That’s the funniest part, as @d_r hinted, the number of letters is just 18, not 19: 6+7+5, check yourself. They cannot even manage to add up single digit numbers. Geniuses, all of them!
Underground loansharks only persist when there is demand for them. Decent wages, a decent social security system, low-cost credit available to the poor; provide these, and the predatory credit industry withers.
Underground loansharks only persist when there is demand for them.
I agree with the sentiment.
Compare the history of injunctions against loan sharking, recorded in various ancient texts, to similar injunctions against the sex trade. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that zero demand for high-return credit would be a remarkable achievement against the forces of human nature.
As has been reported widely, COVID-19 is hitting POC harder than the population in general. A local Native American leader, Bobby Begay, died late last week from COVID-19.
If you click through, you can see he was a tough dude. There’s a video of him catching lamprey with his hands while fully immersed in a cold waterfall in 2018.
Just posted a link I think I should re-iterate here, regarding DIY community masks:
the use of a layer of cotton + a layer of chiffon (non-vegan bourgeois option: silk) seems to be quite efficient if you are wearing the mask perfectly, even for your own safety - not only the safety of others. (If that wasn’t enough…)