- Data != truth: 29 sets of academics, given the SAME data on gender and speaking in public, came up with disagreeing analyses. Related: 73 teams also disagree on how to interpret the SAME data on migration and support for social welfare.
- Read: America’s founders didn’t mean self-pleasure when they promoted “pursuit of happiness” — they meant self-restraint.
- Listen to this really excellent discussion of how NYC’s 2019 regulation on “affordable” housing made housing less affordable. (The Dutch are doing more or less the same now.)
- Read how illegal drug producers pollute land and water in the Netherlands. Legalize and regulate drugs! Related: Farmers illegally dumping animal shit. Reduce industrial agriculture!
- Sad: Average world temperatures are now +1.7C over pre-industrial levels, with +2C in sight for 2030. Shit’s gettin’ real… Related: We need to think differently about how we describe the strength of hurricanes.
- Read this nice analysis of why democrats make housing more expensive than republicans.
- Read: Want less stress? Pay off your debt!
- Read this update on “lab diamonds,” which are chemically the same as “natural” (inhuman?) diamonds and thus pulling down prices by as much as 90%. Still, some people think they are too cheap (=not enough sacrifice for that ring?), which is why they need to raise the price — and attraction — by using my “eco-ring” idea 🙂
- Government failure in action: The Dutch government wants more affordable housing, so they’ve decided to
expand supplylimit prices, which has resulted in fewer and fewer new starts. What’s the challenge, says the city [in Dutch]? Builders can’t make enough money on new builds. Fail. - Watch: If you believe in a “social license to operate”, then what explains McKinsey’s continued crimes against society?
Atlantic link is to a different Atlantic article?
Fixed!