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by primroot 6y ago
Contrast this with J.S. Mill. "Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and im
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by primroot 6y ago
>> ... over there for them to be "recycled", and by "recycled" I meant burned/melted in open air dumps. I thought the Basel convention covered this in some way. Larry Summers had (has?) a rather infamous opini
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Bayer is securing settlements with Glyphosate plaintiffs (German)(handelsblatt.com)
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Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHO(theguardian.com)
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Why Michael Moore Helped Save Enemy Site (2007)(newsweek.com)
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by primroot 6y ago
Which reminds of this story from the Zhuangzi. I hope it is not too irrelevant. "Zhuangzi was walking on a mountain, when he saw a great tree with huge branches and luxuriant foliage. A wood-cutter was resting by its side, but he would
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by primroot 6y ago
I once saw sugared colored water brought from the US sold as food for humming birds at a store here in Panama. Just imagine how much industry would be lost if we had a better education system.
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US Senate blocks attempt to stop FBI accessing browsing history without warrant(independent.co.uk)
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by primroot 6y ago
Actually I just remembered a more recent case. After a very rich old lady showed up in TV last year explaining to people how access to drinking water is not a human right, videos came out on social media showing bulldozers destroying orchar
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by primroot 6y ago
Just a few years ago, the weekend before May Day, a lawyer was stopped by the police here in Panama. The police searched through their database and found the lawyer had been accused of "economic terrorism." The lawyer was immediat
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Pen America: Pulling down Moore climate film would be censorship(pen.org)
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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)(medium.com)
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Distance Learning Solutions(en.unesco.org)
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Virta Webinar: Diabetes and Covid-19: What We Know, What We Don't(youtube.com)
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Black Soldier Fly(en.wikipedia.org)
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NAFTA Should Have Stopped Illegal Immigration, Right? (2007)(nytimes.com)
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FADS genetic impact on ω6 fatty acid metabolism in African Americans(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Hedges v. Obama(en.wikipedia.org)
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A Conscious Pariah (2010)(thenation.com)
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The great debate over fry bread (2005)(nbcnews.com)
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A Nude ‘Playboy’ Photo Has Been a Mainstay in Testing Tech for Decades(onezero.medium.com)
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by primroot 7y ago
"Evolution equipped our species with powerful defense mechanisms to deal with this foreknowledge—in particular, psychological suppression and religion." Religion is a result of evolution?
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Deadly EEE: Parts of nation see outbreak of brain-swelling mosquito virus(usatoday.com)
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by primroot 7y ago
No+AFP (No more AFP) is a common graffiti in Chile, and also a common protest banner during the past week. Measures regarding an increase in pensions were also among the promises of the president on Monday 10/21.
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Twitter’s ‘head of editorial’ for Middle East works in information warfare unit(independent.co.uk)
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by primroot 7y ago
Also relevant "Twitter’s ‘head of editorial’ for Middle East is officer in British Army’s information warfare unit" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twitter-exec...
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Autophagy and intermittent fasting: the connection for cancer therapy?(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by primroot 7y ago
"Anyone can be a journalist." Yes. That is what one should expect of any country with a minimum of press freedom.
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by primroot 7y ago
Universale tempus coordinatum (because of grammatical gender agreement)
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by primroot 7y ago
“In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity—the epidemic of overproduction. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine,

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