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  • https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-top-countries-by-wealth-per-person/

    Average wealth per adult in the US is five times higher than median. Average wealth per adult in the world (well, across the 39 countries measured) is ten times the median. The difference between average (mean) and median (middle) is because a huge amount of wealth is concentrated in a small number of people.

    Whether there is a vast surplus of resources or not isn't relevant. Resources are power, and power enables collection of more resources.

  • Details to be aware of: Everybody knew there was a problem when this man was still in elementary school. He reported that food was withheld from him. Teachers would bring food for him to school. CPS was called 20 times. He'd been ordered to tell them that everything was fine. Then he just stopped coming to school. Everybody knew there was a problem. Nothing was done.

  • Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of "buyer's remorse" for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it's very locked down. That's been Apple's thing forever, you kind of can't blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.

    For most people, the hardware and operating system are "one thing," inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are "locked in"? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought "the thing," and "the thing" either works for them or it doesn't.

    So we have this author lamenting that "the thing" he bought doesn't work for him the way he'd like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from "the thing" that it doesn't provide, he failed to sufficiently research "the thing" before purchasing it.

  • “The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

    Wouldn't it be great if there was something else that gave you protection against measles infection, without you actually having to have measles? If only ...

  • I'd say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers --- because most adults probably wouldn't have the time for that much posting.

    Challenge accepted.