by Carl Howard | Jul 19, 2016 | Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
A prior post talked about the genuine cost of the upcoming NSW ban on greyhound racing. This got me thinking about public discussion of what job someone’s “entitled” to. Usually I’ve seen opinions about this fall closely towards one of these 3 (arranged from most to...
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 | 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 | Jun 2, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment
[CN: Dehumanisation, crimes against humanity] In addition to the problems intrinsic to homelessness, homeless people often suffer from deliberate harm by others. For example, Social cleansing is the act of targeting people you deem “undesirable” for the...
by Carl Howard | May 8, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism, Society
In the last decade, we’ve seen an explosion in the media of country-based rankings/indexes that are meant to measure more than “just” traditional economic metrics like GDP. While GDP is an important measure that tells us something about what’s going on in a region,...
by Carl Howard | Jan 12, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
2014 was not a great year for the world by any means. If you haven’t seen this great cartoon from The Nib summarising just some of the shitty things that happened, you should. So naturally, what did 2015 do so far? Promise to be a much much shittier year, if these...
