Spyke

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CIA director Ratcliffe arrives in Moscow on secret visit, US reports claim

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Weirdly, Ratcliffe has tended to be on the Marco Rubio, Russia hawk wing of this administration and has pushed to maintain and in some ways even increase intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

Like, don't get me wrong, he's had some terrible takes on things like Israel, Iran, the 2020 election, going after Trump's political enemies etc. but he's generally shown a more traditional Republican dislike of Russia.

So fuck knows what he's up to.

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*in the US. Norway has charged Thorbjørn Jagland and in the UK Peter Mandelson and the Andrew formerly known as Prince were arrested, plus a number of other countries have criminal investigations ongoing. All so far for corruption rather than sex crimes but that's probably a function of what's easier to prove in court.

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W for Uncle Ted

On the subject of Ted Kaczynski and people in the Epstein files, I get an opportunity to revive this old limerick:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown,
what Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
than a bomb in a letter
of the possible ways to be blown.

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The Peasant Life

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I mean, the actual source for this statistic is usually "The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure" by Juliet Schor who in turn got the number from an unpublished paper written by Gregory Clark in 1986. Clark did eventually publish a paper in 2018 where he increased his estimate to 250-300 days (which may still be less than some modern workers work).