{"id":39433,"date":"2018-11-05T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39433"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:27:20","slug":"monday-links-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/monday-links-141\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The way modern empires die: They become <a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/11\/02\/russia-change-comes-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\">too heavy-handed<\/a>, and tech makes it practical to slip away from them. (H\/T TSO)\n<li>Nine years after implementation of Common Core, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/05\/9-years-common-core-test-scores-indoctrination\/\" target=\"_blank\">schooling standards continue to fall<\/a>. (True, no doubt, but let&#8217;s note that they&#8217;ve been falling under virtually <em>every<\/em> government-driven initiative, ever, and in fact falling since universal government schooling was imposed.)\n<li>Oh yeah, here&#8217;s another of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/streiff\/2018\/11\/03\/brooklyn-synagogue-vandal-usual-white-nationalist-credentials\/\" target=\"_blank\">typical white supremacists<\/a> who vandalize synagogues. This one was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/03\/nyc-synagogue-vandalism-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\">helped along by the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> and NYC city hall.\n<li>Hillary Clinton! <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/columnists\/hillary-clinton-2020-presidential-election-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">Still the best choice<\/a> for 2020. Srsly. This is desperation in action, folks.\n<li>In Montana, one of the few states where Libertarian candidates have an impact on big races, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/tester-takes-a-torpedo-below-the-water-line\/\" target=\"_blank\">the LP candidate<\/a> may have torpedoed the incumbent Dem senator &#8212; in response to dirty tricks played against the R.\n<li>It no longer requires sophisticated tech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612375\/using-wi-fi-to-see-behind-closed-doors-is-easier-than-anyone-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\">to see through walls<\/a> and track people in their own homes.\n<li>Yup. Even in the Internet Age, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=5746\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is still how you meet like-minded people in the real world.\n<li>OTOH, a cryptocurrency (Ethereum) millionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/01\/technology\/nevada-bitcoin-blockchain-society.html\" target=\"_blank\">wants to build a blockchain utopia<\/a> in the Nevada desert.\n<li>For packages set to arrive before Christmas, Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/nation-now\/2018\/11\/05\/amazon-drops-25-minimum-free-shipping-through-holiday-season\/1889512002\/\" target=\"_blank\">has dropped its $25 threshold<\/a> for free shipping. Can you spell &#8220;loss leader&#8221;? The competition is ramping up, but this is a good time to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">those Amazon Associates links<\/a>.\n<li>A commercial fisherman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3065\/Fisherman-Jumps-On-Distressed-Whaleand-039-s-Back-To-Save-Its-Life\" target=\"_blank\">jumps on a whale&#8217;s back<\/a> to save it from being trapped.\n<li>Funny and creepy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/photoshopped-cats\/\" target=\"_blank\">cat hybrids<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The way modern empires die: They become <a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/11\/02\/russia-change-comes-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\">too heavy-handed<\/a>, and tech makes it practical to slip away from them. (H\/T TSO)\n<li>Nine years after implementation of Common Core, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/05\/9-years-common-core-test-scores-indoctrination\/\" target=\"_blank\">schooling standards continue to fall<\/a>. (True, no doubt, but let&#8217;s note that they&#8217;ve been falling under virtually <em>every<\/em> government-driven initiative, ever, and in fact falling since universal government schooling was imposed.)\n<li>Oh yeah, here&#8217;s another of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/streiff\/2018\/11\/03\/brooklyn-synagogue-vandal-usual-white-nationalist-credentials\/\" target=\"_blank\">typical white supremacists<\/a> who vandalize synagogues. This one was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/03\/nyc-synagogue-vandalism-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\">helped along by the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> and NYC city hall.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/monday-links-141\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,15,18,19,20,22,25,26,27,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-off-grid","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39433"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39451,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39433\/revisions\/39451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}