I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property.--deTocqueville
Is it true that every Tesla sold has 7500 dollars in federal subsidies?
The CBO estimates a range of potential employment effects due to the federal minimum wage hike. They predicted a best-case scenario of no employment losses, but the worst case would mean 4 million fewer people employed. Some of those newly unemployed people would enter poverty, which is why the CBO estimates that the Raise the Wage Act would increase the number of impoverished people by almost 500,000.
The CBO is said to be non-partisan.
A measles outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Samoa has killed more than 60 people.
There has been a flurry of recent stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets about influential Democratic powerbrokers casting about for new 2020 candidates, apparently due to doubt about the strength of the current field. And in a related development, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg entered the race, and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick are both reportedly considering entering the race, even as they would face long odds against winning the nomination.
The question is, why?
While the ‘manufacture of consent’ is an idea now mostly associated with Noam Chomsky, the phrase was actually coined by the US journalist and writer Walter Lippman in his influential book Public Opinion (1922) – a fact that Chomsky and Edward S Herman, his co-author of Manufacturing Consent (1988), readily acknowledge. Lippman contended that, because the world is too complex for any individual to comprehend, a strong society needs people and institutions specialized in collecting data and creating the most accurate interpretations of reality possible. When used properly, this information should allow decision makers to ‘manufacture consent’ in the public interest. However, in one of the most damning critiques of democracy, Lippman identifies how public opinion is instead largely forged by political elites with self-serving interests – powerful people manipulating narratives to their own ends.
This was in 1922. From Aeon: https://aeon.co/videos/before-chomsky-there-was-lippmann-the-first-world-war-and-manufactured-consent
After being named to the top army post, McClellan began openly associating with Democratic leaders in Congress and showing his disregard for the Republican administration. To his wife, McClellan wrote that Lincoln was “nothing more than a well-meaning baboon,” and Secretary of State William Seward was an “incompetent little puppy.”
He eventually ran against Lincoln's reelection.
On this day, two astonishing disasters--for the time, at least. In West Virginia’s Marion County in 1907, an explosion in a network of mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah killed 361 coal miners. It was the worst mining disaster in American history. And, in 1917, in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurred when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, exploded 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel. With munitions for the European war, the massive explosion killed more than 1,800 people, injured another 9,000–including blinding 200–and destroyed almost the entire north end of the city of Halifax, including more than 1,600 homes. The resulting shock wave shattered windows 50 miles away, and the sound of the explosion could be heard hundreds of miles away.
Dopamine Fasting
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in how we feel pleasure.
There is a growing dopamine-avoidance community. It is, in essence, a
stimulation fast.
“We’re addicted to dopamine,” said James Sinka, some guy who is a fasting advocate. “And because we’re getting so much of it all the time, we end up just wanting more and more, so activities that used to be pleasurable now aren’t. Frequent stimulation of dopamine gets the brain’s baseline higher.”
So the idea is that avoidance makes the eventual consumption better. Absence making the heart fonder and all.
Dr. Cameron Sepah is a professor at UCSF Medical School and a dopamine faster. He uses the fasting as a technique in clinical practice with his clients, especially, he says, tech workers and venture capitalists.
Is it true that every Tesla sold has 7500 dollars in federal subsidies?
Uber, as part of along anticipated safety report, revealed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its U.S. rides in 2018. That figure includes 229 rapes across the company’s 1.3 billion rides. The ride-hailing company noted that drivers and riders were both attacked, and that some assaults occurred between riders
Hilary, the Kavanaugh debacle, the Russian dossier, Pelosi in Madrid--Trump continues to thrive on the incompetent malice of his enemies. But volume may win out.The CBO estimates a range of potential employment effects due to the federal minimum wage hike. They predicted a best-case scenario of no employment losses, but the worst case would mean 4 million fewer people employed. Some of those newly unemployed people would enter poverty, which is why the CBO estimates that the Raise the Wage Act would increase the number of impoverished people by almost 500,000.
The CBO is said to be non-partisan.
A measles outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Samoa has killed more than 60 people.
You can get dizzy at the high perch of academia: More than a third of Ph.D. students have sought help for anxiety or depression caused by Ph.D. study, according to results of a global survey of 6,300 students from Nature. Thirty-six percent is a very large share, considering that many students who suffer don’t reach out for help. Still, the figure parallels those found by other studies on the topic. A 2018 study of mostly Ph.D. students, for instance, found that 39 percent of respondents scored in the moderate-to-severe depression range. That’s compared to 6 percent of the general population measured with the same scale. And twenty-one percent of respondents said they’d been bullied in their programs. Of those, 48 percent said their supervisor was the perpetrator.
There has been a flurry of recent stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets about influential Democratic powerbrokers casting about for new 2020 candidates, apparently due to doubt about the strength of the current field. And in a related development, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg entered the race, and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick are both reportedly considering entering the race, even as they would face long odds against winning the nomination.
The question is, why?
While the ‘manufacture of consent’ is an idea now mostly associated with Noam Chomsky, the phrase was actually coined by the US journalist and writer Walter Lippman in his influential book Public Opinion (1922) – a fact that Chomsky and Edward S Herman, his co-author of Manufacturing Consent (1988), readily acknowledge. Lippman contended that, because the world is too complex for any individual to comprehend, a strong society needs people and institutions specialized in collecting data and creating the most accurate interpretations of reality possible. When used properly, this information should allow decision makers to ‘manufacture consent’ in the public interest. However, in one of the most damning critiques of democracy, Lippman identifies how public opinion is instead largely forged by political elites with self-serving interests – powerful people manipulating narratives to their own ends.
This was in 1922. From Aeon: https://aeon.co/videos/before-chomsky-there-was-lippmann-the-first-world-war-and-manufactured-consent
After being named to the top army post, McClellan began openly associating with Democratic leaders in Congress and showing his disregard for the Republican administration. To his wife, McClellan wrote that Lincoln was “nothing more than a well-meaning baboon,” and Secretary of State William Seward was an “incompetent little puppy.”
He eventually ran against Lincoln's reelection.
On this day, two astonishing disasters--for the time, at least. In West Virginia’s Marion County in 1907, an explosion in a network of mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah killed 361 coal miners. It was the worst mining disaster in American history. And, in 1917, in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurred when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, exploded 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel. With munitions for the European war, the massive explosion killed more than 1,800 people, injured another 9,000–including blinding 200–and destroyed almost the entire north end of the city of Halifax, including more than 1,600 homes. The resulting shock wave shattered windows 50 miles away, and the sound of the explosion could be heard hundreds of miles away.
Dopamine Fasting
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in how we feel pleasure.
There is a growing dopamine-avoidance community. It is, in essence, a
stimulation fast.
“We’re addicted to dopamine,” said James Sinka, some guy who is a fasting advocate. “And because we’re getting so much of it all the time, we end up just wanting more and more, so activities that used to be pleasurable now aren’t. Frequent stimulation of dopamine gets the brain’s baseline higher.”
So the idea is that avoidance makes the eventual consumption better. Absence making the heart fonder and all.
Dr. Cameron Sepah is a professor at UCSF Medical School and a dopamine faster. He uses the fasting as a technique in clinical practice with his clients, especially, he says, tech workers and venture capitalists.
No eating. No looking at any screens. No listening to music. And they would not exercise. They would not touch other bodies for any reason, especially not for sex. No work. No eye contact. No talking more than absolutely necessary. A photographer could take their picture, but there could be no flash.
So much not to do! The number of things not to do is endless! And so easy to get credit and reward for doing nothing. I did not do so many things today, including climb Mt Kilimanjaro.
If this sounds reminiscent of something, you're right. After Alice in Wonderland, it sounds like the sensory deprivation the North Koreans do to their prisoners. It's always nice for any scientific project to have a precedent.
If this sounds reminiscent of something, you're right. After Alice in Wonderland, it sounds like the sensory deprivation the North Koreans do to their prisoners. It's always nice for any scientific project to have a precedent.
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