I’m not defending Amazon here but this kind of thing is completely normal. I know someone who worked for a major auto parts store. Every year they dug a huge trench in the field behind the warehouse and just buried old stuff to make room for the new inventory. https://t.co/yqEcVG1wfW

— Susannah Tysor (@scisus) June 25, 2021

Amazon shouldn’t be doing this, but every single large retailer does this. It’s just a standard and terrible practice in the industry.

On average, about 10-20% of anything a retailer buys is destroyed, even if it works perfectly well.

Well, today is the point of no return, and as someone with no central air it was nice knowing all of you.
When I’m gone, please blow my ashes in the face of a climate change denier politician. pic.twitter.com/6X3b7p1xJl

— Kate (@KateRoseBee) June 25, 2021

She’s in the Portland area. Glad I am not there, and equally glad I have AC.

Time has passed, and it is quite clear now that as for Delta, as for all #SARSCoV2 before it

-Young adults transmission highest
-Teens transmission a bit more due to more mixing, but to a lesser extent
-Younger children transmission surprisingly low

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— Alasdair Munro (@apsmunro) June 25, 2021

We should’ve been vaccinating people 18-35 the earliest and the most, which is what I said from the jump. They are the ones who drive the spread.

Sydneysiders divided by Covid lockdown, united in confusion. The stay-at-home orders for four NSW local government areas left Sydney residents with many unanswered questions.

Australia really hates its people, doesn’t it? Israel is also reinstating indoor mask requirements. UK is probably going to go back into lockdown IMO.

Yeah, I knew the Delta variant and hysteria over that would be all the lockdown lifers and lockdown scammers need to drive us all back indoors. Let’s hope the US works hard to resist that. I think we will, but I’ve been wrong about such things before.

I love having a 10Gb network at home. Just transferred a 5.5GB file to my iMac in 10 seconds.

Just try that on the puny networks you have at home, I dare you. 😉

Only the grave is “completely safe.”

I love how joyous this @JonBatiste song is and I am thrilled its video matches its exuberance level https://t.co/fIFEcQwi3M

— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) June 25, 2021

Me too! It’s a great one. And I like how it’s an implicit pushback and refutation of the “hide inside forever” ethos that has been developing lately. I don’t think that’s accidental. There’s a reason all the scenes are outdoors! And no masks, bright colors, people seeming happy to be alive.

That Hammond organ really makes the song, too. Love that he included that in there. More of this, less lockdown lifer pishposh.

Lost memoir paints revered philosopher John Locke as ‘vain, lazy and pompous.’

This usually makes the best kind of philosopher, IMO.