Best of Twitter - Week of March 16, 2020 - DNA that hijacks computers
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^ This except for restaurants; for service workers; for everything. Almost everyone underappreciates just how rich America is. A minimum wage worker in the US lives like a Czar compared to a minimum wage worker in Russia. I actually did the math on this at some point and found that if I moved to SF from Moscow, got a minimum wage job and kept my living conditions and other spending to my current level, I would be able to save like 20-30% of my wage every month.
^ on authoritativeness of WHO
^ also: “A Cincinnati newspaper printed a malevolent editorial proclaiming that [Andrew] Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute brought to this country by British soldiers. thereupon she married a mulatto man with whom she had several children, among them Andrew Jackson. Apprised of this far-fetched, scandalous tale, [John Quincy] Adams thought it absurd, but cynically went on to comment that even if proved true it would probably not hurt Jackson. The course of the campaign seemed to substantiate all Adams’s apprehensions that fervent partisanship was demolishing reasonableness, a slugfest of calumny and lies replacing political civility. Vice was triumphing over virtue. And the cynicism expressed in his reaction to the malignant piece regarding Jackson’s mother and his birth signaled that he had begun to doubt the probity of the republic and its citizens.“
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