kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"We have data on the mortality of the English aristocracy from 1550 onwards. Aristocrats died just as early as everyone else. Their life expectancy was below 40 years too. Before broader social development even the most privileged status within society would not give you the chance for a healthy life. You just cannot be healthy in an unhealthy place."

"You cannot get healthy and wealthy on your own – Societies make progress, not individuals"

https://ourworldindata.org/global-inequality-of-opportunity

#healthcare #progress

@Wetrix It's a classic old school detective but with a social context.. and this is where it gets interesting! ;)

Советский анекдот:

Учительница зачитывает сочинение Вовочки:

> СССР первым запустил космический корабль, человека в космос и сельское хозяйство.

Передай папе, что у нас сажают не только картошку.

As funny as it sounds, it seems like egocentric jerks on both the right and on the left are obsessively scared of pretty much the same: other people...

"The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State" (Davidson, Rees-Mogg)

"The Population Bomb" (Ehrlich)

Also waiting for this one impatiently - "Mr Jones" (2019) about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, one of the first one to document and publish in the West the Soviet famine in '30s.

His story was symbolic and in many aspects repeats today. Jones traveled to Donetsk to watch people literally starving to death under famine that was both caused and denied by the Communist Party. His reports then faced fierce denial of both Soviet authorities and Western intellectuals.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/samuel-goldwyn-films-north-american-rights-mr-jones-1203310267/

Now Rambler goes after Twitch too https://kanobu.ru/news/twitch-vrossii-hotyat-zablokirovat-rambler-trebuet-otkompanii-180-mlrd-rublej-419801/

Linux: privilege escalation via io_uring offload of sendmsg() onto kernel thread with kernel creds. As I understand, this is only in 5.3+, fixed in 5.3.15 and 5.4.2

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1975

New Russian series "Эпидемия" (Epidemic, 2019) - a good action dystopia like Mad Max, just in winter. Plus my favourite actor Kirill Käro.

Did anyone notice this stunning similarity between Noah Cross, one of the main characters of "Chinatown" (1974) and Donald Trump? And not only visual...

Cuban government has been cleverly manipulating their national income data reported to UN to make it 3x higher than the actual Cubans have at their disposal. From $21k per capita PPP it goes down to actually $7.5k. #cuba

https://www.erikjennische.com/latinamerika/world-bank-statistics-and-cuban-excellence