February 2024 Links
Third-world countries, the death of the girl boss, the sin of empathy, and more. 8 links.
Francis Collins is not sorry enough for pushing COVID nonsense.
This is my problem with those who are now insisting that we all need to accept this admission, absolve Collins and move on. As Dr. Vinay Prasad notes in his analysis, we’re not just talking about a single tragic slip here, like an experienced neurosurgeon who makes one fatal error and loses a patient on the table. It’s more like a neurosurgeon confessing that he was never really a neurosurgeon at all.
A thread on what it’s like to live in a third-world country. We have it good in the US and take so many things for granted. This doesn’t have to do with prosperity, but basic morality.
Instead of meeting digital nomads, guess what I saw? Did you ever wonder why religious people seemed deranged and made a bunch of rules to try to keep people civilized? It’s because the devil resides in human souls. but you don’t feel this until you see the heinous shit that humanity is capable of.
No one wants to be called a “girl boss” anymore. Look beyond the scope of the corporate world.
The numbers don’t lie: Gen Z women don’t see themselves as corporate girlbosses. So many women were interested in the topic of “lazy girl jobs” that it was trending on TikTok earlier this year.