The Stupidity of GDP per Capita – Income inequality in the United States and elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiymTzsZfoA Dear Type Ashton, I set up a database of all economic, financial, and social data from all UN and US federal sources for USAID and the US State Department in the 1980s when I worked for Georgetown University Center
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Why go to Mars to find a desert to green? Copycats are fairly common on the Internet, not just videos, but articles, products, groups, ideas. Identifying groups and individuals is difficult. Verifying ownership of sites often impossible. It it not easy to enforce now, and with hundreds of millions of domains one size will not
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FAO Forestry @FAOForestry @FAO’s flagship publication The State of the World’s Forests 2024 contains 18 case studies from around the world that illustrate how forest-sector innovation can bring about positive change. Read it now https://ow.ly/CFGN50SGXZG #SOFO2024 https://pic.x.com/7jnkduob0r Replying to @FAOForestry and @FAO Global open models, global open resources, billions of voices and lives – some
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Fury at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jolz3-iWJxA I was born just a few years after the war, and grew up on WW II movies. My Dad was 17 when he went in the Navy to the Pacific. His brother, my uncle, was 19 when he started and was at D day and would never talk about it. It seems
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The near future might have many synthesized foods, materials and experiences — The rumor on the Internet is that most “olive oil” is already a substitute. If it truly disappeared, there are ways to make oils by blending that can substitute. And ways to make it by building molecules with industrial chemical processes. There are
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