They've gone even after the kid.

".. emails sent to brothels and pimps between 2014 and 2016 that document the industry's patronage of brothels and purchasing of services from trafficked sex workers. Among the emails, which were obtained through a public records request to the King County Prosecutor's Office, were 67 sent from Microsoft employee email accounts, 63 from Amazon accounts and dozens more from companies like Boeing, T-Mobile, Oracle and local Seattle tech firms."

"Seattle's sex industry has grown right alongside its tech industry and the city's authorities have said that some men spend up to $50,000 per year on sex workers. "

think there's a link to SJW tech culture?

"Brothels are even known to advertise how close they are to tech offices."

this is fucking fantastic

"China’s small loans are piling up. More than 8,600 companies offer some form of small loan, and about $145 billion of those debts remain unpaid, according to the People’s Bank of China. Other estimates run as high as $392 billion, according to the Boston Consulting Group. The government does not track default rates among online lenders, which disclose little on their own."

"One Paipaidai borrower, a man named Lin in a small town in Fujian Province called Quanzhou, said he had racked up about $75,000 in loans from 30 different platforms for living expenses and an investment in a shoe store."

"SCOTT PRUITT: Agency dismantler

A political appointee chipped away at the US Environmental Protection Agency — and science — with ruthless efficiency.

When thousands of people took to the streets in April’s March for Science, many protesters brandished signs attacking Scott Pruitt, the outspoken climate-change sceptic who had recently taken over as administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

hahaha this is glorious

I had no idea he was this efficient

"In October, Pruitt announced that scientists who hold EPA grants would no longer be allowed to serve on the agency’s independent advisory committees, owing to what he called a conflict of interest. As a result, the agency dismissed half the members of several scientific-advisory boards."

"Many of us came into 2017 expecting the worst. And in many ways, the worst is what we got.

Donald Trump has been every bit as horrible as one might have expected; he continues, day after day, to prove himself utterly unfit for office, morally and intellectually."

REEEEEEEEEE

"Yet I’m ending this year with a feeling of hope, because tens of millions of Americans have risen to the occasion. The U.S. may yet become another Turkey or Hungary — a state that preserves the forms of democracy but has become an authoritarian regime in practice. But it won’t happen as easily or as quickly as many of us had feared."

Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times.

this guy is literally delusional

democracy=/=non-authoritarianism

democracy just means the authority of the majority

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42481329

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Yes!

yes, but the article has been posted at least 4 times in <#372512496306880522>

would be excellent to get the bot to stop posting repeated stuff, not to mention the times people post the exact same post 3-4 times in a row

I have no idea why that happens

I'm not checking the entire internet to find out if you you have seen it before

I'm dumping a link which is a WHOLE FOUR HOURS old in a chat

I wasn't complaining about that, I was complaining about the bot :P

dumb bot

yes, for me it's one of the best things about this discord, the <#377519392956874752> and <#372512496306880522> list of interesting things, and when there are duplicates in any of those it detracts from the value of both

if the amount of duplicates and spam were reduced, more people would probably scan through them after returning from AFK

barely click reddit feed

and breaking news and news discussion should be one channel 😄

amagad then it would be useless

"Next year, Fern Mandelbaum, a venture capitalist, will teach a new class to Stanford M.B.A. candidates called Equity by Design: Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations.

“It’s not just how the C.E.O. of Uber was treating women,” Ms. Mandelbaum said. “The bias is throughout the system.”"

course description: "This course equips you to create and build equitable organizations. We will discuss the power of inclusion as it relates to the employee and customer experience. We will study effective strategies for building diverse and inclusive companies, and will address the barriers that can often exist. We'll look at approaches to organizational design that limit unconscious bias and produce more objective decisions across the employee experience - from engaging and hiring candidates to retaining employees and helping them thrive. Finally, we'll dive into how to create inclusive cultures and a sense of belonging. Experts in diversity and inclusion, and executives at companies that have successfully incorporated inclusion programs, will join us for the class discussions."

http://www.fortefoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=allies

and then all your businesses will FAIL

FeelsGoodMan

their sponsor list is frightening

and their youtube channel is hilarious - most videos have 10-20 views and the production budget on the videos is obviously way too high

alright, 30-1000 views

‘If you are a storeowner after Katrina, should you hike up the price of flashlights?’ Greg Mankiw said yes, without hesitation.” Ali remembers thinking: Greg Mankiw is a good guy. But that answer is absolutely wrong. We don’t just have markets. We have values. “I started to think, Ah, man, I’m probably not a Republican.”

yeah LOL

that part was what hooked me on the article

that where I've got to

it's so amazingly naive and stupid, I can't even

article before that is talkin up how smart the kid is

I mean, if that's your response to hearing that, you had no fucking idea what your political stance was on anything

yes exactly

yes you should raise the prices. Would you tho?

probably not

yes but that's not even part of the discussion - he hears someone make an economic argument that seems morally reprehensible to him, and he immediately thinks "I'm probably not a republican"

well Republicans are pure EVIL aren't they Ali?

not a particularly interesting post on its own, but it shows that there might be an undercurrent of cured former globalists in silicon valley, the guy who wrote this has some pretty big roots in tech financing
https://medium.com/@RickWebb/my-internet-mea-culpa-f3ba77ac3eed

"And if you stop and think about it, how surprising is it that it’s wrong? We are biological organisms with thousands of years of evolution geared towards villages of 100, 150 people. What on earth made us think that in the span of a single generation, after a couple generations in cities with lots of people around us but wherein we still didn’t actually know that many people, that we could suddenly jump to a global community? If you think about it, it’s insanity. "

otherwise, it's not actually worth reading

"To make the Trump people feel at home the U.S.D.A. people had set aside the nicest rooms on the top floor of the nicest building, with the nicest view of the National Mall. They had fished out of storage the most beautiful photographs from the U.S.D.A.’s impressive collection and hung them on the walls. They had brought in computers and office supplies, and organized a bunch of new workstations. When they heard that Joel Leftwich, the guy Trump wanted to lead his U.S.D.A. transition team, had been a lobbyist for PepsiCo, they brought in a mini-fridge stocked with Pepsis."

It's like they are preparing to welcome an alien race DuckerZ

we read that paragraph quite differently

to me it sounds like small-town folks making ready for guests

which is an entirely positive thing in my mind

it's one of the things that the article mentions that is a valid criticism of the transition team; that they didn't show up there for a long time

especially after saying that they would

on the other hand, I can imagine trump had problems actually getting people to fill his teams

but I can only imagine that, I have no evidence or anecdote to back it up in any direction

but they deal with farmers and school dinners

surely this wasn't the first time they had discovered a Republican

There are people who would seek to dismiss his entire enterprise with a single line: Why should my hard-earned dollars go to feed anyone else? They’d see Kevin Concannon as the King of Handouts. A promoter of sloth and indolence.

LUUL

"Once, she tried to estimate how many of the U.S.D.A.’s roughly 100,000 employees had been taught how to create a spreadsheet. Fewer than 50 people, she decided. “I was always very aware how we spent money. When I would use words like ‘fiduciary duties’ or say, ‘Those are not our dollars,’ they would say, ‘Are you sure you aren’t a Republican?’ But I was really sensitive to the fact that this wasn’t our money. This was taxpayer money. This was money that had come from some guy working for 15 bucks an hour.”"

"To increase the number of chickens a poultry company murders each minute might take years, even if it is the smart thing to do."

Murders eh?

“Them: We hate the government and you suck. Me: My mission alone put $1 billion into your economy this year, so are you sure about that? Me thinking: We are the only reason your shitty state is standing.”

lol

hehe

Kek

"As Jackson Lee noted on her first day in Congress, the use of public funds for private ends is a major no-no, and the political graveyard is strewn with officials who forgot that."

"The Democrat has developed a reputation for making life hell for any clerk, stewardess, or pilot unwilling or unable to make her three-and-a-half-hour flight anything less than glamorous. She takes advantage of federal travel perks to book multiple flights (only to cancel at the last minute and at no charge). She demands an upgrade to premier seats. She expects, in her words, “to be treated like a queen.”"

"Jean-Marie Simon, who used 140,000 miles to buy first-class tickets to take her from Washington, D.C., to Guatemala and back home, described the experience as “so completely humiliating,” reports the Houston Chronicle."

"Simon was told that her seat was taken, and United gave her a $500 voucher and reseated her in the Economy Plus section in row 11."

"Jackson Lee's office said the 67-year-old congresswoman did not ask for exceptional treatment or "anything out of the ordinary."

"I noted that this individual came toward me and took a picture. I heard later that she might have said “I know who she is.” Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman," Jackson Lee said."

REEEEE RACISTS ON A PLANE

Attorney General of New York, quote “The election was so traumatizing that my first step was to try and, essentially, pick everyone up off the canvas, I had people who were too depressed to go into work.”

"Appalled and shocked by the illiteracy displayed in my students' papers, I once began a class (comprised of freshmen through seniors) by writing on the board three words: cats, cat's, cats'. I then asked if anyone could explain the difference. About ten seconds elapsed before one (very brave) student raised her hand, began "I think ..." and then proceeded to explain the difference correctly. I said, "This is third grade stuff. Why do most of you not know it?""

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42486085

Lewis Hamilton has apologised for making "inappropriate" comments in a video in which he appeared to mock his nephew's princess dress.

In an Instagram video, which has since been deleted, the Formula 1 driver says "boys don't wear princess dresses".

Nephew.... princess dress... Degen

Think of the wymens

I think you mean wammenz

"Financed by the German army at a cost of €7.9m (£7m), the show, consisting of daily episodes of four to seven minutes, is an attempt by the German military, the Bundeswehr, to attract new soldiers at a time when their numbers, following the abolition of conscription six years ago, are at a historic low."

yeah this will end well

"But the Greens and the leftwing Linke party have accused the armed forces of producing propaganda, and of painting far too rosy a picture of a job that requires young people to be prepared to die and to kill. “Those who choose to advertise the job of a soldier should do so responsibly, by showing everything the job entails, not just making a few nice videos about how to fold your washing,” says Tobias Lindner, defence expert for the Greens. "

I actually agree with that, but not for the same reason they have probably

recently in my country there were some new army recruits who wrote an article complaining that their training was too hard

well then you are too wet to be in the Army. fuck off to McDonald's LUUL

"This month, Twitter suspended the bot again, and this time refused to revive it. The company’s justifications were both entirely accurate and utterly absurd. “A large number of people have blocked you in response to high volumes of untargeted, unsolicited, or duplicative content or engagements from your account,” we were informed. This was true; Impostor Buster had been blocked by many neo-Nazis. “A large number of spam complaints have been filed against you.” Yes, by neo-Nazis. “You send large numbers of unsolicited replies or mentions.” Yes, to neo-Nazis."

"The real threat, apparently, was not these trolls — who today continue to roam the platform unchallenged — but our effort to combat them."

"The great irony of this whole affair is that Impostor Buster was doing Twitter’s job for it."

I'm not sure that's the "great irony" of this affair, actually

Asshole creates a spam bot to attack people he doesn't like, gets his account banned. Crybully.

"The shark, which initially appeared to be an adult male because of its external genitalia, had internal male and female reproductive tracts, as well as a pair of “ovotestes” (gonads with ovarian and testicular tissue). Upon dissection, the scientists note that that the shark could produce “both viable ovum and sperm and had mature and functional reproductive tracts to deliver germ cells,” meaning they believed it was possible for the shark to use male or female organs for reproduction."

I don't understand, is this the same as being gender-fluid or gender-bending like the SJWs use those terms? because it sure doesn't seem like it