Is this a bot? Why would anyone put Axemaster in the Reach position? (Silver II, 60 mana, Explosive Weaponry and Silenced Summoners rule sets)

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

“The failure of UST is equivalent to the failure of crypto itself.” — Do Kwon

Um, no.

Oddly enough, no mention of HBD: Trust in stablecoins ‘infinitely more important’ than collateral

Nine Worrying Signs About the Economy

China’s Slowdown Is Rippling All Around the World

China’s deceleration represents a double whammy for the global economy. The country isn’t just a huge market for the rest of the world’s goods, components and raw materials, but it is the manufacturing dynamo at the center of global trade.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Experts perplexed over number of people getting long COVID

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: China Faces Possible Covid ‘Tsunami’

China risks a ‘tsunami’ of coronavirus infections resulting in 1.6 million deaths if the government abandons its long-held Covid Zero policy and allows the highly-infectious omicron variant to spread unchecked.

Missouri Bans Pharmacists From Disputing Ivermectin

Politics:

Georgia Judge Laughs David Perdue’s 2020 Election Lawsuit Out Of Court

Philadelphia Inquirer Won’t Endorse In Republican Primaries

How do you find points of agreement when you can’t reach common ground on facts so basic that they could be used in a field sobriety test?

Russia is resorting to putting computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in tanks due to US sanctions

Margaret Atwood: I Invented Gilead. The Supreme Court is Making It Real.

Russia Is Pulling Back from Kharkiv

The Lancet has a blistering editorial:

If the U.S. Supreme Court confirms its draft decision, women will die. The Justices who vote to strike down Roe will not succeed in ending abortion, they will only succeed in ending safe abortion. Alito and his supporters will have women’s blood on their hands.
What is so shocking, inhuman, and irrational about this draft opinion is that the Court is basing its decision on an 18th-century document ignorant of 21st-century realities for women. The route forward is unclear and perilous. This Court’s argument suggests possible future attacks on a raft of other civil rights, from marriage equality to contraception.

Ron DeSantis Picks Nutjob as New Secretary of State

Sanctions Are ‘Beginning to Bite’ Into Russian Military

U.S. and British officials believe that damaging international sanctions slapped on Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine are hampering its ability to restock high-tech weapons, such as precision-guided munitions, though Russia still has plenty of conventional ammunition stocks at its disposal to continue to wage war.

How Baby Formula Shortage Turned Into Racist Attack On Immigrants

Sweden Signals It Will Also Join NATO

A day after Finland’s leaders declared unequivocally that the nation would join NATO, the Swedish government signaled on Friday that it could soon follow suit, issuing a scathing report outlining how Russian aggression in Ukraine had fundamentally altered the security equation in Europe and saying that only NATO membership would offer the nation stability and protection.

Kremlin dismisses Polish PM's criticism of Putin as ‘shocking’

“Highly unusual”: Freedom of Information Act request reveals Trump DOJ’s “egregious” secret subpoena

Big Majority of Republicans Want to Impeach Biden

On general principles I suppose.

FFS. This is another example of Democrats playing chess and Republicans eating the pieces.

We’ve been telling Democrats this since 2020. https://t.co/aM1CLYNsEz

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 13, 2022

‘Lost’ Picasso Spotted in Imelda Marcos’s Home

Serendipity:

A shrinking fraction of the world’s major crops goes to feed the hungry, with more used for nonfood purposes

Yes, the new photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole looks fuzzy. Here's why it isn't.

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