Tax-exempt status is one I can think of. I had a similar idea for the Church of Labor. Beliefs are unionization, community solidarity and mutual aid. Get the government to subsidize workers organizing.

In fact he posted this just today apparently!

https://panopticonmerch.myshopify.com/

Panopticon’s album Kentucky. Still hoping to see the level of solidarity and mutual aid those Appalachian coal miners embodied.

Hell yeah Black Brick fucks

Germany is currently my top choice. I’ve been struggling with beginning the process of learning the language but found the VHS course/apps today and had an Anki card deck I finally looked at this week. Job hunting is tough. Engineer with 1.5 years of experience is a touch too entry-level it seems. Studying for a Master’s is on the table too, but there’s a lot of moving parts regardless of what route I take. Wish me luck.

Time for some pretty easy math; if 93,000,000 scans cause 103,000 cancer diagnoses, what percentage of scans cause cancer?

Its 0.11%. Each scan has a 0.11% chance of causing cancer. Thats slighty more than a 1 in 1000 chance for each scan.

Now, 93000000 and 103000 look like large scary numbers but when you’re comparing populations every number is likely to be large and scary. The absolute magnitude is meaningless; the important information lies in their proportion.