The first is that wishful thinking is surprisingly powerful. A few years ago, the economist Guy Mayraz conducted a simple experiment at Oxford university’s Centre for Experimental Social Science. Mayraz ran sessions in which...
The game, it turns out, is rigged. With nothing to lose, they burned it all down.
Night Court doesn’t hold up nearly as well as Cheers, but it’s still fun. Anyway, this week: Latin America, Crime, Media, Education, and Labor!
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on Group Discussion: Banning Social Media Influencers From Small TownsBanning influencers raises free speech questions. Small towns fear disruptions, inflated costs, and…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25They very clearly _are_ trying to erase all records of Black achievement, they're just willing to ba…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/2550,000 with 20,000 to 25,000 being Hamas soldiers seems fairly reliable. Hamas would obviously love… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Honestly, learning that we were funding them to the point where ceasing to fund them caused a govern… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25No, that 50,000 number is not an AP estimate. It's statistics by Health Ministry Palestine that the…
on The Subversive and Revolutionary Act of Not Setting Things on FireNo fire here: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/man-drives-car-tesla-protesters/507-c2a… on All Set for the Big FeedBelieve me, no one's looking forward to the White Sox season this year!
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25More realistically, the question would be, "Do you do battery chemistry research with BYD money?" An…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25*shrug* this is the world that a lot of people wanted. "if you have the Wrong Politics you should be…
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