Why There’s a Completely Russian Town in Norway
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in defence economics, economic history, international economic law, international economics, International law Tags: economics of borders, maps
Top 5 British Accent Secrets
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in economics of education Tags: economics of languages
Richard Posner on public intellectuals
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in economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: fall of communism, useful idiots
Oxford student union mandates that its authorities promote “jazz hands” as a substitute for applause
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
If “jazz hands” has its origin in African dance, then its use is “cultural appropriation,” and according to Woke Standards, cannot be used without simultaneous acknowledgment and apology.
I don’t know why, but stuff like this depresses me and makes me wonder what the world will be like in 20 years, when students who passed this resolution are running the UK—and maybe the US. But I’ll most likely be dead then.
This event not nearly as bad as the Right supporting Trump, of course, but everybody writes about Trump while the mainstream and liberal media are reluctant to documenting the Authoritarian Left. (If you’re a reader, by the way, please don’t tell me to write more about the perfidy of Republicans. You can see that kind of discourse, whose sentiments I share, on every other site.)
So the latest occurrence is that Oxford University’s student council voted three days ago not to mandate the use of jazz hands in place of applause, but to “mandate Sabbatical Officers to encourage the use” of “jazz hands”, the British Sign Language…
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Animal rights activist calls for charges against veterinarian who saves animals from euthanasia
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
An animal rights activist out of Russia named Anna Razinova is urging prosecutors to bring charges against a veterinarian for not euthanizing pets. Simultaneously, Razinova is also the head of a law club of pet owners.
If one understands the ethics of animal rights organizations, Anna Razinova’s actions make sense. Animal rights groups, like PETA, and people such as Razinova think most people can’t be trusted with the care of pets which can be trained for things other than what they determine is an animal’s true nature (including the desire to be free). Consequently, they believe that domesticated animals should be sent to that big animal shelter in the sky.
Animal rights groups hate humans to the point where they will kill off our pets after stealing them from you or calling for them to be euthanized or not resuscitated. Not a very ethical way to treat animals either…
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The most popular social media networks each year
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in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Another driver of the gender wage gap that is not the result of employer discrimination
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
O-Ring Model
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in applied price theory, development economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle
How Kim Jong-un Travels
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in defence economics, transport economics Tags: North Korea
Steven Pinker – The Genius of Charles Darwin
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in health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Power Shock: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Sends German Power Prices Into Orbit
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Renewable energy zealots keep telling us that wind and solar are free and getting cheaper all the time. Germany puts paid to that lie, as does Denmark and South Australia, which each jockey for line honours in the world’s highest power prices stakes.
No country has squandered more treasure on giant windmills and an endless sea of solar panels than Germany.
For all that wanton environmental destruction, Germans get a meagre 2.5% of their primary energy demand satisfied by wind and solar. And in the mother of all ironies, contrary to the stated aim of the ‘Energiewende’, carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise.
Its nuclear-powered, next-door neighbour, France wins the low CO2 power generation competition by a mile – and makes a killing selling electricity to power-starved Germans, whenever the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in.
All in all, Germany’s (apparently) inevitable ‘transition’ to an all wind and…
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Why the spike? Can’t get time off work for interview at WINZ office for the 12-month unemployment benefit reassessment?
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, welfare reform
@@jeremycorbyn wants the terrorists to win
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: British politics, useful idiots, war against terror
So @UniofOxford discriminates against the blind by privileging the acoustically sensitive in the intersectional rate race of inclusion
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
From https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/24/clapping-banned-oxford-university-stop-people-triggered-10975221/
Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, endogenous growth theory, envy, superstars, top 1%, wealth taxes
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