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(xkcd.com) Size and Lifespan
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
According to a UN report published last year, there are 138 million children in child labor. In this article, we look at what this estimate exactly captures.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Black Plagiarism Matters by “Whataboutitsm” | Policy of Truth
[…] post on the Jason Arday controversy, “Black Plagiarism Matters,” has gotten more-than-usual traffic for posts at this blog, much of it via Roderick Long’s […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) “Whataboutism”
Further Reflections on the Jason Arday Case My post on the Jason Arday controversy, “Black Plagiarism Matters,” has gotten more-than-usual traffic for posts at this blog, much of it via Roderick Long’s Facebook page (thanks, Roderick), where there’s an extensive discussion of the post, much of it admittedly point-missing and pointless. One common criticism I’ve…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Persecution and the Art of Acting” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Cool. Would love to hear the upshot, if any. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Persecution and the Art of Acting” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. My father held a view sort of like that. He thought that everything in the Qur’an was true (I don’t know if he would have said literally so), but that none of it really applied to him in any action-guiding sens…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Pretty sure Thirsty has bedroom eyes under there
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/8/26 So, ah, what do you think that foodstuff is that Superman is slicing…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian social structures on the battlefield. Last time we looked at…
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