Both NYC and LA have absolutely immense police budgets. After being in LA for a bit I will point to one strange difference - in NYC there are like 47 cops on every corner in "busy" areas, and in LA they're invisible (I'm staying in DTLA).
Might be best they're invisible, but where does that money go?
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Doing robotic surgery on a copy of myself
I really don't understand how so many people are completely unencumbered by the slightest impulse to be decent. I don't just mean the asshole governor who is doing it, I mean the people who are cheering it on and the reporters who can only see it as "savvy."
Children, too. All just NPCs in the politics game to reporters, and ways of Owning the Libs to Republicans.
Children, too. All just NPCs in the politics game to reporters, and ways of Owning the Libs to Republicans.
Hi everyone! Just wanted to share that I am taking a small holiday break, and shortly after New Years I’m undergoing a minor medical procedure. Everything is totally fine and standard but I will need a bit of time to recover. I hope you get some much needed rest, and Happy New Year!
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Many-Sorted Logic by María Manzano and Víctor Aranda. Revised: Jacques Lacan by Adrian Johnston. Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative by Michael Ridge. Logics for Analyzing Games by Johan van Benthem and Dominik Klein. Heinrich Scholz by Volker Peckhaus. The Normativity of Meaning and Content by Kathrin Glüer, Åsa Wikforss, and Marianna Ganapini. Collective Responsibility by Marion Smiley. IEP ∅ NDPR Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics by Zach Weber is reviewed by Jc Beall. 1000-Word Philosophy ∅ Project Vox ∅ Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media ∅ Compiled by Michael Glawson BONUS: If idiocy was actually part of the plan
State health agency recommends Nebraskans temporarily avoid eating alfalfa sprouts (Thanks to Steve Bradford, who says "Any chance they could make it permanent?")
A Ring doorbell camera in Alaska has captured the exact moment a moose shed its antlers, gifting the homeowners a rare and special holiday surprise. (Thanks to B&C)
You don't want to know. (Thanks to Jim Perth)
Finally proven: beer makes you better in bed! (Thanks to Ron Wylie)
Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward announced Friday that two public restrooms in the ward, known as “see-through toilets,” in which the glass walls of the restrooms become opaque when in use, had a problem that allowed people to see inside while in...
Wedding descends into massive brawl, leaving 1 stabbed (Thanks to pharmaross)
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We have a lot to unpack from the David Tennant & Catherine Tate-starring Doctor Who 60th Anniversary's teaser... starting with Beep the Meep!
Our 20th most-read article of the 2022.
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Merry Christmas everyone! Doctor Who may not have provided us with a Christmas special in 2022 but we were treated to a Christmas present; a brand new teaser trailer for the 60th Anniversary specials! So what clues and information were revealed? To provide some analysis of the trailer let’s break it down moment by moment. […]
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The administration tried to overturn rulings that helped those bankrupted by student loans — until The Lever got involved.
The former anchorwoman accused the Cash Craze machine of being rigged against her and “riddled with fraud.”
On this week’s Audit: The study group makes their way through the next several lessons of David Axelrod and Karl Rove’s MasterClass.
by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 There are quite a few economists who suffer from …
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The treatment of women, especially in political life, continued to be a hot-button issue this year, with editor Michelle Pini's 8 December story receiving over 14,000 views. read now...Russell Jacoby has a piece out in “Tablet” that got approvingly retweeted by Richard Dawkins, then by Elon Musk. So maybe it’s worth giving it a read. (This post lightly edits my tweet response.) I’m sympathetic to Jacoby’s old line: a lot of ‘theory’ silliness got spread about in the humanities in the 80’s-90’s. There […]