https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tz0H5rtIV4

I’m curious why China isn’t tempted to get the Yuan to become the reserve currency of choice. Why would that cause capital flight?

They are enforced against poors. While rich rapists walk free.

I posted this before, but it seems relevant here. Not doing anything is also bad for my mental health. Organizing is probably the right answer.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He’s going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don’t know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

“The Event”?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E6c4IjUO0HY

Yes Victoria Goddard. There are a lot of these books and they all intertwine in one universe.

Hand of the Emperor is the start of a many novel, interwoven set of stories. Calming, delightful.

My wife went to Catholic school in the 70s. Not sure how it came up, but someone asked how King Herod died and the nun said he ate so much his stomach exploded. My.mom went to Catholic school in the 50s. She was told that Martin Luther “ate babies”

I was just a medical student. Called the senior resident when Mr. D wouldn’t wake up. Myxedema coma, likely triggered by the small dose of Ativan I ordered for him the night before. It was 36 years ago and I still think about him all the time.

Marasmus line?

The war did raise the price of oil, and make buying Russian oil more popular - so helping his buddy Putin that way.

cause vs effect?

That escalated quickly

“Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession,” she added.

Back in the 70s we used to say “fuckin-A” as a kind of agreement

I couldn’t get a job in Marxism, but I still take a few minutes to practice everyday.

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Improv, ukelele, marxism