by Carl Howard | Jan 6, 2016 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
[CN: All the things] Dear noodly overlord, I know that 2016 has already started but you’re as generous as the FSMas season is long. I know that if you look at it from one way there’s never been a better time to be alive. Last year was the first year child mortality...
by Carl Howard | Dec 1, 2015 | Ethics
Years ago the place I worked would send out EDMs for Father’s/Mother’s Day to a database had around 40,000 users, who would get a message like “treat your father to XYZ this Father’s Day”. What do you think happened? We’d always get a few replies like “my father just...
by Carl Howard | Nov 16, 2015 | Ethics, History, Race
Instead of a direct answer, a parable. Conversation the first: Alice: Australia has a gender wage gap of 17.9%. This is caused by sexism! Bob: [Pats Alice on head] Au contraire my naive friend! Actually, there are some excellent reasons for the wage gap that are the...
by Carl Howard | Nov 3, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, History, Resources, Food and Environment
In a village north of the Longgang Zhen (the town) in Yangxin county. The hand-painted white text on the wall (below the pig-breeder’s ad) apparently threatens village women who’ve exceeded the two-child limit with tubal ligation. [CN: Reproductive coercion, crimes...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2015 | Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
The Abbott government introduced a new page in Australian tax assessments that provides a breakdown of where your taxes go. I’m not sure whose idea it was but I really like the concept. It might be one of the only positive achievements of Abbott’s 726 days in office....
by Carl Howard | Sep 29, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Race, Science and Skepticism
[CN: Racism and racist violence (esp. in the video)] Itamar Rose is an Israeli who makes satirical social experiment films on issues considered taboo and contentious [largely to an Israeli audience]. Some examples of videos he was involved in: Seeing how many...
