Link. Since this 2019 article many are ending volunteer programs and creating employee roles instead. The goal is to be less white/more diverse.
Daily Archives: March 27, 2022
African COVID: mystery or hidden mortality?
Link. Probably some of both. Little interest in vaccine.
“it’s easier to encode instructions for building simple, symmetrical structures”
Link. Why natural selection favors symmetry.
“several energy companies have held ownership stakes in the power plant, major corporations with interests far beyond West Virginia.”
Link. Manchin’s corruption is out in the open.
“The argument for a return to prepandemic norms is straightforward”
Link. Deglobalization would drive a reindustrialization of America. There would be places for money to go.
Kyiv and Kabul: One fought, one not.
Link. Both times US guessed wrong.
“It’s fun to sit at the guillotine and watch these people that you resent getting their heads chopped off. There were wild street dances.”
Link. Usually an “elite”; someone the dancers secretly believe is better than them.
“the U.S. Treasury made $28 billion in special payments, known as “Trump bribes,” in my hometown, to compensate U.S. farmers for phantom losses due to Chinese perfidy.”
Link. Vote buying essentially.
“Ms. Rice was similarly struck. “Something is definitely different,” she said. “He’s not in control of his emotions. Something is wrong.”
Link. Portrays Putin as getting progressively nastier and more corrupt over 20y. Feels inevitable.