"Dying from COVID robbed each American of about a decade of life on average." yeah, no—that's not how death works, LOL. what is this sentence actually trying to say? i don't get it. especially when the next sentence says that life expectancy as a whole dropped by two years. (is it that americans who died from COVID died, on average, a decade earlier than they otherwise would have? <--what i've puzzled out after thinking about it for a while.) sorry for that editorial train of thought.
i can't believe jane has mastered the wink! very cute.
one final observation: that mac studio commercial—sorry "FILM"—features nike so prominently. i wonder what that deal entails. (i think about product placement a lot, even though i don't know the first thing about how it all really works.)
"is it that americans who died from COVID died, on average, a decade earlier than they otherwise would have" yes exactly this. They weren't "just old and going to die anyway"
I'm going to be thinking about the 'death of a network effect' all day. Also i was thinking yesterday after reading that Damon K piece about how so many evenings in my 20s/30s were spent absentmindedly browsing book and record stores. Sadly in our neighborhood Books Are Magic closes at 6 each day (new pandemic hours that I fear will stick), robbing me of a place to wander to after work or dinner.
The good bookstore and comic show on Franklin here in Chapel Hill are gone. The two good record stores have, amazingly, survived, one even expanded (though it's under new management). But god, I miss that bookstore, it was amazing.
While it's become clear that independent bookstores will survive in general, what I miss is the ubiquity, so many options that you could have your favorites, and also others that you sometimes forgot about. Now we're at a point where only a fixed, small number can 'make it.'
"Dying from COVID robbed each American of about a decade of life on average." yeah, no—that's not how death works, LOL. what is this sentence actually trying to say? i don't get it. especially when the next sentence says that life expectancy as a whole dropped by two years. (is it that americans who died from COVID died, on average, a decade earlier than they otherwise would have? <--what i've puzzled out after thinking about it for a while.) sorry for that editorial train of thought.
i can't believe jane has mastered the wink! very cute.
one final observation: that mac studio commercial—sorry "FILM"—features nike so prominently. i wonder what that deal entails. (i think about product placement a lot, even though i don't know the first thing about how it all really works.)
"is it that americans who died from COVID died, on average, a decade earlier than they otherwise would have" yes exactly this. They weren't "just old and going to die anyway"
I'm going to be thinking about the 'death of a network effect' all day. Also i was thinking yesterday after reading that Damon K piece about how so many evenings in my 20s/30s were spent absentmindedly browsing book and record stores. Sadly in our neighborhood Books Are Magic closes at 6 each day (new pandemic hours that I fear will stick), robbing me of a place to wander to after work or dinner.
The good bookstore and comic show on Franklin here in Chapel Hill are gone. The two good record stores have, amazingly, survived, one even expanded (though it's under new management). But god, I miss that bookstore, it was amazing.
While it's become clear that independent bookstores will survive in general, what I miss is the ubiquity, so many options that you could have your favorites, and also others that you sometimes forgot about. Now we're at a point where only a fixed, small number can 'make it.'