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Dianne, I'm curious as to why you think that SpaceX and Tesla never happening is a utopian vision. SpaceX has…
@nobody.really The problem of UBI not being inherently means- or needs- based is easy to address: If you want to…
Great news, colleagues! Trump promises (provisionally) to give $5000 to each adult US citizen. If it comes to pass, maybe…
There's a (relatively) famous book by Albert Hirschman called The Rhetoric of Reaction. It's about the responses conservatives have to…
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Category Archives: Society & Culture
Cancel Culture, Mimi, Jimmy, and Cowards At The University of Tennessee
This story is dispiriting and ugly. (Alternate link). When she was in the ninth grade, Mimi (who is white) sent a friend a three-second video in which Mimi used the N-word. Ms. Groves had originally sent the video, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Media criticism, norms of discourse, Racism, Society & Culture
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Interviewing the Heartland
Help me make more cartoons like this one by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps. In the wake of Trump’s upset (and upsetting) win in the 2016 election, the “heartland interview” – in which a newspaper … Continue reading
What's so great about putting a kilogram of material into orbit? Your statement about Tesla is very subjective.