Ralston Elko 

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Seen on my way home this evening in Washington DC.

#WashingtonDC #EpsteinFiles #USPol

US small arms per 100 persons: 120
Portugal small arms per 100 persons: 20

US murder rate: 5.9 per 100,000
Portugal murder rate: 0.8 per 100,000

US mental health care system: for-profit, limited by insurance carriers
Portugal mental health care system: Single-payer public

Smart kid in Portugal gets scholarship to come to US, lives here 20 years, has mental breakdown, kills a professor and shoots up a university.

I don’t think the problem is immigration from Portugal. The problem is here.

@gruber i agree that magic links are awful, bur for me theprimary reason is that they train users to get phished. “Never click links in emails” is easy to understand. Breaking that prohibition is like shitting in the town drinking well.

You wouldn’t know it from hanging out with American Christians but the Bible condemns charging interest on loans more often and more harshly than homosexuality.

Have you ever heard an American Christian say credit cards or mortgages are an abomination in their religion?

Computer Chronicles - Battle of the Browsers (1997)
https://archive.org/details/CC1536BROWSERS
Battle of the Browsers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

When Microsoft started giving away Internet Explorer, it became a serious challenger for Netscape. This program looked at the battle to become the dominant...

Internet Archive

#Random

"We will rebuild" is repeated a lot after climate disasters nowadays. Sadly, i don't think you can "rebuild it back like it was" and expect different results and a repeat nowadays.

Personally, I think the Japanese have the right idea with "Tsunami Stones"

Smithsonian: These Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan’s Coastline

“Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/

These Century-Old Stone "Tsunami Stones" Dot Japan’s Coastline

"Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

Smithsonian Magazine
Move over Captain, new what a week contender.
The philosophy inspiring 99% of the work done in corporate America.