This planet man. We could be doing brilliant beautiful constructive things and instead it’s war and race science.
What I do say is that any expression at all which has had a miraculous, liberating effect on someone—an effect of liberation and of understanding the world—has attained its goal and achieved form. Eugenio Montale, trans. Jonathan Galassi
People focus on "private prisons" like those are the issue, but no -- ALL prisons generate profit. The system is a money machine.
Fun fact: Being antiwar is actually the moral default position. It's not for antiwar demonstrators to justify their position, it's up to the pro-war people to justify theirs.
800,000 imprisoned people in the US produce $10 billion of value each year through their labor. $2 billion for private industry. The state of Alabama alone makes $450 million off the labor of incarcerated workers. We have a word for this. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“We found that despite the fact that the heart was pumping oxygenated blood that the lungs were providing adequate amounts of oxygen for, the extraction of oxygen by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of exercise intolerance after COVID.”
Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.
I used to have a Twitter follower who would reply to any criticism of Musk with "Name one person who has done more for the environment." Statistically, nearly everyone on earth has done more to help rhe environment just by not being him.
Sorry to all the undead who get ennui after centuries of life but I would simply watch a lot of movies and read books. There are already a lot and people keep making more