Weekend link dump for June 25

“The AHCA would raise employment and economic activity at first, but lower them in the long run. It initially raises the federal deficit when taxes are repealed, leading to 864,000 more jobs in 2018. In later years, reductions in support for health insurance cause negative economic effects. By 2026, 924,000 jobs would be lost, gross state products would be $93 billion lower, and business output would be $148 billion less. About three-quarters of jobs lost (725,000) would be in the health care sector. States which expanded Medicaid would experience faster and deeper economic losses.”

“From that angle, Apple’s new HQ is a retrograde, literally inward-looking building with contempt for the city where it lives and cities in general. People rightly credit Apple for defining the look and feel of the future; its computers and phones seem like science fiction. But by building a mega-headquarters straight out of the middle of the last century, Apple has exacerbated the already serious problems endemic to 21st-century suburbs like Cupertino—transportation, housing, and economics. Apple Park is an anachronism wrapped in glass, tucked into a neighborhood.”

“Oh well, you know what they say — you can’t log off Amazon without spending $13.7 billion. So true!”

Calvin’s dad explains it all to you.

“Google bets AI and human oversight will curb online extremism”.

“The Trump Administration has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate HIV policy, and—most concerning—pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease.”

The rise and fall of Gopher, the first system for organizing and finding information on the Internet.

“The lesson: just because you say you’re there only to observe doesn’t mean you have the power to confine yourself to an observer’s role.”

“Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was exposed this month after a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee stored internal documents on a publicly accessible Amazon server.” Um, oops?

NASA wants to probe Uranus in search of gas“. Of course it does.

For once, I agree with Big John Cornyn: “The people have a right to know what is happening behind closed doors with secret HC negotiations”.

RIP, Dallas Hill, one of Houston’s first major fashion models.

RIP, Tony DiCicco, former head coach of the USWNT that won the 1996 Olympics and 1999 World Cup.

Good face, high ass: How a pro baseball scout would evaluate you.

“Three quarters of white evangelicals approve of a ban on refugees. The American Christians who insist that they are uniquely and especially “biblical” are the same American Christians least likely to accept and internalize the relentless biblical command to welcome the stranger and to assist those fleeing danger.”

“Lawyers who have been trained to answer to the Constitution first and their wealthy clients far later don’t want to be in the position of having to tell the world’s largest preschooler that sometimes no bendy straw for the juice box really means no bendy straw for the juice box.”

There will probably be another season of Fargo, just not in the immediate future.

The Republican campaign to repeal Obamacare was always based on false promise (okay, a lie): that it was possible for all Americans to have better, cheaper medical care without raising taxes or reducing the incomes of doctors and the profits of hospitals and drug companies.”

“I think there’s only one thing you need to know about how to avoid sexual assault: Don’t sexually assault anybody.”

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3 Responses to Weekend link dump for June 25

  1. Bill Daniels says:

    “Three quarters of white evangelicals approve of a ban on refugees. The American Christians who insist that they are uniquely and especially “biblical” are the same American Christians least likely to accept and internalize the relentless biblical command to welcome the stranger and to assist those fleeing danger.”

    Christianity isn’t a suicide pact. All we need to do is look at Western Europe to see what NOT banning Muslims looks like. It’s hard to celebrate and share the Good News if you, your whole family, and your whole village are dead. Look at the “Arab Spring.” How’s that working out for those Christian minorities in the Arab states? What good is the Good News if no one is alive to share it?

  2. Bill Daniels says:

    “The Republican campaign to repeal Obamacare was always based on false promise (okay, a lie): that it was possible for all Americans to have better, cheaper medical care without raising taxes or reducing the incomes of doctors and the profits of hospitals and drug companies.”

    I agree with this. We as a country spend way more of our GDP on healthcare than other developed nations. Why is that? The only thing I have heard about the AHCA that could remotely lower costs is repealing the Obamacare diktats about what must be covered, outlawing bare bones, affordable insurance policies. Other than that, it seems like rearranging deck chairs on the SS Obamacare.

    Cliffs: Thus far, Pubs seem like they got nothin’.

  3. neither here nor there says:

    Number of people murdered in the United States in 2015 almost 16,000

    Number of people murdered in Europe by terrorists in 2015 less than 200

    Numbers tell the story. Americans living in Mexico (Mostly retired) about one million, consensuses is that just as safe or safer than living here, found in today’s Chronicle.

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