Favorites January 3rd 2022

If we're going to mandate stuff, focus on the thing that works: vaccination.


See also the graph of the unemployment rate over a longer period. While we are enduring slightly higher inflation, this is the prize, and I think it's probably worth it.

I really like the way the faux-wiki format goes into extensive detail on some aspects but breezes past others not relevant to the article's subject. Anyway, if you're interested, someone went the rest of the way and turned it entirely into a wikipedia article.
The article says that this means long COVID symptoms are the result of 'fatigue', which I take to mean damage to other parts of the body... lungs I guess?
As far as I know, Ezra originated the whole thing where podcasters ask their guest to name three books which they're reading. If you're wondering what a kinetoscope is, they're quite large as home entertainment appliances go.



Would be very nice if that was the peak in the Bay Area already.
He needs you to learn how to pronounce Quenya (elvish) words, and he'll do it by forcing you to remember who all these damn elves are by name.