the fascination index
2024-11-03
Bois also criticizes the whole practice of pigeonholing voters into two established categories, of forcing people to have to reduce themselves, essentialize their political views. He criticizes the aforementioned political compass charts. It is reminiscent of Edouard Glissant’s idea of the ‘right to opacity.’
Bois destroys and humiliates this essentialization, this hijacking of human complexity in spectacular fashion. At first, he plots all the ‘normal’ and mainstream politicians according to their views on the political compass chart. Then, he introduces us to some of the Reform Party politicians. They fit onto it, but their views are so bizarre, that he introduces a third scale, a z-axis, the ‘fascination index,’ to plot them correctly.
Satire?
2023-12-26
Chilling (and not like a deli product)
2023-06-29
“How lucky we are,”
peak oil
2023-06-18
Collapse might be interesting to write about, if only everyone else wasn’t doing it.
Hubbert’s Peak is Finally Here
From here on out, just six counties in West Texas must meet all global demand growth. […] Using our neural network, we have updated our basin analysis, and the results are shocking. [This area] is likely less than a year from peaking and starting its decline. The only source of non-OPEC supply growth is now primarily tapped out.
What is Hubbert’s Peak Theory?
Hubbert’s peak is defined as the point where the demand for the resources is rising at its highest production rate and then expects a reduction in the correlation with the increased demand.
[…]
Technically speaking, when looking into the future, there is almost an unlimited amount of oil still to be extracted. This implies that we are not yet close to reaching peak energy.
lol
via Reddit
Raymond Zack
2021-11-20
“He uh… had the ability to make a bad decision and did.” “Yeahh-uh.”
Do not pass Go
2021-11-08
Hey, i wrote something for another blog.
Been participating in Lefty Book Club for a few weeks, with weekly assigned readings and group discussions over Zoom. In the subgroup i’ve been attending, we have read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher and are now into Lost Connections by Johann Hari. Good books, good people, recommended for all political shapes and sizes.
Class Kerfuffle: Ideology in Board Games
[…] while board gaming has grown beyond a geek pastime into a booming industry, does it have the potential to be an effective tool for political education? Before answering this, a brief review of the use of ideology in tabletop board gaming may be useful.
shipping experts
2021-10-30
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End
Nobody is compelling the transportation industries to make the needed changes to their infrastructure. There are no laws compelling them to hire the needed workers, or pay them a living wage, or improve working conditions. And nobody is compelling them to buy more container chassis units, more cranes, or more storage space. This is for an industry that literally every business in the world is reliant on in some way or another.
via Reddit
Behind every innovation, socialism
2019-11-23
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It’s time we all listened
“It wasn’t just early research, it was also applied research, early stage finance, strategic procurement,” she says. “The more I looked, the more I realised: state investment is everywhere.”
a last word for #bellletstalk 2018
2018-02-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHIxRcD22MA
also this was funny.
“Canada Bread did not comment.”
2017-12-20
Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years
And Loblaw says it will start offering $25 gift cards on Jan. 8 to customers who declare they bought certain (as yet unnamed) breads at some of its (as yet unnamed) chains before March 1, 2015 – a gesture that the company says could cost as much as $150-million.
