{"id":5191,"date":"2010-11-13T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/13\/links-for-2010-11-13\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T11:19:42","slug":"links-for-2010-11-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/13\/links-for-2010-11-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-11-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2010\/11\/fix-the-deficit-cure-diabetes.html\">slacktivist: Fix the deficit: Cure diabetes<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;My grand scheme for long-term debt-reduction would improve the lives of tens of millions of people while saving everyone else a ton of money. It&#8217;s an attempt to solve problems, rather than to luxuriate in enduring them and savoring the suffering they produce. And that goes against everything the serious people stand for.<\/p>\n<p>And but so anyway, here is my plan, my GS for LTDR &#8212; are you ready? &#8212; it&#8217;s short:<\/p>\n<p>Cure diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s my plan. Cure diabetes. Eradicate it. Create a post-diabetes world in which people say, &#8220;Hey, remember when there used to be diabetes? That sucked. Glad we got rid of that.&#8221; The kind of world in which, 30 years from now, people dimly recall diabetes the way we now think of polio or scurvy. &#8220;What&#8217;s diabetes?&#8221; young children will ask, mispronouncing the word in some adorably innocent way. &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s just a disease people used to have a long time ago,&#8221; their parents will say.<\/p>\n<p>Cure diabetes. That&#8217;s my plan.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/3681uq\">Noticed that I have 500 followers. If I cared about any of yo&#8230; on Twitpic<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Darth Magritte, I presume.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slacktivist: Fix the deficit: Cure diabetes &#8220;My grand scheme for long-term debt-reduction would improve the lives of tens of millions of people while saving everyone else a ton of money. It&#8217;s an attempt to solve problems, rather than to luxuriate in enduring them and savoring the suffering they produce. And that goes against everything the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/13\/links-for-2010-11-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-11-13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}