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No, they're the ones that beat up random people while throwing out racial slurs.

https://www.phillymag.com/welc...

By reading your article and asking a few questions based on it and the article it references means I fargone. Bygolly, piety on the left is a thing. Even if it is all true I still don't see the calls for a white ethno-state. Culture != race. It's not alt right and being against a form of Marxism is hardly "right wing". If it's not true then it's against some historical Marxist figures and their ideas. So what? You haven't addressed anything about the claims that Peterson is alt right, how the left is blind to their own bigotry, and how PewDiePie is alt right for linking to people like Peterson that is apparently against Marxism in all its forms.

But I noticed you have changed your tune from "alt right" to "right wing". It's a start.

I think you have good personal reasons to dislike Antifa.

Yes, I don't like people that dress up in black and masks shouting racial slurs and beating up people for no reason.

difference between jokes about nazis and joking endorsement

Sure. Can you give me examples?

This has been the case for more than a decade, but 4 years ago the SDP decided one more way to "destroy the morale of veteran teachers and drive a wedge between the union (PFT) and workers was to force everyone who get 3 instances of absence into disciplinary meetings. As per the bureaucracy of the SDP, if you make it to a second disciplinary meeting, your chances of prevailing plummet -- "clearly you must be a horrible employee if you are here a second time!" is the assumption in the central office; especially for the same infraction. Principals thought the new rule harsh and unreasonable -- it applied a solution needed only for a small minority of teachers who are chronically absent, to everyone, so they enforced it with discretion. The SDP responded the next school year by mandating that it be applied to EVERYONE, and data would be checked, those principals who were found derelict would be disciplined themselves.

Three years on, teachers who are new and don't "get" the process routinely get fired, suspended or quit after a year or two because they run afoul of the policy. Those who are chronically absent on purpose have learned to "game" the system, and still call out regularly with no repercussions, and many sick teachers come to work and get sicker, or worse. There have been off the record discussions of how a flu-like bug, or "stomach flu" will spread through a school in a week or so, where in the past one or two would be out and that's all.

The SDP officially refuses to budge on the policy because "children can't learn if the teacher is not there", but after years of allowing the substitute system to fail and be abused -- daily fill-rate of approx 20%, and most fair to poor performing schools NEVER receiving a sub, privatized it, touting the fill rate would be 80+% from day ONE of the new school year. The contractor never achieved higher than 11%, and their replacement company hovers around 16% currently. The District clearly attempted to address academic performance by ensuring the teachers were teaching, but put little thought into the causes of teacher absence, and more troubling chronic absence (low morale, failing health, assault on employees -- even teachers who were attacked bet penalized for calling out!), and clearly didn't work to implement processes and structures to mitigate teacher absence. In the last year, they implemented auto emails from the Superintendent recognizing employees who have not called out for a year, but little else beyond.

So penalizing employees for not showing up to work is not a new thing, and in fact some employers like this school district have no shame when it comes to its punishments.

which robot card will contribute a net gain towards.

They might, or they might help. You can't possibly work out the complexities of this in your head and neither can I. Congestion is a problem now, and I doubt it will cease to be a problem. Policy will need to keep up with technology.

As a counter point, though, I will point to a recent deal between SEPTA (our regional mass transit agency) and Uber where they offer 40% off rides to and from regional rail centers with insufficient parking. If this is successful, it will alleviate congestion. Robot cars could do this even more cheaply, making mass transit into the city viable for those who currently live too far from a station. It doesn't help me - I live very close to a station. It should increase traffic through my neighborhood, but each of those cars is one that is not clogging the roads of Philly.

it is a net loss.

A more efficient tool is never a net loss. If we have better tools and use them in a stupid way, that's on us. It's still better to have the improved tool.

Simply saying it's technology therefore it will be great is inaccurate.

I completely agree. It might turn out to be too complex of a problem for machines to take on. It certainly is right now. I thought we were having a conversation as if robot cars were inevitable, but it is certainly possible that the marketers are pulling the wool over our eyes.

that a person can be worked to death

http://www.phillymag.com/busin...

"The public has often a hard time understanding research and its relevance to society"

What, you mean those dimwitted philistines don't understand or appreciate
Romantic Comedies Encourage Unrealistic Expectations: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

Study Shows Rich People Cheat and Lie: http://www.phillymag.com/news/...

Interacting with women generally makes men stupid: https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Cats Usually Do Land On Their Feet: http://www.improbable.com/airc...

Literacy Improves Your Chances at a Happy and Successful Life: http://www.winnipegfreepress.c...

Horses prefer bananas over carrots: https://www.smartpakequine.com...

Not to mention how many times we've been told things like 'eggs are bad for you' 'eggs are good for you' and reversed. ...yeah, I'm astonished people don't always take "science" seriously.

Unions are parasites that ruined American labor.

When your workforce is so unstable that you might be crushed at any moment by a strike, you hide behind layers of bureaucracy. The system turns to chaos.

Organized crime moves in with unions too.

Check out these unions in action:

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/busting-philly-unions-pestronk-brothers/

With mincing steps, the non-union contractorâ"a middle-aged man in a blue short-sleeved shirtâ"tries to sneak in behind them, sidling through a narrow gap between a temporary chain-link fence and a stone wall. But the union men spot him, move toward the fence, and start to lean against it. Then we see four of them take turns pushingâ"using the fence like a microscope slide to fix the contractor against the wall. In one of the videos, you can hear the man start to cry out, his voice tremulous as heâ(TM)s crushed. Finally, he slumps to the ground.

The most troubling part, though, isnâ(TM)t the sight of the men trapping the contractor; itâ(TM)s the brief glimpse of one of the protesters grinning as the contractor wails. And the way the union guys stroll casually away from the scene when their victim collapses.

âoeItâ(TM)s standard for construction sites to have surveillance cameras,â says one of the two 30-something brothers responsible for capturing the incident on video, Michael Pestronk. âoeThe only novel thing we did, which just seemed obvious to me, was to post the videos on the Internet.â

These are the people who killed American manufacturing.

Foxconn will be doing great, and paying probably good wages, until the union parasites appear.

Then they'll move the factory again.

After all, that's why the American companies moved in the first place.

there are some things we can do to clean up fossil fuel powerplants, but it's not as effective as just replacing them with something better. and production of co2 is a fact of combustion; the only thing we could do is make the c into something else, and that takes a lot of effort. we need modern nuclear reactors (they're cleaner too) and more solar/wind/wave powered things.

after some googling, i found a bit of a something, though i didn't find the presentation i saw.

http://phillymag.com/articles/science_al_gore_is_a _greenhouse_gasbag

this article is more an anti-gore thing, but it mentions gieg.

anyway, battery technology is getting there, and there are some that point to an oil conspiracy... ok whatever. i'll give a link, say i don't necessarily trust it, you decide (i mean, it is the internet).

http://www.ev1.org/

it might not be hard for gas stations to set up power outlets that monitor usage, then charge customers who use them. the transition would not be hard for them, though it would require they change their business model perhaps.

To continue this discussion about MBA, here is an interesting article about the value of Wharton MBA In the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals, America's best-known business school- Wharton, the place that produced Michael Milken and Frank Quattrone, is under siege. Maureen Tkacik spent a year there figuring out what's going on. You'll develop lifelong connections and leadership skills to engage the world and transform your career in ways that extend far beyond your return on investment, ROI for short, on their degrees. Excepting the preambulatory niceties, what Wharton is really telling prospective students is that they'll get a return on investment, ROI for short, on their degrees. -- To read the full version, click here http://www.phillymag.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=569