2022/10/25

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 (#298)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday CWRE post: 50 Years of Vote Suppression links 2022-10-13 Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS: It's always nice when diligent research confirms what we've long known suspected. 2022-10-14 SarafromMI @ Twitter «Well shit... Just Stop Oil is funded by a philanthropy organization, The Climate Emergency Fund, which was founded by oil heiress Aileen Getty.» «Conspiracy brain telling me the souping of the Van Gogh was an op to make environmental activists look ridiculous.» on the other hand, Beau suggests it was actually good strategy. Maybe it was intended as a false-flag job but accidentally ended up being useful publicity? 2022-10-15 Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why. 2022-10-15 owenslindsay1 @ Twitter «One of their big innovations? Push low-price tenants out & sit on empty units instead of dropping prices. “The net effect of driving revenue and pushing people out was $10 million in income. I think that shows keeping the heads in the beds is not always the best strategy.” 5/10» 2022-10-25 North Carolina Sheriff Resigns After Shocking, Racist Comments About Black Employees He must have missed the part of the training where they tell you not to say it out loud. 2022-01-31 The IRS Already Has Your Income Tax Data—So Why Do Americans Still Have to File Their Taxes?: I haven't read the article, but I'd assume two reasons: (1) rich people wanting tax loopholes that are too complicated to exploit unless there's a lot of money at stake, and (2) tax preparation services (and software companies -- lookin' at you, Intuit) that want taxes to be complicated so people will hire them and buy their software. Capitalism likes to take stuff away and then sell or rent it back to you, and this is no exception. 2022-10-01 The Downtown Circle: the world's tallest skyscraper may be set to get a futuristic addition The question that comes to my mind: does the Burj Khalifa have a proper sewage-treatment plant yet, or are they still hauling it off daily in trucks?