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by frabbit 8y ago
Good topic. I would say that I am mostly unhappy with audiobooks that discuss more technical subjects and happier with novels. In addition I find foreign language texts easier to read than to listen to. That probably supports the author&
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by frabbit 8y ago
* The Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults (Laurie Penny) - This stretched my boundaries on thinking about feminism a bit. I thought it was an interesting collection because it managed to take a very firm line without being preachy
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USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Disrupt COP24 Conference(theguardian.com)
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by frabbit 8y ago
why don't we make everything more expensive What is wrong with making things expensive? There are too many things being produced. If we are staying with a market solution then the only way to reduce consumption and its conseq
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by frabbit 8y ago
Perhaps it is because your assertion is unfounded? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/italian-budget-populists-wil... https://newrepublic.com/article/136327/all-rage-sanders-trum... h
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by frabbit 8y ago
I still do not know why Canada is carrying water for the USA on this. Trudeau just spent several billion of taxpayers money to build a pipeline to export dirty Canadian tarsands to the Chinese. What is the USA doing for Canada apart from t
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by frabbit 8y ago
I'm not sure. Although it is an excellent interview it feels like some follow-up would be good on a couple of points, one of them being whether he believes that climate destruction is going to leave anything resembling a civilization
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by frabbit 8y ago
Love Adam Curtis's work but he is completely wrong about a lack of story/vision being presented by current leaders: under Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party is poised to present a complete re-envisioning of manufacturing and employme
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by frabbit 8y ago
> know very well that in 200 years the world > won’t look much like the world we’re living in now." This will happen not because of AI or nuclear fusion reactors or space travel or lab-grown meat. I love Curtis's documentari
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by frabbit 8y ago
The DNC looks like they still have not got the message. The only question really is whether the left can take over the party machinery or would be better off third partying.
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by frabbit 8y ago
> ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR Honestly, from my perspective those seem like highly biased sources which completely fail to give a fair shake to either the right or the left. They are IMO neo-liberal capitalist propaganda makers. The most egregi
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by frabbit 8y ago
Canada's oil interests are opposed to the US's. The whole Trans Mountain pipeline was intended to export Canadian tar-sands oil to the swelling Chinese economy before fossil fuel exports have to be stopped.
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by frabbit 8y ago
I disagree with the idea that: 1)journalists were ever not politically aligned; 2) that it is possible to have unbiased reporting. I think it is more honest to admit that we are all highly political... especially the people that claim that
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by frabbit 8y ago
Those are very good examples of how choosing from among(what must now with digital cameras tens or hundreds of ) images can result in very different perceptions of what an event truly was.
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by frabbit 8y ago
One of the concluding paragraphs undermines the presentation of the article itself: "Of course, at this point we lack the evidence that Facebook caused the Yellow Vests to organize. " Anyway, everyone knows that it is the Russians
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by frabbit 8y ago
It gets even better in Canada: not content with merely leaving unsightly traces of their presence for other hikers, the stone stackers go the added mile and make bastardized Inukshuks, thus combining their graffiti with cultural appropriat
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by frabbit 8y ago
It's middle class graffiti. The sort of people that moan about tags on a wall are off stacking and piling like fools. Like graffiti artists the point is exactly to not do it in their own yards... it's like dogs having a wee ever
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by frabbit 8y ago
One important point not mentioned in the discussion of this has been the accumulation of vast parcels of land by venture capitalists during the last housing crisis. There are people sitting on huge amounts of land that they acquired at kno
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by frabbit 8y ago
The lack of supply comes because neo-liberals decided the government should stop building social housing. So... yeah.. you are right, but for reasons that you won't like.
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by frabbit 8y ago
This is absolutely the simplest and probably most effective response to the problem. It does need to be couple with a commitment to building new housing stock by the government though (as pointed out by the article).
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by frabbit 8y ago
I assume you have the option to work remotely then. Sounds like the best of all worlds.... as long as.... (and this gets to what has been IMO one of the causes of the housing problem) ... you do not need access to a hospital or a universi
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by frabbit 8y ago
> Students with parents engaged in their education do better IMHO this is the crucial thing. And it is one of the aspects of Montessori that some parents who are simply aspirational-consumers are a bit thrown by initially.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Private Montessori schools often have a much higher pupil/teacher ratio than public schools: the age-mixed structure of the class which encourages children more adept in particular tasks to work with those who are less adept makes thi
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by frabbit 8y ago
"Montessori" on its own does not mean too much: there are large gaps between AMI Montessori and Froebel, London School etc. AMI only accepts trainee teachers who have already have a bachelors (as a minimum) and their pedagogy see
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by frabbit 8y ago
I use reel mowers too. To add to what you said, you also get a bit of free exercise and time to look around the garden and notice things while doing something useful. Beware some reel mowers though... they can have plastic gearing inside w
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by frabbit 8y ago
What counts as a capable/modern GPU for this?
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by frabbit 8y ago
"demonstrably"? Please define your terms. I have seen the people wielding these monstrosties piss around for hours chasing one or two leaves or meaninglessly form pile of leaves that have no function other than to appear large so
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by frabbit 8y ago
I will add to your burden of sadness: in some places with snow they pepper the beautiful snowy winter streets with grit so that the delicate automobiles are facilitated in their mad career. In the spring when it all melts they need to cle
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by frabbit 8y ago
Hell yeah. This is other people's pleasure causing me pain. Their right to swing their aural fist stops at my ears.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Makes me feel more sympathetic to Gates. Noise pollution drives me insane: cars, aeroplanes, people with big mouths on the streets on summer nights.

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