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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/September 2024

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September 2024[edit]

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17The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself: The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
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9Young men in the US are probably more liberal than recent media attention suggests.
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48Turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a horrendous idea, and not just for moral reasons.
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58Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake. The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
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22Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from the antidemocratic Electoral College
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4"Your Cynicism Isn’t Helping Anybody". George Carlin fans will love it!
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-12Talking to ChatGPT for the First Time is a Surreal Experience
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33After South Carolina woman Amari Marsh miscarried in May 2023, state authorities arrested her, held her in prison for 22 days, charged her with homicide, and then held her in house arrest for 13 months. Thankfully, a federal jury recently cleared her of wrongdoing.
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22Mark Robinson and the Republican whackjob problem: this is what happens when a party stops trying to keep out the kooks.
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32They were jubilant after the fall of Roe v. Wade two years ago, but now the US anti-abortion movement is divided and demoralized.
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18Sarah Huckabee used a July traffic stop to demonize immigrants. What the footage actually shows is a cop torturing an undocumented migrant.
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51Because of the indiscriminate nature of the blasts and the prohibition on booby traps, Israel's exploding pagers attack might just be a war crime.
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32What JD Vance and Donald Trump don't want you to know about Springfield: Immigrants are making red America great again
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31Media like the New York Times implicitly legitimized Holocaust denial by referring to Tucker Carlson's non-historian guest with terms like "Holocaust revisionist" instead of "Holocaust denier".
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34Global study shows 'go woke, go broke' incorrect - at worst it is ineffective, at best increases sales and brand loyalty.
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36Donald Trump is a national security threat. That he can be so easily manipulated by Harris in a debate using completely obvious tactics shows that America's enemies can do the same.
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60Research suggests there's an easy way to reduce suicide rates: increase the minimum wage.
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28Politico reporters weigh in on why Harris performed so much better than Trump in the presidential debate.
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-2Decolonizing our understanding of extraterrestrial life: what we think about aliens tends to reflect our own thoughts on humanity, or rather a specific slice of humanity. Many mainstream narratives about aliens reflect a colonial lens. It's commonly argued, for instance, that alien civilizations would see each other as threats and seek to dominate or destroy the other. This thinking can be rooted in how human empires in our own time have dominated other human civilizations in this way. However, not all humans have sought to dominate another. Likewise, a belief that civilizations inevitably destroy themselves can be a reflection of the unsustainable practices of modern capitalist societies. However, many indigenous societies understand that by taking care of our environment, resources can be renewable indefinitely. Our labeling of space as terra nullius likewise reflects age old colonialist practices.
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28WSJ: College Grades Have Become a Charade. It’s Time to Abolish Them. An essay on educational inflation.
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20What's wrong with technocracy? Plenty, it turns out, as it leads to an unjust concentration of power based on a flawed concept of knowledge.
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37How demographics have changed in key US swing states since 2008, and what implications that could have for 2024.
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-31Price controls: good intentions, bad outcomes Although they are sometimes used as a tool for social policy with the best intentions in mind, price controls can dampen investment and growth, worsen poverty, productivity and inequality; can cause chronic shortages of goods as well as the formation of black markets with higher prices, and lead to the substitution towards lower-quality alternatives. They also cause countries to incur heavy fiscal burdens, and complicate the effective conduct of monetary policy. This one is about Kamala by the way.
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-14How open trade saved us from a global food crisis. This is the same trade that Donald Trump wants to disrupt in case you haven't guessed.
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47The voices of Palestine: the story of Gaza and colonialism by Palestinian journalist and storyteller Bisan.
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-10How China's Internet police went from targeting bloggers to targeting their followers