New Catallaxy

  • Open Thread – Mon 14 Aug 2023

  • My great grandmother was Irish

    My grandmother’s mother was Irish, so I was told. If I’ve got the genealogical sum right, that makes me one-eighth Irish. If further proof is required, I have in my possession a green shirt and a green  jumper. Also, if its relevant, my mum Elsie was referred to by some as Aunty Elsie. Though, on…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show August 2023: Cars

    There has always been an intimate link between cars and contemporary music and car stereos (aka sound systems) enable the immediacy of that link. As the (almost) ultimate freedom machines, cars can enable a young man to impress an aesthetically pleasing young woman in more ways than might be immediately obvious. However – there is…

  • Guest Post – Muddy: Information Gatekeepers

    Imagine an individual you trust, and another individual you do NOT trust (the reasons being irrelevant). Both make a simple, observable, statement to you: ‘It’s a clear day outside.’ Without an ability to verify, who do you believe? Now imagine the same people make contrasting statements: Trust person says ‘It’s overcast outside,’ and No-Trust states…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 12 Aug 2023

  • The Racist Voice

    Lets be clear and talk about The Racist Voice Rebrand the product, it is racist so let’s rebrand, rename and rewrite press releases, articles, pamphlets and advertisements to refer to The Racist Voice. Change the brand, change the narrative, shift the vibe in the community to recruit the power of the anti-racism narrative to resist…

  • We have to talk about Net Zero

    It’s time to leave It has been said before Clexit, Climate Exit, let’s get on with it. Change the story, change the course of history. Recall the trajectory of significant new ideas. First they are dismissed as heretical, then they become controversial and next thing they are old hat. Or it goes: unthinkable, interesting and…

  • Open Thread – Thurs 10 Aug 2023

  • Yes? Australian electorate appears to say, No

    A recent survey of the Australian electorate appears to indicate a catastrophic defeat is in the sights of the Yes campaign (Newspoll on the weekend had Yes at 43%, No, 46%, and 11% undecided while Essential just today had Yes again at 43, No, 47, and 10 undecided). Here are the results by party, state…

  • Open Thread – Mon 7 Aug 2023

  1. greenfilth: believe ardently in technological progress  In which bizarre parallel universe? They believe ardently in taking humanity back to the…

  3. Figures: “For a hundred years epidemiologist imbeciles (but I repeat myself)…” Epidemiology, like most fields of statistics, is valuable because…

  5. True, true. I once became friends with stray cat who was psychotic. He was excellent, but every now and then…

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