2:00PM Water Cooler 11/15/2023 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Hen Track of the Day

Lengthy-billed Thrush, Sandakphu, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. “Montane, Evergreen Forest, Bamboo, Scrub.”

Politics

“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are actually a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order

“Dialog With an ‘Insurrectionist’: He Took Nancy Pelosi’s Lectern” [Newsweek]. A should learn, not least as a result of it confirms my priors (see The Class Composition of the Capitol Rioters (First Minimize) and The Organizational Capability and Behavioral Traits of the Capitol Rioters (First Minimize). The entire piece may be very entertaining, in a bemused form of means, however this to me is the important thing level: “‘I believed it could make an awesome image, so I carried it 20 yards to the middle of the room, gave a brief speech and left it there.’ His speech, he mentioned, consisted of him railing in opposition to traitors and treason and his concept that funds objects must be voted on individually.” Similar factor with the Buffalo Horns dude; he made a speech too, and nothing got here of it. In different phrases, no group no matter. (I can’t discover the quote from the Bolshevik Revolution the place IIRC a sailor screams at Lenin: “Take energy, dammit!” Nothing like that right here.)

Biden Administration

“The fortieth day of the conflict Gallant on the discharge of hostages: Hamas is able to pay for some peace” (Google translation from Hebrew) [i24]. On Al-Shifa hospital:

Oh. Extra commentary:

We want extra time.

“The official mentioned that troopers had discovered weapons and proof of a militant headquarters, however declined to supply additional particulars and mentioned that proof wouldn’t be offered till after the raid had ended.” (NY Occasions)

It takes time to plant proof.

— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) November 15, 2023

“The Secret Service has been mendacity to you concerning the White Home cocaine scandal” [FOX]. “Good factor we’ve got the paperwork from the Secret Service proper right here. However right here’s the factor: The Secret Service redacted the place the cocaine was first discovered. Now, if the cocaine was truly first discovered within the cubby, they usually photographed it within the cubby, why would they redact that? After which at one level, the Secret Service says this suspicious substance is a white powder in a small Ziploc bag on the redacted foyer ground. What? Foyer ground? The foyer into what room? The library. And I believed they discovered the cocaine within the cubby. Properly, the cubby is just not on the ground. The cubby’s on the wall. Afterward within the evening. They mentioned it was within the cubby, they usually didn’t redact that. They need us to assume it was present in that little locker.” • It’s a recreation of Clue, isn’t it? Hunter, within the Library. With the spoon.

2024

Lower than a yr to go!

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“Prime GOP Home Member Hits Engoron With Ethics Grievance” [1945]. “A high Republican congresswoman has hit New York Justice Arthur F. Engoron with an ethics criticism because of alleged politicking for the Democratic Celebration whereas being a justice of the New York Supreme Court docket… Stefanik alleges that Engoron violated these guidelines. ‘Decide Engoron and his workers are partisan Democrat donors. As lately as 2018, Decide Engoron donated to the Manhattan Democrats – though Part 100.5 says that judges ‘shall chorus’ from ‘making a contribution to a political group,” Stefanik writes in her criticism to the New York State Fee on Judicial Conduct. ‘Part 100.5 additionally stipulates {that a} ‘choose shall prohibit members of the choose’s workers’ from contributing greater than $500 ‘within the combination throughout any calendar yr to all political campaigns for political workplace.’ Allison Greenfield has served as Decide Engoron’s principal legislation clerk since 2019. … The congresswoman continues, ‘In 2022 alone, Greenfield donated ‘$3,335 in political donations to Democrat candidates and causes.’ She’s already given greater than $1,000 in 2023 to campaigns.” • Hmm.

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“Freeway Catastrophe Presents Hurdle for Newsom’s Nationwide Ambitions” [David Dayen, The American Prospect]. We don’t hyperlink to Dayen a lot, for good causes I gained’t go into right here, however on this put up he’s so on level I’ve to cite. Recall that there was additionally a freeway hearth in Philly, so we’ve got a baseline. “The preliminary evaluation in Philadelphia was that I-95 can be closed for months, perhaps by means of Thanksgiving. However [Democrat PA Governor Josh] Shapiro mobilized union development employees and enabled a novel use of recycled glass to get the freeway up and operating in lower than two weeks… That set a precedent that Newsom is now going to wish to dwell as much as. There isn’t a present timetable for reopening the ten. Whereas many of the website has been cleared of hazardous supplies and federal emergency funds have been made obtainable, engineers haven’t but decided whether or not they may merely retrofit the present construction, or be pressured to demolish and rebuild it. The message to residents has been to strap in for an extended winter of east-west driving both means. That’s not going to fly for Newsom for a number of causes. He’s not a newcomer in a purple state his first yr on the job; actually, he’s termed out in 2026. However Newsom has nationwide aspirations, which is the worst-kept secret in America. If the ten closure lingers and development falls behind, public anger will construct. Shapiro got here in nicely forward of schedule, was fully clear (he even arrange a webcam to trace progress), and thrived beneath stress. That may inevitably be used as a measuring stick for Newsom. Newsom’s recognition lately sank to an all-time low in California, an across-the-board drop that has an unclear origin.” • In fact, the DNC can power whoever they wish to down our throats, particularly if (when?) Biden pulls up lame. However skeptical about Newsom, California oligarch and pseudo-Getty scion although he’s. First, his hair. Come on. Second, the French Laundry incident. Loads of grist for oppo there! Lastly, his dyslexia. Oppo once more — childrens’ books and trauma apart — however for Newsom “a five-minute speech could require six hours of preparation and analysis.” So what occurs along with his briefing books? Do staffers learn them aloud?

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“Newest Polls Present My Path to Victory” [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] “In keeping with a brand new nationwide ballot by Quinnipiac College, I beat Trump and Biden amongst voters ages 18-34 with 38% of the vote in comparison with Biden’s 32% and Trump’s 27%…. I’m additionally outpacing Biden and Trump amongst unbiased voters, with 36% in comparison with 31% for Biden and 30% for Trump…. One other latest ballot performed by The New York Occasions and Siena School reveals that I’m closing the hole on Trump and Biden in six battleground states — AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI — the place I come inside single digits of the two-party candidates. In these six battleground states, I beat Trump and Biden amongst 18-44 yr olds.”

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“Q&A with Rep. Dean Phillips” [The Dartmouth (Petal)]. Phillips: “Persons are screaming as loud as they will that they’re determined. Life is just not inexpensive. It’s true right here in New Hampshire with heating oil, costs are so excessive for some that there are 1000’s ready in line for subsidies, youngsters going to high school hungry, housing out of attain for many individuals and turning into unaffordable for many who are even of their homes proper now, grocery costs by means of the roof. I voted for most of the President’s insurance policies. My rivalry isn’t that what we did was unhealthy. My rivalry is it’s not sufficient. And my rivalry is that Bidennomics has change into an anchor weighing down the Democratic Celebration, because it represents to most Individuals. I’m not saying that the insurance policies had been unhealthy. All I’m saying is we’ve got to do higher. How will we try this? Affordability, affordability, affordability. Power coverage, our farm invoice and meals coverage, our housing coverage, our training coverage and our well being care coverage, are all parts of how we elevate the inspiration for laborious working Individuals.” And: “The trail ahead is mutual empathy… I intend to be the primary Jewish President in American historical past, who indicators paperwork that assist set up a Palestinian state. That to me is the answer. And that’s the place the empathy begins.” • Attention-grabbing!

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PA: “Democrats’ Massive Bucks County College Board Sweep Ought to Unnerve Republicans In every single place” [RealClearPolitics]. “There are solely a handful of counties on this nation that may authentically declare their voting habits are bona fide bellwethers for elections in battleground states. Bucks County, a suburb close to Philadelphia, is one in all them. What makes it so is the political range of voters that’s cut up up into three distinct geographical patches: Decrease Bucks, Central Bucks and Higher Bucks…. Decrease Bucks has at all times been crammed with working-class voters… Central Bucks are the voters who moved up and out of Decrease Bucks because it started to say no as business did. They often are higher center class…. Then there’s Higher Bucks, which is an element rural, half suburb…. Of the three elements of Bucks County, it’s the one that’s the most actually conservative…. On Tuesday, voters determined to vary the steadiness of energy on the Central Bucks College District’s college board, which beforehand had a 6-3 Republican majority. This week, voters flipped it to a pending 6-3 Democratic majority…. Apparently, a majority of voters rebelled in opposition to the involvement of the nationwide Mothers for Liberty, portrayed by the media as excessive, and which was thought by many centrist voters, even those that normally lean Republican, to make use of rhetoric that was a bridge too far. Bucks County voters are telling Republicans to cease with the overreach. They’re additionally telling the Democrats, ‘We didn’t precisely vote for you as a lot as we voted in opposition to the Republicans.’”

Republican Funhouse

Mitchell on comity:

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) mentioned “its very troublesome to manage the habits” of these within the constructing and that it was the accountability of Capitol Police to take care of the habits on the Hill, not his. pic.twitter.com/ALiEr8XdOS

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 14, 2023

To be truthful, we’re nowwhere close to “Caning of Sumner” territory.

“Sen. Markwayne Mullin Stands Up To Struggle Teamsters Boss Throughout Senate Listening to: ‘We Can End It Right here’” [RealClearPolitics]. “‘Properly, stand your butt up then,’ mentioned Sen. Mullin. ‘You’re a United States Senator, sit down,’ yelled Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairing the listening to.” • I hate that “your butt” locution. Typically spoken by an authority determine to a toddler, what does it say about how the authority determine views youngsters?

“Rep. McCarthy: I Did Not Kidney Punch Republican Congressman That Voted To Oust Me From Speakership” [RealClearPolitics]. • In case you’re explaining, you’re dropping.

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected person readers, it appears that evidently individuals are truly studying the back-dated put up! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are lots of updates. So I should try this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Celebration (“the Democrat Celebration is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated put up, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Celebration is, actually, a tough drawback. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Celebration is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Celebration didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working elements of the Celebration reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Celebration (ka-ching, however not solely) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Notice, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.

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“Democrats Plan to Spend Tens of millions to Weaken Republican Supermajorities” [New York Times]. “Democrats are pushing to interrupt up Republican supermajorities in states with Democratic governors, successfully battling to win again the veto pen district by district. Such supermajorities end result when a single political get together has sufficient votes in each chambers of a legislature to override a governor’s veto, typically, although not at all times, by controlling two-thirds of the chamber. The extraordinary political dissonance of getting a governor of 1 get together and a supermajority of an opposing get together within the legislature is among the starkest results of gerrymandering, revealing how events cling to evaporating energy. As gerrymanders constructed by each events for many years have tipped the scales to favor the get together of the map-drawers, legislative chambers have proved proof against shifting political winds on the state degree. At occasions, these gerrymanders have locked in minority rule in legislatures whereas statewide places of work, just like the governor’s, adhere to the wishes of a easy majority of voters. Although each events employed aggressive gerrymanders over the past spherical of redistricting in 2021, Republicans entered the cycle with a definite benefit: In 2010, G.O.P.-controlled state legislatures throughout the nation drew aggressive gerrymanders in state governments. Democrats had been caught off guard.” • Thanks, Obama.

“Disturbances In The Discourse” [Eschaton]. FTX poodle Rising Star Sean McElwee is again. “I preserve telling about how a lot of The Discourse was actually fucked for a few years due (partly) to some FTX cash floating round… I gained’t say any names, however there are some individuals who must be indicted for being straw donors who haven’t been!!!” • Dude! Say the names! I imply, we’re not speaking Epstein’s Black E-book right here. Proper?

#COVID19

“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!

Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater studies); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Maskstravaganza

Nonetheless in search of methods to justify what we must always by no means should justify within the first place:

Consumer: “That is sensible. You realize, the variety of guys who are available right here to work recently, they appear to be fricking zombies. They’re going to cough and stumble round.” (adopted by a visible charade demonstration of mentioned zombie employees)

Hubs doesn’t resemble a zombie. For the report.

— ApocaLiz (@Lizzardo77) November 14, 2023

Good concept, although!

An infection

They only can’t assist themselves:

Oh we acquired *the* e-mail right now.

“Thanks for attending the blah blah blah convention. We’re sorry to tell you that there have been a number of COVID instances and suggest you take a look at.”

One in all solely 4 people who wore a respirator at this factor.

— Dr Noor Bari (@NjbBari3) November 15, 2023

One other PMC superspreading occasion.

“One thing Terrible”

Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” could be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Plenty of exceptionally nasty sequelae, almost definitely deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we’d add mind harm, together with character adjustments therefrom.

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Coverage

“USA – No immunity for jail officers sued for COVID deaths in jail, Circuit Court docket holds” [Covid-19 Litigation]. “Shortly after the COVID-19 grew to become a nationwide emergency, the Governor of California issued an order suspending the consumption of inmates into all state correctional services and, quickly afterwards, the California Correctional Well being Care Companies adopted a coverage opposing the switch of inmates between prisons, reasoning that transfers would “carry a big threat of spreading transmission of the illness between establishments”. On this context, a gaggle of high-level officers within the California jail system transferred 122 high-risk inmates from the California Establishment for Males (CIM), the place there was an outbreak of the COVID-19, to San Quentin State Jail, the place there have been no recognized instances of the virus. A lot of the males who had been transferred weren’t examined for COVID-19 and none of them was correctly screened for signs earlier than the switch; moreover, though a few of them exhibited signs, they weren’t placed on quarantine at their arrival on the jail; as a substitute, all of the transferred inmates had been housed in a unit with grated doorways. The switch resulted in a violent outbreak of COVID-19 on the San Quentin jail. Regardless of this state of affairs, the jail official continued to place in place insufficient protecting practices and ignored the suggestions acquired by each the Public Well being Officer and a court-appointed medical monitor of California jail. Consequently, many inmates and a guard died. The heirs of the latter filed go well with in opposition to the jail officers claiming that they’d violated their relative’s substantive due course of rights by affirmatively, and with deliberate indifference, inserting him at risk. Certainly, beneath , state employers – who in precept haven’t any constitutional obligation to supply their workers with a secure working surroundings – are liable after they affirmatively and with deliberate indifference create or expose their workers to a harmful working surroundings. Plaintiffs additionally alleged that defendants breached their proper to familial affiliation.” • Very attention-grabbing. Oh, and the “the Governor of California” on the time was none aside from Gavin Newsom.

Nevertheless, an identical case within the UK loses:

They inform me I’ve to have the ability to determine who contaminated me or I haven’t got a case. This was straightforward in 2020/21 as workers had been examined and isolating and infectious pts recognized. Now, anybody within the hospital may’ve contaminated me. There is not any masks and workers can work whereas in poor health.

2/?

— #keepmasksinhealthcare 😷 (@voidscream101) November 14, 2023

Elite Maleficence

Eugenicist Biden Administration continues to erase Covid’s airborne transmission, and any mitigations primarily based on it (air flow, Corsi-Rosenthal containers/HEPA filters, respirators):

As we head into the vacation season, we’ve got extra instruments obtainable that can assist you shield you and your loved ones than ever earlier than.

Study extra at https://t.co/S2DQV6MlBv. pic.twitter.com/352UjAR2ao

— The White Home (@WhiteHouse) November 13, 2023

Notice that this can be a full repudiation of the views of the White Home’s personal Workplace of Science and Expertise Coverage (OSTP), as expressed in 2022. The then-director of OSTP, Alondra Nelson, is a Black girl. I believed we had been purported to hearken to them. Anyhow, the Google discloses no hits on airborne Covid transmission by Nelson in 2023, so maybe mentioning it could have been a career-ending transfer. So it goes! (In some unspecified time in the future, accident, ignorance, and inattention change into implausible explanations, and one of the best working assumption is that the outcomes of a coverage — on this case, mass an infection by SARS-CoV-2– are the meant outcomes of the coverage. Similar with Maskless Mandy, HICPAC, and many others.)

Lambert right here: Plenty of indicators up, beginning with wastewater. (The one I fear about probably the most is ER visits, since I feel that knowledge is tough to recreation, and who needs to go to the ER, anyhow?) I feel it’s time to ship the kinfolk these clippings you saved on mind harm (additionally, in fact, the 2022 clippings: right here, right here. And the 2020 one).

Case Information

From BioBot wastewater knowledge, November 13:

Lambert right here: Instances up, simply in time for Thanksgiving (and tinfoil hat time: That is the, er, inflection level CDC was making an attempt to hide after they gave the contract to Verily and didn’t guarantee a seamless transition).

Regional knowledge:

In every single place!

Variants

NOT UPDATED From CDC, November 11:

Lambert right here: Prime of the leaderboard: HV.1, EG.5 a powerful second, with FL.1.15.1 and XBB.1.1.16.6 trailing. No BA.2.86 (though that has confirmed up in CDC’s airport testing). Nonetheless a Bouillabaisse…

From CDC, October 28:

Lambert right here: I positive hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to services reduce by directors of in poor health intent).

CDC: “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge might be reported biweekly, primarily based on the provision of constructive take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Appears to be like like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

Covid Emergency Room Visits

From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, November 11:

Lambert right here: Slight will increase in some age teams, conforming to wastewater knowledge. Solely per week’s lag, so this can be our greatest present nationwide, present indicator till Verily will get its home so as (and dealing class-centric, since I’d doubt the higher crust goes to the ER).

NOTE “Charts and knowledge offered by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for each_{MR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot}. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, at the least for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, though CDC is making an attempt to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections.

Hospitalization

Bellwether New York Metropolis, knowledge as of November 15:

Decline flattens. (I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading, though the hospital-centric public well being institution loves it, hospitalization and deaths being the one metrics that matter [snort]).

NOT UPDATED Right here’s a distinct CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, at the least. November 4:

Lambert right here: “Maps, charts, and knowledge offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”. So the place the heck is the replace, CDC?

Positivity

NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, November 13:

-1.4%. However bouncing round. (It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer stress, went and acquired examined anyhow.)

From Cleveland Clinic, November 11:

Lambert right here: Improve (with backward revision; guess they thought it was over). I do know that is simply Ohio, however the Cleveland Clinic is nice*, and we’re starved for knowledge, so…. NOTE * Even when hospital an infection management is making an attempt to kill sufferers by eliminating common masking with N95s.

NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s knowledge, October 23:

Down, albeit within the rear view mirror. And listed here are the variants for vacationers, nonetheless from October 23:

Sudden massive BA.2.86 look. This variant chart has not been up to date, which makes me marvel if CDC is gaming the info, and BA.2.86 is worse than we predict.

Deaths

Whole: 1,181,963 – 1,181,872 – 1,181,863 – 1,181,620 = 91 (91 * 365 = 33,215 deaths per yr, right now’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “residing with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would really like, although they will speak themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could should resolve that is what the powers-that-be contemplate “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of loss of life and illness). 

Extra Deaths

The Economist, November 15:

Lambert right here: Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin.

• Demographic impacts:

NPIs looks as if a attain, although.

• Extra demographic impacts:

Darwin Awards for everybody. (It might be good to have the ability to evaluate each these datasets with the “Spanish Flu” pandemic.)

The Gallery

“Bringing the portray ‘Seascape close to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer’ (1888) to life” my candy Aunt Fanny:

The portray is already alive. The paint + the eyes + the mind (+, I suppose, tradition and style) make the waves, not some tediously literal minded developer.

Information of the Wired

“How Stone Partitions Grew to become a Signature Landform of New England” [Smithsonian]. • Legal guidelines of Correspondence between mentalitiy and landform?

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