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Carry that Weight

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Alex Power
Mar 10, 2022
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It is said that money makes the world go round

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In a literal sense, this isn’t true. The world was spinning long before money was invented

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In the figurative sense, this is extremely true. the Newslettr would love to use money to build and promote its intellectual property. But before it can do that, we need to wait for established Standards and Practices.

but first, the week’s news.


a redirect: for information about the situation in the Ukraine region, please read:

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XXXV: Putin's Surprise Attack on Ukraine, with Special Guest Kamil Galeev
Listen now (69 min) | We Truly Did Not Have History Rhyming to the Spanish Civil War on Our 2022 Bingo Card!…Subscribe to get this in your email inbox. Become a paid subscriber if… I will not say that this ‘Stack will cease to exist without paying subscribers. I will say that the frequency of this ‘Stack depends on enough people being paying subscribers for me to feel under a sense of obligation to prioritize this, rather than something else. And I will say that the survival of our civilization may well depend on our reattaining a functional, rational public sphere—and that subscribing to ‘Stacks that you find useful may well be the most productive thing you can do to help make that happen…
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a year ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Brad DeLong

programming note: we are working on the Classifieds section. pardon the dust.

Rain Check: A letter from a field agent:

When I was younger, heaven and earth could not keep me from a woman I wanted. As I have grown older, I have matured. Now when heaven and earth conspire against me, I am quite happy to take a rain check

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To a certain extent, this philosophy is learned dependent on geography. In the Midwest US, you learn at a young age that when there is a threat of a tornado

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or 6+ inches of snow, you cancel outings first and negotiate the terms of a raincheck elsewhen
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Twisters and Vibes: Our reporters have told us that an event named “vibecamp” was recently held, possibly in the state of Texas. This is one of those events that you’re not supposed to talk about … so of course there are dozens of posts on Twitter describing

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it in quite a lot of detail.

We have not inquired whether the unexpected March 5th tornado near our offices was related to a magickal spell cast at that event. As a reminder, ever since the incident involving a volcano erupting, the Yevaud Newslettr does not publicly endorse, condone, or describe magickal acts.

Kissing Hands: the Newslettr recently discussed the situation in Canada involving protests. Apparently somebody got around to telling Trudeau fils what a political crisis is, and he flew to Windsor Castle to pay homage to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Twitter avatar for @CTVNews
CTV News @CTVNews
Queen meets Trudeau in first in-person meeting since catching COVID-19 ctvnews.ca/canada/queen-m…
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1:45 PM ∙ Mar 7, 2022
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A correspondent tells the Newslettr that while the Queen’s health is no longer in immediate danger, she might never leave Windsor Castle alive again. This is no real inconvenience: she has servants to deal with the mundanities of life, can conduct videoconferences for most meetings, and when necessary, demands pompous underlings like Trudeau fils and Boris Johnson come to her.

Gambling Man: A news story from ESPN about an NFL player being suspended for gambling. As an editorial position, the Newslettr opposes the current availability of gambling, and supports efforts to reduce its prevalence. We may have a column on this at a later date.

A joke so bad they sacked the ushers: A joke so bad that the author should probably be fired for it. Our apologies. For inscrutable reasons, Mr. Devereaux actually does appear to be without a job after the end of the academic year. He should have no problem earning a living as a full-time blogger. Presumably somebody reading this is debating whether to refer Mr. Devereaux to the Substack Advance program, or to hire him directly.

Twitter avatar for @BretDevereaux
Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux
For Russia, this was of course the worst possible moment for a warm-ish late February. If you will permit me one bad joke in all of this tragedy...it looks like the Russian General Winter was no match for Ukrainian Colonel Climate Change.
4:40 PM ∙ Mar 2, 2022
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Also The Hiring Desk: From Twitter, another excellent person is looking for work: Susie Cagle. She is a journalist and a cartoonist, and excellent at both. Her iconic “America in the garbage can dot jpg” is … well, iconic. She also cracked the case of the Google Bus protest.

Twitter avatar for @susie_c
Susie Cagle @susie_c
We have consistent childcare for the foreseeable future! and I am looking for work!
susiecagle.com| Susie Cagle.
8:46 PM ∙ Mar 9, 2022
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Rigetti University: The latest installment in Susan Rigetti’s curricula is out, this one on Mathematics.

Twitter avatar for @susanthesquark
Susan Rigetti @susanthesquark
At long last, after combing through math textbooks until my eyes nearly popped out, here is my guide to learning math. Godspeed! susanrigetti.com/math
12:26 AM ∙ Mar 7, 2022
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https://www.susanrigetti.com/math is the URL. She has once again done excellent work. One disclaimer from the link: “This guide only covers an undergraduate mathematics curriculum, because, unlike the fields of physics and philosophy (both of which I have studied at the graduate level), that’s where my math knowledge ends.”

From The Archives: the Newslettr does expect that children benefit from at least 4 years of in-person education. We wrote some of our thoughts up last September.

the Yevaud Newslettr
Education, part 1: primary school
Today, I am starting a multi-post series talking about education. There’s an old saying: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” To a lesser extent, that is true about…
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a year ago · Alex Power

Some Legal Terminology

No funny

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business in the classifieds.

If you’re still reading … there is a contest here. What is the answer to the riddle in the subtitle? As this is our first contest, we’re not sure whether the rule should be “incorrect answers only” or “first correct answer gets an ad in next week’s newslettr”.

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In the vernacular, the phrase “go round” means “to rotate on its axis”, not “to become spherical due to the force of gravity”.

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Depending on how you define the terms, perhaps money was in use before invention was invented.

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There are several possible definitions for “rain check”. In third place, we have “looking out your window to check if it is raining”. In second place, we have “a coupon you get when the grocery store is out of an item on discount”. But here, a rain check is “if the event is cancelled due to weather, check your ticket to find the make-up date”.

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Any friend of the Newslettr surely has seen The Wizard of Oz, possibly the single-most famous film from the 20th century.

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As far as I am aware, “elsewhen” is less an English word than “thrice” is. The intended meaning should be clear: “elsewhere” means a different place (either north or south), “elsewhen” means a different time (either before or after, but certainly not when the sirens are blaring).

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Some of the stories on the Nets are obviously real. Others are obviously fake. You will have to do the due diligence yourself.

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What did the cannibal say to the clown? Does this taste funny to you? If it involves cannibalism, changing diapers, or anything serious enough where you give the soldiers real guns, it is funny business.

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