HA! (US politicians can exercise common sense, except when it comes to guns)
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"The solution, for higher primates, was to slough off the whole superficial endometrium – dying embryos and all – after every ovulation that didn't result in a healthy pregnancy. It's not exactly brilliant, but it works, and most importantly, it's easily achieved by making some alterations to a chemical pathway normally used by the fetus during pregnancy. In other words, it's just the kind of effect natural selection is renowned for: odd, hackish solutions that work to solve proximate problems." Quora
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"Here is the warning Mamdani issued in 1996: in their struggle to deracialise the civilised [sic] laws of Europe in the cities, South Africans will be blindsided to the continuation of despotic rule in the countryside. And the consequences will not be confined to out-of-sight rural ghettos but will come to shape SA’s collective fate." RDM
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[CN: very graphic descriptions of sexual violence]
I'm lost for words here. So much pain and violence in the world, and it just keeps replicating itself.
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It boggles my mind to think how much practice this probably required.
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“I used to be really angry and sad about the struggles to pay for groceries to feed my children. But the niqab has given me something else to be sad and angry about.” Beaverton
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"self-reported earnings from theft are generally very low and there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft... Theft in the United States thus appears to be substantially a phenomenon of individuals entering a temporary period of intensified risk-taking in adolescence." Science Direct
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"The IMF had convinced Irish officials that, as part of any rescue package, those who had lent money to the banks should be forced to share in the pain. But Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank and a key player in any rescue plan, was adamant that there be no “haircuts” for bank creditors.
Trichet’s motivation was not surprising. The biggest creditors of the bankrupt Irish banks were French and German banks that themselves could go under if forced to recognize such losses, requiring costly and unpopular bailouts from their own governments." Washington Post
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"The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) says Hitachi broke the rules by doing a deal to sell 25% of its shares to Chancellor House precisely so the ANC front company could leverage its political connections to ensure Hitachi won the Eskom contract. Worse, Hitachi then paid a secret $1,12m “success fee” to Chancellor House for its help in ensuring the deal was clinched." Fin Mail
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Some more sensible critiques of Uber here. Lots of issues around employment practices in an age of increasing precarity for workers. I don't think a minimum wage is the best long-term solution (that honour goes to a unconditional basic income), but it might be appropriate under existing institutional arrangements. Working hour limits are also urgently needed!
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I used one of this dude's textbooks, back in the day.
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"Although Graham is often seen primarily as a Cold Warrior, one of his major concerns at the outset of his public career was really the encroachment of the liberal state—not surprising, since one of his strongest financial supporters was oilman Sid Richardson, one of the wealthiest men in the nation at the time." Democracy Journal
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"Through such benign-sounding activities as philanthropy, historic preservation, and serving on committees for parks and liquor licenses, gentrifiers solidified their position in the community and began to erase the cultural presence of those who preceded them." Public Books
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Fascinating. We think that scurvy was "cured" by the advent of lemon juice supplements in the 18th century, but it in fact kept recurring until the isolation of vitamin C in the early twentieth century.
"Unless you already understand and believe in the vitamin model of nutrition, the notion of a trace substance that exists both in fresh limes and bear kidneys, but is absent from a cask of lime juice because you happened to prepare it in a copper vessel, begins to sound pretty contrived."
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"The solution, for higher primates, was to slough off the whole superficial endometrium – dying embryos and all – after every ovulation that didn't result in a healthy pregnancy. It's not exactly brilliant, but it works, and most importantly, it's easily achieved by making some alterations to a chemical pathway normally used by the fetus during pregnancy. In other words, it's just the kind of effect natural selection is renowned for: odd, hackish solutions that work to solve proximate problems." Quora
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"Here is the warning Mamdani issued in 1996: in their struggle to deracialise the civilised [sic] laws of Europe in the cities, South Africans will be blindsided to the continuation of despotic rule in the countryside. And the consequences will not be confined to out-of-sight rural ghettos but will come to shape SA’s collective fate." RDM
>>><<<
[CN: very graphic descriptions of sexual violence]
I'm lost for words here. So much pain and violence in the world, and it just keeps replicating itself.
>>><<<
It boggles my mind to think how much practice this probably required.
>>><<<
“I used to be really angry and sad about the struggles to pay for groceries to feed my children. But the niqab has given me something else to be sad and angry about.” Beaverton
>>><<<
"self-reported earnings from theft are generally very low and there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft... Theft in the United States thus appears to be substantially a phenomenon of individuals entering a temporary period of intensified risk-taking in adolescence." Science Direct
>>><<<
"The IMF had convinced Irish officials that, as part of any rescue package, those who had lent money to the banks should be forced to share in the pain. But Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank and a key player in any rescue plan, was adamant that there be no “haircuts” for bank creditors.
Trichet’s motivation was not surprising. The biggest creditors of the bankrupt Irish banks were French and German banks that themselves could go under if forced to recognize such losses, requiring costly and unpopular bailouts from their own governments." Washington Post
>>><<<
"The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) says Hitachi broke the rules by doing a deal to sell 25% of its shares to Chancellor House precisely so the ANC front company could leverage its political connections to ensure Hitachi won the Eskom contract. Worse, Hitachi then paid a secret $1,12m “success fee” to Chancellor House for its help in ensuring the deal was clinched." Fin Mail
>>><<<
Some more sensible critiques of Uber here. Lots of issues around employment practices in an age of increasing precarity for workers. I don't think a minimum wage is the best long-term solution (that honour goes to a unconditional basic income), but it might be appropriate under existing institutional arrangements. Working hour limits are also urgently needed!
>>><<<
I used one of this dude's textbooks, back in the day.
>>><<<
"Although Graham is often seen primarily as a Cold Warrior, one of his major concerns at the outset of his public career was really the encroachment of the liberal state—not surprising, since one of his strongest financial supporters was oilman Sid Richardson, one of the wealthiest men in the nation at the time." Democracy Journal
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"Through such benign-sounding activities as philanthropy, historic preservation, and serving on committees for parks and liquor licenses, gentrifiers solidified their position in the community and began to erase the cultural presence of those who preceded them." Public Books
>>><<<
Fascinating. We think that scurvy was "cured" by the advent of lemon juice supplements in the 18th century, but it in fact kept recurring until the isolation of vitamin C in the early twentieth century.
"Unless you already understand and believe in the vitamin model of nutrition, the notion of a trace substance that exists both in fresh limes and bear kidneys, but is absent from a cask of lime juice because you happened to prepare it in a copper vessel, begins to sound pretty contrived."
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