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Some Inventions Spurred by the Coronavirus

Alarm for when hands go near face. Wearer's necklace senses either proximity, presence in range above it, absence in range below, or other, of wearer's bracelet sensors, and sounds an alarm, vibrates, or both, configurable by user.

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This cash registers (same could apply to ATMs) have slots for bill denominations and a scooped set of slots for change. Inside is a strong UV light that kills microbes, so that bills entering are heated and blasted to be cleaned. There is also a tray for the machine to dispense change in dollars and coins.

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To be updated as I find time.

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Slower World

i dont know if its just today, or just my mood based on the phase of life and location im in, but today it seems like the world is slowed down a bit. the way sad people are. or sad times are. when people get more into and actually also feel more the beautiful and valuable things in the world. take more time looking at them. think about them a little more. photos of the various places in the world: a rhinoceros in a jungle in sumatra. a dry orange desert of craggy rocks projecting upwards, the way people used to think about africa with what was for europeans sexuality and simple life. old websites written in 1995 or 1997. the kind of days you just spend time all day maybe looking at photos and blogging about things. not blogging for fastpaced business. blogging about things you see and think are whatever and feel. the world maybe has been going a bit over speed recently. and thinking over speed. looking over speed. so its been shallow and unproductive. the social media thing. online business. we have a lot we could spend time on.

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People

2025

  • Omar El Akkad
  • Mike Green on Trump and China

Investors and Economists

  • Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital, a graduate of Dartmouth College where he graduated summa cum laude in math and philosophy in 1981, and attended Yale University for a Ph.D. in theoretical mathematics before dropping out. Drummer in some bands that never made it big, married for 20 years to the bassist. In 2008 fired and accused by TCW of misappropriating trade secrets; interfering with the firm’s contractual relationships with clients; committing civil conspiracy; and, for good measure, for keeping marijuana, sex "devices," and dozens of pornographic magazines and videos in his office. https://archive.fortune.com/2010/03/09/news/companies/TCW_Gundlach_full.fortune/index.htm

  • Dan Niles, Satori fun manager, seems to know history of stocks well

  • Jim Chanos, short seller

  • Ray Dalio, economic historian and theorist

  • Steve Eisman, the guy in the movie who saw the bank crisis coming, a fun guy to listen to talk

England:

Spain

  • Art historian Francisco Calvo Serraller
  • Philosopher and court chronicler Manuel Vincent
  • José Álvarez Junco, Director Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales y Catedrático de Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Mexico

  • Enrique Dussel, writer and historian
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A List of Actors, Directors and Screenwriters

Actors

  • Brad Pitt
  • DiCaprio
  • Woody Harrelson
  • John Hamm
  • Keanu
  • Mel Gibson
  • Shia LeBuff

Actresses

  • Dakota Fanning
  • Francis McDormand
  • Jennifer Tilley

Directors

  • Quintin
  • Sarah Polley

Writers

  • Quintin
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Male-Female Relations and Law

Weinstein was convicted in a mixed verdict of 12 jurors (why are they using a jury?). Here's what one said:

"It wasn't rape in the first degree. There was no physical compulsion with the threat of bodily harm or death. But there was no consent given, despite a lack of physical resistance, and a reasonable person should have known that there was no consent given in that instance."

Convicting people of a crime even if the person doesn't attempt to turn away from sex or kissing or whatever! Accepting it, and then calling it a crime? Western law is unbelievable.

Basically every person who has kissed their husband or wife or partner, or an acquaintance or friend, when they didn't respond by kissing back, or even if they did kiss back (presumably Weinstein's partners may well have done so) has by this definition committed sexual assault.

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