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Climate change panel funding

vendredi 11 août 2017 à 02:00

The House of Representatives budget eliminates funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Phony farm names

vendredi 11 août 2017 à 02:00

One UK supermarket chain has sworn off using phony farm names as brands. To me, such names reflect general dishonest tendency, which they legitimize and thus promote.

Privatizing infrastructure

vendredi 11 août 2017 à 02:00

The troll's toll-road privatized infrastructure plan was used by Pence as governor of Indiana, with results that demonstrate how bad it is.

Chicago privatized parking meter revenue, with results that harm the city, but there is no way to reverse it.

Privatizing any government service is a recipe for screwing the public, except in the case that it gives the public access to a market with a lot of competition.

Silicon Valley and brains

vendredi 11 août 2017 à 02:00

Silicon Valley's Weapon of Choice against Women: Shoddy Science.

Human brains show great variability in the sizes of various areas, but this variability has only a small statistical correlation with the humans' sex. Thus, the brain variability among male humans, or among female humans, swamps the difference between the sexes.

A human's every thought is embodied as a change in the brain. In particular, every habit or pattern of thought and action is a change in the brain. The observed statistical difference between male brains and female brains, being so small, could represent reactions to differences in the way males and females are typically treated in any given society.

Smuggling into Yemen

vendredi 11 août 2017 à 02:00

Ethiopians and Somalis are paying smugglers to take them to Yemen, apparently unaware of the civil war in Yemen, and the famine and cholera caused by the Salafi-US bombardment there.