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Pyramids and Cathedrals(giorgiosironi.com)
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ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days(washingtonpost.com)
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EU governments limit arms sales to Turkey but avoid embargo(reuters.com)
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by primroot 7y ago
> two political correctness peaks: one in the early/mid 90s, and the other starting from about 2013 to now. Could this be related to economic circumstances, and a spread of a sense of defeat among adherents of economic progressivism
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I don't see your point. If I say a military invasion is not semantically equivalent to an "effort to stabilize," I leave open the possibility that some invasions do have a stabilizing effect, but that is never something evide
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"Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said." https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mid
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1. Criticism is not blocking. 2. It's a military invasion. The precedent of Operation Olive Branch indicates that calling this an "effort to stabilize" is an abuse of semantics. 3. Do you have any source indicating that Kurdi
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Also related. "Turkey’s Erdogan threatens to release millions of refugees into Europe over criticism of Syria offensive" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-re... Emphasis m
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Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy (2017)(theguardian.com)
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Ecomomists are agreeing more about rising risk of irreversible disaster(twitter.com)
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11 elephants died trying to save calf that plunged into waterfall and drowned(washingtonpost.com)
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Erdogan threatens to release millions of refugees over criticism of offensive(cnbc.com)
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But does it cost the rich more than it costs the poor? Larry Summers once had an infamous opinion about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo I am sharing it not defending it.
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Agreed. That's why I said "initially." Sanctions ended when the Chicago Boys were in charge of economic policy, but still did not convince the military dictatorship to hand Codelco to private control.
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This of course partially lead to economic sanctions, and a coup. Chileans initially were made to pay dearly for such insolence.
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This is happening in my hometown Chitré, Panama, an 80k population town in a developing country. But ask almost anyone and they'll tell you how Chitré feels more and more like the capital city, i.e. more developed. No politician in her
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Below is a quote from an interview, where Norman Finkelstein discusses the subject of thought policing. Norman Finkelstein has of course been affected by the defense of political correctness, as documented in the documentary "The Trial
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The so-called free market game is naturally rigged in favor of those who have more access to capital. And this includes capital of restricted intellectual property, however free one thinks restricting that capital is. However, even with the
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When one is powerful enough, rules are an advantage. The powerful can now enjoy the well protected benefit of breaking the rules. That's how we can more or less predict who breaks the rules.
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A country implements certain policies and after some time effects are seen. Conclusion? It depends. Do the like economists like the policy, yes or no? Have things gone well or bad? 1. No. Bad. Things went bad because country did not do as e
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I would say our unscientific backward sense of aesthetics requires us to iron. Let's recall Veblen's ideas, and move society forward by questioning all the wasteful status-signalling rituals. Update: your comment is more reason fo
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Toyota is becoming more efficient by replacing robots with humans (2014)(qz.com)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling "Global cooling was a conjecture, especially during the 1970s, of imminent cooling of the Earth culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. Some press reports in t
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Student loan crisis helped Army leaders exceed recruiting goals this year(armytimes.com)
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There may be nothing we can do to stop it, but there are measures society needs to take to not worsen the problem.
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The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe (2018)(foreignpolicy.com)
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At least in Panama, and certainly other Latin American countries mixing English and Spanish sounds like one is trying too hard at looking like one belongs to the upper class, or that one is uneducated enough not to know the right words to e
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I read the context of that whole quote in the past, and iirc judicious foresight did not mean the judicious foresight of leaders in positions of government authority. In the most basic interpretation it can just mean that most people are we
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I think the point is to not put one's hopes on the natural tendencies of any system, but to apply "judicious foresight," to borrow the phrase from J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy. " Mechanical inventions
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During extreme times, when money becomes just another idol in the face of ruthless nature ready to annihilate our superstitions, let's talk about the Necessity Defense https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-clim

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