Saw Bedknobs and Broomsticks for the first time the other night (with Toni). Just thinking about that scene where the one kid is totally shamed for not believing any old crap that adults tell him to believe, and is proved spectacularly wrong.
But in real life, a lot of the stuff adults telling us is along the lines of "be racist, cos God says so", right? So kids getting old enough to start believing the evidence of their own eyes and not believing any old crap adults tell them is just about the only thing saving us.
PSA over.
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I can see that the university is under pressure here, being squeezed from above by reduced government funding. But I don't think that's an excuse - the students are getting even more squeezed! It's their whole future at stake, not meeting whatever bureaucratic directives. The university has to ensure that students without means can afford to keep studying.
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Human beings just don't like sleeping that much, as it turns out
"Scientists who studied three hunter-gatherer and hunter-horticulturalist societies in Africa and Bolivia found that they stayed up for hours after sunset and got no more sleep than people in the industrialised world. None had access to electricity and their only source of light after dark was a campfire."
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Good throughout, but I especially like this bit:
"American progressives typically try to sell the middle class on expanded public services with the argument that someone else will pay for it, while the Danish idea is more that the middle class should agree to pay high taxes because public services are more valuable than additional private consumption. One consequence that follows is Danes care a lot about trying to deliver services cost-effectively."
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"Many of these relationships were formalized according to local marriage custom. Some signed a contract, even though it was inadmissible in the Qing court. The two husbands commonly swore an oath of brotherhood (possibly in a bid to protect the first husband’s ego)." qz
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“Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.” Atlantic
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This is a well-known story, but the scale of it is simply incredible. 58 hours a weeks on housework in 1900 to only 14 in 2011.
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This really speaks to my experience
"Some people don’t use exclamation points, and with those people, it’s safe to stick with periods.Others use them constantly, and with those people you’re a huge dick if you don’t, so you’re forced to join the party."
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Stereotypical photo klaxon, but some decent reporting
"Sex workers are often reluctant to report rape or violent abuse to the police, because “in most cases the police themselves are perpetrators of these violent crimes”."
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"Government entities have higher costs of complying with regulations because they often must go through political processes to raise the money needed to improve their facilities. And they may face pushback from customers or taxpayers who object to higher rates and have the political power to block them.
Public entities also face lower costs for violating the regulations, the authors argue. There is evidence from other studies that they are able to delay or avoid paying fines when penalties are assessed. And officials with regulatory agencies may be sympathetic to violations by public entities, because they understand the difficulty of securing resources in the public sector." Marginal Revolution
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[CN: Non-graphic discussion of child sexual abuse]
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"In a recent policy paper on the subject, the CDU argued that the best protection for children “would be for people with a paedophilic disposition (of whom it is estimated there are around 250,000 in Germany) not to become offenders in the first place”.
“But in order to lessen the number of attacks by paedophiles, our healthcare system must provide sufficient and low-threshold treatment possibilities for them … on a financially sustainable and anonymous basis,” it advised." Guardian
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"Women are “more likely to be treated less aggressively in their initial encounters with the health-care system until they ‘prove that they are as sick as male patients,’... Nationwide, men wait an average of 49 minutes before receiving an analgesic for acute abdominal pain. Women wait an average of 65 minutes for the same thing." Atlantic
But in real life, a lot of the stuff adults telling us is along the lines of "be racist, cos God says so", right? So kids getting old enough to start believing the evidence of their own eyes and not believing any old crap adults tell them is just about the only thing saving us.
PSA over.
>>><<<
I can see that the university is under pressure here, being squeezed from above by reduced government funding. But I don't think that's an excuse - the students are getting even more squeezed! It's their whole future at stake, not meeting whatever bureaucratic directives. The university has to ensure that students without means can afford to keep studying.
>>><<<
Human beings just don't like sleeping that much, as it turns out
"Scientists who studied three hunter-gatherer and hunter-horticulturalist societies in Africa and Bolivia found that they stayed up for hours after sunset and got no more sleep than people in the industrialised world. None had access to electricity and their only source of light after dark was a campfire."
>>><<<
Good throughout, but I especially like this bit:
"American progressives typically try to sell the middle class on expanded public services with the argument that someone else will pay for it, while the Danish idea is more that the middle class should agree to pay high taxes because public services are more valuable than additional private consumption. One consequence that follows is Danes care a lot about trying to deliver services cost-effectively."
>>><<<
"Many of these relationships were formalized according to local marriage custom. Some signed a contract, even though it was inadmissible in the Qing court. The two husbands commonly swore an oath of brotherhood (possibly in a bid to protect the first husband’s ego)." qz
>>><<<
“Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.” Atlantic
>>><<<
This is a well-known story, but the scale of it is simply incredible. 58 hours a weeks on housework in 1900 to only 14 in 2011.
>>><<<
This really speaks to my experience
"Some people don’t use exclamation points, and with those people, it’s safe to stick with periods.Others use them constantly, and with those people you’re a huge dick if you don’t, so you’re forced to join the party."
>>><<<
Stereotypical photo klaxon, but some decent reporting
"Sex workers are often reluctant to report rape or violent abuse to the police, because “in most cases the police themselves are perpetrators of these violent crimes”."
>>><<<
"Government entities have higher costs of complying with regulations because they often must go through political processes to raise the money needed to improve their facilities. And they may face pushback from customers or taxpayers who object to higher rates and have the political power to block them.
Public entities also face lower costs for violating the regulations, the authors argue. There is evidence from other studies that they are able to delay or avoid paying fines when penalties are assessed. And officials with regulatory agencies may be sympathetic to violations by public entities, because they understand the difficulty of securing resources in the public sector." Marginal Revolution
>>><<<
[CN: Non-graphic discussion of child sexual abuse]
.
.
.
"In a recent policy paper on the subject, the CDU argued that the best protection for children “would be for people with a paedophilic disposition (of whom it is estimated there are around 250,000 in Germany) not to become offenders in the first place”.
“But in order to lessen the number of attacks by paedophiles, our healthcare system must provide sufficient and low-threshold treatment possibilities for them … on a financially sustainable and anonymous basis,” it advised." Guardian
>>><<<
"Women are “more likely to be treated less aggressively in their initial encounters with the health-care system until they ‘prove that they are as sick as male patients,’... Nationwide, men wait an average of 49 minutes before receiving an analgesic for acute abdominal pain. Women wait an average of 65 minutes for the same thing." Atlantic
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