I missed some of the story on Saule Omarova being nominated to the OCC. boy conservatives really soiled themselves didn't they
NR, and Republicans on the Senate banking committee, got really upset over her proposal to give Americans accounts at the Federal Reserve
the background here is that the Fed has printed trillions upon trillions of dollars over the last decade to prop up the financial system. arguably necessary in a sense, but also wildly unfair in that most of the benefit flowed to the top 1 percent theweek.com/politics/10073…
so when these schmucks start squalling about communism, that's what is going on. they want money printing power to serve Wall Street and big corporations exclusively. that's all it is
also puts the lie to GOP #branding as a "worker's party." if anyone even *suggests* the idea that the American people should get the same luxurious privilege that banksters get when they blow up the economy, conservatives have a panic attack
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got my booster *and* a flu shot on Saturday, felt a bit achy, feverish, and tired Sunday, but not too bad. still some shoulder soreness today but that's it
boosters work. the FDA should authorize them for all adults
also worth noting that most people 18+ are technically eligible -- eg if you have BMI over 25 (which is like 2/3rds of Americans) or have ever smoked, have mood disorders, or drink too much, you can get one cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
this Guelzo fellow is apparently a Civil War historian? anyway the idea that critical theory comes from the 18th century, is crudely anti-reason, and that it *inspired* Marxism and Jim Crow is a doozy of a take
this is breathtaking. like this guy is a Princeton professor
nobody was more of a utopian, rationalist, Enlightenment guy than Marx. he thought we could figure it all out, and indeed we basically had to
Trump: "They knew who he was; they didn't want to arrest him ... That's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this." cnn.com/2020/10/15/pol…
looks like a huge difference between countries that have managed to get to what should be herd immunity against Delta (~75% vaccinated and up) and those that haven't
no US state has gotten to 75 percent fully vaxxed. only Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine are above 70 percent nytimes.com/interactive/20…
and @notdred corrects me that herd immunity is probably more like 85%. it's going to be a grim winter in a lot of states, I would guess
no mathematician and especially no good math teacher would write something so ignorant. this is basic stuff to defuse the absolutely rampant "I'm bad at math" complex …saging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2…
the common trope that "math is about doing boring-ass algorithms by hand to get The Right Answer" is like 3/4ths of the reason why so many people hate the subject
that real math is about abstract, difficult, and often totally bizarre chains of reasoning is hard to communicate, but that it requires calmness, patience, and even playfulness in addition to intelligence is a good place to start