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Resident Putney - economist, trade unionist, internationalist/traveller. former activist

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GhostOnTheHalfShell, to politics
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    While this is very flattering to the I do feel that I have to say that this arrangement is the culmination of more than forty years of continual reforms made on bipartisan basis. The liaison committee is the latest step. I hope there will more to come!

    court, to history

    in - in 414, a young emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Theodosius II, temporarily relinquished power to his advisor and elder sister, Aelia Pulcheria. She was named as regent and 'augusta.' On the same day, she and her sisters took a vow of virginity to ward off potential suitors. This may have been religious as well as to protect her brother's future reign from overly influential kinsmen. After her brother's death in 450, she ruled as Empress.
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    @court @histodons

    She did take a husband, Marcian, as co-emperor in 450. I have no idea whether the marriage was consummated. He outlived her and was succeeded in turn by the Emperor Leo the First.

    brendannyhan, to random
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    @brendannyhan

    Definitely worth following up!

    QasimRashid, to random
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    SCOTUS struck down AA b/c it’s allegedly discriminatory. Here’s the Facts:
    •AA benefitted white women more than all other groups COMBINED—plaintiffs never complained about that
    •43% of white Harvard students are legacy or athlete students, of which 75% would not be admitted otherwise—plaintiffs never complained about that
    •Asians are 6% of the population & 26% of Harvard admissions—plaintiffs never complained about that

    This SCOTUS ruling is 100% anti-fact & 100% anti-Black racism.

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    @QasimRashid

    djr,
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    @QasimRashid The point about the proportion of legacy students who would not otherwise have been admitted is absolutely crucial.

    glennf, to random
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    I don't think the Supreme Court had a good possible outcome from the admissions discrimination cases. People of Asian descent are absolutely being discriminated against in a nearly identical way to Jews (my people) decades earlier. Colleges openly said then they didn't want many or too many Jews; colleges’ implicit policies ensured that today. Preserving Asian exclusion without regard to merit would have been a poor outcome.

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    @glennf

    A very fair point. Affirmative action could be used as a fig leaf to cover over the extensive role of legacy admissions. This will now be exposed.

    petersuber, to random
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    This year is the 70th anniversary of the Freedom to Read Statement, jointly written by the & in 1953.
    https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/FreedomtoRead/

    Take a moment to read or re-read it & add your signature. (I just did.)

    Libraries & publishers have their quarrels (& I take part in them). But this statement is a reminder that we share many interests & have a common enemy. Remember that 1953 was the height of the , which we see reviving all around us.

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    @petersuber

    And of course one of the worst offenders was - who later worked for !

    Sheril, to random
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    Imagine if the fate of the planet captivated the world as much as the fate of one deep sea submersible.

    djr,
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    @Sheril

    A classic case of "they pity the plumage but forget the dying bird"!

    jdmccafferty, to random
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    20 June 1646: capitulates to Parliament (BM)

    djr,
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    @jdmccafferty

    As it did in a rather different way yesterday evening!

    andrew, to random
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    Happy Magna Carta day and, remember, King John sealed it reluctantly and only at the behest and furtherance in interest of landed elites. As always, any benefits accruing to common people were and are incidental.

    ::steps down off soap box::

    https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/thurs-615-doj-george-floyd-murder

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    @andrew

    Furthermore he later rescinded it. A revised version was issued early in the reign of his son Henry the Third by William the Marshal on behalf of the government.

    JamesGleick, to random
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    With the planet actually on fire, when will voters punish the Republican Party for its many years of ignoring reality and harassing the world’s scientists on behalf of the fossil-fuel industries?

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    @JamesGleick

    The lesson from seems to that they will. Without the shock of smoke clouds reaching Sao Paulo from the burning rainforest would have been re-elected.

    djr, to random
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    Breaking News!

    , and are to be put up for sale.

    Interesting to see who is interested in buying any of them. - and government reaction in terms of and issues

    pivoinebleue, to random

    You fools voted for this. You voted for that idiot Pudding Fingers .
    You reap what you sow . Unfortunately you are hurting the voters who didn't vote for this.

    Republicans urge immigrants to stay in Florida, fearing new law's impact

    https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-urge-immigrants-stay-florida-fearing-new-laws-impact-1804640?amp=1&t=oVDUoCoEY_vMMfB8T5alzw&s=09

    >Florida's new anti-immigration bill, SB 1718, has raised alarm of a potentially massive labor shortage in the state.





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    djr,
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    @pivoinebleue

    Join the club! The same thing has been happening in the resulting in fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields, shortages of staff in hospitality and so on. Of course the answer is to get more local people to work in such areas.

    skykiss, to random
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    Criminal suspect ken Paxton claims he suppressed 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas in 2020.

    Donald Trump only “won” by 631,221 votes.

    Stop saying Texas might turn blue “someday” — it might already be blue.

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    @skykiss

    Clearly a career in international political consultancy awaits him! British rank amateurs by comparison.

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    djr,
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    @Green_Footballs

    It strikes me that that particular group of could rehomed to the / as a deterrent to the that and are so exercised by. Such a move is not likely to incur the difficulties that other policies would!

    thor, to random
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    in Norway, people who are aiming to be business executives wear a blue outfit when they graduate from high school (known as "blåruss") and people who aim for blue collar, technical or working class professions wear a red outfit (known as "rødruss").

    my friend is married with children and is fairly conservative. and he votes for a party that has some blåruss sympathies.

    i guess i'm more of a rødruss kind of guy, but i read books and learn things. and so does he.

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    djr,
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    @thor

    The same is true in the - although recently have produced green coloured leaflets and posters - protective mimicry?

    marick, to random
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    Here's an interesting fact: in the first version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, women on average did better than men. Since women could not be more intelligent than men, they removed questions women did better on, and replaced them with ones men did better on, until the results came out right. (Hacking, /The Social Construction of What?/, p. 173.)

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    @marick
    And when they found that girls scored better than boys in the "Eleven Plus" in England they simply adjusted the figures for girls down!

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    @jeffgreene @edutooters @psychology

    I think that is a very fair point to make. The original intention of Binet who devised the test in the first place related to a desire to include rather than to divide which was not uncommon in the early years of the Third Republic in France - the aim was to support the development of universal education funded and supplied by the state by providing a basis for the limiting of exclusion.

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    @richard @jeffgreene @edutooters @psychology

    It is very unusual for something not to be measurable or observable. The issue has to be the interpretation and significance attached to measurements and observations. There are endless examples of observed characteristics and measures being given an entirely unwarranted significance - skin colour being a glaring example!

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    “Those who suggest that low taxes in the US mean that people there have more money to spend are being disingenuous, because US citizens need to pay, either directly or indirectly, for social goods that are provided free in other countries.” @sjwrenlewis https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/04/which-oecd-country-is-highest-social.html

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    @interfluidity @sjwrenlewis


    Before the 1990s the System of National Accounts (SNA) did not distinguish between individual public services - education, healthcare etc. - and collective ones - defence, public administration etc. This fouled up international comparisons and led to some spectacularly erroneous policy decisions - most notably in Sweden - as a result.

    These days this has been corrected but policymakers may not yet have caught with this.

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