Another way of putting it is that at some point, what were once discrete, chosen preferences become *culture* - the background habits and ways of thinking that are determined for you simply because you were born in a place. Do most Italians think Catholicism is true? Do most Japanese like sushi?

From this talk I learned that without the nearly immediate and complete end of emissions, the latest modeling shows that the tipping point will be crossed in 2050.

2/4

"Our results represent a substantial population in the U.S. that is potentially exposed to hazards that are not well-characterized, with unknown cumulative impacts, and which constitute a major environmental justice issue."

Wow, it's like ... racism ... but almost ... *systemic* ...

And the reason that the majoritarian pro-democracy wave now needs to go out to the streets is because the institutions have finally fallen.

To me that is a story of how the Framers’ theories worked for a very long time- perhaps so long that we trusted they needed no defense

The root problem is that we didn’t stop that multi-decade plot. We could have reacted to Cit U and John Roberts differently; NYT could have gone a different way; we could have defended journalism as private equity killed it; used Congress to hem in the banks. As we did in the past- all these things