“This is the first year when Bill strikes me as an old-fashioned figure, a Boomer outwitted by events, trending toward fuddy-duddy.” Ouch.
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“It makes me wonder if “frozen conflict” might become a more general situation. Why can’t more people live just like “Abkhazia,” “Transdnistria,” “Crimea,” “Novorussia,” “South Ossetia,” which are all fake-states under Russian protection?
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“It would be good to have some authoritative, vetted publication along the line of “Foreign Policy” that covered the politically active ultra-rich.” Heh Bruce wants billionaire studies too
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“Also, armed oligarchs, the curators, want to kill each other. They’re not, like, cordial rich-guy pals at Davos Forum. ...So you have to wonder if maybe it’s open season on armed billionaires from now on.”
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“the tech scene is kinda overdoing it with the self-scourging tech-lash. The techies happen to be top dogs in a particularly rotten era, so people naturally blame them for most-everything. Also, the tech moguls love the limelight and would much rather look like massive baddies“
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“In cities from Denver to Las Vegas to Phoenix, water use is either staying stable or going down, even while populations continue to rise."https://reasonstobecheerful.world/how-toilets-saved-the-west/ …
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