Sunday 21 December 2014

Links, Sunday 21st Dec

This is utterly disgusting. BBC

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WTAF

"There will also be a €600 fine for showing a lack of respect to anyone in uniform" RT

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"Forbes awarded the humble dabba-wallahs a 6 Sigma performance rating, a term used in quality assurance if the percentage of correctness is 99.9999999 or more. In other words, for every six million tiffins delivered, only one fails to arrive. This error rate means in effect that a tiffin goes astray only once every two months.

It is a rare day indeed when a customer's deep-fried rotis fail to turn up. The sigma rating was the same as that given to the top bluechip company Motorola - not bad considering that most dabba-wallahs are illiterate." Guardian

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Well done. Huff Post

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This is a good one. All cops are bastards, so let's just not have any. Rolling Stone

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Incredible story about the sheer scale of air pollution in Beijing. Guardian

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Such good work at the demo last night: marching to commemorate sex workers who have been killed in the past year, and to fight creeping criminalisation in the UK. Vice

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Amazing that, in some ways, we're still technologically behind the Romans. iO9

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I keep thinking that basic income is probably *the* most important political project of our generation. Let's try make it happen!

"To appreciate the full extent of the emancipation, one should hear the story of the young women who at first wore veils and were reluctant to offend their elders when having their photographs taken to obtain eligibility for the basic income. Within months, they had confidence enough to be sitting and chatting in the centre of the village unveiled. They had their bit of independence." Guardian

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Very nice overview of the electricity situation in South Africa, along with some usefully specific policy proposals at the end. Daily Maverick

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"When we talk about diversity and inclusion, we necessarily position marginalized groups as naturally needing to assimilate into dominant ones, rather than to undermine said structures of domination. Yes, we need jobs; we need education; we need to access various resources. What we don’t need is to relegate ourselves to the position of depending on someone else to offer us inclusion and access to those resources. Inclusion is something they must give, but our liberation is something we will take." MVC

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It's pretty thoughtless to state that "all" Americans are in as much danger as Eric Garner (since not all Americans are black and working class), but this is a pretty shocking statistic:

"Husak cites estimates that more than 70 percent of American adults have committed a crime that could lead to imprisonment." Bloomberg

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"Take any object you like, pile it onto a pallet, and it becomes, simply, a “unit load”—standardized, cubical, and ideally suited to being scooped up by the tines of a forklift. This allows your Cheerios and your oysters to be whisked through the supply chain with great efficiency; the gains are so impressive, in fact, that many experts consider the pallet to be the most important materials-handling innovation of the twentieth century." Cabinet

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