Afternoon Tea 6.9.21 - Decuplets

If you water water, it grows.

June 09, 2021

Work from home is destroying the brains of bosses, a plague of crows, Chic-fil-A’s CEO still sucks, we don’t know where Eric Adams actually lives, L’Oreal is making TV shows now, and a 37 year old woman gave birth to 10 kids. It’s Wednesday, June 9th 2021, and this is your Tea.

Gauteng woman gives birth to 10 children, breaks Guinness World Record (Independent SA) The 37 year old gave birth to 10 children, a thing I didn’t know we had a word for. This is after the previous world record break of 9 babies from the Malian lady in Morocco. This is eerily like the Simpsons episode where Apu and his wife had octuplets.

Emerging From One Plague, Some Romans Face Another: Attacking Crows (NY Times) Crows are attacking Romans, providing further evidence the simulation has started to skip and repeat themes.

Global sting began by creating message service for crooks (Associated Press) When your entire messaging service is a honey pot for bad guys, you’ve been had. Another example of underestimating your opponent and it bringing nothing but ruin.

Burning the midnight oil: Eric Adams’ mysterious whereabouts off the campaign trail (Politico) So, it seems Eric Adams might not actually live in NYC? And has been faking it by sleeping in the office and pretending to have a residence? This is wild.

Sidney Powell Just ‘Eviscerated’ Her Own Legal Defense, Experts Say (Daily Beast) You can’t have your legal cake and eat it on TV too. This is ludicrously dumb and I hope she gets dunked so hard that her trials & tribulations are taught in law school for generations to come.

A Year Ago, the ‘Big Three’ Record Companies Pledged $225 Million to Racial Justice. Where Did It Go? (Noisey) Did you guess that the money didn’t actually go out? Congratulations, I assume we’re all shocked big record companies didn’t do the nice thing they promised to do.

It has been said that “children are our future,” but let’s not lose sight of the fact that those words were uttered at a time when it was generally understood that a 10-year old could seamlessly blend a lowercase t with an h. If my interactions with Boomers have taught me anything, it’s that cursive is the single most important thing that I could be learning. I suppose the other possibility is that my interactions with Boomers haven’t taught me a single damn thing about anything, but let’s not go there.

Chick-fil-a’s Owner Is Newly Connected to Anti-Equality Act Donations (Esquire) Are we really still talking about this? Wendy’s, Popeye’s, and KFC are producing chicken sandwiches that don’t actively fuck with fellow citizens. You can get a good meal without the hate.

Why brands like L’Oreal are creating their own TV shows (The Drum) I was today years old when I learned that brands like L’Oreal were making their own TV shows!

The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses' Brains (Ed Zitron) Some people get more done in the office. Some jobs can’t be done remotely. Some bosses and CEOs just get off on micromanaging the time and owning bodies of their workers. This quote is superb:

We have tied the vague idea of management so tightly to career advancement that we simply make people managers as a rite of passage - we think that because they’re good at their job they can either make people good at their jobs or watch people be good at their jobs and make them do them more. This is a dysfunctional view of work on three levels:

Now, someone insufferable will read this and say “NOT ALL MIDDLE MANAGERS,” and let me tell you, if you’re thinking that, you are probably part of the problem. 

Song of the Tea: James Arthur provides the lilting vocals that you dance through a crowd to follow. And then suddenly, the sun comes up, the track lights off and you realize why I’m so disappointed this track never became the song of the summer it deserved to be. Rudimental is wonderful.

Suddenly the sun comes up, and the dark is gone.Made it to the dawn, and I don’t miss you anymore. When the sun comes up, I can feel my love coming back again.

Yours,