"Gig? What's a gig?

Working for the Company, living in the Company town, and being buried in the Company cemetery is the way life should be.

Now get offa my lawn!"

I don't know what it is, but my productivity leaped when I got a standing desk.

Now I send out dozens of slashdot comments a day!

But I kid.

Really. Much more productive doing actual work.

Anytime I need to do real thinking, I've historically gotten the urge to walk around. Much like the Sundance Kid, "I'm better when I move." Or that's what I thought. Now I think maybe standing with minimal movement is enough.

One bit of crony capitalism justifies the next? Some of us were against the Fed's bailouts too.

Oh, don't be so pissy or you won't be invited to join the Anglosphere.

The solution is starting to play out. A few more defaults, and governments will have a much harder time getting loans in the first place.

Everyone knows these sovereign debts, based on the indentured servitude of future generations, are never going to be repaid. At some point, there will be a rush for the exits.

Of course they knew. And they went along with the lie to defraud the citizens of Europe into going along.

The Greek government.

Given that default is a certainty, the Greeks clearly weren't paying enough interest.

Who said the Eurocrats believed what Greece told them? They were as much in the lie as the Greeks, to get some popular approval for monetary union.

Interesting usage of "force": refusal to float an infinite supply of loans that will never be paid back.

The eurocrats are of course thugs, but limiting how much they'll shake down the rest of their subject citizens to subsidize Greece is not a great example of their thuggishness.

The Stonecutters:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

", with clear differences between Republicans and Democrats, and between conservatives and liberals. For example, while 98% of AAAS members agree with the statement that "Human beings and other living things have evolved over time", only 21% of conservatives agree, compared with 54% of liberals. "

I hope PEW wasn't equally sloppy about conflating the republican/democrat axis with the conservatives/liberal axis.

Yeah, because I bet that's how Google develops their image recognition algorithms - white guys walk around taking pictures of themselves.

As is more likely the case, there are few pictures of Albino gorillas in their machine learning corpus (racist against Albino gorillas!), and hence less data for white folks to more easily match gorillas based on macro level color characteristics.

I believe what they did was send the gag order *directly* to the Reason editors, instead of their legal counsel, which is considered a huge and threatening breach of process in the legal world.

Yes, the readers are of course generally provoked. Many have changed their names to incorporate variations on the wood chipper theme.

Wouldn't you like to be a Chipper too?