Lib content warning: There's a segment about why we got into Vietnam - smol bean president of South Vietnam was being overrun by communist hordes and asked us pretty please would we just destroy the jungle so he could win?
The video is great though.
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Just looked at the history of Diego Garcia... why am I surprised?
(All calculated from the chart itself)
That seems like the top 1% are the bulk of the problem. If our richest had less than double what the poorest have, that would be a pretty good start.
I agree, there are a lot of people in that middle band who are not going to give up their 37% extra wealth, but I’m not sure this point is worth making. I’d rather get the lower half of that middle band to understand that they are not much better protected than those below them, than to tell the bottom band that they have nothing in common with half the country. Let’s draw a new chart with a top 10% or a top 20%, it will make this fight seem more possible.
It is largely due to seismic requirements, yes. Platform framed wood construction is very good in an earthquake. Brick sucks for seismic, and concrete or concrete block can be good for seismic loading, but is expensive. Concrete might pencil out if you were building apartments, but that’s usually illegal in most parts of a west coast city.
Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”
A right wing NYC councilmember bit a cop: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/18/susan-zhuang-bensonhurst-hero-cop-bite/
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/
But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.
So it’s “rules based international order” except between armed corporations instead of armed countries. I can’t see how that would ever lead to problems /s
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