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Is the mainstream press beginning to turn on Bill Gates?

https://johnmenadue.com/is-the-mainstream-press-beginning-to-turn-on-bill-gates/
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Tue, 02/01/2024 - 04:50
The Bill Gates Problem is Hitting the Mainstream. Is one of our favourite billionaire philanthropists losing the support of the MSM? Bill Gates, who once could do no wrong, has had numerous disparaging articles written about him in recent weeks. These all stem from a new book written by author Tim Schwab (no, nothing to Continue reading »

My experience with geopolitics of knowledge in political philosophy so far

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Tue, 02/01/2024 - 03:04
Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly with the absence of non-Anglophone colleagues in political philosophy books and journals from the Anglophone centre. I want to stress that this is not a problem […]

Fifteen Long-Overdue Slang Terms for Female Masturbation

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Tue, 02/01/2024 - 01:38


Our 10th most-read article of 2023.

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Originally published January 10, 2023.

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1. Digging for Clams

What the hell is Betsy doing in the bathroom for so long? Digging for clams?

2. Spelunking

My Tinder date was so pathetic I would have had a way better time spelunking—and I have a hook for a hand!

3. Tickling My Fancy

Oh, hi, Mom. No, I’m not busy, just tickling my fancy. What, you too?

4. Flicking Fiona

What the fuck? Are you flicking Fiona? Both hands on the wheel, bitch. We’re on the freeway!

5. Slugging the Sister

Some say roof repair and slugging the sister make a dangerous combination, but I call that shit multitasking.

6. Damning the Beaver

Who can blame me for damning the beaver? That was the most boring Christmas pageant ever!

American Taliban

https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/01/american-taliban/
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Tue, 02/01/2024 - 01:00
Yes, they’ll howl. The Truth hurts. A couple of items this morning remind us what lies ahead. There’s dread and there’s hopium, depending on how one reads the tea leaves. Roy Edroso considers the rise of Unpopularism. Republicans have decided that their path to power is to give people what they don’t want: I talk a lot about abortion rights here for a bunch of reasons, but the relevant one here is the lengthening string of goose-eggs Republicans have suffered in the repro rights referenda that came after they destroyed Roe v Wade. Even in Kansas and Ohio they couldn’t win. Yes, a few right-wing pundits who survived Covid with their olfactories intact can smell the stink that isn’t issuing from Trump’s Depends, but they are the exceptions. Their pro-life palaver started as a sop to one specific religious constituency, but over time it has become the symbol of the Republican Party’s whole anti-choice, anti-consent, anti-democratic ethos.

should auld lore be forgot and never brought to mind? no no, remember it too. better study all my legends just to be safe

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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 19:00
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A Special New Year Soother

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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 12:00
Sometimes animals save us as we save them They need us and we need them: Some say they were first brought in to take out the rats. Others contend they wandered in on their own. What everyone can agree on — including those who have lived or worked at Chile’s largest prison the longest — is that the cats were here first. For decades, they have walked along the prison’s high walls, sunbathed on the metal roof and skittered between cells crowded with 10 men each. To prison officials, they were a peculiarity of sorts, and mostly ignored. The cats kept multiplying into the hundreds. Then prison officials realized something else: The feline residents were not only good for the rat problem. They were also good for the inmates. “They’re our companions,” said Carlos Nuñez, a balding prisoner showing off a 2-year-old tabby he named Feita, or Ugly, from behind prison bars. While caring for multiple cats during his 14-year sentence for home burglary, he said he discovered their special essence, compared with, say, a cellmate or even a dog. “A cat makes you worry about it, feed it, take care of it, give it special attention,” he said.

Take A Hit. You’ll Like It

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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 10:30
I don’t know that we can afford to be ecstatically optimistic but it is important to hear the positive case for the Democrats. It’s demoralizing to watch the news and constantly be told that Biden is toast. So here’s Simon Rosenberg’s final 2023 Hopium Chronicle. It’s New Year’s Eve. Enjoy it. The hard work starts day after tomorrow: A Positive, Upbeat End to 2023 – Dow in record territory. Inflation running below the Fed target rate. Interest rates coming down next year. GDP growth 4.9% last quarter, looking close to 3% for this one. Best job market since the 1960s. The lowest uninsured rate in history. Crime has fallen across the US this year, rents are coming down too. Consumer sentiment is spiking. Wage growth, prime age worker participation rate and new business formation are all in historically elevated territory. Best recovery in the G7. US setting records for domestic oil and renewable production. $130b in student debt forgiven. The good news just keeps coming. Democrats are also seeing improvement in national polling. A majority of the independent polls taken in recent weeks have Biden tied or ahead.