https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/e-waste-thailand-southeast-asia.html

Factoring the cost of e-waste disposal into our electronics would make prices go up, and that’s un-American. The free market will find a solution, though. (Oh, wait, it already has.)

«“Why don’t you in the West recycle your own waste?” said Phayao Jaroonwong, a farmer east of Bangkok, who said her crops had withered after an electronic waste factory moved in next door.

“Thailand can’t take it anymore,” she said. “We shouldn’t be the world’s dumping ground.”»

On a more serious note, though, nobody thinks “complete life cycle” for anything, software or hardware. If you build something with poison in it (lead, mercury, germanium, polychlorinated biphenyl), now you have a piece of poison in your life. Then what?

Also, this isn’t just an American thing. China doesn’t want its laptop prices going up, either. Hurts exports.

https://twitter.com/joshjame/status/1203841898990985216?s=20

I *almost* feel sorry for this WSJ reporter. Almost.

Josh Jamerson (@joshjame) Tweeted:
«NEWS: Elizabeth Warren was compensated nearly $2 million over about three decades for doing consulting & other legal work, per campaign.

She previously disclosed the cases she worked on but compensation is new amid calls by Mayor Pete to release more tax returns. Story up soon»

Here’s another interesting observation:

https://twitter.com/courtranstrom/status/1203844301911801858?s=20

Courtney Ranstrom (@courtranstrom) Tweeted:
«@joshjame @Bencjacobs That shakes out to $67,000/year. If she’s consulting, she’s probably 1099. Based on an hourly rate of $200, that’s only 330 hours per year. I’m not surprised she had multiple income streams as a professor-that’s common at law schools & MBA programs. Most of my professors did.»

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1203429267411030017?s=20

Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) Tweeted:
Money spent on ads so far:

Steyer: $47M
Bloomberg: $39M (in two weeks!!!))
All other Democrats combined: $15M

https://t.co/YZkZ6fbAux https://t.co/U2DXojGiBB

https://twitter.com/officialHJesus/status/1203649297780269056?s=20

Jesus H Christ (@officialHJesus) Tweeted:
Nativity 2019…😐 https://t.co/HFyOLKpC9M

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/magazine/alex-jones-infowars.html

«I thought of the children who lived in Islamberg: how afraid their families must have felt when their communities were threatened and strangers appeared asking questions; how we chose to look past these people as individuals and impose on them more of the same unfair suspicions they already had to endure. And for what? Clickbait headlines, YouTube views?»

https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1058343541620043776?s=20

modest proposal (@modestproposal1) Tweeted:
I agree with the below. And repeat my contention that beyond full employment is an even dumber theoretical construct than NAIRU #turnitto11 https://t.co/1DG55Rp3W5

Sam🔔 (@sam_a_bell) Tweeted:
Maybe we weren’t close to full employment in 2013.
Maybe we weren’t almost at full employment in 2014.
Maybe we weren’t more or less at full employment in 2015.
Maybe we weren’t at full employment in 2016.
Maybe we weren’t beyond full employment in 2017. https://twitter.com/sam_a_bell/status/1058339462709686272?s=20

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article238093644.html

Not stuck in the past but 40-year-old ad tagline for a brand of cigarettes?

«“I‘d rather fight, than switch,” Cynthia Bryant wrote on Twitter, executive director and chief operating officer for the California Republican Party.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/climate/florida-keys-climate-change.html

«To keep those three miles of road dry year-round in 2025 would require raising it by 1.3 feet, at a cost of $75 million, or $25 million per mile. Keeping the road dry in 2045 would mean elevating it 2.2 feet, at a cost of $128 million. To protect against expected flooding levels in 2060, the cost would jump to $181 million.

And all that to protect about two dozen homes.»

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1202305373652189184?s=20

BOOM.

«I mean, Rogers was a minister who went to grad school in childhood education and talked intensely with child psychologists while making his show

Today’s “influencers” are just dumbasses in their 20s who stumbled ass backwards into their audience playing video games»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nato-braces-for-contentious-summit-as-trump-other-leaders-gather-near-london/2019/12/04/5994d97c-0fc0-11ea-924c-b34d09bbc948_story.html

So, given that it’s pretty well-known that Trump might pull the U.S. out of NATO in a snit over something like this (which would make Russia very happy), it seems to me to be incumbent on reputable news outlets to question and report on how this video came to light. Who took it? Who released it? Who’s circulating it? Do we have corroboration or is it a deep fake?

It’s really not enough to be reporting on “some people say”, since, for every lunatic thing said, there are “some” who “say it”.