I listened to a bonus episode of the podcast Drilled this week, "The 'Carbon Dominance' Strategy Driving Trump's Anti-Renewable Spree". The link to the podcast is included in its accompanying article, "Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere", found here: Trump Is
"The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Transpeople are 1% of the population. Muslims are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%! Transpeople aren't taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Last Sunday (31 August 2025) I attended the counter protest against the anti-immigration rally in Melbourne that involved the neo-Nazi organisation, the National Socialist Network. Due to not wearing any identifying clothing and being white, once the police had dispersed us, I was able to move among the anti-immigration protesters
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." - Omar El Akkad The Overton window, or window of
Gary Stevenson, a British economist, financial trader, and YouTuber, says that in UK politics (and in other western economies) there are essentially 2 leading voices in what we need to do to solve our economic problems. His group that wants to tax the rich more, and the much louder group
NO. Margaret Thatcher's statement above is another in the list of things she was wrong about. Modern monetary theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that describes how monetary systems work and it advocates that government spending should not be restrained due to the fear of rising debt. 1
Sunk costs are costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. 1 The sunk cost fallacy causes people to stick with a failing decision just because they've already invested in it. 2 Psychological biases like loss aversion and commitment bias make it hard to walk away
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Are you a techno-phile, techno-optimist, techno-solutionist, techno-fantasist, techno-utopiast? Do you think technology and artificial intelligence (AI) will solve all our problems? "Socialism didn't work did it, we tried that didn't we? The extreme right and left are as bad as each other, and the political
Bill Gates recently announced that he would give away most of his fortune to Africa by 2045. A total expected to be USD 200 billion, or roughly USD 10 billion a year. Whilst admirable, this amount is dwarfed by the net financial flows of USD 2 trillion that is extracted
People often conflate running a government with running a household like this man... He doesn't realise that his expenditure is independent of his income. So when he reduces his expenditure, his income remains the same, and he gets to keep the savings. Whereas for a nation, it'