"between 800 and 300 BC the Greeks’ cultural achievement was supported by sustained economic growth, and that economic growth was in turn supported by an exceptionally participatory mode of politics." Times HE
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"You're not allowed to work, but neither are you allowed to receive benefits. Through the munificence of Her Majesty's government you are, however, allowed to starve." Guardian
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"Amnesty found that sex workers in Norway were routinely evicted by the police. The organisation’s report states that “a number of migrant sex workers were violently attacked and raped … They reported the incident to the police … they returned to their apartment to find the police have removed all their money and electronic equipment. Four days after the attack they were forcibly evicted.”
It’s hard to believe that those Hollywood signatories read this and thought: “Brilliant, the police evicting migrant women when they report rape sounds like the feminist solution to prostitution; we should support the legal model where this occurs.” But that is what appears to have happened – unless they signed up to attack Amnesty over a document they had not read." Guardian
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"The UK, which is cutting renewable energy subsidies, permits $41bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies, which is $635 per person." Guardian
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"Amnesty directors need to stand behind the organisation’s own research and vote in favour of decriminalisation. Sex workers around the world expect – and deserve – nothing less." Guardian
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I have nothing to add to this. Basically, Erdogan seemed like an ok guy for a while, but it turns out he's a total dick
>>><<<
"If I'm going in for the role of a nice father, I'll talk to everybody," Sayed tells the table. "But if you're going for a terrorist role, don't fucking smile at all those white people sitting there. Treat them like shit. The minute you say hello, you break character." GQ
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"we can reduce jealousy by making it everyone’s responsibility to support and recognize all existing relationships within the community. Polyamory experts advise a jealous person to turn to his/her partner for reassurance that their relationship is important. But social network research indicates that dyads need support from the networks in which they are embedded; support that shows the relationship is recognized and valued. Polyamory experts say the purpose of meeting your partner’s partners is to soothe your own jealousy or to find out if you happen to like the person (once again, the individualistic, what’s in it for me?). But from a social standpoint, the purpose of meeting a partner’s partner is to make a contribution to reducing jealousy in your community by letting the person know that you recognize and value of the relationship they have with your partner." Salon
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You'd think the punishment for scamming IS militants would be some sort of medal...
"Three young Chechen women are in trouble after being caught scamming Islamic State (IS) fighters out of thousands of dollars by posing as wannabe jihadi brides, according to reports in Russia."
>>><<<
Some good ideas in here - the elimination of excessive agency fees and a rent insurance scheme - but I still maintain that rent control can't address, and may exacerbate the underlying economic issue. Until you boost supply, increased demand for housing will result either in prices going up or new tenants being shut out of the market. (Discouraging non-occupancy, incidentally, is a pretty good way of boosting supply)
>>><<<
Some guidelines on sitting with emotions, with reference to the movie Inside Out
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Love this. I think a lot of us men who date women feel really good about ourselves when we tell our female partners that they're beautiful and they "don't need makeup"... but forget about all the times we've told women they look "tired" when we see them without makeup. Maybe we should all, collectively, just stop having unsolicited opinions about women's faces, yeah?
>>><<<
"as long as Miss Major is alive, I'm not letting that fictionalized whitewashed trans free Stonewall narrative even gain a foothold because it's a crime against history...
The reality coming from multiple witnesses to the original event say that it was Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, butch lesbians and other gender variant persons of color who jumped off the riot in 1969 while the Fire Island gays were still cowering in their closets." TransGriot
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I'm fully on board with this, tbh. If you want conservation, do proper conservation, with actual wildlife reserves and parks. Don't just set aside a bunch of land that could house millions of people as a giveaway for rich suburbanites and farmers
>>><<<
Good news for chilli lovers
>>><<<
This reflects some of John Gray's usual (and rather annoying) preoccupations, but is a good summary of Hayek's life and thought.
>>><<<
Excellent critical review on Fukuyama's "The End of History" and "Political Order"
Personally, I'm inclined to partially accept Fukuyama's thesis, that liberal-capitalist-bureaucratic-representative democracy represents at least *an* end of history, with the disputes between neoliberals and social democratics being more a matter of detail than fundamental disagreement.
I think the challenge for those of us on the Left is to formulate a radical alternative that has the sort of coherence and appeal that revolutionary overthrow of the state and statist communism seemed to enjoy in its heyday.
>>><<<
Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, writes to Amnesty International urging them to stand strong in supporting sex work decriminalisation.
>>><<<
So it turns out that Louis C.K. is a sexually abusive asshole too :( :(
[some very general discussion of sexual assault at the link]
>>><<<
A controversial thesis, but with some resonance. Just anecdotally, many of the people I've spoken to who have really hard-line opinions on drug criminalisation live in working class communities that are really terrorised by gangs with links to the drug trade. I think that's a pretty understandable reaction, and one that needs to be engaged with really seriously.
"The book looks at how growing disorder and addiction drove many working- and middle-class people in Harlem and elsewhere to mobilize for tougher crime policies. When Nelson A. Rockefeller staged a news conference promoting his antidrug proposals, Fortner writes, the New York governor was joined by five leaders from the country’s most famous black neighborhood."
>>><<<
"The cyclotrons’ huge magnets would send metal tools flying across the room like shrapnel, and the machines were so poorly insulated electrically that you could touch a light bulb to any nearby metal surface and make it glow. Cyclotron scientists were also pretty casual about the radioactive materials they studied. The zipper on one scientist’s fly got so contaminated with radioactivity that he was ruining experiments just by standing near them." American Scholar
>>><<<
Again, the central bank of *Moldova* is able to generate inflation pretty much instantly, but we're expected to believe that the ECB can't manage it?
"The fraud left the three banks insolvent, so the National Bank of Moldova, the central bank, has taken them over, injecting 12.5 billion Moldovan lei ($660m) in new capital. It did not have such a sum to hand, however—it had to create it. The huge expansion of the money supply caused inflation to double to 8% and the currency to drop."
>>><<<
Failure to properly regulate opioids in the US is killing loads of people
"By 2008 drug overdoses, mostly from opioids, overtook car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death."
>>><<<
Never forget: Opponents of Amnesty's draft sex work decriminalisation policy simply oppose the existence of sex work itself; they have no interest in the safety of sex workers.
"At a 2014 hearing on whether or not Canada should adopt something like Norway’s sex work law, Senator Donald Plett remarked, “We don’t want to make life safe for prostitutes, we want to do away with prostitution.” Sweden’s trafficking unit head Ann Martin has defended their anti-sex work law, from which Norway’s and Canada’s were drawn, telling the London Review of Books, “Of course the law has negative consequences for women in prostitution but that’s also some of the effect that we want to achieve with the law.”"
>>><<<
"You're not allowed to work, but neither are you allowed to receive benefits. Through the munificence of Her Majesty's government you are, however, allowed to starve." Guardian
>>><<<
"Amnesty found that sex workers in Norway were routinely evicted by the police. The organisation’s report states that “a number of migrant sex workers were violently attacked and raped … They reported the incident to the police … they returned to their apartment to find the police have removed all their money and electronic equipment. Four days after the attack they were forcibly evicted.”
It’s hard to believe that those Hollywood signatories read this and thought: “Brilliant, the police evicting migrant women when they report rape sounds like the feminist solution to prostitution; we should support the legal model where this occurs.” But that is what appears to have happened – unless they signed up to attack Amnesty over a document they had not read." Guardian
>>><<<
"The UK, which is cutting renewable energy subsidies, permits $41bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies, which is $635 per person." Guardian
>>><<<
"Amnesty directors need to stand behind the organisation’s own research and vote in favour of decriminalisation. Sex workers around the world expect – and deserve – nothing less." Guardian
>>><<<
I have nothing to add to this. Basically, Erdogan seemed like an ok guy for a while, but it turns out he's a total dick
>>><<<
"If I'm going in for the role of a nice father, I'll talk to everybody," Sayed tells the table. "But if you're going for a terrorist role, don't fucking smile at all those white people sitting there. Treat them like shit. The minute you say hello, you break character." GQ
>>><<<
"we can reduce jealousy by making it everyone’s responsibility to support and recognize all existing relationships within the community. Polyamory experts advise a jealous person to turn to his/her partner for reassurance that their relationship is important. But social network research indicates that dyads need support from the networks in which they are embedded; support that shows the relationship is recognized and valued. Polyamory experts say the purpose of meeting your partner’s partners is to soothe your own jealousy or to find out if you happen to like the person (once again, the individualistic, what’s in it for me?). But from a social standpoint, the purpose of meeting a partner’s partner is to make a contribution to reducing jealousy in your community by letting the person know that you recognize and value of the relationship they have with your partner." Salon
>>><<<
You'd think the punishment for scamming IS militants would be some sort of medal...
"Three young Chechen women are in trouble after being caught scamming Islamic State (IS) fighters out of thousands of dollars by posing as wannabe jihadi brides, according to reports in Russia."
>>><<<
Some good ideas in here - the elimination of excessive agency fees and a rent insurance scheme - but I still maintain that rent control can't address, and may exacerbate the underlying economic issue. Until you boost supply, increased demand for housing will result either in prices going up or new tenants being shut out of the market. (Discouraging non-occupancy, incidentally, is a pretty good way of boosting supply)
>>><<<
Some guidelines on sitting with emotions, with reference to the movie Inside Out
>>><<<
Love this. I think a lot of us men who date women feel really good about ourselves when we tell our female partners that they're beautiful and they "don't need makeup"... but forget about all the times we've told women they look "tired" when we see them without makeup. Maybe we should all, collectively, just stop having unsolicited opinions about women's faces, yeah?
>>><<<
"as long as Miss Major is alive, I'm not letting that fictionalized whitewashed trans free Stonewall narrative even gain a foothold because it's a crime against history...
The reality coming from multiple witnesses to the original event say that it was Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, butch lesbians and other gender variant persons of color who jumped off the riot in 1969 while the Fire Island gays were still cowering in their closets." TransGriot
>>><<<
I'm fully on board with this, tbh. If you want conservation, do proper conservation, with actual wildlife reserves and parks. Don't just set aside a bunch of land that could house millions of people as a giveaway for rich suburbanites and farmers
>>><<<
Good news for chilli lovers
>>><<<
This reflects some of John Gray's usual (and rather annoying) preoccupations, but is a good summary of Hayek's life and thought.
>>><<<
Excellent critical review on Fukuyama's "The End of History" and "Political Order"
Personally, I'm inclined to partially accept Fukuyama's thesis, that liberal-capitalist-bureaucratic-representative democracy represents at least *an* end of history, with the disputes between neoliberals and social democratics being more a matter of detail than fundamental disagreement.
I think the challenge for those of us on the Left is to formulate a radical alternative that has the sort of coherence and appeal that revolutionary overthrow of the state and statist communism seemed to enjoy in its heyday.
>>><<<
Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, writes to Amnesty International urging them to stand strong in supporting sex work decriminalisation.
>>><<<
So it turns out that Louis C.K. is a sexually abusive asshole too :( :(
[some very general discussion of sexual assault at the link]
>>><<<
A controversial thesis, but with some resonance. Just anecdotally, many of the people I've spoken to who have really hard-line opinions on drug criminalisation live in working class communities that are really terrorised by gangs with links to the drug trade. I think that's a pretty understandable reaction, and one that needs to be engaged with really seriously.
"The book looks at how growing disorder and addiction drove many working- and middle-class people in Harlem and elsewhere to mobilize for tougher crime policies. When Nelson A. Rockefeller staged a news conference promoting his antidrug proposals, Fortner writes, the New York governor was joined by five leaders from the country’s most famous black neighborhood."
>>><<<
"The cyclotrons’ huge magnets would send metal tools flying across the room like shrapnel, and the machines were so poorly insulated electrically that you could touch a light bulb to any nearby metal surface and make it glow. Cyclotron scientists were also pretty casual about the radioactive materials they studied. The zipper on one scientist’s fly got so contaminated with radioactivity that he was ruining experiments just by standing near them." American Scholar
>>><<<
Again, the central bank of *Moldova* is able to generate inflation pretty much instantly, but we're expected to believe that the ECB can't manage it?
"The fraud left the three banks insolvent, so the National Bank of Moldova, the central bank, has taken them over, injecting 12.5 billion Moldovan lei ($660m) in new capital. It did not have such a sum to hand, however—it had to create it. The huge expansion of the money supply caused inflation to double to 8% and the currency to drop."
>>><<<
Failure to properly regulate opioids in the US is killing loads of people
"By 2008 drug overdoses, mostly from opioids, overtook car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death."
>>><<<
Never forget: Opponents of Amnesty's draft sex work decriminalisation policy simply oppose the existence of sex work itself; they have no interest in the safety of sex workers.
"At a 2014 hearing on whether or not Canada should adopt something like Norway’s sex work law, Senator Donald Plett remarked, “We don’t want to make life safe for prostitutes, we want to do away with prostitution.” Sweden’s trafficking unit head Ann Martin has defended their anti-sex work law, from which Norway’s and Canada’s were drawn, telling the London Review of Books, “Of course the law has negative consequences for women in prostitution but that’s also some of the effect that we want to achieve with the law.”"
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