A 2014 study by Pew Research in Washington DC showed that 40 per cent (!) of internet users have been harassed and 66 per cent of those said the most recent instance was on social media. Since then efforts to curb online harassment using human moderation have fallen flat. Bots can help with block lists, …
“The exceedingly comfortable souls who make up the richest .01 percent of Americans today only total about 32,000, a cohort too small to fill a standard Big League ballpark. But if these wealthy were to launch their own country, that new creation would rate as the eighth-wealthiest nation in the entire world”. (The Inequality Nerd, …
Per capita the US employs more prison guards than any other country per capita, and 35% fewer policemen. No place in the world imprisons people at a higher rate than the state of Louisiana. And that incarceration pays handsomely for the profiteers who run the state’s private prisons. For the incarcerated it is a totally …
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Under the heading of Epicureanism Articles in the side panel of this blog page (either on the right or beneath, depending on your device) you will see a heading entitled: “Added July 2016: Epicurus and Politics: why I think he was wrong” Some years ago a university professor who taught philosophy referred to this blog …
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There is a debate in the United States as to where home ownership rates are heading, and whether Millennials — people who came of age around 2000 — will get into the housing market the way generations before them did. The percentage of people younger than age 35 who are homeowners went from 42 percent …
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