At a buddy's restaurant in Zambia, this is how the staff would steal sausage. Larger items, like chickens, would be snuck out in the mop bucket, or shoved through the wall where an old AC cover hid an empty space
Native Americans lived in deep harmony with nature. When a Native American killed an animal, it was like killing an old friend, and he consecrated the act with piety and reveren--
Oops.
I'd assumed the insult "smooth brained" had been invented in the last few decades
But apparently the Bantu were using it as early as the 1950s?
Separately, imagine the familiarity you'd need with corpses to notice a 10% difference in brain volume
Japanese gun control. Elites don't like an armed peasantry.
In a striking parallel to COVID-19 lockdowns, nearly an entire Xhosa society starved to death when the women became convinced that the only way to stop a plague was to shut down society:
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The Magna Carta is a good example, and there are many others like it. A couple of nobles get strong enough to bring a king to heel, and they carve out some principles that look like freedom
But the masses themselves are incurably bovine:
A conceit of modernity is that b/c capitalism put the peasants into luxury and allowed them to buy degrees, that they sincerely hold liberal values
But today's college grad is still a peasant at heart. He still wants to throw salt over his shoulder, propitiate Gaia, burn witches
"Hello, Neighboring State? This is Arkansas. Have you any beds? No? Drat!"
By the way, all the neighboring states have tons of hospital capacity too
I just called a Unity Health hospital in AR and spoke to a "nurse manager" in ICU. She flagged down her boss, who claims there is currently 3% spare ICU capacity in the state.
97% ICU utilization is what used to be called "a busy week"
Who's running the "Libertarians Posting their L's" account?
Charles is among my favorite living thinkers, so it's odd to see him turn statist in the foxhole of COVID hysteria
His book "Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission" argued for mass disobedience of regulation, and "What It Means To Be A Libertarian" argued for a minimal state
Here he calls for deregulating health care "at all levels of government". I'm not sure how you do that while still having POTUS bully airlines into creating a medical apartheid:
Last summer our local PD had dune buggies that I could *just* outrun at a moderate sprint. Every day they'd chase me down the beach, every day I'd elude them
Red faced, they sprung for a fleet of giant fast expensive ATVs, and I had to stop running