Lately, I’ve been listening to the 1865 podcast. [1865] I’m finding it interesting, illuminating, and well-produced.
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Lately, I’ve been listening to the 1865 podcast. [1865] I’m finding it interesting, illuminating, and well-produced.
When the New Deal was over, capitalism remained intact.
Oh, Georgia, you’re just full of racist assholes, aren’t you? They’re up to their same old tricks.
You probably recall the NSA’s lie about that they were only monitoring citizen’s “metadata” during their illegal data-collection program.
We should be very, very careful about believing anything we are told regarding aircraft being shot down, and where they are shot down.
How do you steal intellectual property from a capitalist? Just grab it off the boardroom table.
Standardized testing (and its evil offspring, IQ testing) are an expression of people’s desire to determine other peoples’ worth without having to actually get to know them. It’s pervasive, and unfortunately it’s better than some alternatives because it turns out that a lot of people will simply reject a client because of their skin color, gender, attractiveness, etc. In other words, standardized testing may suck but it’s not as bad as letting other people make hiring/admission decisions.
I’ve been wondering that, myself. Presumably the answer is somewhere between “yuge” and “outrageous.”
The US has always been a racist apartheid state; it’s just been trying to claw its way from that abyss for a few decades and has been back-sliding pretty badly lately. The recent kerfuffle about the Trump Administration’s adding racially charged questions to the census is not even remotely new.
The Guardian has a thought-provoking article about the race to develop a replacement for Viagra. [guard]