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"The common denominator seems to be the stakes, and orientation mismatches are just one way the stakes of indicating interest in another person can be lowered enough to facilitate flirtatiousness. A great many of the most egregious flirts I’ve come across were very old men (presumably heterosexual), who seem to find the knowledge that young women no longer take them seriously as romantic prospects liberating, rather than discouraging. Old ladies who flirt with anyone and everyone don’t seem uncommon, either, and gay men who flirt with women, particularly older ones, are definitely A Thing." Slate
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"A few years ago, the Casa dos Frescos had been the site of what locals refer to as “the incident of the golden melon.’’ An enraged French customer, having paid a hundred and five dollars for a single melon, sued the store for profiteering. The case was thrown out of court, in part because the man not only bought the melon but also ate the evidence." New Yorker
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Remember that borders are violence, and not only in the developed world. States all over the world brutally oppress migrants and people understood as foreigners.
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Laverne Cox is literally the best
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Lots of farmland in the UK is only economically viable because of subsidies. Under a free market, it would revert to the wilderness. And then there'd, you know, be some wilderness, instead of a soulless agro-industrial wasteland.
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"Polar bears mate with grizzlies in the Canadian Arctic along the Beaufort Sea to produce “pizzly bears.”" Quartz
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Horrifying before-and-after photos illustrating the effects of forced removals under apartheid.
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SA govt closes offices where refugees can have their paperwork renewed... then arrests them for not having up-to-date paperwork.
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Good long-form piece about the decline of work in the developed world, and how society might adapt
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LOL
"By and large, the policy heavyweights of the day... believed there was a “categorical no-bailout injunction.” As such, it was expected that markets would understand that European governments were more likely to default once their devaluation option was taken away and that financial markets would price the sovereign debt of countries differently depending on the health of their public finances."
Seriously, though, it's a good article - a very strong argument that the basic reason why we're now facing another crisis in Greece was the decision to bail it out in 2010, rather than allowing an orderly default.
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Authoritarianism is Turkey has suffered a setback, but is not defeated.
"The common denominator seems to be the stakes, and orientation mismatches are just one way the stakes of indicating interest in another person can be lowered enough to facilitate flirtatiousness. A great many of the most egregious flirts I’ve come across were very old men (presumably heterosexual), who seem to find the knowledge that young women no longer take them seriously as romantic prospects liberating, rather than discouraging. Old ladies who flirt with anyone and everyone don’t seem uncommon, either, and gay men who flirt with women, particularly older ones, are definitely A Thing." Slate
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"A few years ago, the Casa dos Frescos had been the site of what locals refer to as “the incident of the golden melon.’’ An enraged French customer, having paid a hundred and five dollars for a single melon, sued the store for profiteering. The case was thrown out of court, in part because the man not only bought the melon but also ate the evidence." New Yorker
>>><<<
Remember that borders are violence, and not only in the developed world. States all over the world brutally oppress migrants and people understood as foreigners.
>>><<<
Laverne Cox is literally the best
>>><<<
Lots of farmland in the UK is only economically viable because of subsidies. Under a free market, it would revert to the wilderness. And then there'd, you know, be some wilderness, instead of a soulless agro-industrial wasteland.
>>><<<
"Polar bears mate with grizzlies in the Canadian Arctic along the Beaufort Sea to produce “pizzly bears.”" Quartz
>>><<<
Horrifying before-and-after photos illustrating the effects of forced removals under apartheid.
>>><<<
SA govt closes offices where refugees can have their paperwork renewed... then arrests them for not having up-to-date paperwork.
>>><<<
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Good long-form piece about the decline of work in the developed world, and how society might adapt
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LOL
"By and large, the policy heavyweights of the day... believed there was a “categorical no-bailout injunction.” As such, it was expected that markets would understand that European governments were more likely to default once their devaluation option was taken away and that financial markets would price the sovereign debt of countries differently depending on the health of their public finances."
Seriously, though, it's a good article - a very strong argument that the basic reason why we're now facing another crisis in Greece was the decision to bail it out in 2010, rather than allowing an orderly default.
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Authoritarianism is Turkey has suffered a setback, but is not defeated.
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