Diffcult things that make me ponder

According to existing studies, no single investor owned more than 1,000 single-family homes prior to 2011; however, by 2015, institutional investors owned between 170,000 and 300,000 homes. By 2022, 32 institutional investors collectively owned 450,000 single-family homes, and according to GAO, the five largest investors owned nearly 300,000... See more

Romania is slowly but steadily losing its highly qualified workforce. Since the end of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist regime in 1989, millions of people have left the country — a wave of emigration further facilitated by Romania’s accession to the EU. As a result of that and low birth rates, the country’s population declined by more than 4 million... See more

6/21 Who is Călin Georgescu, what are his visions and why is he a danger for Romania, Ukraine and EU stability? This independent candidate is an individual with Putinist visions assumed through public statements ("Romania needs Russia's wisdom"), close to Aleksandr Dughin, who visited Romania at his invitation several... See more

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946. October 17, 1946 D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to... See more

the freedom of the press is precious and fragile and when a news organisation dies, it leaves a gaping hole.

Last year, the Guardian ran an entire advertising campaign with the tag line ‘Not For Sale’. It put up billboards in the streets pointing out it was ‘reader funded not billionaire backed’.

So, why would it seek to sell off a huge chunk of the organisation and 70+ journalists….to a financially precarious start-up financed by a bunch of VCs and... See more