Polyploid

Jan 2, 2020 I've been up since before five. The world has been burning in flats below me for days on end. I woke up a from a dream. From a nightmare. I killed a woman. I killed her in a dream. I was on mushrooms, and I thought she'd been fatally injured. I didn't want to do it, it just happened, and I fled, or at least that's what I tell myself In the reality of the dream, I'd shared the mushrooms with her. We were on some sort of a rollercoaster, and she did something stupid, and she injured herself. I didn't want people to know what had happened. I didn't want to be held responsible for her death. I didn't want people to find out. I didn't want go to jail. So I beat her to death. Other people saw. They knew. Her frat-boy friends. They knew. It happened in my hometown of Kent, Ohio. Since the dream I've carried the guilt of her death for years. It was one of those hyperrealistic dreams. The kind where there are colors, and maybe even smells. So ...

US Police kill African Americans at twice the rate of white Americans. There seems to be some debate around this even all the numbers are publicly available. Here's how the computation works: We want to compare the two rates. The easiest way to do this is by comparing the ratios of African Americans shot to whites shot, and this requires only four numbers. First you need to know how many black people and white people are killed by the police each year. The Washington Post has this information. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ ) The Washington Post reports that over the last five years 1351 African Americans have been shot by the police. In the same time 2597 white Americans (non-hispanic) have been shot.  Next you need to know the two populations' representation in the total US population. Wikipedia reports that African Americans are 13.4 percent of the population, and whites (non-hispanic) are 60.1 percent of the population. (...