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Possibly this is why the UK is having more trouble with Variant resurgence than the US? (They deployed much more AstraZeneca than the US did)
She's met more than a quarter of all presidents
The real measure of Japan as an industrial power in WW2 wasn't it's battleships, so much as it's lack of bulldozers.
A single field in England in the summer of 1944 held more Allied earthmoving bulldozer capability than the Japanese built from 1937 - 1945.
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Interesting piece of history. The full thread has more details.
Good God. “It's not just the binary (did Biden win or lose a state) that is increasingly predictive of vaccination rates, but how much Biden won the state by…. the correlation is +0.85 between Biden's 2020 margin in a state and the adult vaccination rate in a state.” https://t.co/6SSlbrNMcP
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Gotta find a way to convince republicans to get vaccinated. There are ideas...
Next time the "we have enough homes, there are more vacancies than homeless" debate rears up, I'm gonna cite this graph by @MarcNovicoff.
What do the ten metropolitan areas with the highest homelessness have in common? Vacancy rates below 6%.
Source: slowboring.com/p/homelessness…
Somehow people are often confused about why vacancy rates aren’t 0%, and blame greed. The fact is, it takes time to find a new tenant, just like it can take time to find a job or buy a car.
