Fox Thirty Eight 🦊🌹 @fox_news@mastodon.social

A word on the CWs we here at Fox News use:

• worldpol has to do with any massively inter-regional political event.
• three-letter codes before pol (ruspol, chnpol, frapol, etc) are always countries.
• two-letter codes before pol (nypol, wapol, ilpol, etc) are almost always US states or territories - the exceptions are uspol, ukpol, and eupol, for the US, UK, and EU.
• meta always refers to commentary on the previous word's topic.
• adj refers to adjacency - closely related topics.

We here at Fox News consider it very unlikely that we will be disappeared or killed by the DHS in the coming days, regardless of any involvement or lack of involvement in or material support for protests.

That said, we'd like to have it on record that @CoronaCoreanici is not suicidal and will be continuing to post more news here at least once a week.

Pinning this because more information and analysis has already brought people some solace.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14X18mvs9dlsg9rnihnd8Vi6cMNesOkcp3AXV2epZWUQ

I should put more thought into this later but required reading:

Nonzero
Debt (The First 5k Years)
Guns, Germs, and Steel
It Could Happen Here (podcast, very heavy)
Seeing Like A State
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Predictably Irrational
538, Vox, WSJ (economics only), NYT and WaPo to see what the centrists and liberals think
... more I can't easily remember, open to suggestions

*nerds

No one knows of Karel Raška, either, and we have him to thank for the end of smallpox.

The most evil person in the world might be Henry Kissinger, and only needs know of him and what he did.

I think a lot about the fact that few people know who Norman Borlaug, or Dowager Empress Cixi, or Shaka Zulu, or Robert Kaguja, or Abu Ali al Hasan ibn al-Haytham, or Gerhard Domagk are.

Anyway what I guess I'm saying is ashcans and unobtainable dollars, young men weeping in the armies, old men sobbing in the park.

Anyway what I guess I'm saying is definitely don't let me end up with the power to allow the world to be destroyed.

Genocide after holy war after mass famine after plague after invasion after enslavement after nearly melting the crust into trinitite, with some occasional kindness thrown in for spice and contrast. Tell me I'm wrong. Genuinely please.

And no, I don't know that for certain. But you have to admit, even a cursory glance at the history of the world is decently compelling evidence.

Are we worthy of healing, if all we as a species will ever do is squabble and despoil the commons and limp along until something finally kills us?

@fox_news I think about him a lot. How dirty the USSR did him. Today I'm wondering if he chose wrongly; if maybe he should have let the world destroy itself.

Solemn Stanislav Petrov Day, all.