Saturday, August 17, 2019

Four Charts

Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.
~John Stuart Mill, 1867



Nice meal at Zinho.
Chis nursed me through my computer problems for my class.
I have no idea where the color came from.

Photosynthesis converts CO2 into O2. O2 is the driving force of carbon-based life. Life. Photosynthesis is the established method of O2 creation. Global warming is the creation of a computer program. Please be careful with my O2.

On Monday, we witnessed the second largest one day stock market decline that we have seen anywhere in the world since 1950.  It is hard to believe, but the most important stock market index in Argentina actually plummeted 48 percent in a single trading session


Quite an astonishing article. Be careful going to Canada: https://quillette.com/2019/07/14/how-due-process-fell-victim-to-good-intentions-a-veteran-court-reporter-looks-back/


Just 0.28% of the 156 million civilian workers earned the federal minimum last year, according to the Labor Department.


The left today has a compulsion to force obedience again and again. Thus, You didn’t like Wahoo and Kate Smith? Try this: We’re getting rid of your racist Betsy Ross flag, and you’ll shut your face and take it. What they want from their opposition isn’t agreement with their ideas but submission—a kind of political lobotomization. And disturbingly, a lot of contemporary leaders—at Nike, the Yankees, the Flyers, almost any university—are volunteering to assist in the procedure.--Henninger

Scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favored by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’ – or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was coined in 1809 by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Latin ille meaning ‘he, that’). Some really obnoxious athletes talk like that.


                                     Four Charts


"Everything was awful for a very long time, and then the industrial revolution happened."



Who is paying and receiving what:



Ebola:


A map of the tax system

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