In the midst of a major housing crisis, the University of California is pumping billions of dollars into a Blackstone real estate fund that is eager to evict tenants and jack up student rents. https://t.co/lPm7a7powe
The worst episode of Reconstruction Era violence occurred 150 years ago today in northern Louisiana. The 1873 Colfax Massacre saw white supremacists slaughter 150 African Americans, brutally thwarting their hopes for autonomy and self-governance. https://t.co/OmZGPxh3zE
More than a decade of cuts under the Conservatives has left Britain’s National Health Service dangerously understaffed and underfunded. After years of pay cuts, junior doctors are fighting back to protect patients and the NHS. https://t.co/MPS5E277Cf
No piece in history has been more influential in fighting racism, eugenism, & racial mandarinism than the below. I plan to expand and publish it somewhere.
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NYT and UN style moralizing does not work. You fight bad statistics w/rigorous probability.
https://t.co/sR5GJEHz60
Sic et Non
For technology; against neomania
For scholarship; against academism
For science; against scientism
For heuristics; against fortunecookism
For depositor bailout; against saving bankers
For central banking; against Bernankism
For skepticism; against nihilism
For risk-taking; against incaution
For government; against local overreach
For government; against bureaucrats
For youth; against glorifying ignorance
For down-to-earthism; against philistinism
For intervention; against interventionism
For defense; against warmongerism
For localism; against autarchy
For centralization; against mis-scaling
For justice; against toxic wokism
For medicine; against overtreatment
For probability; against statisticosphasterism
For prudence; against paranoia
For wealth; against luxurious sybaritism
For globalization; against monoculture
For nations; against nationalism
For defense; against militarism
Technowatermelon (TWM) David DuJour:
As I understand it: "Let's give real estate speculators more FREE money so they can inflate prices & sustain their leveraged bubble that prices out newcomers."
In other words: "Let have runaway inflation to save MY business."
If you want to understand how the economy and credit markets are really doing right now, talk to people in real estate, especially commercial real estate.
Cyclist friends, I asked ChatGPT the flat terrain speed that corresponds to a heart rate of 136 bpm (that is, the sustainable rate for a 2-4 h ride).
Is the answer of 16-20km/h correct?