Building trust in media
by timlangeman
in the future we cannot simply accept an attack like the one on February 24th 2022 that is absolutely correct something must happen and Military Support is also appropriate but it must be measured and prudent it must not be escalatory and must not directly lead to a third world war
by timlangeman
For example, the thousands of everyday satellites that already circle low-Earth orbit, below an altitude of 1,200 miles, could potentially suffer collateral damage. More than half of those satellites are from the U.S.; many of the rest are from China and Russia. They provide key services like internet access, GPS signals, long-distance communications, and weather information.
by timlangeman
Helen Lewis writes:
Take the fall of the film producer Harvey Weinstein, which seems inevitable in hindsight—everyone knew he was a sex pest! There were even jokes about it on 30 Rock! But it took The New York Times months of reporting to ready its first story for publishing; the newspaper was taking on someone with deep pockets and a history of intimidating critics into silence. Then the story went off like a hand grenade. Suddenly, the mood—and the economic incentives—shifted. People who had been afraid of Weinstein were instead afraid of being taken down alongside him.
by timlangeman
Additionally, banks expect higher losses in consumer mortgages when payment deferrals end and higher credit-card losses due to elevated unemployment.
by timlangeman
The New Yorker reports:
Yet reports show that in April, as Tyson and other producers were warning that “millions of pounds of meat will disappear” from American stores if they had to shut down, exports of pork to China broke records—and Mountaire’s chicken exports were 3.4 per cent higher than they were a year earlier. The next month, the company’s exports were 10.9 per cent lower than in 2019, but its exports to China and Hong Kong grew by 23.1 per cent in April and by fourteen per cent in May
by timlangeman
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
by timlangeman
I think that Judaism has the same problem that any thick civilization has in a world in which, as you say, context is stripped away. And not only is context stripped away, but attention to any one thing is scanter and less than it used to be.
So, for example, a lot of Jewish commentary is based on your recognizing the reference that I make. Who recognizes references anymore? Because people don’t spend years studying books.
by timlangeman
there’s a really big problem and again we can talk all day about covid but the reality is is what does it mean for markets i thought interesting you know i’ve been looking as most people know um i’ve been looking at three phases to this whole event one was the panic phase into march then there was the hope phase which we’re arguably still in now and then there is the insolvency phase which is when the economic reality of a slow economy for at least another year maybe 18 months comes through and companies start defaulting so we’re seeing companies defaulting
by timlangeman
Much of the evangelical movement, in aligning itself with Donald Trump, has shown itself to be graceless and joyless, seized by fear, hypocritical, censorious, and filled with grievances. That is not true of all evangelicals, of course, and it’s not true of all evangelicals who are Trump supporters. But it’s true of enough of them, and certainly of the political leadership of the white evangelical movement, to have done deep injury to their public witness.
by timlangeman
The median age of our new cases was in the 50s about a month and a half ago. That has dropped into the 30s,” DeSantis told host Sean Hannity. “We have had days where the median age was 33, and obviously that is important