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MLK: There’s a great deal of difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance. Nonresistance leaves you in a state of stagnant passivity and deadening complacency, whereas nonviolent resistance means that you do resist in a very strong and determined manner.

MD on HN: "We see patients fall sick often, and we see them die often, although this was at an near overwhelming scale. But what we don’t see often is our own colleagues falling sick and, in some cases, dying. This adds a level of despair that I personally had never experienced before"

“Intelligence is situational — there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. […] Currently, our environment, not our brain, is acting as the bottleneck to our intelligence.” https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec

1 Ensure all officers involved in the killing of George Floyd face legal due process,
2 Expel and prosecute officers for even one instance of excessive force or the failure to prevent it,
3 Ensure every police killing is independently and transparently investigated.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/george_floyd_loc/

“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.” https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mencken-white-house-quote/

>Ms. Kane cams for 12 hours a day, almost every day of the year, she said, and only took two days off last year. Though this schedule is physically exhausting, she said it’s worth it.

“That’s just something that comes with being an entrepreneur,” Ms. Kane said. “I’m trying to work as hard as I can while I’m young so I don’t have to later.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/style/camsoda-onlyfans-streaming-sex-coronavirus.html

"everyone knew the Soviet system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to it so ordinary people entered into a play with those in power, to maintain a pretence of a normal society." https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-we-must-resist-this-exercise-in-hypernormalisation/

...7. Enter meeting id and click Join again 8. Ignore the app download again 9. Click at "If nothing prompts, click here" 10. Click "Join from your browser" 11. Agree to terms of service 12. Enter password and name, click Join

Yes, it actually requires you go back and try again at step 5. What dark pattern?

Via HN commenter:
You can join Zoom meetings on your browser too. It's behind these twelve easy steps:

1. Go to zoom.com 2. Click "Join a meeting" 3. Enter meeting id and click Join 4. Ignore the automatic app download 5. Go back 6. Click "Join a meeting" again ...

>As evidence suggests COVID-19 could be transmitted before symptom onset, community transmission might be reduced if everyone, including people who have been infected but are asymptomatic and contagious, wear face masks. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30134-X/fulltext#.Xnao62sqgio.twitter

"86% of all infections were undocumented... undocumented infections were the infection source for 79% of documented cases" #COVID19 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/science.abb3221.full

"The Hohenzollerns were by no means unrepresentative. Crucial to Hitler’s ascent to power was a coalition between the Nazis and Germany’s old conservative elites, who hoped they could use and control him for their own ends" https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/what-do-the-hohenzollerns-deserve/

>Looking at these photographs, you feel as though you’re witnessing the preliminary survey of an unknown planet—a close flyby revealing traces of abandoned alien activity. Except that the aliens are us and the planet, to use Oppen’s words, “is / Impenetrably ours.”
#NuclearHistory
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/02/26/the-uncrowded-country-of-the-bomb/

WSJ:
>The #coronavirus is a metaphor for two political ideas that are incompatible with the realities of the modern world: China’s Communist Party and isolationism.https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-facade-of-stability-11582156842?

#coronavirus: gloves > masks
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/25/wuhan-coronavirus-safety-china/