A New Limit: One Amazon Delivery a Month? | Another ‘Sixteen Candles’

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Friday Jun 21, 2019 1 [Rising Stars]( [Rising Stars]( [How to Create 'Sixteen Candles' for Queer Teens]( Mariko Tamaki’s new book mixes romantic comedy and teen drama — in a graphic novel form. When Mariko Tamaki was growing up in Canada, she didn’t see herself reflected in the love stories she read. First of all, most of them were about straight people. But more than that, she says, “most of the queer love stories I read were about adults, about a secret love, about overcoming that impossibility to fall in love.” Her new graphic novel, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, a collaboration with illustrator Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, is, as Tamaki puts it, “a story about a queer teen in love where her being queer isn’t an obstacle in the story.” The lovers in Laura Dean are a queer couple, and their relationship is rocky. But none of those rocks present the usual beats of queer young adult (YA) fiction: Nobody has to tearfully come out to their intolerant parents or face down homophobic bullies. Instead, this graphic novel delves into toxic vibes within the relationship itself — a privilege that’s been afforded straight couples in YA forever. [READ MORE]( 2 [Opinion]( [Opinion]( [Trump and Iran Are Climbing a Shaky Ladder of Escalation]( Washington and Tehran are playing a game of chicken, and diplomatic opportunities to blink or save face are running thin. In my last column, I was struggling to understand U.S. strategy on Iran. Two weeks later, I still am. What’s clearer, especially since Iran’s downing of an unmanned U.S. drone yesterday, is that tensions are rapidly spiking. What remains unclear is how we got here and where this will end up. Eighteen months ago, the U.S. and Iran were signatories to an agreement that had frozen the most threatening aspects of Iran’s nuclear program, no ships were being attacked in the Persian Gulf, no drones were being downed and we were on the same page with our allies and with Russia and China about how to deal with Tehran — at least on nuclear matters. Now, we have seen Japanese and Norwegian oil freighters attacked in the Gulf, attacks that Washington attributes to Iran. At the same time, Iran is threatening to start backing away from parts of the nuclear agreement; it says it will start enriching uranium to a higher level than permitted in the agreement and stockpiling more of it, which would shorten the time for Iran to produce a nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, our allies are expressing doubts about American claims of Iranian culpability for the Gulf attacks. [READ MORE]( 3 [Immodest proposal]( [Immodest proposal]( [Now Let's Limit Amazon Customers to One Delivery a Month]( The speedy deliveries from Jeff Bezos’ online shopping giant come with a web of invisible social costs. You’re running a half-marathon in two months and need new sneakers, so you’re roaming the online frontier of the promised land, aka Amazon, and notice your favorite author’s latest book listed along the side during checkout. So you add that to your cart, cursing the data gods, and a satisfying click confirms your order will arrive in two days. But wait, you’ve been looking for a new lamp too, so now it’s time to start on order No. 2. Amazon Prime has saved many frantic consumers, delivering forgotten presents or last-minute Halloween costumes, and its convenience keeps expanding: Members can also get same-day and one-day delivery options. But touch-of-the-button convenience adds to traffic congestion, carbon emissions and car accidents — “social costs” that consumers and companies don’t directly pay for, according to Miguel Jaller, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of California, Davis, who specializes in freight and sustainable transportation. So, Mr. Bezos, I propose the following: Help save the planet by telling Prime customers that they’re allowed one order a month. [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by MANSCAPE]( [Why Shark Tank Went All-In on This Manscaping Startup]( Last year, there were 171,321 reported ER visits related to personal grooming injuries. Fortunately, [MANSCAPED]( engineered the first manscaping trimmer with SkinSafe™ technology that prevents nicks and snags. Why is the Lawn Mower 2.0 trimmer a total game-changer? - Waterproof and shock-resistant design - Replaceable Ceramic Hyper-Hygienic™ blades - Maximum performance tools for manscaping safely. 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