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Youth Unemployment Predictor Of Social Unrest

That does not bode well. An increase in youth unemployment is a better predictor of social unrest than virtually any other factor...

Src: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/sunday-review/the-world-has-a-problem-too-many-young-people.html?_r=0

2023/07/07 02:41

You Are Not Normal

Quetelet applied the same [Astronomical] thinking to his interpretation of human averages: He declared that the individual person was synonymous with error, while the average person represented the true human being.

“Et voila.”

Or more precisely: “C'est pas normal.”

Src: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-invention-of-the-normal-person/463365/?single_page=true

2023/07/07 02:41

your anscestors may have been pets

“Otherwise unrelated domesticated animal species display a range of anatomical and behavioral phenotypes that set them apart from their wild counterparts: depigmentation; floppy, reduced ears; shorter muzzles; curly tails; smaller teeth; smaller cranial capacities; neotenous (juvenile) behavior; reduction of sexual dimorphism; docility; and more frequent estrous cycles. Biologists sometimes call this “domestication syndrome”. Comparing us to Neanderthals, with their larger teeth and brains, and more robust skeletons, it is hard to escape the conclusion that we are the domesticated rather than the wild variant of mankind. Recent genetic studies lend further evidence to this conclusion.”

Src: https://palladiummag.com/2021/05/17/why-civilization-is-older-than-we-thought/

2023/07/07 02:41

YCombinator Startup Summary

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-essential-startup-advice/

2023/07/07 02:41

Wutbuerger

Good term!

Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, isn’t only concerned about income inequality in Germany; he also worries about systemic barriers to social mobility. “I don’t have a problem with the top 10 percent,” Fratzscher told Die Zeit. “I have a problem that the bottom 40 percent are being left behind.”

Src: [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/04-Apr-2016/germany-can-take-that-smug-look-off-its-face|Daily Times]

2023/07/07 02:41

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Digging #1

Well, so there I am with the rented 5.5t excavator (because there was no 8t, as I was recommended) – having luckily spent the previous evening reading up on how to use them. Turns out that was lucky, because the guy who was suppossed to show me how to do things… didn't show up.

One small issue, the neighbours were curious and came over to check things out.

And would not go away. Had to hang out with them a while. Opinionated bastards called Paddington and Buster. Swinging their horns around ( to show that they didn't like me touching their head, belly fine though) a bit too close for comfort.

Finally started up after watching an expensive hour go by and they left when the dust started flying.

Things were going smoothly, and time flew by, although near the end of the day found out that treads can fall off. Bummer. Having to get a neighbour to come out and show me how to get it sorted out first thing in the morning.

Day 1 off 4 finished. Going to bed.

2023/07/07 00:14

country outcomes

My expectations of myself this coming year:

Actively Contribute to
1. communicating and re-establishing an understanding of the purpose of curricula, which is to
  1. developing the character and skills of the countries individuals to become:
    1. individual in creativity
    2. collaborative in effort
    3. collective in sense of justice
  2. in order to achieving well-being by
    1. valueless to valued (characterwise).
    2. self-esteeming themselves first,
    3. while gaining social esteem but relying on it only as a check-sum of their own self-assessment,
    4. progressing at their achievable pace along the continuum of:
      
      selfish to selfless,
      
      unskilled to skilled,
      
      helpless to helpful
2. to collectively improve the socioeconomic valuation of the country, which at its essence is the balance of its creativity versus its consumption of resources.