News Bits!
- Nearly 1 million people have been displaced by the California wildfires.
- Heckuva job: Former FEMA director Michael Brown is making himself available for interviews about the wildfires.
- Home sales went down 8% in September.
- Russia's "Chessboard killer" found guilty of 48 murders.
- Turkish planes attacked Kurdish positions in Turkey today, just outside the Iraq border.
- It may be more beneficial to the environment to be a carnivore who eats locally-made meat than to be a vegetarian.
- Sexism in professional kitchens: "I didn’t want the fact that I was a woman to be an issue, so I just put my head down and cooked and did the best that I could. . . And one day, some guys came in and shook everyone’s hands, and I held out my hand and this guy just walked straight past me. It’s like, “Okay, fuck you. I’m gonna be better than you one day.”
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