Posts by sarcozona
Well that sounds familiar
What’ll you live on? You can’t work in a factory now.” “They’ve promised me a disability rating. I don’t know if it’ll be Group 2 or Group 3. “Which one is Group 3, then?” asked Kostoglotov. He didn’t understand these disability groups, or any other civil regulations for that matter. “It’s one of these groups […]
Freebies
What if instead of burning 4 to 6 trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’d given every poor person in America $85,000 – 128,000? Or every person period $12,000 – 18,000? Or added 4-7 years of funding to the Social Security pool? Or paid off everyone’s (non-mortgage) debt? Or gave every homeless person a nice […]
Industry employers are pushing training costs onto universities and devaluing degrees
And universities are bragging about it. This is a flyer for a heavily advertised co-op program within my university.
Music for being ok even though you’re too sick for seminar
How I failed to watch the democratic debate
cnn.com Firefox + Ubuntu cnn.com CNN Chromium + Ubuntu cnn.com OSX + Chrome cnn.com iPad + Safari cnn.com iPad + Firefox iPad + CNN app cnn.com Android + Firefox cnn.com Android + Chrome Android + CNN app But apparently you can watch in virtual reality if you’ve got a Samsung GearVR. Also on this site […]
Privilege and fear
Fear! What nonsense! Looking back over his whole life, Rusanov could not find a single instance of cowardice to reproach himself with. Indeed, had there ever been anything for him to be afraid of? As a man he was not particularly brave, perhaps, but he could not call to mind an occasion when he had […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Too Much Information “Informed choices” is code for overwhelm and obscure The Movies of My Youth Against Charity Aside from challenging the rule of capital, a non-capitalist’s only readily available option is donating to charity — thus subsidizing its profiting from basic necessities — or else ignoring those in need.That subsidizing capital accumulation has become […]