I do not support the death penalty generally (I don't like the idea of the state having the power to murder citizens in cold blood), but traditionally the way states have ensured that executive officers actually consult who they are suppose to consult is by hanging or beheading a few that don't.
Yup--I just listened to the hearing, and the Judge took the parties by surprise by indicating he'd issue such a judgment. USG counsel asked for some time to brief the merits and the judge responded: "There are no merits." [3]
Lenge levende fylkene. Legg ned kommunene i stedet!
Ireland will be so far down the global nuking list that we will suffer the indignity of knowing that humanity was annihilated for 'the sick memes' in something called 'Operation: Gigachad Thundercock'.
Kan noen forklare meg, som om jeg er klin idiot, hvorfor Oslo må kjøre på med enorme kutt i overføringene til bydelene om kommunen nå går med milliardoverskudd?
www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/by...
Nestleder i Europabevegelsen, Rasmus Hansson, får sagt det: «Men det hjelper jo ikke industri, arbeidsplasser eller strømkunder om Norge bare ruller seg sammen som et politisk pinnsvin og håper at kjipe EU-forslag bare fordamper.» www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/kraf...
Hvis vi har metafysikk, kan vi vel ha metaintelligens?
Truly a righteous cæse.
Kanskje like greit du flyttet østover i sin tid?
Han er på vei til Roma igjen.
Nå syns ikke jeg noen partier burde inn og overprøve universitetenes autonomi i spørsmålet om studietilbudet, men det er en stusselig sorti for konservativ ideologi at man skal legge ned de klassiske faga fordi de ikke bidrar nok til profittmarginen i næringslivet.
Ay least they dug a ditch (well, moat, I suppose) ...
Rich people think they live in a higher tier of society full of better and more brilliant people, but it’s actually just the same society except the people have more money to waste and lose. So much of what they do is just wealth-induced hallucination
Politikere gjør feil, men vi må klare å skille mellom småting, som utenriksministerens her og et par små feilskjær fra Ine Eriksen Søreide, og det som ser ut til å ligge i en annen liga - Jagland og Juul/Rød-Larsen. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/k0...
No shit.
An army composed entirely of angels could not fight a 'clean' war in Gaza (and after October 7th, a war in Gaza was unavoidable), but what I think at this point has been demonstrated quite clearly is that by and large Israel did not *attempt* to fight a clean war.
And that's damning. It should be.
Lett diskusjon:
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Ferdig.
Sure. But he's probably very serious about propaganda ...
This must have been a spectacularly misinformed individual ...
The logic of the Athenians (who lost; for later context), I assume?
Every time you see a pundit or academic who has evidently lost their damned mind, if you scratch the surface, you find out it was a product of Becoming the Joker to disagree with the people who were modestly critical of them on social media.
one of the great curses of modern American life is people who have been told they’re brilliant and important because they’re rich, powerful, or because they flatter rich and powerful people, and then feel like they should come up with “audacious” things that befit their brilliance. disasters ensue
personally I think that a core reason why many people don’t want kids is because they just don’t want a constantly screaming, incontinent creature in their house that costs a lot of money, but it’s still not socially acceptable to just honestly say this up-front to pollers
Det! blir en spennende sak å se i høyesterett.
How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is and how it should function. If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem (i.e., demand is insufficient, prices are constrained, and unit costs are too high), then the university is, implicitly, being treated as a ‘service provider’ operating in a competitive international education market where students are customers. In that frame, the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls and to strengthen output-focused performance metrics, targets and incentives such as promotions based on publications in highly rated journals, income generation or teaching satisfaction scores. If the same financial situation is framed instead as a system-level shock that threatens the conditions under which teaching, research and public service can flourish, then a different picture of the university comes into view: a ‘living knowledge ecosystem’ serving a public mission and facing financial constraints partly beyond its control. Within that frame, the responses appears quite different. Attention turns to protecting core capacities, reducing harm to the most vulnerable parts of the system and working with others to share risks and resources. In both cases, the numbers in the spreadsheets are the same. What differs is the story told about the problem, and the underlying image of the university that story presupposes. At present, the former factory-like framing is the most common. With it, the danger is that, under a narrative of financial constraints, universities take actions that emphasise governance practices that reshape behaviour so deeply that, over time, what remains may still be called a ‘university’, but no longer acts like one.
Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out.
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
Texas wants to make Thucydides compulsory in schools. This is not good.
thesphinxblog.com/2026/01/13/g...
"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.
from David Frum:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
