"He said the government was struggling to “align Eskom’s message to our political message”." M&G
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"the ASTM Playground Surfacing Committee is proposing to significantly increase the resilience requirements for playgrounds. The motivation appears to be that the goal of improving playground safety with the current standard has not significantly reduced the number of hospital visits. To my mind this is not unlike the logic of the medieval doctor who, when their patient did not get well with one blood letting concluded that they needed more blood letting." Playground Guru
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"Remittances from the Somalian diaspora amount to $1.2-billion to $1.6-billion a year, which is roughly 50% of the country’s gross national income, and on which 40% of the population relies for survival. Over the past 10 years the money known to have been transferred to suspected terrorists in Somalia amounts to a few thousand dollars. Cutting off remittances is likely to kill more people than terrorists will ever manage." M&G
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"What morality comes down to is making relationships right. Morality is realizing, improving, and enhancing the kinds of relationships that are regarded as ideal in your culture. Sometimes violence is used to do that." Marshall Project
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Look at this ridiculous, moralistic shit. BBC conducts a "string" operation to confront a woman running a brothel with Chinese workers. Are we gonna describe *putting an ad in the newspaper* as "trafficking" now? Do we think that migrant women have so little agency of their own that they should be prevented from answering job adverts now? This is pretty much the same attitude which holds that Asian women needed to be locked up "for their own good" to be prevented from doing sex work (and yes, that is a thing that happens). BBC
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"What I found alarming about Fifty Shades of Grey was the overlap between my experience as an abuse victim and the specific way the audience was being conditioned to accept Christian as a romantic lead." Mary Sue
(This, of course, also goes for just about the entire Romance genre)
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Beautiful. I really want to see this film. Does anyone know where/when it might be showing in Cape Town?
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Nature is pretty neat!
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Thoughts? Slate
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Very interesting long read about the theological underpinnings of IS, particular it's obsession with the apocalypse. It's kind of as if fans of the "Left Behind" novels acquired an army, territory and control over a helpless population. That is, it's pretty scary.
"Denying the holiness of the Koran or the prophecies of Muhammad is straightforward apostasy. But Zarqawi and the state he spawned take the position that many other acts can remove a Muslim from Islam. These include, in certain cases, selling alcohol or drugs, wearing Western clothes or shaving one’s beard, voting in an election—even for a Muslim candidate—and being lax about calling other people apostates." Atlantic
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"The ANC has put away the big stick, and is now using state resources, patronage and state power to reshape the media to its liking." Daily Maverick
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Just a reminder that George Washington was a committed slaveholder, and went to great lengths (including some of dubious legality even at the time) to retain his human property. NY Times
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Some of these ideas are no doubt half-baked, but the general point is correct: a major factor in the current crisis is excessively conservative monetary policy Guardian
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This is really important, and I haven't seen it reported on enough. The draft Gender Identity law in Malta will prohibit surgical intervention on intersex children unless it is actually medically required. Too many healthy children are still being given surgery at birth to force them into the standard sex binary that our society deems compulsory. This very frequently damages sexual function and fertility, and very often results in gender dysphoria when these children enter puberty (especially if their medical condition is kept secret from them, as is also often the case). The law is a massive leap forward, and should be widely emulated. Times of Malta
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This is pretty cool
"As there was also protection against very high doses, equivalent to the amount of new virus that would be produced in a chronically infected patient, the researchers believe the approach may be useful in people who already have HIV." BBC
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Some interesting stuff on non-celiac gluten sensitivity. There is some evidence that the placebo effect plays a role
BUUUT... some people who report gluten sensitivity might in fact be sensitive to non-gluten compounds called FODMAPS which are also often found in grains
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"the ASTM Playground Surfacing Committee is proposing to significantly increase the resilience requirements for playgrounds. The motivation appears to be that the goal of improving playground safety with the current standard has not significantly reduced the number of hospital visits. To my mind this is not unlike the logic of the medieval doctor who, when their patient did not get well with one blood letting concluded that they needed more blood letting." Playground Guru
>>><<<
"Remittances from the Somalian diaspora amount to $1.2-billion to $1.6-billion a year, which is roughly 50% of the country’s gross national income, and on which 40% of the population relies for survival. Over the past 10 years the money known to have been transferred to suspected terrorists in Somalia amounts to a few thousand dollars. Cutting off remittances is likely to kill more people than terrorists will ever manage." M&G
>>><<<
"What morality comes down to is making relationships right. Morality is realizing, improving, and enhancing the kinds of relationships that are regarded as ideal in your culture. Sometimes violence is used to do that." Marshall Project
>>><<<
Look at this ridiculous, moralistic shit. BBC conducts a "string" operation to confront a woman running a brothel with Chinese workers. Are we gonna describe *putting an ad in the newspaper* as "trafficking" now? Do we think that migrant women have so little agency of their own that they should be prevented from answering job adverts now? This is pretty much the same attitude which holds that Asian women needed to be locked up "for their own good" to be prevented from doing sex work (and yes, that is a thing that happens). BBC
>>><<<
"What I found alarming about Fifty Shades of Grey was the overlap between my experience as an abuse victim and the specific way the audience was being conditioned to accept Christian as a romantic lead." Mary Sue
(This, of course, also goes for just about the entire Romance genre)
>>><<<
Beautiful. I really want to see this film. Does anyone know where/when it might be showing in Cape Town?
>>><<<
Nature is pretty neat!
>>><<<
Thoughts? Slate
>>><<<
Very interesting long read about the theological underpinnings of IS, particular it's obsession with the apocalypse. It's kind of as if fans of the "Left Behind" novels acquired an army, territory and control over a helpless population. That is, it's pretty scary.
"Denying the holiness of the Koran or the prophecies of Muhammad is straightforward apostasy. But Zarqawi and the state he spawned take the position that many other acts can remove a Muslim from Islam. These include, in certain cases, selling alcohol or drugs, wearing Western clothes or shaving one’s beard, voting in an election—even for a Muslim candidate—and being lax about calling other people apostates." Atlantic
>>><<<
"The ANC has put away the big stick, and is now using state resources, patronage and state power to reshape the media to its liking." Daily Maverick
>>><<<
Just a reminder that George Washington was a committed slaveholder, and went to great lengths (including some of dubious legality even at the time) to retain his human property. NY Times
>>><<<
Some of these ideas are no doubt half-baked, but the general point is correct: a major factor in the current crisis is excessively conservative monetary policy Guardian
>>><<<
This is really important, and I haven't seen it reported on enough. The draft Gender Identity law in Malta will prohibit surgical intervention on intersex children unless it is actually medically required. Too many healthy children are still being given surgery at birth to force them into the standard sex binary that our society deems compulsory. This very frequently damages sexual function and fertility, and very often results in gender dysphoria when these children enter puberty (especially if their medical condition is kept secret from them, as is also often the case). The law is a massive leap forward, and should be widely emulated. Times of Malta
>>><<<
This is pretty cool
"As there was also protection against very high doses, equivalent to the amount of new virus that would be produced in a chronically infected patient, the researchers believe the approach may be useful in people who already have HIV." BBC
>>><<<
Some interesting stuff on non-celiac gluten sensitivity. There is some evidence that the placebo effect plays a role
BUUUT... some people who report gluten sensitivity might in fact be sensitive to non-gluten compounds called FODMAPS which are also often found in grains
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