With half the U.S. states banning or severely restricting abortion, millions of students will be attending college this fall in states without access to abortion care and options to manage unintended pregnancies. These students don’t have freedom & autonomy over their own bodies because of abortion bans. 55% of undergraduate students last year were women—and the highest rate of unintended pregnancy in the U.S. is among women 20 to 24 years of age.🇺🇸
https://reproductiverights.org/college-students-abortion-access-2024/
Whilst i think this should just be state level and find it sad tgat it becomes such a major issue at the national level, do you think there could be a time duration limit in pregnancy that legalised abortion laws might be able to achieve a middle ground that satisfies majority? Obviously mildly irrelevant as its simple an evocative subject simply used politically to divide nation but curious on a doctors perspective
Kamala Harris’ housing boost is overdue. Harris wants 3 million new homes in four years, on top of what homebuilders were already planning. That’s a punchy target: developers completed just 1.5 million units in 2023. Her campaign aims to encourage what it calls “innovative” approaches to affordable housing, like providing grants and loans to local developers and non-profit organizations. The plan leans heavily on zoning reforms and employs language about cutting red tape. 🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/kamala-harris-welcome-housing-boost-is-overdue-2024-08-21/
Further wrecking market forces by government intervention will obviously have the opposite effect as stated. Curiousity must be to see if removal ofregulations that government itself places will actually happen. Out of curiosity, do you think USA poor and middle class could survive four years of the interventionist policy suggestions by Harris campaign?
2018. Maybe changed. I’m in Costa Rica so new is horrifyingly expensive
Good fun but not the most comfortable Terios doesn’t look as good, is pretty handy as little 4x4 and more comfortable
Might also be symbolic representations rather than prose
Exactly, hard to explain to outsiders. Last time I was in Bari, was wandering around with some family members and uncle started heading towards historic town center. My aunt (from UK) stopped and asked if it was ok to enter. Response was that outsider have been allowed in safely for a few years. Explaining things like that in this age to people just results in blank stares of incomprehension.
I then took my missus on a little tour around the south and she said she wanted to stop to take a pee. We were driving through Mondragone near Naples. I said I'd rather wait and when she asked why, I said look closer at the people and streets and where we are and pay more attention. After a minute or two she said she was very happy to wait a bit
Problem with Italy, always the chance of chequered family history! Especially in the south. I always wondered when I was visiting as a kid why so much deference was paid to my great uncle when we walked around. And that's the Italian part of the family I do know. It was only when my dad passed and my uncle mentioned the Naples side of the family and got a proper evil glare from my aunt that I found out there was another branch but they would not elaborate at all!
Who knows. Your family ever been potentially allegedly involved in protection racket? 🙄 🤣
Yeah, great thread.... splitting hairs about the difference between the best cuisines in the world when I live in Costa Rica, land of beans and rice! Whereabouts are you from? I have family in Bari and apparently some in Naples that my family don't talk about (ahem)
Which is great! If we all had the same tastes, world would be rather boring. Part of my family from southern Italy. A cousin of mine won Italian Masterchef. My guess is you'd appreciate being invited round much more than I did!!
GM nostr! ☀️
Whilst I zap devs and creators on nostr and pay for local services with lightning, I also stack sats in cold storage. Regardless what field I work in, surely that also makes me a "Fund manager"!
My chemistry teacher in school got the class to copy the introduction of the main text book for the course in first class. He then took all the bits of paper and put them in an envelope with no explanation. 2 years later, at the end of the course, we repeated tge excercise and he handed out the originals to compare. He just wanted to prove that studying chemistry wrecks one's handwriting. Only one person out of 27 (think am remembering correctly) had the same hand writing. All the rest looked an absolute mess, including mine!
Enjoy the practice! PV
musing:
nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe got me thinking about the idea of deflationary paradigm as economic activity tends towards the lowest marginal cost of production which makes obvious sense with improvements in efficiency. Max Keiser also once mentioned that the next war was #Bitcoin vs AI. We are obviously going through an energy shift recently with Microsoft doubling it's energy use in a couple of years due to the expansion of data centers and we also see this reflected in chip manufacturer share prices etc etc.
We also now have true money backed by energy. A true representation of the principal value in human society. Wealth increases linearly with energy consumption.
Surely looking at all these elements means that potentially, the primary paradigm for the upcoming decades is a shift of success trending to those who understand and develop the methods that drive a push to the lowest marginal cost of energy. All energy conversion to value will allow smaller energy generation at the margins to potentially revolutionise all communities regardless of isolation based on their understanding of that pricipal. Many changes to human condition could result.
Maybe just repeating trodden path.... thinking and pondering!
Ithis going to end upa personal thread to return to and refresh thoughts. Please feel free to add comments. If stray gas can be used for mining, is there a rational business model that is win-win to scaling up decentralised mining? A method thats rationally viable to offer less well off plebs to access free or cheap energy thst balances the drilling and production costs? Does it have to partially be altruistic? If one is a true believer in the potential of decentralised systems, is providing that resource, potentially at ones own expense potentially self serving in network resilience to protect ones own butcoin wealth. Selfish altruism in a system of circular positive incentivisation?
If anybody in Tamarindo area needs dental work and wants to pay in #bitcoin please DM me and ill be happy to pass contact. Orange pill the world to create the curcular economy! PV #nostr
#costarica
musing:
nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe got me thinking about the idea of deflationary paradigm as economic activity tends towards the lowest marginal cost of production which makes obvious sense with improvements in efficiency. Max Keiser also once mentioned that the next war was #Bitcoin vs AI. We are obviously going through an energy shift recently with Microsoft doubling it's energy use in a couple of years due to the expansion of data centers and we also see this reflected in chip manufacturer share prices etc etc.
We also now have true money backed by energy. A true representation of the principal value in human society. Wealth increases linearly with energy consumption.
Surely looking at all these elements means that potentially, the primary paradigm for the upcoming decades is a shift of success trending to those who understand and develop the methods that drive a push to the lowest marginal cost of energy. All energy conversion to value will allow smaller energy generation at the margins to potentially revolutionise all communities regardless of isolation based on their understanding of that pricipal. Many changes to human condition could result.
Maybe just repeating trodden path.... thinking and pondering!
Crazy thing for me was totally stopping, doing training and taking that seriously. First job and i end up being told by my boss to smoke a joint! Very first job was in the middle of the jungle in Gabon in Afruca and we went to see the local tribal chief in the rondavel in the lical village and he passed one round. Boss just told me later that he would cover any issues arising!
I work in the oilfield and could never figure this out. Saw so many lose amazing opportunities due to weed. I used to smoke the odd joint but a couple months before starting in oilfield, I simply stopped. It seemed like the most simple decision
The end of a great day. Friend orange pilled and enjoying and orange end to the day. PV!
#sunsets 