Not a link, but an observation: NPR is asking regularly why more Americans don't "acknowledge the American legacy of slavery".

Probably because we're not sanctimonious twits and have shit ta do, you self-righteous bitch, I said out loud. Slavery still exists, but you can't get $$MONEY$$ selling guilt about that, so NPR doesn't really care. The half-million slaves in Mauritania, for just one example, can just suck it.

> Caveat: Not if you get caught
> by the woman you're with!

Oh, you will get caught; that is going to happen.

Humans and chimps share 96% percent of their genomes; it's said the difference between you and a chimp is only six times as great as that between you and any other human being.

Shakira. Fauci, Anybody.

I knew it!!! It's because Kamala and Fauci are in cahoots on 5G!!!!

It's rerun, but this is a sensational interview with Andreessen

[T]he Internet has given all of humanity full read/write access to one another's minds for the first time, and this is a massive shift in individual and collective psychology that we are just starting to grapple with. For example, we are now exposed to the crushing emotional load of suffering anywhere in the world, with no gatekeeping intermediary to insulate us, and not just occasionally but all the time. Figuring out the effects of this civilizational shift -- certainly on par with the Gutenberg revolution, if not way beyond -- will take a long time.

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Henrich describes in his book how some people (us) are culturally WEIRD -- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic -- but most people in the world aren't. Yet.

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Now, my take on WEIRD culture -- and specifically American culture, which is the beating heart of WEIRD -- is that it contains both strong support for and strong opposition to cultural creativity within it. The strong support shows up in many thousands of thriving Internet subcultures; spend a day on Reddit surfing the top 1,000 Subreddits and no matter how jaded you think you are, you'll be stunned how many new and different kinds of things WEIRD people get into. This is the legacy of the conceptual explosion at the heart of secularization and the Enlightenment. But the strong opposition also shows up, in the form of the hectoring, suppressive demands for hyperconformity that we see all around us now.

This is not the LOLest cat video you'll ever see, but the music is stupendous.

Okay!, we've all heard of COVID-19, but you'll never guess what comes next

You will own nothing and you will be happy:

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1402434266970140676

...but you'll never guess what comes next ~ Crid at June 9, 2021 8:40 AM

Ever wonder if the $300 COVID unemployment relief supplement is a backdoor way for the progressives to force a $15 minimum wage?

(($299 [average state UE compensation] + $300 [federal supplement]) = $599 per week) ÷ 40 hours = $14.98 per hour.

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You will own nothing and you will be happy: ~ Sixclaws at June 9, 2021 9:33 AM

Looks like the company town may be making a comeback. Get ready for the company store and company specie (cyber specie?).

"St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go | I owe my soul to the company store" ~ Tennessee Ernie Ford

As always, the best part of that website are the comments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/bitcoin-now-legal-tender-in-el-salvador-first-nation-to-adopt-cryptocurrency/

I love me some BTC, and it could be the fundament for a global improvement in 2nd- and 3rd world finance, but El Salvador may not be doing what's best for El Salvadorans.

Vice as a virtue:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/7598398002

More, for the non-smoker:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/komonews.com/amp/news/coronavirus/winning-covid-vaccine-lottery-numbers-chosen-during-a-low-key-selection-process

That thing where a woman shows you the "vaccine magnetism" thing, and three and a half hours later, you realize she was flirting....

And of course it's someone else's fault that she's a lousy parent:

https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1402747557923614725

Until all the nations are united.......

"Until all the nations are united......."

Awesome news.

The funniest part of that genetic medicine tweet is the guy diverting it to his work in economics.

Speaking of which,

Have you heard the word of god today?

Dood, if famed Country music singer Dolly Weekwood of Nashville, which is in Tennessee, wrote a song about the identification and correction (in less than 48 hours) of a genetic defect which mortally & immanently threatened the life of a month-old child, I would buy that record.

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That's total bullshit. I'd never buy a country music song.

But you see what I'm getting at, right?