Best of Twitter - Week of September 6, 2021 [2/2]
I'm an immigrant to the United States.
The USA is the #1 desired destination for migrants around the world according to @wef
The second in the list, Germany is 3.5 times less desirable.
Time to stop listening to people that want to make the US more like.. any other country.
The costs of intelligence and energy are going to be on a path towards near-zero.
We certainly won’t get all the way there this decade, but by 2030, it will become clear that the AI revolution and renewable+nuclear energy are going to get us there.
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does anyone know why papua new guinea is so patriarchal?
currently NO women in parliament.
41% of men in bougainville island admit to raping a non-partner; 59% admit to raping their partner.
^ reminds me of:
In India "the law criminalizes rape in most cases, although marital rape is not illegal when the woman is over the age of 15."
Same for many other countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_r…
^ It’s beyond me how nobody is aware of this. What the fuck.
"But, Chang thought, what if these small design firms could contract with a manufacturer that didn’t make any of its own chips—meaning that it wouldn’t compete with smaller firms or bump them to the back of the line?"
Quarantined section
The best protection may be to get vaxxed, have a breakthrough case, which because of the effect of the vaccination will be no more than a mild cold, and then have the benefits of both natural and vaccine generated immunity. So get vaccinated and be reckless.
^ I arrived at the same conclusion independently after getting vaccinated. Better to get the vaxxed mild Delta before something worse potentially springs up. Thoughts?
"NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of US-funded research on..coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing..work of..EcoHealth Alliance..at the Chinese lab.."
The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in federal policies in effect in 2017-present.
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