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30 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Do we have an official policy where each race of boys gets their own summer in turn, or is it just sort of an ad hoc thing?
Also, it seems like being a multiracial boy really advantages you in this process, as you get multiple summers each cycle
Also this would be a good feature for a Tolkienesque fantasy world. Elf Boy Summer would translate very well to Netflix, I feel.
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27 Mar
Me: Conservatives will get nostalgic about literally anything

You: How about dirty homemade bathtub meth?

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Give us back our small-batch locally sourced artisinal micro-brewed fair trade meth!!
That aftertaste isn't drain cleaner.

It's LOVE.
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22 Mar
About 69% of eligible Americans (and 75.1% of all Americans) have NOT been vaccinated yet. And we're almost a quarter of the way through 2021.

This is far from over.
Meanwhile, COVID infections are accelerating in Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Hamsphire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington.

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Here are pictures of case growth from Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
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22 Mar
A good thread about the history of anti-Asian racism in pre-WW2 America. Note the pretty incredible shift from before the war to after.
This shift is well-documented in @ellendwu's "The Color of Success".

Basically, the U.S. government cracked down on anti-Asian racism, because of its military and diplomatic entanglements in Asia.

amazon.com/Color-Success-…
What's pretty remarkable to me is that neither the Korean War (where we actually fought China!) nor the Vietnam War seems to have provoked a spate of anti-Asian attacks in the U.S. -- or if it did, it hasn't been well-recorded.
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19 Mar
1/Let's talk about decarbonization!

How can America save the world from catastrophic climate change?

There is a way.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/decarbonizat…
2/It might seem, at first glance, like U.S. decarbonization is merely a symbolic moral gesture. After all, we're forecast to produce only 5% of global emissions this century.

Even eliminating all of that would be a drop in the bucket, right?

3/It's incredibly unfair that the U.S. was able to grow and develop for a century while belching carbon into the air, but now -- through the pure hard unyielding truths of physics -- developing Asia is going to have to do most of the work of decarbonization.
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18 Mar
Cash benefits are a complement to the dignity of work, not a substitute.
There's nothing dignified about taking a crappy survival job because you can't afford to take some time to look for a good one or go back to school to get a better one.
There's nothing dignified about working yourself to the bone only to have to stretch your paycheck to the end of the month because you can just barely afford rent and food.
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17 Mar
World Bank global poverty estimates through 2019.

At $1.90/day, all regions cut poverty except for Middle East, where poverty increased due to wars.

public.flourish.studio/visualisation/…
At $3.20/day, same story.
At $5.50/day, poverty in Africa has been decreasing only slightly. Note Latin America's very good performance in cutting poverty since the mid-1990s.
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