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Improved Mobile Check In
I’m starting to see more and more businesses, mostly national chains for now, updating their mobile apps to make it easier to be safe when making purchases. Most local businesses (in Jefferson City, MO) do not have apps so the process is more cumbersome. Ordering from our favorite Chinese restaurant means calling and telling them we’d like to place an order, pay for it over the phone with a credit card, call them when we arrive, and have them bring it out to our car. “Just come inside and pay!” Nooo, we don’t want to come inside. Will you bring it out to our car? After checking with someone in charge, they say okay. Not a big deal but a process that could be improved with an app.
Production-line Education
“The Industrial Revolution has bequeathed us the production-line theory of education. In the middle of town there is a large concrete building divided into many identical rooms, each room equipped with rows of desks and chairs. At the sound of a bell, you go to one of these rooms together with thirty other kids who were all born the same year as you. Every hour a different grown-up walks in and starts talking. The grown-ups are all paid to do so by the government. One of them tells you about the shape of the earth, another tells you about the human past, and a third tells you about the human body. It is easy to laugh at this model, and almost everybody agrees that no matter its past achievements, it is now bankrupt.”
What happens when you break quarantine?
Chris Rock: Some jobs can’t have “bad apples”
Fawn
Henry Domke ran into this guy while on his morning walk.
‘I Have the Best Words.’ Now They’re Hers
Comedian Sarah Cooper’s homemade videos capture President Trump entirely through pantomime
“This is a bad orchard.”
“Stop saying the problem is just a few bad apples. It’s not an apple problem — it’s an orchard problem. If you went apple picking and the guy who ran the orchard said, “There are a few bad apples out there,” and you said, “How bad?” and they said, “Kill you bad,” you’d say, “This is a bad orchard.”
— Seth Meyers
Freedom became free-dumb in America
From an article about New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (The New Leader of the Free World)
Americans don’t have decent healthcare, retirement, education, incomes, governance. Trust and happiness have plummeted, and suicide and hopelessness are skyrocketing. Freedom became free-dumb in America. But in places like New Zealand, it evolved. It became the idea that we are freer when we all have expansive public goods, like healthcare, education, retirement, and so on. […] Americans are regressing backwards in time at light-speed — fast becoming a nation of “low-wage service workers”, an economists’ euphemism for “servants.”
Coffee shops post-Covid
“La Colombe, a Philadelphia-based coffee chain, is taking pages out of the airport and pharmacy handbooks in retrofitting 30 of its cafes in six cities for safety. Customers line up outside, where a greeter takes orders at the door “to keep fingers off of touchscreens.” Once inside, patrons, who must wear masks, move through a line. Rather than use the ribbon tape that creates a maze at an airport check-in, La Colombe has installed acrylic panels to frame the lines. Customers must wait six feet apart, and may add food from the grab-and-go case while waiting in line. Inside seating is still prohibited by law.”
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer