| This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a flooded turnpike of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. Sign up here. It was tough last night to avoid the sense of things eroding in America. Maybe it was all the towns and streets in the Northeast being turned into deadly rapids by apocalyptic rainfall. Maybe it was the Supreme Court blasting away at women's rights and its own legitimacy. Or maybe we don't have to pick just one. The high court, over the objections of its conservative chief justice, let stand a Texas law that [deep breath] lets citizens collect bounties for suing fellow citizens and health-care providers who perform abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, when many women still don't even know they're pregnant. The law was designed to gut Roe v. Wade in Texas without a court challenge. It was diabolical, cynical and ruthlessly effective — but only because the Supreme Court let it be so, writes Jonathan Bernstein. It didn't even have to write an actual opinion, thanks to the dark sorcery of the "shadow docket." The court's new "do what thou wilt" precedent could lead to legislatures stripping away more rights simply by deputizing citizens to enforce the new laws. Other states are already working on copycat bills for abortion, while liberals are dreaming up their own versions to make people get vaccinated, give up their guns and listen to NPR. Texas may yet find that wildly firing off right-wing laws scares away businesses. And the Supreme Court could still decide Texas' law is unconstitutional, Noah Feldman writes. And it will soon hear arguments about Mississippi's restrictive abortion law and could use that case to reaffirm Roe, despite its lack of apparent concern about it yesterday. But those decisions won't come for many, many months. As last night's floodwaters reminded us, erosion can happen much faster than that. A couple of weeks ago, or 400 years in 2021 time, we wrote it was not yet too late to stop making mistakes in Afghanistan. It will no doubt shock you to learn mistakes continue to be made. Take nation-building: The management of this expensive endeavor had been a clown college of graft and incompetence for years, Ruth Pollard notes, keeping real progress from ever being made. America's involvement may seem over now, but the country still needs rebuilding, and it still needs cash. The U.S. could yet play a constructive role here, but seems bent on financially punishing the Taliban. It risks triggering an economic collapse, which could lead to an ugly new regime that would make the Taliban seem like the Athenian Boule in comparison. You may consider President Joe Biden's handling of the war's end a similar mistake. But it will probably benefit him politically in the long run, writes Mihir Sharma, because at least it shows he's being decisive. For better or worse, that alone seems to be the key to a moderate politician surviving in a populist era. Sometimes the trick to making mistakes is owning them. Further Afghanistan Reading: When hip, cool vaccinated people, which is all of them, fight over which vaccine is the hippest and coolest, they limit their arguments to the big four: Moderna, Pfizer, J&J and AstraZeneca. But almost nobody mentions Sputnik, which sounds even hipper and cooler than the rest because pew pew rockets. The Russian vaccine even claims a 91.6% efficacy rate, right up there with the hypercool mRNA vaccines. The trouble, writes Bloomberg's editorial board, is that after making an effective vaccine, Russia stumbled when it came to testing and marketing the thing. It keeps failing to assuage data concerns and vaccine hesitancy at home or deliver on promised doses around the world. It does still have time to mitigate the damage, though. Remember earlier this year, when everybody was going to jump from WhatsApp to Telegram and Signal? Yeah, no. WhatsApp's massive network effect has won the day, writes Parmy Olson.  Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement goes far too easy on the Sackler family. — Joe Nocera Wayfair's robust supply chain means it isn't suffering from the hangups other retailers are. Investors should take notice. — Tara Lachapelle China wants total control over its tech firms' data troves. — Tim Culpan First Jack Ma's mouth cost him money, and now his fancy celebrity friends are costing him more. — Shuli Ren Porn inspired many internet innovations, and it might again lead the way in privacy protections. — Leonid Bershidsky Gavin Newsom's polling is looking up. The rich have figured out a way to avoid Biden's tax hikes. China's ghost cities are coming back to life. Nothing can prepare you for these rock formations. (h/t Alexandra Ivanoff) Female octopuses throw things at harassing males, whereas female hummingbirds solve the problem by pretending to be males. Deep-sea bacteria could kill cancer. A single neuron is more computationally complex than you might think.  Notes: Please send rock formations and complaints to Mark Gongloff at mgongloff1@bloomberg.net. Sign up here and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. | 
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