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Histories of mass shooting perpetrators

jeudi 8 août 2019 à 02:00

Lessons learned by studying the histories of many perpetrators of mass shootings.

They made a possibly unwitting bad side point by referring to publications as "content" and reading/watching them as "consuming".

Their avoidance recommendation applies only to violent "content&qout;, but that implicitly applies "content" to all publications, including their own article.

Military spending reduces employment

jeudi 8 août 2019 à 02:00

Wasteful military spending in the US is justified in the name of "creating jobs", but it doesn't even do that. The main military contractors have reduced their US employment even as they have received more money.

Aside from being counter to fact, the argument is fundamentally misguided, because it would justify spending government money on anything whatsoever that involves paying workers. How about building a pipeline to pipe water across Manhattan from the East River to the Hudson River? How about hiring a thousand workers to manually power the pumps?

Creating jobs can be one of the valid reasons for the state to hire people, but let's put them on a job that will produce useful results as well.

The developing global disaster

jeudi 8 août 2019 à 02:00

The climate researcher's grief — and rage — on seeing the developing global disaster that it is still barely possible to avoid.

The rate of melting of Greenland last week reached a level that was forecast to occur only in 2070.

Boston thugs threw wheelchairs into crusher truck

jeudi 8 août 2019 à 02:00

Boston thugs picked a few disabled homeless people, stole their wheelchairs and their other meager belongings, then threw it immediately into a garbage crusher truck. This was to make sure that their cruelty could not be reversed.

Nothing delights a sadist like the chance to hurt someone who is totally helpless.

Luxembourg plans to legalize marijuana

jeudi 8 août 2019 à 02:00

Luxembourg plans to legalize marijuana.