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The first ever Parfitian mood board

Waiting for the bus on Capitol Hill: > A passing driver rolls down their window Driver: “excuse me sir, is this a safe neighborhood?” Me: “yes?” Driver: “I used to work at DC General Hospital, 40 years ago. Back then they would EAT people like you” > drives off

A lot of conservatives seem to be under the impression that PEPFAR was briefly paused by mistake and will be back to normal soon. But no. The administration has repeatedly tried to destroy PEPFAR and Congress keeps telling them to stop and then they try again.

I feel like people don't realize just how hard Parfit went regarding our obligations to donate in volume 3 of On What Matters

i think lots of criticisms of effective altruism suffer from bad empirics about what the actual behavior of people who identify as effective altruists is

Not nothing. Many people who received AIDS drugs via PEPFAR have probably died. More people will die because of the cuts to GAVI. But it previously cost so little to save these lives that letting these people die won’t generate enough savings to show up on the graph.

there’s an effective vaccine for Lyme Disease that was pulled from the market after antivaxxers went nuts and sued over the standard baseless claims. on a saner timeline, nobody lives in fear of ticks anymore.

12 miles from Manhattan is the Wrigley Park section of Paterson, where several new new market-rate 1-bedrooms go for as little as $1,670 per month. It's an epicenter of naturally affordable market-rate infill development.

*Chicken addressing a group of bees*: Listen up 0.071's, a 0.332 is talking

Here’s the tally for currently-active missions that will be shut down: >Mars Odyssey >MAVEN >New Horizons >Osiris-APEX (plans to flyby another asteroid) >DSCOVR Unflown but planned missions that will die include: >VERITAS (Venus orbiter) >DAVINCI+ (Venus atmospheric probe)

I bet this shit hits so hard if you're a constructivist

I am honestly amazed by how horrible this bill is. it simultaneously: 1) explodes the federal deficit 2)cuts taxes for millionaires 3) decimates Medicaid and rural hospitals 4) destroys American energy production it’s literally the worst bill of all time

There’s no realistic scenario where the benefits (above the line) expire in 4 years or the pay fors (below line) are enacted in future. It's wrong to say this is a $3 tln tax cut for the wealthy paid in part by cutting benefits. In reality, it's just $6+ tln of unfunded tax cuts.

New mug dropped

wait why the fuck are Republicans trying to steal the Smithsonian's space shuttle