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[Borachio]

I really meant to express astonishment that people can find themselves in a position of slaughtering each other. For reasons which rather escape me.

Perhaps I should be clearer: I can see no difference between those two groups of people, as individuals, which would make me think that one set deserve to die and the other live.

Maybe I've put that badly (surely I have - I always do!), but hopefully with a little generosity you can understand what I'm driving at.

 

[Ayatollah So]

To change the subject, here's some economics

Brad DeLong discusses why stimulating your way out of a recession is a great idea here.

 

[Monsterzuma]

several post-crisis economies in history have had weak recoveries without ever returning to the trend line of "potential output" (as it is initially defined before being revised down). it's not unlikely that this will happen to the USA and Europe in their current state.

 

[Cutlass]

several post-crisis economies in history have had weak recoveries without ever returning to the trend line of "potential output" (as it is initially defined before being revised down). it's not unlikely that this will happen to the USA and Europe in their current state.

It may happen. But never forget for a moment that it is a political choice for it to happen. The political choice could have as easily gone the other way.

 

[Cutlass]

Spoiler :

 

[madviking]

 

[cybrxkhan]

That was the most uselessly interesting graph I've come across on a while. I assume with girls there's probably gonna be a lot of a's out there.

Also, that "n" appears to be rising way too fast for my comfort towards the end, made me think dirty things.

 

[Goodfella]

Spoiler :

Up until now, I always assumed Finnish teachers were much better paid, but it appears they're not.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/teachers-salaries_teachsal-table-en

 

[Phrossack]

That was the most uselessly interesting graph I've come across on a while. I assume with girls there's probably gonna be a lot of a's out there.

Also, that "n" appears to be rising way too fast for my comfort towards the end, made me think dirty things.

It's because of all those silly new names like Dustin, Brayden, Hayden, Kayden, etc. Gone are the stalwart names of the past like Æðelwulf.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It's because of all those silly new names like Dustin, Brayden, Hayden, Kayden, etc. Gone are the stalwart names of the past like Æðelwulf.

That makes sense, actually. I really don't like most of those kinds of names.

Bah, I'll never give my kids one of those names if I ever have any, there's plenty of good old Anglo-Saxon names out there.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

A view to 8373 kills.

 

[madviking]

It's because of all those silly new names like Dustin, Brayden, Hayden, Kayden, etc. Gone are the stalwart names of the past like Æðelwulf.

1. Noah
2. Liam
3. Jacob
4. Mason
5. William
6. Ethan
7. Michael
8. Alexander
9. Jayden
10. Daniel
11. Elijah
12. Aiden
13. James
14. Benjamin
15. Matthew
16. Jackson
17. Logan
18. David
19. Anthony
20. Joseph
21. Joshua
22. Andrew
23. Lucas
24. Gabriel
25. Samuel

also my current roommate is named dustin...

 

[Borachio]

Spoiler :

If only the world would take this seriously! But it won't.

 

[CavLancer]

As regards school, the Finns never Finnish though, do they? Plus, they have no survival issues in school as we had in Jersey, yes? So they don't end up trying to survive a n d trying to learn their multiplication tables, yes? Put a Fin kid in those schools and watch what happens. Put me in a job competition with a Fin kid and it might be different. Until Godzilla shows up, then I'll survive.

 

[classical_hero]

Yeah, my real name ends with an 'n' also.

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/2/5765030/obama-global-inequality-power

 

[nc-1701]

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/2/5765030/obama-global-inequality-power

What makes Russia vulnerable? I assumed that along with Canada they had basically all upside from global warming?


Edit: I know Russia isn't on the vulnerable list, but they are listed as more vulnerable than Canada, America, etc.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The US is among the least vulnerable? Isn't there a lot of reports about water scarcity in the Southwest?

 

[Phrossack]

The US is among the least vulnerable? Isn't there a lot of reports about water scarcity in the Southwest?

There are. Lake Mead's draining like a bathtub, and once the Ogallala aquifer is tapped dry, it won't refill for thousands or hundreds of thousands of years. This, however, does not stop people in any way from continuing to pretend that the Southwest is a good place to farm once you destroy it with irrigation.

 

[Cutlass]

What makes Russia vulnerable? I assumed that along with Canada they had basically all upside from global warming?


Edit: I know Russia isn't on the vulnerable list, but they are listed as more vulnerable than Canada, America, etc.

It probably has to do with their weak infrastructure. They probably aren't more vulnerable than Canada, but are much less able to deal with any problems that they do face.

The US is among the least vulnerable? Isn't there a lot of reports about water scarcity in the Southwest?

People have only relocated to those places in the past generation. They could as easily relocate back away from them.