My heartthrob, Sam Harris's, new podcast episode. A useful conversation on violence. Perhaps the information within could save your life.
Fascinating speculation about the increase in men willing to do violence in the military. The guest posits that 50% of the men in the Civil War were not actually willing to fight on the battle field, however in the modern Afghan an Iraqi military conflicts the number of men killing to kill is up around 90%.
Come for the conversation on violence. Stay for the: "political correctness is a bullshit scam."2) Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio w/ Alice Friedemann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftb-fZQ-CrU
I am convinced we are going to be horribly disappointed with the ability of of industrial civilization to transition off of fossil fuels. These guys get it. It is imperative to reduce the number of unwanted children being born, and be realistic about the diminished industrial output that wanted children will receive.
Hearing that the world needs more humans to boost economic growth and pay for unfunded pensions makes my blood boil.3) Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated] http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320
I feel like I have to comment on this document floating around. An engineer at Google had the audacity to question some of the correct-thinking around gender and race. The stuff was pretty tame. Common sense and agreeable stuff I find hard to find much fault with. I'm surprised the whole sector at Google, where this document leaked out from, wasn't sealed and disintegrated by autonomous drones. The response from the "Vice President of Diversity, Integrity & Governance", was hilarious. Cushy job, if you can get it.4) This tiny Sierra Valley town voted to pull out of CalPERS. Now city retirees are seeing their pensions slashed. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-loyalton-calpers-pension-problems-20170806-htmlstory.html
The only policy that will provide broad-based support to our people as we confront the challenges of our time is a Universal Basic Income. But, the truth is there is already a Basic Income for many millions of Americans that is unjustifiably generous and socially ruinous. Pensions all over this country are: 1) Massively underfunded. 2) Based on expectations of irresponsible returns from the stock market. 3) Generally not available to young people. Although class warfare against the super rich is more....rational? The class warfare we see, and I experience, is between those former middle class people who are being replaced, bit by bit, by poverty.
The current pension regime must be destroyed and replaced by a universal system. Otherwise, it will be destroyed and be replaced by nothing.
5) 'BY WOMEN, FOR WOMEN' Vegan cafe charges male customers 18 percent ‘man tax’ and seats women first in bid to address gender pay gap https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4176712/men-tax-pay-more-melbourne-cafe/
We will privilege-check our way to a better tomorrow!6) 9 questions about the Democratic Socialists of America you were too embarrassed to ask. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/5/15930786/dsa-socialists-convention-national
The real question is: Who will embrace a Universal Basic Income? In the public sphere, it's all that matters. Socialism, like feminism, is indeed having a moment. Unfortunately, they are virtually completely content free. UBI is a hard, real, thing you can get behind and for. It is an actual vision for the future, socialism is not.7) Welcome the Boneyard, a desert tomb for US military aircraft https://www.cnet.com/news/the-boneyard-thousands-of-aircraft-in-a-desolate-desert-awaiting-their-fate/
We got enough money for this...8) The Land of the Large Adult Son http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-land-of-the-large-adult-son
I have yet to encounter this "large adult son", meme. I find it quite amusing.
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