Taylor Swift Buys Control of Her Music


Is it worth the investment after rerecording? I mean a sly trick would be to sell the originals at height of career to finance company for lots, then rerecord and get their streaming income to go to zero. Why buy them back?
 

As Women Take Over a Male Field the Pay Drops


The pay drops because it is a beta field, less cutting edge.
 

Diaspora Mission


Very healthy attitude. After centuries of isolation and persecution they have a homeland. Not easy to keep and without it you can always be in danger but just living inside it is also limiting. For example the British empire declined but their huge empire in US, Canada, Australia maintains global power. Italians, Irish have large diasporas particularly in America. Now middle easterners, Indians, Chinese are spreading to the West where financial, military power resides. Remittances, political contacts, influence in general helps keep their countries afloat.
 

Hiking Influencer Found Dead

Obviously telling people where and when you will be alone on an isolated trail is not smart.

 

Economic Failure Causes Decline in Islamic Belief


Soviet ideology collapsed too. Murray has a good point. 
 

Toxic US Culture

First comment:

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.’ Oscar Wilde was spot-on.

 

Plato, Only Fans and the End of Western Civilization


I recall that at the height of the Roman Empire and later at the height of the Catholic power in medieval Rome, 10% of all women were prostitutes. This is like the wild west saloon towns. In Alaska during the Gold Rush and later in the 70s pipeline construction in Fairbanks, as I grew up there, prostitution boomed. The birth of the internet was geeks sending nude photos. There is a permanent back and forth of puritan female impulses competing with sluts, two tactics of controlling men and thereby power.
 

On Scottish Culture


"Ruled by effete assholes" 

Hilarious

 

Did Slave Owners Breed Bigger Stronger Slaves?


If this should explain better black athletes then only in the new world and it is now two centuries ago and that only lasted 150 years in a small area.