Damn

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/o...?smid=fb-share

I do like the troll feminist position of mandatory vasectomies for all men to reduce abortion to zero

Alabama Governor Signs Nation’s Most Restrictive Abortion Law

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/al...cid=spartandhp

Sadism at the high level. Any peeps here pleased with this?

The Missouri GOP was set to dismantle a ballot initiative to fix their gerrymandering but not enough of them showed up for the vote to pass it

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/m...m-dead-for-now

At the risk of stealing a phrase copyrighted by another poster, this description of the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting is buck wild.

Supreme court temporarily blocks rulings requiring new voting maps in Ohio and Michigan.

Setting up an SC ruling on gerrymandering before 2020?

Is it possible to have a class action lawsuit against the gov't over lack of UHC?

Also, GED and/or tradecraft credentials and/or diplomas, etc should be offered and paid for by the state, or prison themselves to inmates in exchange for reduced sentences. It costs the state like $30k per year to house one, why not educate them in the process? Part of savings comes from reduced prison stay, education could possibly lower recidivism, and perhaps some sort of incentive where if a for profit prison proves the education provided returned a productive individual of society, they get a reward (I am against for profit prisons (and healthcare) but I suppose if there's nothing I can do about them other than vote, next best thing would be a policy that perhaps turns a negative into a positive)

No, goverment has immunity. The king can do no wrong.

The thing is Bret Stephens is transparently not trying.

Some UFO news

https://nyti.ms/2wlWKpf

Due to availability, I started another book first, but who rules America would stand as the book I'd be most interested in by synopsis alone. Are you familiar with the updated cersions? Like, do you have an opinion on going straight to 50 years of who rules America vs the original

I don't. I read it in the early 2000s and can't say which version it was but probably whatever was current then. There might be a lot in any version that I disagree with now as my views have grown a lot since then.
I only recommend it because if you are actually a 'centrist' then I would think the first notion to disabuse yourself of is the idea the two party system has something to offer politically.

What Republicans And Democrats Are Doing In The States Where They Have Total Power

Note the asterisk about how/where they got this (incomplete) data, but still pretty interesting.





Also:

Woot woot, now I get to jump through some hoops just to have the right to use the US Court System with my bank and I'm sure whoever else I ever have contact commercial contact with.

I'm no politics forum expert by any means, but I think I have finally figured out what posting 'in good faith' means to a lot of people that use that term.

Posting 'in good faith' apparently means you can post your argument for something, but then you get told what you should reaaally think, and then if you don't agree you are a deplorable racist nazi.

Finally got it. Carry on.

I thought this explanation of how the prices of various goods/services change relative to each other was informative and interesting: The Baumol Effect. It's not something I was previously familiar with, and the explanation seems intuitive.

I am on phone so apologize for not linking this story very well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-34-1996.html

Seems like a very big deal that should be getting a lot of attention, and yet the elites on the right and left that control the discourse seemingly would prefer we bicker over culture war issues. Seems like some “divide and conquer” (the working class) tactics.

Explain.

I am currently flying over the ocean in a wingsuit and might lose service soon, but has it occurred to you that we don't care about what you are currently doing every time you post?

These were the kind of side arguments my business law professor was going with, and he worked at the EPA

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...minar-ginsburg

Another way to frame the question is: why are prices for the necessities of life going down for higher skilled workers but remaining the same for lower skilled workers? My answer is why would we expect them to do otherwise.

Adam Smith: If among a nation of hunters, for example, it usually costs twice the labour to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver should naturally exchange for or be worth two deer. It is natural that what is usually the produce of two days' or two hours' labour, should be worth double of what is usually the produce of one day's or one hour's labour.

If the deer hunter increases his skill and doubles his productivity and the beaver hunter doesn’t, there’s no economic reason why the 2:1 exchange rate should change. So the deer hunter will be able to get twice as many beavers for the same quantity of labor or work for half the time to get 1, but the beaver hunter will still only get 2 deer for 1 beaver. Same holds if we substitute a capitalist deer rifle manufacturer into the productivity equation: if the deer hunter kills twice as many deer due to borrowing a more efficient rifle from the capitalist—the deer hunter will still get 2-deer / 1-beaver, the beaver hunter 2-deer /1-beaver, and the capitalist pig 2-deer/ 1-beaver.

*Along the above lines (labor theory of value) and too far left of my sweet spot in terms of remedies, but she provides a nice paradigm shift that's right on the money (literally), imo: The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

Has it occurred to you that the 'Post Reply' button isn't an imperative? Just sayin... just because people don't take snipes doesn't mean they can't.

is merkel done as chancellor if the coalition blows up now? is it too early for akk to implode/get pushed out already?

I was watching this documentary and it seemed innocent enough, but then I noticed the "RT is funded in whole or in party by the Russian government." and I couldn't help but notice that it actually showed these people in a very negative light where they are talking about the impact it has on the families.

Was YT brainwashing me into seeking out the negativity in the video, or is the Russian government trying to subtly brain wash their people into seeing the negativity in the world around them. Really ruined my ability to enjoy it on an entertainment level