...with controlled inoculations with skin pricks rather than waiting for people to be infected via their eyes or lungs. Inoculations reduced smallpox mortality from 30% to about 1% seven centuries before a vaccine was developed.

I believe that was skin pricks with stuff from a cowpox sore, not from a smallpox sore.

I think it means, "We care more about diversity (particularly the proportion of women in STEM positions) than, you know, that computer stuff."

Actually... the Peace Corps does really try to help, whereas the Green New Deal looks like plain evil with a green bow. I was unfair to the Peace Corps.

It reminded me of old stories about the Peace Corps... people with good intentions trying to teach sustenance farmers deep in some remote part of South America or somewhere how they should really be farming.

I was, in fact, trying to make a joke.

Tax the rich.

Of course, that always works.... but sooner or later you run out of either rich people's money or rich people.

I sorta made it up, but it was from...

"Working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically feasible."

Some economist said that wealth is created when assets move from a lower-valued use to a higher-valued use. (This includes simple barter; each participant gets something he/she values more than what they give up.)

Moving people to lower-valued work decreases wealth.

You may be thinking of Brexit.

'Course, part of the Green New Deal is about liberal-arts college kids teaching farmers how to farm.

The Green New Deal is about totalitarianism as much as it is about the environment, but.... even if it was all good, where do they expect to get the money for all of this? Would a quarillion dollars do the trick?

I don't think photosynthesis requires UV light, does it? I have grown plants under High Pressure Sodium grow lights that produce little UV... or at least, little UV gets throught the glass bulb. People grow under standard flouresent lights. I am now working on growing under LED grow-lights that produce (almost?) no UV.

I am getting ready to do some intensive indoor gardening in pure sand - passive hydroponics, in which I move the water around by hand-watering the plants. The water must contain all the nutrients the plants require, of course.

Currently almost 100 members of Congress are self-declared "Progressives", a euphemism, for a mask that has worn so thin that AOC has abandon it and proudly declares herself a Communist.

Members of Congress that declare that they are enemies of the constitution, considering their oath of office... shouldn't they arrested?

Isn't it a lot like a cop admitting that he is into killing people for kicks?

Or Captain Kangaroo?

Any company who uses OSS software to make any sort of profit, and does not somehow give value back to the community that created it is a toxic predator raping the OSS industry.

ISPs use open source software as part of their business, don't they?

The "toxic predator raping the OSS industry" is Coraline Ada Ehmke.