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For Even The Very Wise Cannot See All Ends

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“Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.” - John Dalberg-Acton/ "Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Hey folks its been a few months. My friend and his wife managed to get some employment again but then the university employing shut down a week after reopening cuz of tons of sick people. So now they are back on square one waiting on any official help and he is still in recovery from his heart problems so side jobs are mostly off the table. Evictions are coming back around in spades and its the first of the month so he really needs some help if he wants to stay off the street. Thank you in advance! 

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They still can’t find employment, still no disability, unemployment benefits. Been keeping them afloat but rent is due and they are short, and its cold and evictions going around, and its Christmas season. Ideally it would be great if they had enough for just a little enjoyment, but not going without essentials will be my priority in passing this around. 

#unemployment#disability#need help#need money#gofundme#charity#justice#social justice#corona#welfare#Financial Help#winter#christmas#advent#holidays#liberal#conservative#libertarian#socialist#Christian#catholic#Almsgiving#rent#evictions#rent control#donate#fundraiser#signal boost#Christianity#catholicism
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Hey folks its been a few months. My friend and his wife managed to get some employment again but then the university employing shut down a week after reopening cuz of tons of sick people. So now they are back on square one waiting on any official help and he is still in recovery from his heart problems so side jobs are mostly off the table. Evictions are coming back around in spades and its the first of the month so he really needs some help if he wants to stay off the street. Thank you in advance! 

#evictions#rent#gofundme#Help#financial help#charity#social justice#Christian#Almsgiving
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Four US presidents have so far been assassinated… you know what that means?

Political compass!

Auth Left- Lee Harvey Oswald Lib Left- Leon Czolgosz Auth Right- John Wilkes Booth Lib Right- Charles J. Guiteau

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does this get bonus points for also being loss.jpg?

Holy shit how did I not notice that. What the fuck

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Guiteau was motivated by a political ideology?

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kontextmaschine

Haha remember the Iraq War, and how people all had <em>opinions</em> on the possibility or advisability of remaking a social order through the application of enough will in the face of resistance

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Getting Voxed: Charles Murray, Ideology, and the Science of IQ - Quillette
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.” Friedrich Nietzsche Recently, the popular online political outlet Vox published an article in response to Charles Murray’s interview on Sam Harris’s “Waking Up”1 podcast that illustrates the insidious effect ideology can exert on science. The article, written by a group of esteemed scholars, Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Richard E. Nisbett, contended that Murray is still “peddling junk science” about race and intelligence, thereby duping otherwise critical scholars like Harris with pseudo-scholarship and sophistry. The article attempts a moderate, scientifically sound criticism of hereditarianism (i.e., the contention that at least part of the Black-White IQ gap is genetic). Unfortunately, the result is a tendentious and ideologically skewed attack on Murray that forwards cherry picked studies, ignores copious data, and dismisses the impressive explanatory power of hereditarianism with a wagging finger of moral disapproval. Turkheimer et al did not dispute many of the most important points discussed …
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So people are acting like the new law allows people to buy the browsing history of congresspeople, but like, the data they’d be selling remains anonymized, right?

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So, this is complicated, and most news coverage has been awful.  

The new law is Senate Resolution 94, which officially disapproved of a proposed FFC regulation.  The actual data privacy rule (the part folk care about; most of it’s corporate focused) was that “A telecommunications carrier must take reasonable measures to protect customer PI from unauthorized use, disclosure, or access.“  This isn’t a long-standing rule (and the Congressional Review Act disapproval process can’t be applied to long-standing rules) : it was proposed by the FCC to start on March 2nd, but the disapproval process started before that.

That’s not the only thing that restricts data collection or resale, though.  Federal (and many state) laws actually consider reading content of electronic communications (and in some states, some metadata) as wiretapping, and thus ISPs have to be really careful even when doing traffic shaping.  As common carriers, there are even further regulations about disclosure of content, and as (rich) companies it’d be a class action lawyer’s wet dream for a ISP to break those rules.  The Telecommunications Act further restricts disclosure of personally identifying data by modern IT infrastructure companies, which wouldn’t block reading the data or using it for marketing internal to the company, but would prohibit resale (and get really complicated given the corporate structure of modern telcoms).  There are a lot of loopholes (and sometimes requirements) here for sending data to law enforcement, but not much for marketing or corporate use.

((Also, post-Snowden, IT has overwhelmingly pushed toward encrypted communications.  Your ISP can still tell what sites you’ve visited from DNS look-ups, but they’re much less able to tell what you’ve downloaded from a HTTPS site.))

As far as I can tell, the various attempts to fund purchase of congresspeople’s (or other enemy) browsing history is yet another affinity scam.  

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yeah man Louise Mensch is totally a reliable source I mean its not like she says that Anthony Weiner was the victim of a Russian catfishing conspiracy

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Richard Dawkins coining the word “meme” and then being turned into a meme himself is basically the trope of a mad scientist being devoured by their own creation

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Harvard Study on Police Shootings and Race Offers Shocking Conclusion
If you ever need an argument settled, once and for all, just ask a Harvard professor to conduct a study. They do it right. And, to their credit, they report on the results--even when those results don't support their own agendas. Check out the bomb they've just dropped on Black Lives Matter and all of the armchair pundits.
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Roland G. Fryer Jr. is an economics professor at Harvard. Distressed by what he was seeing in the treatment of black men like Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, Fryer commissioned a study on how the role race play in the use of lethal force by police.
The study examined more than 1,000 police shootings from 10 large police departments in California, Florida and Texas.
The results? Not what Black Lives Matter would have you believe. The study found no indication of racial bias associated with incidents in which cops fired their guns.
The study concluded that police officers who had not been attacked were more  likely to shoot white suspects. This goes completly against the mythology.
It also found that an equal number of blacks and whites were carrying weapons when the police shot them. This doesn’t help those who claim the cops are shooting unarmed blacks more frequently.
“It is the most surprising result of my career,” Fryer said in an interview with the New York Times. He hadn’t expected to find such balance.
“You know, protesting is not my thing. But data is my thing,” Fryer said. And the anger he’d felt at the media’s portrayl of racial injustice drove him to do the study. “So I decided that I was going to collect a bunch of data and try to understand what really is going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force.”
Fryer’s conclusions aren’t the only ones challenging the racist cop narrative. The Washington Post studied shooting deaths by law enforcement officials in 2015. 494 white suspects were killed. That number is almost double the number of black suspects killed: 258.
While the study can’t look at the motivations of individual officers and some of the more notorious incidents, it does give credence to what many cops have been saying for a long time. There’s much more to these situations than race.

What? Black Lives Matter is wrong according to black academics?

Shocked? Not even a little.

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Hanging a hat on a single study is still bad form tho.

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#TheRevolution will be commodified.

Is that commercial seriously what Pepsi’s marketing team came up with? Co-opting a movement born of frustration against oppressive cultural, social, and political institutions to sell their shitty soda?

*Cop cracks open a pepsi* “today I see protesters as people”

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This ain’t new. That 1970 (?) Cola ad.

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Few things would be of greater benefit to the discussion of American statecraft, past, present, and future, than to banish once and forever the term ‘isolationism.’ Whatever descriptive value it may once have possessed has long since vanished. At a time when the United States finds itself mired in wars that are needless, costly, and counterproductive, those who chalk up our troubles to incipient isolationism are perpetrating a hoax.

The Fiction of U.S. Isolationism (via azspot)

Source: theamericanconservative.com
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