We'll need another great depression before we can finally push through real economic and political reform.

It's devastating to go to the town where I grew up and see needles everywhere. We've pushed poverty and despair out to the suburbs and those people with no educate and no prospects turn to drugs to relieve the pain in a disastrous way.

This 'article' is nothing but useless generalizations, finger pointing, and moral grandstanding.

Whenever I read something by Sedaris all I get is the impression he is a smug asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. Liberal elitism through and through. He's just as ignorant and pig headed as the Trump supporters he mocks.

I love it when the supposed 'rational truth seekers' react with the same knee jerk nonsense as conservatives. The NYTimes article was not 'false equivalency' it was an explanatory peace about why many in the Republican party don't believe in climate change, it not a support piece for them or their position.

Turns out that this leading climate scientist turns out to be practically illiterate when it comes to his capacity for reading.

What a joke the liberal left in the USA continues to be.

Happy workers are more productive and effective workers.

I wonder if the USA will ever adopt this mentality rather than the idea.

Switch seems doomed to be a novelty item, but I respect Nintendo for trying.

Wii worked because it was novel and simpler than it's competition and therefore could appeal to a wider audience, Switch isn't. It's basically another Vita.

I love how workers are always are always guilty of never working hard enough in the USA.

1970 is an interesting year to do this metric. Why? Because it was the 70s when the tax revolts started. Boomers were making bank and decided they didn't want to share the wealth. They climbed the ladder and started pulling it up behind them rather than keeping it there for their children to climb it.

There is no reason the economy should be this way other than the sheer greed of those who have already made it.

Never understood why anyone admired this techno-douche.

How I wish this was true. But it's great that Germany is making an effort tot keep their capitol into another playground for the global elite.

Where is the part where she is unhappy because they don't travel enough?

The reason they are wise is because anyone can project their own meaning onto them. They have a universality that makes them immediately accessible to smart and dumb alike. Meaning is not a universal constant to which there is a singular authority.

How the hell did the quantify what as bullshit and not? Plenty of worthwhile statements out of context become bullshit. Also interesting they did no comparison with marketing language.

Cool

Berlin is a great city. Glad to see they are interested in keeping that way.