Tom

The how Adults get Indoctrinated led to a youtube watching spree on that guys channel (I avoid youtube watching sprees at all costs but some of his videos are extremely insightful). Highly recommended watching his channel.

While not a systematic study I can recommend Farley Mowat’s “People of the Deer”. He spent considerable time with Inuit Canadians as their lives were slowly being interrupted by Canadian interventionism, economic exploitation and general indifference. It is a very beautiful, emotional and tragic read.

I do not know of a single English speaking country that doesn’t allow home schooling Enco meaning none of them have compulsory attendance laws as you are implying. In fact only one single Western country places limits on homeschooling (and even then not entirely). Are you just against mandatory schooling (even if it is homeschooling or private)?…[Read more]

Yes. I’m sorry. I had read a long article on the story claiming that she had also trashed another teammate and the team itself. But now I cannot find that article or any other article that says is. So yeah I was wrong. Apologised. Based solely on the snap (and the ambiguous nature of “fuck cheer” and nothing else I would be in favour of her being…[Read more]

If an employee snap chatted fucking shit fuck fucking Bob’s auto parts,  and fucking bullshit garage that is slow to get cars out on time and fuck my colleague John who is a dipshit who was given his job for no good reason and fuck the fucking repair industry in general…

I would be fairly surprised if they were dismissed and managed to win an…[Read more]

You might be surprised to hear this from me, but I find this case slightly less clear cut than others. It’s not as though she was mouthing off about her dislike for doritos. She was mouthing off about the voluntary social activity which she was participating in. And she attacked the voluntary social organisation she was a part of in an…[Read more]

Indeed Jake,

Many free market theories are based on the idea that entities will make rational choices in their best interest. Analysing business decisions shows this is frequently not the case. People do all sorts of vainglorious, petty stupid shit in the business world (or follow hollow business or marketing techniques not backed up by evidence)…[Read more]

110ºF – too much. Hit 104ºF (about 40ºC ) once in Malta and spent most of the week in an air conditioned bar. About 74ºF in Dublin today. I don’t want more than that.

When I was having those kidney problems a couple years ago, it hit 42º in Madrid and I had to go to the hospital for three days because my body/circulation-system simply couldn’t…[Read more]

I would utterly adore a day of 40º after experience weeks of Northern European grey skies and rain.

Having said that, the fact that the temperature is higher than ever recorded is not proof that CO2 emmissions are causing climate catastrophe. That is a marxist conspiracy designed to convince people to get microchip filled vaccinations against a…[Read more]

Extremely interesting article on social media. If I had my finger on the big red button that would make facebook and twitter (and more importantly comment sections) not just disappear now, but be gone from history and the future…I would push that button so fast and hard I think I would break it. I have personally witnessed the transition of…[Read more]

Canadians have been living under the illusion that they are some beacon of tolerance, progress and that bigotry and inequality are something of the past. They have also had a very strong reputation abroad for some time. There may be a tiny sliver of truth to that as they are a relatively peaceful country compared with say, its neighbour or some…[Read more]