Unfortunately, distrust in public health and medical tools to fight the pandemic appears to be widespread in the United States -- сокрушается arstechnica.via
от себя добавлю: это какой-то позор
Unfortunately, distrust in public health and medical tools to fight the pandemic appears to be widespread in the United States -- сокрушается arstechnica.via

Существо передвигалось с помощью аппарата, напоминающего обычный велосипед. Колёс, однако, не было.чудесная Татьяна Лаврова с лингвошлемом на голове, Андрей Миронов в роли старшего сержанта Валентина Карпухина, в общем чего там только нет. вот отрывок (2 мин)
И вот он перед космонавтами — таинственный житель планеты.
- Хыр-тыр-пыр, — приветливо произнесло существо.
- Как же мы поймём друг друга, — встревоженно спросил Сидоров.
Он всегда сомневался — этот Сидоров.
- Вы забыли о лингвошлеме, — хладнокровно сказал капитан.
absolutely amazing, this is the third concept i was also thinking aboutThe principle of identity does not belong, as a postulate, in classical physics. There it is employed only as a logical device, nothing requiring that it be taken to correspond to a substantial reality. It is an altogether different matter in modern physics, one of whose root assumptions is the absolute identity of two atoms found in the same quantum state. - Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod, pg 100
Jeffery Wicken, in Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, described the book as a "manifesto of materialist biology in the most reductivist sense" - WikiHence the entire system is totally, intensely conservative, locked into itself, utterly impervious to any ''hints" from the outside world. Through its properties, by the microscopic clockwork function that establishes between DNA and protein, as between organism and medium, an entirely one-way relationship, this system obviously defies any "dialectical" description. It is not Hegelian at all, but thoroughly Cartesian: the cell is indeed a machine. - pg 110
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
- Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln's Speech, September 18, 1858
Путин впервые прокомментировал события в США:
Ну а что там? Президент говорит: "Надо сделать так-то и так-то", а на местах губернаторы говорят: "Да пошел ты подальше", — отметил Путин.
The screening system produces selective schools that are largely attended by white and Asian-American students, though the city’s school system is mostly black and Hispanic.
In recent weeks, a debate over how to restructure admissions for the fall — and far beyond — has reached a fever pitch.
- nyt

unrelated: AIPAC tells US lawmakers it won’t push back if they criticize annexation - таможня дает добро.A federal appeals court judge repeatedly asked Friday whether dropping the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn would mean police can escape accountability for brutalizing black people. - nypost.com

...And history can unfold in unpredictable ways. Who would have guessed 20 years ago, he asks, that the First Amendment’s free-speech guarantee would become passé on the liberal left? “I used to get a laugh from students by quoting a Soviet citizen I talked to once. He said to me, ‘Of course we have freedom of speech. We just don’t allow people to lie.’ That used to get a laugh! They don’t laugh anymore.”via otkaznik