“For centuries darker-skinned Afro-Latinx people have been erased from Latinidad, but we will be forgotten no more. We are tired of being maids and background dancers and will continue to push back until we are seen and heard. Indeed, Lin Manuel Miranda ‘fell short.’”

Their tight hold on the technology for their covid-19 vaccines has made them billions of dollars.

Eh, The Root got a little too much mileage out of this shitshow to start moralizing at folks now. You weren’t turning away those clicks.  

$600 + $1400 = $2000.

Strong list. I’d only take exception to “52. Essential Workers.” Too often, that translates to, “expendable minority who has to perform risky work so white people can stay safe at home.”

It’s still the point but before we didn’t count on new technologies like electric cars, renewables, improving fuel mileage, new oil sources and discoveries (whoever thought Brazil would have such deposits, for instance?), new extraction technologies and such, and now the coronavirus scare. The peak is still there but…

Historically “pooling our resources” means the US spends 95% and everybody else chips in the remaining 5%. 

Mmmm I think “Peak Oil” means peak of production, not of demand? At least by King Hubbert’s definition?

I find that if someone says the Civil War was about states’ rights, asking “A state’s right to do what?” usually results in a lot of stammering.

Through their foundation they have spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars helping people in the poorest countries and tackling some of the least sexy but nonetheless very hard problems.

Interestingly, AV Club gave this episode of Bob and David an “A”.

Bad or untrustworthy information is substantially worse than no information, which is where we are back to. We’re again not sure whether it is safe or effective. These studies may turn out to be accurate or they may turn out to be inaccurate.

Do not compare likely running mates Kamala Harris, Val Demmings, Stacy Abrams, or Liz Warren with Sarah Palin. This isn’t about tokenism, and this isn’t about bringing in some cornpone cover girl because she’s pretty and sassy. This is about bringing in a serious intellectual with solid experience and national…

It’s always fun to hold someone to standards they set for themselves. Congratulations, you and Clay Travis agree on something.

I disagree with a lot of what you are saying here. I do wish that Kerr said more, but you can’t just jump from “he didn’t say what I wanted him to say about this issue” to “stick to sportzzzz!”

Ya’ll don’t think you might be overreacting a bit to an old white woman marveling at Beyonce’s follower count and wondering “What if?”.

Scary indeed. But losing 29,000 feet in 7 minutes is about 4143 feet/minute. That is a healthy descent rate for sure but is not in the category of a “dive”. On a regular basis we descend at 3500 feet/minute (737 pilot, major airline) so 4200 feet/min isn’t extraordinary.

Please don’t report on small studies like this. Even gizmodo has talked about how studies like this are often misrepresented. Its honestly shocking that this paper got published at all. They only had data for 15 people. That hardly has any statistical significance in the real world. Maybe there’s some actual…

I’ve worked on some research projects, and been tasked with de-anonymizing some outliers to check with errors.

It would be far more accurate to report that “poorly anonymized data is easy to reverse engineer”. The hypothetical example given (combining zip code, DOB, and gender) would be trivially easy to merge with other public data. It’s simply not well anonymized.