So, yeah, I sat next to Phoebe Waller-Bridge to watch the premiere of the second season of Big Boys last night, why, what did you do?
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1. Check this place out, it’s dope
2. Technology solves problems (future good)
3. Technology creates problems (future bad)
4. A world much like our own where some subtle differences highlight humanity/reality/society/perception
5. What if your cock was a bomb?
6. Rockets are not phallic, please stop saying that
7. Here is why religion is bad
8. Homestuck
9. Four thousand pages on the adventures of Prentiss Plum, a space pirate, scientist, and award-winning Virgo
10. Winking parody that doubles down on sexbots
11. Cory Doctorow’s most recent night terror
12. “Me am play god”
13. Tracy Chapman’s A New Beginning
14. A list of legally non-binding patents disguised as a narrative
15. There is a secret number and it’s pissed
16. The Strugatsky brothers do not like Stalin
17. Star Trek, but they smash
18. Time, considered as a helix of semiprecious stoners
19. It is 1860, let us go to the Moon
20. Basically Mein Kampf
21. Bomb Cock 2: Mutually Assured Destruction
22. The franchise equivalent of findom
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Biden’s proposed immigration crackdown in return for Israeli military funding is the epitome of Democrats' hypocrisy and groupthink.
The post I Resigned From the DNC in Protest of Biden’s Backing of Palestinian Slaughter appeared first on The Intercept.
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Cat Fraser, who has lived with the chronic illness for years, says it’s time to get Long Covid on the agenda and give its many victims the support they need.
Changes in the household liability-to-income ratio appear to have been driven by a rising supply of loanable funds before 2010 and decreasing demand for such funds afterward.
I have a simple morality:
- I like feeling good.
- I don’t like feeling bad. (Suffering)
- I want other people to feel good.
- I don’t want other people to feel bad (to suffer.)
Most people have some of this as part of their morality.
How much is a matter of moral transitivity. How many people are part of three and four?
Let’s outline some variations:
The psychopath. Only my suffering and happiness matters.
The Patriarch/Matriarch. Only the suffering and happiness of me and my relatives matter.
The Back Slapper. The suffering and happeiness of me, my relatives, and my friends matters.
The Noble. The suffering and happiness of me, my relatives, my friends and my dependents matters. (Modern version is the good boss.)
The Aristocrat or Oligarch: Only the suffering or happiness of my class matters.
This week, the government opened new plans intended to protect social housing tenants from unsafe homes to consultation. The plans consist of strict timeframes to which housing association landlords will have to adhere when investigating and repairing hazards, or face court. This proposed legislation is being called Awaab’s Law, in reference to the death of […]
Here’s a piece I wrote for The Guardian. It’s also at my Substack. Some of it is Australia-specific but some may be of more general interests The policy debate about the cost of living is among the most confused and confusing in recent memory. All sorts of measures to reduce the cost of living are […]
Julia Giese and Charlotte Grace In response to the global financial crisis, the Bank of England (BoE) began using Product-Mix Auctions (PMA) to provide liquidity insurance to financial institutions. The PMA, designed by Paul Klemperer, allows the quantity of funds lent against different types of collateral to react flexibly to the economic environment and market … Continue reading How auction design can make a difference: the case of the Bank’s Indexed Long-Term Repo Facility
Before the recent Boeing disaster, the company and its parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems spent years lobbying to boost production and weaken safety regulations.
Labor is fuelling racist views about migration, announcing a major crackdown on the number of people entering Australia to study or work.
The post Labor’s migration policy puts profit before people first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Israel is threatening to widen its war into Lebanon.
The post Israel threatens wider war on Lebanon against Hezbollah resistance first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Today’s post is a complement to my post on earlier this week – So-called ‘Team Transitory’ declared victors (January 8, 2024). Yesterday (January 10, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics published the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator – for November 2023, which showed another sharp drop in inflation. The data are the closest…
Why scientists can’t quit chalk, even in the digital age.
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Health experts are working out the right dose for you.
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