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I will maniacally giggle as I drop a bag of flour in my shopping cart knowing it melts snowflakes when I buy King Arthur flour. Mwah ha haaa!!!
[We only buy King Arthur flour. Itâs the only readily available and affordable flour that isnât enriched.]
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I generally only use KA too⌠but lately my grocery store keeps running out⌠Iâm about out of whatever I got last time I needed flour, so Iâll have an extra song in my heart as I buy a bag next week and stick it to the reactionary nutjobs!
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This has been documented over and over in multiple settings and under multiple controlled situations. There is no doubt that there is entrenched, and unrecognized, racism in medicine at pretty much every level. That said, I am going to take issue a bit with this part:
Imagine your child has broken a bone. You head to the emergency department, but the doctors wonât prescribe painkillers.
There has been a concerted and largely successful effort to get docs to stop prescribing outpatient opioids for kids. Under most circumstances, if it can be managed as an outpatient, it can be managed with ibuprofen or similar. There are exceptions, of course, but for the most part this holds. I can recall when sprains and strains, headaches, even coughs, were always treated with one opioid or another. I am more than happy to not see that anymore. There are so many examples of how PoC (in this case, patients of color) are treated with suspicion, distrust and even fear. I kinda wish they had chosen one that was less problematic.
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That makes total sense and is an important addition, thanks!
Iâll just point out that they didnât say opioid painkillers, just painkillers, and apparently (Iâve read in other articles) even getting ibuprofen is harder with darker skin.
But yes, opioid use, especially in children, is fraught with dangers quite aside from racism in particular.
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I also only buy King Arthur flour. Specifically, for bread, I buy their organic bread flour. Not that I care that much about the organic part, but I get the best rise out of that specific flour. Iâm glad to find out they arenât a shitty company. Not that I thought they were. But so often, you find out the opposite: that the company behind some product you like is awful.
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If you didnât already know, when the owners (family-owned for hundreds of years, but they didnât have children to pass it down to) got to a certain age, instead of closing or selling the business, they gave it to their workers to own.
If something bad ever came out about KAF, I think Iâd cry. Theyâre such a beacon in the cesspool of U.S. capitalism.
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I think knew it was employee owned. And I also think they make an effort to at least partly locally source the wheat? Maybe Iâm making that part up.
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Tacoma Police Department Chief Avery L. Moore said the three officers had âvoluntarily agreed to separate from their positions.â
Moore said that besides the departmentâs âpolicy on courtesy,â the officers were not found to have violated any of the policies that existed at the time of the incident
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âOoh, follow up question, Chief: what new policies have been implemented that would prevent this incident from happening again today?â
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Ok, I might be bothered by something that I shouldnât be bothered by, and I wanted to get peoplesâ opinions here. I do the NYT crossword puzzle every day. Now, in the past, the NYT would have a lot of problematic clues and answers in the puzzles, not intentionally, but just because almost all of the constructors were white men. Theyâve actually done some good work over the past few years trying to correct that problem, and they do much better now. However, occasionally some bs still happens. Like about a year ago, a puzzle was published on the first day of Hannukah with a grid that looked uncomfortably similar to a swastika. No one thought it was intentional, but the NYT rightfully caught some flak for it. So todayâs puzzle had a couple of answers and clues that, in tandem, made me kinda go, âHmmm, I dunno if this is acceptable. It seems not great.â But maybe Iâm off. I commented about it on reddit and didnât get great feedback, lol. Ok, so hereâs what the clues and answers were (Iâll spoilify this in case any of you do the puzzle and havenât done it yet today)
61D Antiracist movement since 2013, in brief (the answer is BLM)
66A What a score of 70 or less signifies on a common standardized test (the answer is LOWIQ)
I donât think any intentional connection was meant, but given the problematic history of the usage of IQ tests, and their implicit racial bias, it just rubbed me the wrong way that these two answers crossed each other. Thoughts?
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Thatâs very sketchy, not so much in a conscious way but more of an unconscious bias kinda way. I donât know whether the puzzles have multiple authors but a single editor should have nixed that combination.
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Puzzles can have one constructor, or multiple, but there is a team of editors, headed by Will Shortz. Anyone can submit a puzzle, and if itâs accepted, the editors almost always make some changes, usually to the clue. Todayâs puzzle was created by Jake Halperin.
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This is in Wales, but same old same old:
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As a thought experiment, reverse the two kids. Would that be âin the public interestâ to prosecute? I think we know the answer.
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Ruby Bridgesâ interviewed by Stephen Colbert:
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