TheGoddessAnoia

In fairness to Picketty, he did think we could avoid neo-feudalism if ordinary people set aside their competitive and selfish natures to focus on the co-operation that is at the heart of our success as a species. Funnily enough, Mike Berners-Lee wrote the same thing at the end of There is No Planet B (a book I do wish more of the billionaire tech bros had read).

So, yeah: we're big fucked.

Yeah. Sure. Measles can actually destroy the immune system so that it forgets not only that you have had measles, but everything else you've developed an immunity to (it's called immune amnesia) by having the disease or having a vaccine, and face getting the whole mob again. Or, you could be the 1 or 2 people in 1000 who will die, or the 1 in 1000 who will get encephalitis and live, albeit significantly intellectually and physically disabled. Or you could get subacute sclerosing panencephalitis ten years after you had measles, and that's almost always fatal.

Makes getting shingles after having chicken pox as a kid seem like a walk in the park, mmm?

Thomas Picketty predicted this in Le Capital au XXI e siècle / Capital in the 21st Century (2013), as the nearly inevitable outcome of neoliberal economic behaviour, based onvast statistical evidence gathered by governments and expert organisations over more than a century. About the only thing he got wrong was, like even the meteorological experts, underestimating the speed at which climate chaos was going to overwhelm the world's societies and abet the billionaires' takeover.

I really, REALLY recommend that book, if you have the capacity to slog through dense academic prose (in translation, yet!). To make it easier to lift the book, which would otherwise have been maybe 5,000 pages, give or take a couple of complicated graphs, , Picketty put all the footnotes and appendices online. They do reward reading/examining, at least where you want to see the evidence in very fine detail.

Or, get an economics geek to translate for you.

What! A right to serve the public at the expense of the cryptobros? What a quaint, old-fashioned idea!

You are assuming decapitation would cause injury. I am pretty sure their brain body connection has been severed, as evidenced by their continued use of That Site. Thus any message from the nociceptors never gets past the neck anyway.

That's a BIG question! I mean, traditional arts and related products (like silicone or acrylic bentos) are generally really good, clothes are, as everywhere, from fabulously made and expensive to crap that falls apart if you sneeze at it from across the road, and there is WAY too much kawaii in everything, just -- ewwww! Stationary and office supplies tend to be better quality, but personal stationary, like fashion and interior design, suffers from terminal cutes. Anime and manga have become, imho, really repetitive and derivative,and if I see one more tourist souvenir featuring Hokusai's Great Wave, I will, so help me Daikini Shinten, invoke every tanuki pretending to be a tea pot to come tear every last copy to tiny bits of random fluff.

Now, where was I.... Oh, yeah. Good ceramics in Kappabashi.

Wait! There are Canadians still using X? Off with their heads!!

WOW!! My deepest admiration for their courage to stand AND their phenomenal success! The battle is not yet lost, and we all need to follow this example!

We've used Kenny's books for maybe 30 years now -- so long that neither of us can remember that far back any more. And you're right, orders are quick and the service is great, but the best thing is the selection!

Ay! Oy!

Tell you what: if you really think it matters, then by all means, make it your mission. But our problem isn't Canadians not knowing the truth, is it -- hell, astonishing as it may be, the Canadian media have done a pretty good job of refuting the egregious BS coming up on the southern wind. Our problem is that we are outnumbered and outgunned by lunatics willing to blow up the world just so they can rule the ruins, and I am no longer willing to waste my breathe on being reasonable.