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While rest of the world was busy demutualising #coops (converting them into capitalist firms), France mutualised a large number of banks.

Been trying to find more info on this. Can't find almost anything except this short reference in a book about demutualisation.

Anyone has any info? If it worked out well, it could give more weight to the case @ntnsndr makes in this article titled:

"Breaking up the banks might make things worse. Instead, let's take ownership"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Remember how Trump ordered the National Security Council's entire global health security unit (including a renowned pandemics expert team) to be shut down in May 2018?

Trump: "I'm a business person, I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."

Well, as it turns out, the administration cannot actually reassemble such a team "very quickly".

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/t

Trump: "1,700 Google engineers are working on a Corona virus site."

Google: "Uuuhm, actually: no!"

Trump: "It’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past!"

Google; "Seriously, we're not..."

Trump: "They have made tremendous progress!"

Google: "WTF, NO!"

forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

Hearing people say it's a scary world. It's not a scary world; it's just a world, and if you can't live in it, you might as well be dead.

Densely populated areas are breeding grounds for disease. Most of the treatises touting urban planning cite benefits for urbanization that are specious arguments in the connected era.

For once, its nice to see nature destroying modern society instead of the other way around.

I knew reality had gotten pretty cyberpunk, but this image really illustrates it powerfully. (source: thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tale )

#corona 

Apparently that's been way easier to resolve than anticipated:

Called merchant's support and according to them this happens a lot with Switch games. A new copy is on its way already.

More here:
deadlinenews.co.uk/2019/01/11/

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One thing you probably won't see reported in the mainstream media about COVID-19 is mortality rate correlated by age and income. I'm sure the very rich have little to worry about getting infected, but the other 99% of us, especially down into the lower 50-75% incomes, will make up a very large proportion of the mortality numbers.

Even if police don’t need a warrant to rummage through your trash (and many states disagree on this point), they should need a warrant to rummage through your DNA. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/poli

Google: You know we said that Chrome tracker contained no personally identifiable info? Forget we ever said that • The Register
theregister.co.uk/2020/03/11/g

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