{"id":11655,"date":"2023-04-16T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2023-04-16T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:52:35","slug":"4-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11655","title":{"rendered":"4.16"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NYT &#8212; after feeding the public several bullshit versions about who blew up Nord Stream (an environmentally devastating act of industrial terrorism) &#8212; now announces: &#8220;it may be in no one&#8217;s interest to reveal more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s a clue in the article&#8217;s last 2 paragraphs? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eDJ8ITb26a\">https:\/\/t.co\/eDJ8ITb26a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/63MSWijUZZ\">pic.twitter.com\/63MSWijUZZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1645071996802269184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>George Soros\u2019 backed nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/04\/nonprofit-financed-by-billionaire-george-soros-donated-140-million-to-political-groups-in-2021.html\">invested at least $140 million into politically charged nonprofits<\/a> just one year before the midterm elections. Those donations are on top of the more than $170 million Soros personally contributed during the 2022 midterm election cycle to help Democratic campaigns and political action committees.<\/p>\n<p>A son of billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/08\/george-soros-son-has-easy-access-to-white-house-honchos\/\">George Soros has quietly become a de-facto White House \u201cambassador,\u201d<\/a> making at least 14 visits there on behalf of the far-left kingmaker since President Joe Biden took office, records reviewed by The Post show.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say to the charge that if you are a climate change campaigner, but <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/im-part-solution-bill-gates-140000674.html\">you also travel around the world in a private jet<\/a>, you\u2019re a hypocrite?\u201d Rajan asked bluntly. \u201cWell, I buy the gold standard of, funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family\u2019s carbon footprint,\u201d Gates replied. \u201cAnd I spend billions of dollars on climate innovation. So you know, should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Merriweather,\" palatino linotype antiqua3 serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: center text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Sans <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Merriweather,\" palatino linotype antiqua3 serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: center text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesechos.fr\/monde\/enjeux-internationaux\/emmanuel-macron-lautonomie-strategique-doit-etre-le-combat-de-leurope-1933493\">autonomie<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Merriweather,\" palatino linotype antiqua3 serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: center text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> strat\u00e9gique, l&#8217;Europe risque de \u00ab&nbsp;sortir de l&#8217;histoire&nbsp;\u00bb, pr\u00e9vient le pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique dans un entretien r\u00e9alis\u00e9 lors de sa visite d&#8217;Etat en Chine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>War games suggest the best nuclear attack submarines won\u2019t be detected until seconds before their <a href=\"https:\/\/greggeasterbrook.substack.com\/p\/clear-the-decks-prepare-to-dive\">homing torpedoes hit<\/a>. We don\u2019t really know, because no nuclear attack sub has fired on a surface ship since 1982. But in a ship-versus-sub fight, probably the sub wins. Thus a saying among sailors: \u201cThere are two types of vessels, attack submarines and targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consider the healthcare providers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2023\/04\/08\/private-sector-disrupters-not-beltway-bureaucrats-offer-best-hope-of-making-healthcare-affordable-and-accessible\/\">sidestepping the traditional inflationary payment model<\/a> and offering direct care to patients at a fraction of the price. These include independent physician, surgical, imaging, and lab centers that charge affordable prices and operate apart from expensive insurance networks and claims adjusters For example, direct primary care doctors offer families all their primary care needs for around $100 a month \u2014 no insurance required. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/theparadocs.com\/episode-047-making-direct-care-work-as-a-gynecologist-with-dr-deborah-herchelroath\/\">specialists such as obstetricians<\/a> are moving to a similar Netflix-style payment model. Independent surgical centers such as the Surgery Center of Oklahoma offer procedures for around half the cost of what big hospitals charge. SCO provides knee replacements for <a href=\"https:\/\/surgerycenterok.com\/pricing\/\">$18,000<\/a> versus roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthpartners.com\/blog\/cost-of-a-knee-replacement-surgery\/\">$40,000<\/a> at hospitals. Cash-based imaging centers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/expressmri.com\/\">Express MRI<\/a> offer MRIs for $500, up to <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/mri-cost-price-comparison-health-insurance\/\">ten times less<\/a> than what hospitals charge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Another doozy of a motion filed today by a Proud Boy defense lawyer related to informants, undercover agents<\/p>\n<p>Number of DC Metro undercovers keeps growing: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3vOrIUZNPT\">pic.twitter.com\/3vOrIUZNPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1645431077052317696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Fed has smaller balance sheet as a percent of GDP than the ECB, BOJ and PBOC.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnInconvenientTruth?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnInconvenientTruth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WPLCCZw7V2\">pic.twitter.com\/WPLCCZw7V2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santiago Capital (@SantiagoAuFund) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SantiagoAuFund\/status\/1645436354069688322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1958 Chevrolet Impala Martinique. Designed by Jeanette Linder, one of GM&#8217;s Damsels of Design, an all-female team of industrial designers that designed car interiors for the automaker in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>They designed 100s of cars and almost no one knew of them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZpLRuyiOMI\">pic.twitter.com\/ZpLRuyiOMI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianRoemmele\/status\/1645836572972158976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today we have made the <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/newsroom\/2023\/04\/11\/walmart-announces-closure-of-four-chicago-stores\">difficult decision to close four of our stores in Chicago<\/a>. The decision to close a store is never easy. The impact is greater than just closing a building. It affects people \u2014 people who work in, shop in and live in communities near our stores \u2014 and we never take that lightly. Treating people and communities with respect and compassion during this transition will guide everything we do.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: cnnsans,\" helvetica neue arial utkal sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Several issues are <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: cnnsans,\" helvetica neue arial utkal sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/10\/investing\/tupperware-trouble\/index.html\">hurting Tupperware<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: cnnsans,\" helvetica neue arial utkal sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>, including a \u201csharp decline in the number of sellers, a consumer pullback on home products, and a brand that still does not fully connect with younger consumers,\u201d according to Neil Saunders, retail analyst and managing director at GlobalData Retail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>ITP\u2019s history serves as a <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/apples-latest-cookie-restriction-and-the-relentless-game-of-ad-tech-whack-a-mole\/\">testament<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> to the idea that the project of moderating data usage in digital advertising is a relentless game of whack-a-mole. Outside of starving the ecosystem of unique identifiers that can be used for user-level attribution and identity \u2014 as Apple did with ATT \u2014 or of regulating that use through legal standards, there is no effective path to utterly inhibiting it. Like a sapling on the forest floor contorting itself to meet an improbable ray of sunshine evading the canopy above,<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/the-app-stores-original-sin\/\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif color: var text-decoration: none font-weight: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba>ad tech finds a way<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>: be it through link decoration, CNAME cloaking, A\/AAAA record masking, or server-to-server implementations of conversion tracking. To my mind, the only credible path to moderating this flow of data with clear, enforceable standards is<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/tiktok-federal-privacy-law\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"38758\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif color: var text-decoration: none font-weight: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba>through<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/digital-services-act-impact-on-digital-advertising\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"35618\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif color: var text-decoration: none font-weight: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba>legal<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobiledevmemo.com\/a-deep-dive-on-european-data-privacy-law\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"38602\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif color: var text-decoration: none font-weight: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba>restrictions<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91); font-family\" open sans arial neue helvetica sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">There are no studies about bicycles built before the 1980s. Life cycle analyses, which investigate the resource use of a product from \u201ccradle\u201d to \u201cgrave,\u201d only appeared in the 1990s. However, the benchmark for a <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2023\/02\/can-we-make-bicycles-sustainable-again.html\">sustainable bicycle<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> stands in the room where I write this. It\u2019s my 1980<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Gazelle Champion<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">road bike \u2013 now 43 years old. I bought it ten years ago in Barcelona from a tall German guy who was leaving the city. He had tears in his eyes when I walked away with it. I have a second road bike, a<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Mercier<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">from 1978. That is my spare vehicle in case the other one breaks down and I don&#8217;t have the time for immediate repairs. I have two more road bikes parked in Belgium, where I grew up and where I still travel a few times a year (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2013\/12\/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html\" style=\"color: rgb(104, 139, 154); text-decoration: none; border-radius: 12px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\">by train<\/a><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">, not by bike). These are a<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Plume Vanqueur<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">from the late 1960s and a<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Ventura<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">from the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What&#8217;s a physician practice platform worth?<\/p>\n<p>Let Optum tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Optum is often the highest bidder and therefore the ceiling for acquisitions in the physician practice space.<\/p>\n<p>Optum acquired Atrius Health in Boston for 24.6x EBITDA (includes $200M in capital commitments)<\/p>\n<p>In\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vSrpnVn8EA\">pic.twitter.com\/vSrpnVn8EA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake Madden ? (@B_Madden4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/B_Madden4\/status\/1646515602679566337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Almost every time I pull up a transcript from Jan 6 committee, I am blown away at what I find.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Chad Wolf, Trump&#8217;s DHS chief, explaining high-level coordination btw major agencies before Jan 6.<\/p>\n<p>He says DOD was lead agency&#8211;which is very problematic to say the least: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Emwjshguwn\">pic.twitter.com\/Emwjshguwn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1646514820827717639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The country that benefited the most (by far) from the destruction of Nord Stream was the US.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Robb (@johnrobb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobb\/status\/1647239909327921153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian,\" guardian text egyptian web georgia serif font-size-adjust: inherit font-kerning: font-variant-alternates: font-variant-ligatures: font-variant-numeric: font-variant-east-asian: font-variant-position: font-feature-settings: font-optical-sizing: font-variation-settings: vertical-align: baseline word-break: break-word overflow-wrap: caret-color: rgb color: letter-spacing: normal orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>The vast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/apr\/13\/california-superbloom-satellite-images\">vibrant blooms are a sign of abundance after a prolonged drought<\/a>, which was broken by historic snow and rainfall this winter. Wildflower seeds that accumulated underground through a series of punishingly dry years are finally coming up, UC Davis plant sciences professor Jennifer Funk<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/climate\/blog\/superbloom-or-superbust\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220, 220, 220); border-image: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0)\">explained<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>in a news release. \u201cA very wet year \u2013 like the year we are having now \u2013 could trigger germination of all of these seeds at once, leading to a superbloom.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:<\/p>\n<p>A lot of Texans know that Texas is the anglicized version of the word &#8220;tejas,&#8221; a Caddo Indian word that means friend or ally. But many Texans don&#8217;t know how, exactly, the word came into use.<\/p>\n<p>What happened was this:<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1685,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1DfCgKgKKp\">pic.twitter.com\/1DfCgKgKKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TracesofTexas\/status\/1647611545055100930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT &#8212; after feeding the public several bullshit versions about who blew up Nord Stream (an environmentally devastating act of industrial terrorism) &#8212; now announces: &#8220;it may be in no one&#8217;s interest to reveal more.&#8221; Maybe there&#8217;s a clue in the article&#8217;s last 2 paragraphs? https:\/\/t.co\/eDJ8ITb26a pic.twitter.com\/63MSWijUZZ \u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 9, 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}