You can’t go anywhere but a few Caribbean Islands on a US passport right now, and that’s likely to be the case for at least a year, I think.
In the end, Trump did what he said. He built a wall around America and made the world pay for it. He just never told Americans that they’d be stuck inside.
https://medium.com/@indica/the-plague-states-of-america-53b20678a80e
Getting tired of hearing state reps from around the country whining about how they did the right thing, but the virus infections are going back up. The virus doesn’t care. You can follow recommendations, or not. Recommendations represent everything from our current best guess at how to deal with the problem to politically motivated bullshit. No panacea. Virus doesn’t care which you do.
This is priceless.
The aspect of inequality I am concerned about is the fortunate group evading any need to address the problems of the world, because they can use their money and power to insulate themselves from the effects: climate, crime, housing shortages, …
But not this, apparently. Hope springs eternal.
If the 40 most powerful people in the world have more sway than the poorest 50%, then fixing all our problems amounts to convincing 21 people, doesn’t it? That sounds easier than convincing half the planet. Inequality for the win.
Figures show significant fall in prosecutions in England and Wales and victims waiting longer for justice
— Read on www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jul/26/rape-cases-charge-summons-prosecutions-victims-england-wales
Tech might help here. I can imagine an app, running on your watch, that in response to a keyword starts an audio or video recording. This might bring the same phenomenon of radical transparency to this crime that we see having such results in the use of cellphone video for violent crimes in general.
Unfortunately, the main candidate for an app like this, the Apple Watch, doesn’t have a mic or a camera; it’s focused on touch and sight as primary interfaces.
And this is why we won’t beat the virus until everyone gets vaccinated. Well, I guess the guy is complying with the rule to wear masks on the plane …
Radiolab is, and has been for a while, a most interesting and challenging program. I don’t listen to it regularly, but I’m usually sucked into it when I do. Jad and his co-host, Robert Krollwich (sadly, he’s now retired from the show) created a new way of doing talk radio.
So, he does this TED talk, and it’s about how he sees what he’s done and what he needs to do. And, typically, he’s rethought how to do TED talks from a guy wandering around on stage with slides to a video podcast that’s really absorbing and good at explaining what he’s saying while he says it. And the point, which is a riff on the old Marxist thesis/antithesis/synthesis, is revealed as relevant to now, in a performance of exactly the point he’s making.
Worth a watch. If you haven’t listened to Radiolab, try it out
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/michael-hawley-dead.html
I think he’s the guy I wanted to be. But he actually followed through.