
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<figcaption>
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The change in maximum daily temperature, relative to a historic baseline, under different warming scenarios for the continental US. From top to bottom: 1.5, 2, 3, and 4<strong>°</strong>C of warming.
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="HCty6s">
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The graphic above shows the continental US under 1.5, 2, 3, and 4<strong>°</strong>C of warming. Red indicates the change in the average daily maximum temperature, relative to a historical baseline.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xlU4yT">
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If you’re looking at warming under different emissions scenarios, it’s also hard to ignore the deep red hues in the Arctic. Temperatures there are rising about three times faster than average global warming, the IPCC report finds.
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</p>
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22775725/Screen_Shot_2021_08_11_at_7.45.55_AM.png"/> <cite>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</cite>
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<figcaption>
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Change in average annual temperature, relative to a historic baseline under 2<strong>°</strong>C of warming.
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="rnDf6W">
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All that warming is shrinking Arctic ice, as you might expect. Alarmingly, the Arctic is likely to be “practically ice-free” at least once before 2050 (in the month of September) even under the least-dire emissions scenarios, according to the IPCC report.
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</p>
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<figure class="e-image">
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tPrOqBA1i1D6YVnbjGtJ8VMb-
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Ok=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22775722/Screen_Shot_2021_08_11_at_7.44.53_AM.png"/> <cite>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</cite>
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||
<figcaption>
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||
Change in the concentration of sea ice under 2<strong>°</strong>C of warming, relative to a historical baseline. Darker green indicates a greater loss of sea ice.
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||
</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="nqVcLi">
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The map also shows expected decreases in rainfall. The Mediterranean, for example, is set to get much drier by the end of the century under the high-emissions scenario — especially in the summer — as you can see from the seasonal stripes chart below. Darker colors indicate less rainfall.
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||
</p>
|
||
<figure class="e-image">
|
||
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/eI2hqPTR13KXt0VkFB_NJ5313Z8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-
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||
cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22774635/Screen_Shot_2021_08_10_at_3.53.32_PM.png"/> <cite>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
||
Future change in rainfall by month under a high emissions scenario, relative to a historical baseline, for the Mediterranean region. Darker colors indicate less rainfall.
|
||
</figcaption>
|
||
</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="khvz89">
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Parts of West Asia, on the other hand, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, will likely get much wetter, according to the CORDEX model for the region. (The global model suggests north-central Africa will get more rainfall, too.)
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||
</p>
|
||
<h3 id="DaqEYc">
|
||
Different emissions paths lead to drastically different outcomes
|
||
</h3>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="KqDNK3">
|
||
One thing that’s so useful about the IPCC atlas is that it demonstrates what happens if humans —<strong> </strong>especially governments and fossil-fuel producers, such as oil and gas companies — fail to cut carbon emissions.
|
||
</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qRwgd6">
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The two maps below show the change in very hot days (above 35<strong>°</strong>C, or 95 degrees Fahrenheit). The one on top is a world where we cut carbon emissions relatively quickly, and the one below shows a high- emissions scenario. The darker the red, the more hot days.
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</p>
|
||
<figure class="e-image">
|
||
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/NpNlk6OvaKvMCQPVR0WHsruvkUk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-
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||
cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22774959/Untitled_collage2.png"/> <cite>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
||
The expected increase in the number of days above 35<strong>°</strong>C (95 degrees Fahrenheit) under a low-emissions (top) scenario and a high-emissions (bottom) scenario, relative to a historical baseline. Darker shades indicate a greater change.
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||
</figcaption>
|
||
</figure>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="rH0EGy">
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||
This shows that while temperatures will rise even under low-emissions scenarios, they could be a lot worse if emissions continue to climb. And pretty much every variable you plug in shows similarly stunning contrasts under high- and low-emissions scenarios, such as these maps of sea-level rise. Similar to the graphics above, the top and bottom maps show low- and high-emissions scenarios, respectively. The darker the color, the more sea-level rise.
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||
</p>
|
||
<figure class="e-image">
|
||
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8sY1YnJUr8nu2JZT9QCHRjc9YhQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-
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||
cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22774964/sea_level_rise.png"/> <cite>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</cite>
|
||
<figcaption>
|
||
The expected change in sea level under a low emissions scenario (top) and a high emissions scenario (bottom), relative to a historical baseline. Darker shades indicate a larger increase in sea level.
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||
</figcaption>
|
||
</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="92o02K">
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||
If there’s one takeaway from the atlas, and the terabytes of data that went into it, it’s this: Cutting emissions will make the planet significantly more habitable in our lifetimes.
|
||
</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="sIXFsK">
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“It’s empowering to be able to examine the dramatic differences between different future carbon emissions scenarios,” Mann said, “and see that we really can make a difference through our actions.”
|
||
</p>
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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>National Sports Awards function delayed to include performers at Tokyo Paralympics</strong> - The National Sports Awards function, which is held on August 29 every year, has been pushed back since the government wants the selection panel to co</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>Eng vs Ind | England opts to field at Lord’s, Ishant replaces injured Shardul</strong> - Toss was delayed by 20 minutes due to rain.</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>Covid: Germany fears thousands got saline, not vaccine from nurse</strong> - More than 8,000 mostly elderly people are urged to get vaccinated again as a nurse is questioned.</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>FDA expected to authorize 3rd COVID vaccine dose for immunocompromised</strong> - CDC advisors plan to meet Friday to set official guidance. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1786680">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 is here, but it doesn’t seem to do much</strong> - We probably won’t see any new macOS features until Monterey later this year. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1786577">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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Her portraits hang themselves
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After having the 10th child, an Alabama couple decided that was enough since they could not afford another kid.
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So the husband went to his doctor and told him the he and his wife didn’t want to have any more children.
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The doctor told him that there was a procedure called a vasectomy that could fix the problem, but it was expensive.
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A less costly alternative, said the doctor, was to go home and get a cherry bomb, light it, put it in a empty beer can and then hold the can up to his ear and count to 10.
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The guy said to the doctor, “I may not be a smart man, but I don’t see how putting a cherry bomb in a beer can next to my ear is going to help me.” He wanted a second opinion so he visited a doctor in Georgia.
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That doctor began to speak of a vasectomy, but seeing his patient was from Alabama, he told him to go home and get a cherry bomb light it and put it in a empty beer can and then hold the can up to his ear and count to 10.
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Since the second doctor told him of the same procedure of the first doctor he decided that it MUST work. So the man went home, lit the cherry bomb and put it in the beer can.
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He held the can up to his ear and began to count: “1,2,3,4,5” at which point he paused, placed the beer can between his legs and resumed counting on his other hand.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ixz72"> /u/Ixz72 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2k35p/a_redneck_birth_control/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2k35p/a_redneck_birth_control/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>A Man Buys His Wife A Special Type Of Dildo</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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A man was looking around a sex store searching for a special sex toy to buy his wife so that she won’t screw around on him while he is away on a business trip for a few weeks.
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After not finding anything special he asks the old man working the store.
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The old man replies “Well there is this special voodoo dildo but-”
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“Show me!” the man says.
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The old man than takes out a box with some weird writings on it and takes off the lid revealing a regular looking dildo.
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The man laughs and says “This looks exactly like every other dildo in this store! What makes this one special?”
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To which the old man replies “Watch this! voodoo dick, the door” and the dildo jumps out of it’s box and starts screwing the keyhole. The entire door started to vibrate from the dildo and before the entire door would crack the old man said “voodoo dick, the box”, and the dildo went inside it’s box.
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The man said “Perfect! I’ll take it!” and bought the voodoo dildo. He than went to his wife and told her whenever she was feeling horny to just say “voodoo dick, my pussy” and the dildo would satisfy her. He than went on his business trip.
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After a few days the wife was feeling horny so she started thinking about people she could have sex with. That is when she remembered the dildo. So she got out the box and said “voodoo dick, my pussy” and the dildo jumped out the box and started thrusting her vagina. After three orgasms the wife decided it was enough. So she tries to get the dildo out but she couldn’t, it kept on thrusting. Turns out the husband forgot to tell her how to stop it.
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Scared she quickly get’s dressed and get’s in her car to go to the hospital, with the dildo still inside her thrusting and making her her entire body shake. On the way there she experiences another orgasm and swerves into the opposite lane. A police car notices this and stops her.
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When the offices asks her how much she has had to drink she replies “I haven’t officer. There is a voodoo dick inside of my pussy and I can’t get it out so I am going to the hospital right now!”
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The officer replies “voodoo dick, my ass!”.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/visuallyamazing"> /u/visuallyamazing </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2kdba/a_man_buys_his_wife_a_special_type_of_dildo/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2kdba/a_man_buys_his_wife_a_special_type_of_dildo/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>Call me a racist if you want, but south of the border is a sea of violence, corruption and stupidity I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Thank god I live in Canada
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EffectiveForward5878"> /u/EffectiveForward5878 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2uimr/call_me_a_racist_if_you_want_but_south_of_the/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2uimr/call_me_a_racist_if_you_want_but_south_of_the/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>I had an ex-girlfriend that liked it in the ear</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“How the hell did you find that out?” asked my friend.
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“Every time I tried to put it in her mouth she’d turn her head!”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bandit_the_Kitty"> /u/Bandit_the_Kitty </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2p5mq/i_had_an_exgirlfriend_that_liked_it_in_the_ear/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/p2p5mq/i_had_an_exgirlfriend_that_liked_it_in_the_ear/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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