I'm just loving everything this dude writes. I'd recommend browsing through his blog.
" What, then, should the left support, if not more jobs? Shortening the work week disappeared from labor’s agenda after World War II, and we need to bring it back. We should also make unemployment benefits more generous in order to ease the pain of joblessness. Ultimately, though, we need to get more radical than that, and move away from tightly linking jobs and income. To reiterate, the real problem of the unemployed isn’t their lack of jobs, it’s their lack of money. That’s why some on the left are coming around to the idea of just giving people money: a guaranteed minimum income, which everyone would be entitled to independent of work." Peter Frase: The case against jobs
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Obviously something of a limited perspective, but some interesting coming-out stories from porn performers.
"Stoya: Okay, I’ve got to tell you another thing.
Grandma: Okay.
Stoya: Well, I’m using your name.
Grandma: Oooh. Vera? That’s not very sexy.
Stoya: Well actually, if I was going for pin-up, that would actually be a fantastic name, but I’m using "Stoya."
Grandma: Ooooh no.
And I’m like, "Fuck, we were going so well!"
Stoya: What’s wrong?
Grandma: I hope that no one at the nursing home gets us confused and tries to put my feet behind my head, because I don’t bend that way anymore." Vox
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Instead of setting a ceiling on agricultural subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy... how about we just eliminate the whole thing? And then curse its memory for all generations? BBC
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Walmart, also doing some good stuff...
"...back in 2007, Walmart tried to go even further and get a full banking license. Community banks didn't like that idea and regulators and politicians balked at it. But allowing a large national retailer that specializes in downmarket consumers get a banking license would likely be an effective to serve some of the unbanked population and inject more competition into consumer banking. Other options exist (postal banking, for example) that could serve similar purposes. But thus far the impact of Walmart dipping its toes into financial services has been beneficial and it seems likely that it'd be good for consumers for them to go further." Vox
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[TW for sexual harassment]
Not that surprising, but good that people are doing systematic research on this.
"An academic study published last month reports that sexual aggressors' invasiveness is not related to their own intoxication, but rather the intoxication of their targets." The Guardian
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"I'm pretty sure Park simply feels that there are certain no-no words, bad words that can never be used to prove any point or be justified by any context." Cracked
Yeah, but don't we *all* think there are words that white comedians shouldn't use, whatever their satirical intent? If Colbert had used the N-word, I assume we'd all be solidly on-board the "dude, you can't say that!" bandwagon...
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"In 1953, France was learning a lesson that America would also learn just a decade or two later: Vietnam is not an ideal place to fight a war. Desperate to turn the tide, General Henri Navarre came up with a cunning plan: He'd put his men in such an intensely vulnerable position that the Viet Minh wouldn't be able to stop themselves from attacking them. What could possibly go wrong?" Cracked
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We can attempt to graft the capitalist requirement for scarcity onto a world in which automation renders many goods non-scarce. The question is: why would we want to? Peter Frase
"Stoya: Okay, I’ve got to tell you another thing.
Grandma: Okay.
Stoya: Well, I’m using your name.
Grandma: Oooh. Vera? That’s not very sexy.
Stoya: Well actually, if I was going for pin-up, that would actually be a fantastic name, but I’m using "Stoya."
Grandma: Ooooh no.
And I’m like, "Fuck, we were going so well!"
Stoya: What’s wrong?
Grandma: I hope that no one at the nursing home gets us confused and tries to put my feet behind my head, because I don’t bend that way anymore." Vox
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Instead of setting a ceiling on agricultural subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy... how about we just eliminate the whole thing? And then curse its memory for all generations? BBC
>>><<<
Walmart, also doing some good stuff...
"...back in 2007, Walmart tried to go even further and get a full banking license. Community banks didn't like that idea and regulators and politicians balked at it. But allowing a large national retailer that specializes in downmarket consumers get a banking license would likely be an effective to serve some of the unbanked population and inject more competition into consumer banking. Other options exist (postal banking, for example) that could serve similar purposes. But thus far the impact of Walmart dipping its toes into financial services has been beneficial and it seems likely that it'd be good for consumers for them to go further." Vox
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[TW for sexual harassment]
Not that surprising, but good that people are doing systematic research on this.
"An academic study published last month reports that sexual aggressors' invasiveness is not related to their own intoxication, but rather the intoxication of their targets." The Guardian
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"I'm pretty sure Park simply feels that there are certain no-no words, bad words that can never be used to prove any point or be justified by any context." Cracked
Yeah, but don't we *all* think there are words that white comedians shouldn't use, whatever their satirical intent? If Colbert had used the N-word, I assume we'd all be solidly on-board the "dude, you can't say that!" bandwagon...
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"In 1953, France was learning a lesson that America would also learn just a decade or two later: Vietnam is not an ideal place to fight a war. Desperate to turn the tide, General Henri Navarre came up with a cunning plan: He'd put his men in such an intensely vulnerable position that the Viet Minh wouldn't be able to stop themselves from attacking them. What could possibly go wrong?" Cracked
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We can attempt to graft the capitalist requirement for scarcity onto a world in which automation renders many goods non-scarce. The question is: why would we want to? Peter Frase
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