instead of honored or integrated into how we live and work.
Imagine if society was built around a 28-day rhythm that actually respected hormonal cycles: workflows, productivity expectations, rest periods. I don’t want a 9-to-5, I want a ‘follicular to luteal’ schedule. 2/
It's wild how much of society, including timekeeping and work schedules, was built by and for men, without even considering how women's bodies function. The menstrual cycle is a literal foundation of human life, and yet it's been historically ignored, stigmatized, or treated as an inconvenience-> 1
Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.
'There’s a reason why pharmaceutical tariffs are zero. It’s because tariffs can create disruptions in the supply chain, leading to shortages,' said the chief executive of Johnson and Johnson on.ft.com/4jvT49Q
If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than:
Tesla in 2024 & 2022
AT&T in 2021
Nike in 2020
FedEx in 2020
Dish Network in 2020
Amazon in 2017-2018
Elon Musk in 2018
Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011
Carl Icahn in 2016-2017
Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.
It's unfair to say that what Trump's doing is unprecedented. Ninety-five years ago, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act helped turn a recession into the Great Depression.
Drawing of Benjamin Frankling wearing a coonskin cap.
Franklin being received by the French court in 1778. The French are in powdered wigs.
FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.
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Some people have convinced themselves they're very clever because they've noticed Trump often says he wants to do a thing but doesn't end up doing it, and so they deem most things he says "distractions."
... but the most common reason he gives up is negative public reaction. It had to be fought.
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End thread. I think? Idk I'm new to these formats
And I look at our impending economic collapse and I wonder, is the how long term pragmatists drop that other shoe?
I watched as China and France split Africa's water rights.
I watched as China became major trade partner to almost every Latin American country
I wondered why TikTok would decide the American people need to see Palestine. I wondered why we haven't been hearing about the Tibetans or the Uighyrs.
So I watched and waited to see how China would pull it off.
I saw products from China getting more expensive ever so slowly and I wondered if it was happening.
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Studying there in 2010 you could see that eventually Chuna would stop "needing" the US and we'd crash and burn because no one can afford to pay the real price of anything.
So I kept waiting. Waiting for that shoe that I knew would drop eventually.
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They built a self contained bubble economy that economically prevented its workforce from leaving while supporting its people. It's a pragmatic, long game plan. Yes, speaking out in China is scary. But getting sick isn't.
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China watched how other countries got ahead and decided they needed to outcompete the export market to build enough GDP to generate a middle class.
To do this, they pinned their currency to the dollar at an artificially low rate.
They subsidized health care and HEALTHY food.
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I can't help but feel like china's playing the long game here.
It's not in China's best interest to be a superpower because the world pay attention to superpowers. You have all these dudes running their countries slinging their d***s at each other to be the top. China doesn't want that.
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You may not like it, but Leah's right. There's a reason the Prodigal Son is a parable in almost every culture. when someone experiencing cognitive dissonance comes to you, you have two choices: embrace them, and win them over forever; or reject them, ensuring they never again question their beliefs.
Being exposed to social disapproval for racist statements: cancel culture
Having your career wrecked for attending a training your boss said was important: Good and appropriate, because cancel culture is over now.
This study identifies inconsistent evaluation practices of large language models (LLMs) in health care, finding a lack of standardized frameworks and limited use of real patient data.
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#MedSky
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Ok. I am hearing that you a very strong attachment to the narrative that impoverished people are responsible for the social downfall of this country. Am I understanding correctly?
i think, more generally, trump is unable to conceive of a positive-sum interaction. he has spent his entire career failing (and recovering from failure) because he doesn't care if he wins. he only cares if his counterparty loses.
Except Texas never joined the national grid
THIS ^^
Yes, but they voted to destroy it because schools are shit unless you can afford to go to school in a fancy neighborhood, the only easy to access support systems come from churches. Manipulating people who are exhausted is easy.
It's who is doing the manipulation that matters
I. Get. It.
And yet, I can't lose my own sense of integrity playing a blame game. The blame game is part of why we got here.
Still live here. It's always changing, yes there's lots of money flowing in but there's a lot of old school Austin families just white knuckling it. We still get people for whom $10 entry for an entire variety show is prohibitive
*I know it won’t go anywhere. THAT’S NOT THE POINT.
The point is to document, immediately and in real time, constitutional transgressions and abuse of power.
Immediacy matters: Had Merrick Garland, for ex, appointed a SC on Day 1 to review everything Trump did, things could be different now