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WHAT is going on in alleghany county?? there are a few other spikes this shape, but almost every other county in the country is less than half that (saline ar, teton mt, tippecanoe in, are the ones at more than half), with the vast majority being under 500 covid copies/ml wastewater. there are maybe a dozen counties that had larger spikes than this during omicron
saw this week that over 7m have taken the new vaccine and that’s 2% of the country’s population. last updated booster topped out at 17%, which means, at best, 97% of the population is not fully vaccinated and 82% was not last year
the branch of strains that this year’s vaccine is updated to target (xbb) is no longer the most prevalent one (eg5). the total of all xbb strains is larger (60%), but eg5 is now the most prevalent single strain (35%)
hospitalizations appear to be going down and remain at a lower level than usual, but two months ago we ended our 15-consecutive-week record of less than 1000 deaths/wk, which continue to rise at a rate of about +100 deaths/wk (greyed out recent weeks are incomplete tallies)
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For a capitalist economy to flourish without economic growth, population stabilization is a necessary condition. This condition is, of course, not limited to the capitalist model. It is implausible that any alternative to the capitalist model could deliver zero economic growth with a persistently growing global population.
The second critical precondition for a steady state capitalist economy is that everyone must achieve a satisfactory level of consumption. This second precondition, in contrast to the first, is arguably unique to the capitalist model. The fundamental characteristic of capitalist economies, that which sets them apart from centrally managed socialist economies, is that capitalism, formally defined, is the economic system where the means of production resides in the hands of households.
By households, of course, I mean private individuals. Some households own more capital than others, but most households in capitalist economies own some capital, whether as shareholders in public corporations, owners or investors in privately held businesses, beneficiaries of pension funds, or holders of corporate bonds. Irrespective of which particular households own it, all capital formation in a capitalist economy originates from households, be it directly or indirectly.
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A pyramid scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products
Well that's the weirdest contact us email I've ever had to send
Oh I cannot wait til they do
I swear I would not lie to y'all, I don't know how this happened but it sure has
No but--I promise--look he was there--
✨ At long last, the saga concludes ✨
One of y'all remind me to tell the tale a bit later on when I'm back at the hotel
Okay so this is a bit overdue, but in my defense I probably had mold poisoning. Anyway,
So we showed up on the day, right? And as the ticket taker was scanning us in, I mentioned hey, did you know your tickets page does an illusion of its own
And she stopped, and went no, what?
So I showed her on my phone, and she paused...and then she lost her everloving shit laughing, and going "Paul Gauguin???", and we were like "Italian Paul Gauguin!!!" which made her lose it even more. So she called over every other human person currently on shift at the time and had us introduce them to Paul as well
So who knows if it'll ever get fixed, but at least I'm warmed by the knowledge that we made some underpaid art exhibit workers' day just a little bit more weird and special
“what if the house was god” is a far less interesting interpretation of house of leaves than “sometimes houses just do that.” not joking btw. maybe it happened to you? try to remember
i don’t know where you kids get all these precious ideas about snoopy. if he was alive today he would be posting wwii rpf on ao3
a bit from APOLITICAL INTELLECTUALS, Otto Rene Castillo. Castillo was a Guatemalan revolutionary and poet. He was executed by the Guatemalan army on March 19, 1967. This is a translation of his poem Intelectuales Apolíticos.