I think our current monetary system is more than only slightly useful.
That has nothing to do with the quote you’re responding to, about economic models that don’t reflect reality. The problem is economic models built without an adequate understanding of the current monetary system.
Many trillions of words have been written about this since the crash. This is a useful short summary which links to some of them.
“Someone else will do evil if I don’t agree to do evil so I might as well do evil myself” is a bullshit argument. And your point is directly addressed in the article:
By resigning publicly, I am saddened by the knowledge that I likely foreclose a future at the State Department. I had not initially planned a public resignation. Because my time at State had been so short — I was hired on a two-year contract — I did not think I mattered enough to announce my resignation publicly. However, when I started to tell colleagues of my decision to resign, the response I heard repeatedly was, “Please speak for us.”
Well, that’s kind of the point. Any design that is intended to be worn at the front is either very small or designed to be moved to the side when it gets in the way of what you’re trying to do.
You can wear your backpack as a frontpack if you want to. You’ll soon discover why most people don’t use them that way. I have done, but only when I have two backpacks to lug some distance and can use the straps of the one worn on the back to help secure the straps of the one worn on the front.
Yes, yes it does.
Southern blot is a neat full circle:
The method is named after the British biologist Edwin Southern, who first published it in 1975.[3] Other blotting methods (i.e., western blot,[4] northern blot, eastern blot, southwestern blot) that employ similar principles, but using RNA or protein, have later been named for compass directions as a sort of pun from Southern’s name.
To start with the obvious:
How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America
And here’s a small selection of recent history from elsewhere:
How Ireland Turned ‘Fallen Women’ Into Slaves
Infidelity plus’ – the new defence against murder
Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality
So you haven’t been paying attention. Well done.
When I was born, married women were barred from most white collar jobs and women did not have the right to their own bank accounts, decades before rape within marriage was formally recognised as a crime.
If you are old enough to remember this era, you should realise that singling out these behaviours as somehow “Muslim” is bizarre.
I appreciate that that might not have been your intent (although it is certainly the subtext of this thread).
You must be very, very young if you do not remember these tropes being absolutely standard in the ‘Christian’ world, and not paying much attention now if you think they’ve completely disappeared since.
You know that money isn’t dug out of the ground, right? There’s no gold standard any more. The number of exchange tokens is irrelevant when you’re being extorted (most obviously on housing costs).
That’s true. To be clear, I’m not saying poverty is necessary. I’m saying it’s not because of the super rich (at least in the West). Nor am I saying the super-rich are useful.
If there is enough to go around, then your money-based maths must be incorrect. You’re contradicting yourself. Which is it?
It’s a bit more complicated than just adding up all the money and dividing it by the number of people.
Rich people don’t spend their money, they use it to outbid each other for control of existing assets that the rest of us need and have no choice but to pay them for. Instead of spending that money on things that other people get paid to make (the “trickle down” lie), they use it to extort us for access to things we need to survive.
There is plenty enough in this world to go around. That so many have so little is nothing to do with the amount of arbitrary exchange tokens that exist.
It really surprised me when I first read about it. The stereotype of ADHD is so far removed from the reality for many. Kids who do well academically don’t get diagnosed and end up struggling because the hyperfocus element of ADHD isn’t common knowledge.
Or, perhaps, hyperfocus on socially desirable activities isn’t recognised as being problematic even if it’s causing the individual with ADHD no end of trouble.
Of course. Apart from all the many things you can say about the creativity and fun of ‘the’ ADHD brain, the absent-minded professor is a lesser known ADHD archetype. That kind of single-minded focus might not always be healthy for the individual but, for pushing back the frontiers of knowledge, it does come in handy.
Important article, given the tendency to treat Jews as a homogeneous lump of identity. The Amalek reference is worth following up too.
I’m sure stripping the bark doesn’t exactly make the trees happy but they don’t cut the trees down and that is a win. It’s always hard to know what is truth and what is a sales pitch but cork generally gets high marks for sustainability.
They can be in the right context but not when they’re comparing interventions which cannot be blinded. And where one of the interventions changes something else (in this case, the amount of other foods you eat if you have to eat two kiwi fruit instead of just popping a pill).
Rewrite it all in your own words. You’ll never need to look at the notes again but it will force you to get to grips with the material instead of glazing over.
I mean, yeah. All of this. Absurd.
But, FWIW, offloading cheap tat onto charity shops is not going to work well. It costs them money to put it on a shelf and it probably takes up more space than it is worth. Plus, they very likely can’t sell electrical equipment that has had its cord chopped up and repaired, or at least not without spending more on having it tested than they could sell it for anyway.
Next time, find a friend with small feet who would like to take it off your hands.