“On generational wealth. So. We needed to get our home appraised. The appraiser came by and he was immediately unpleasant - making one rude comment after another. He expressed exaggerated surprise when he saw me working at my home office during the walk-through. At the end of it we received an appraisal result that was so low that it was laughable. We appraised far lower than neighboring home sales with fewer bathrooms, fewer bedrooms, significantly lower square footage and half the land.

I knew immediately what needed to happen. We ordered a second appraisal and took down all family pictures containing Black relatives. We took down all pictures of African-American greats that we display to inspire our son. Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison came down from the bookshelves; Shakespeare went up. My son and I took a convenient shopping trip during the appraisal, leaving my white male husband to show the appraiser around, alone.

We appraised $135,000 higher the second time around. The amount of an entire house in some areas.

Racism silently but conspicuously steals wealth. Racism wastes time. Racism raises blood pressure. Racism makes me hate myself for my calm acceptance of what I had to do, and have always had to do, to achieve a fair result. I write this from a place of absolute anguish, to sort through my emotions. I want better for my son. #BlackLivesMatter”

the math works out to pennies per victim.

bayer budgeted for this.

...meanwhile, every small town I've traveled to in the last year has had a shiny new Edward Jones investment office.

maybe lets build fewer EdJo's and more hospitals.

“Among Native Hawaiians, human remains are believed to retain the mana, or essence, of the deceased. That mana connects the dead with those still living and becomes part of the land, physically and spiritually. But for decades, those remains were removed and relocated as real estate interests carved homes and hotels into the coastline.”

“...in January, workers found two more sets of human remains as construction began. For months, the bones were stored in what state officials referred to as a “temporary curation facility.” Kala‘i, who visited the iwi kupuna on the property in April, said they were being stored in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet inside a construction trailer. She said the baskets containing the bones were covered with black mildew.”

Another reason we shouldn’t be getting health advice from the State or capitalists. The advice always, always follows dollars and violence.

See also: eggs, cigarettes, red meat, salt, petroleum, and dioxins

Instead of just eating less meat because it’s not necessary, it’s become acceptable to experiment on animals to make them less-bad for the environment before being turned into tasty hamburger.

Where would science be today, if it weren’t for bloodthirsty capitalists?

Promising research (controlled and uncontrolled) has found a potential cure for FIP, but Gilead put profits over patients and is focusing on Getting approval of chemically-similar remdesivir instead.

The FIP treatment has inspired an underground market for cat guardians, who spend thousands of dollars buying unverified vials from China.

“Insurance companies in Texas typically pay between $100 and $300 for drive-thru COVID-19 tests, said Jamie Dudensing, CEO of the Texas Association of Health Plans. But the association’s members have seen hundreds of out-of-network COVID-19 test charges come in far higher, some in the thousands of dollars.“

Landlord tech or proptech are “technical products and platforms that have facilitated the merging of the technology and real estate industries in novel ways.
While such technologies have celebrated the “disruption” of the real estate industry with new technology and data infrastructures, they often exacerbate housing inequality and gentrification. We are particularly worried that proptech is leading to new forms of housing injustice in the wake of COVID-19—expanding surveillance, data accumulation, and algorithmic means testing—in ways that increase the power of landlords and further disempower tenants and those seeking shelter.”

“The technology that powers the nation’s leading automated speech recognition systems makes twice as many errors when interpreting words spoken by African Americans as when interpreting the same words spoken by whites.”

Laboratory animals are cogs in the capitalist machine, and when something affects how that machine runs (Covid), those cogs are destroyed.