Hasnain says:

This is a super engrossing human interest story about a guy who set up a motel with the express purpose of peeping on people, and what he observed.

Hasnain says:

Sigh

Hasnain says:

I've read a few articles about this before but this is the first time I've heard of the last study. Super interesting stuff, sadly I doubt people will listen due to existing "moral" stigmas. What happened in Portugal needs to happen everywhere if people actually care about reducing drug usage, but I doubt it will anytime soon

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Posted on 2016-06-12T05:51:47+0000

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"Daniel Perl is continuing to examine the brains of blast-injured soldiers. After five years of working with the military, he feels sure, he told me, that many blast injuries have not been identified. “We could be talking many thousands,” he said. “And what scares me is that what we’re seeing now might just be the first round. If they survive the initial injuries, many of them may develop C.T.E. years or decades later.”"

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Posted on 2016-06-11T21:49:03+0000

Hasnain says:

Another sad immigration story, this time from the UK.

"This is the system we asked for. We thought it wouldn’t apply to “us.” We built it to keep Them out, to keep Us safe. But how quickly that system turns and engulfs the ones we love.
Then it’s not “Us vs Them.” It’s Us vs Ourselves."

"The Australian/Dutch woman down there with me thought that because we didn’t look like criminals, we shouldn’t be treated like criminals. What she didn’t realize that was we were both playing the part of “criminals” in a shadow puppet play to appease terrified citizens, fearful of attack from the Other, of theft of jobs and currency. It didn’t matter what we looked like because no one else would see us. It didn’t matter who we were because no employer would come running to our rescue. We had ceased to be people and had become numbers, convenient and disposable. For lack of anyone more suspicious to bully, we were pulled aside, our rights suspended, and then cast away with only the thinnest of excuses."

Hasnain says:

Super engrossing read, made even better if you know about silicon valley (both the real one and the show). Full of spoilers though.

"“Multiple people have told me, ‘I’m the Erlich of my company,’” he continued. “I actually tell them, ‘You know that’s not a good thing, right?’”"

Hasnain says:

Click bait headline, but interesting read on tontines, which I never had heard of before

Hasnain says:

Some of these are nuts