The Current State of the World thread

Raz0r · 2017-06-27T23:37:17.000Z

They could have just banned parryall instead of closing the thread.

dodgers2213 · 2017-06-28T00:21:53.000Z

Raz0r:

They could have just banned parryall instead of closing the thread.

If you had your way, you’d ban everyone but your fraud noise following friends that have been jizzing over every bogus Russia story since the election. You and your crew have been wrong over and over and over again. SAD

Zatalcon · 2017-06-28T00:27:50.000Z

po_pimpus · 2017-06-28T00:47:03.000Z

Of all the race-baiting scumbaggery…

That’s not a race thing, that’s a low down, filthy coward and his bitch that need their asses kicked, thrown in jail, then have their asses kicked again.

“Black vs White”… Fuck outta here.

Raz0r · 2017-06-28T00:51:34.000Z

Lol the baiting.

Captain_Ryu · 2017-06-28T01:03:27.000Z

So it was over chicken? lol

Xvideos · 2017-06-28T01:12:54.000Z

They got refunded, did they think those punches come with the refund or something?
Now they won’t even be able to eat chicken in jail.

BR3N7 · 2017-06-28T01:14:27.000Z

po_pimpus:

Of all the race-baiting scumbaggery…

That’s not a race thing, that’s a low down, filthy coward and his bitch that need their asses kicked, thrown in jail, then have their asses kicked again.

“Black vs White”… Fuck outta here.

Gotta love the misleading narratives that leave off the whole end of it and made it like some black vs white hate crime. Funny it was a bunch of black people who came to the help but lets leave that off. That dude best of got caught and arrested and sent to jail, him and his dumb bitch deserve a ass kicking and some time time behind bars. All over some mother fucking cold chicken. Fucking disgusting.

The extended version:

k4polo · 2017-06-28T01:49:26.000Z

Raz0r:

They could have just banned parryall instead of closing the thread.

The world and US thread and just the US are quite separate.

Wasted · 2017-06-28T03:28:52.000Z

Meanwhile:

Xvideos · 2017-06-28T04:43:34.000Z

Chicago Dyke March (official name of the event) kicked out gay Jews with Star of David pride flags: ‘They Made People Feel Unsafe’

“They were telling me to leave because my flag was a trigger to people that they found offensive,”
“Prior to this [march] I had never been harassed or asked to leave and I had always carried the flag with me.”

WGN-TV – 26 Jun 17

Chicago woman kicked out of march over Jewish pride flag

CHICAGO -- Three people carrying Jewish pride flags say they were kicked out of a pride march in Little Village on Saturday. They call it the Chicago Dyke March. Organizers say they call it that because they are trying to reclaim a term that has...

LGBTQ Nation – 27 Jun 17

If Jews can be expelled from Chicago’s Dyke March, who’s next?

Who are these self-appointed purveyors of a demarcation line separating who is to be included and who excluded from our spaces?

Shaft_Agent · 2017-06-28T05:36:55.000Z

fee.org – 27 Jun 17

Seattle's Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City's Own Study Confirms |...

Seattle city government is out with a new NBER paper evaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an hour and it finds significant disemployment effects that on net reduce the incomes of minimum wage workers.

Seattle’s Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City’s Own Study Confirms

The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a study supported and funded in part by the Seattle city government, is out with a new NBER paper evaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an hour and it finds significant disemployment effects that on net reduce the incomes of minimum wage workers. I farm this one out to Jonathan Meer on FB.

This is the official study that was commissioned several years ago by the city of Seattle to study the impacts of raising the minimum wage, in a move that I applauded at the time as an honest and transparent attempt towards self-examination of a bold policy. It is the first study of a very high city-level minimum wage, with administrative data that has much more detail than is usually available. The first wave (examining the increase to $11/hr) last year was a mixed bag, with fairly imprecise estimates.

These findings, examining another year of data and including the increase to $13/hr, are unequivocal: the policy is an unmitigated disaster. The main findings:

– The numbers of hours worked by low-wage workers fell by *3.5 million hours per quarter*. This was reflected both in thousands of job losses and reductions in hours worked by those who retained their jobs.

– The losses were so dramatic that this increase “reduced income paid to low-wage employees of single-location Seattle businesses by roughly $120 million on an annual basis.” **On average, low-wage workers *lost* $125 per month.** The minimum wage has always been a lousy income transfer program, but at this level you’d come out ahead just setting a hundred million dollars a year on fire. And that’s before we get into who kept vs lost their jobs.

– Estimates of the response of labor demand are substantially higher than much of the previous research, which may have been expected given how much higher (and how localized) this minimum wage is relative to previously-studied ones.

– The impacts took some time to be reflected in the level of employment, as predicted by Meer and West (2016).

– The authors are able to replicate the results of other papers that find no impact on the restaurant industry with their own data by imposing the same limitations that other researchers have faced. This shows that those papers’ findings were likely driven by their data limitations. This is an important thing to remember as you see knee-jerk responses coming from the usual corners.

– You may also hear that the construction of the comparison group was flawed somehow, and that’s driving the results. I believe that the research team did as good of a job as possible, trying several approaches and presenting all of their findings extensively. There is no cherry-picking here. But more importantly, without getting too deep into the econometric weeds, my sense is that, given the evolution of the Seattle economy over the past two years, these results – if anything – *understate* the extent of the job losses.

This paper not only makes numerous valuable contributions to the economics literature, but should give serious pause to minimum wage advocates. Of course, that’s not what’s happening, to the extent that the mayor of Seattle commissioned *another* study, by an advocacy group at Berkeley whose previous work on the minimum wage is so consistently one-sided that you can set your watch by it, that unsurprisingly finds no effect. They deliberately timed its release for several days before this paper came out, and I find that whole affair abhorrent. Seattle politicians are so unwilling to accept reality that they’ll undermine their own researchers and waste taxpayer dollars on what is barely a cut above propaganda.

I don’t envy the backlash this team is going to face for daring to present results that will be seen as heresy. I know that so many people just desperately want to believe that the minimum wage is a free lunch. It’s not. These job losses will only get worse as the minimum wage climbs higher, and this team is working on linking to demographic data to examine who the losers from this policy are. I fully expect that these losses are borne most heavily by low-income and minority households.

Reprinted from Marginal Revolution

OOPS! WHO KNEW GOVERNMENT MEDDLING WITH SMALL BUSINESSES WOULD RUIN LIVES??? THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!!

Raz0r · 2017-06-28T06:31:24.000Z

The issues with that study, at a glance, is that it only measures a specific segment of the job market. It omits A LOT of data. I was actually surprised they let this study proceed, tbh. These are academic professors who should know better.

Anyway, it’ll come out in full pretty soon and it’ll have its moment to get peer-reviewed. It’s worthless until then.

Raz0r · 2017-06-28T06:32:50.000Z

And I say this as someone who has had to deal with economic and medical studies to write hired articles. You’d be surprised how the media just jumps onto studies before the proper hurdles are cleared. It’s common to see a study lauded one year get completely destroyed in just a year or two’s time because of awful data collecting and analyzing.

dodgers2213 · 2017-06-28T06:38:50.000Z

Kinda like Global warming articles

Raz0r · 2017-06-28T06:41:00.000Z

Except that’s been studied since the 1970’s. So there’s been nearly 5 decades where it’s been studied. Nice troll try, tho.

Darksakul · 2017-06-28T06:42:01.000Z

dodgers2213:

Kinda like Global warming articles

Any study in general with the Media

Xvideos · 2017-06-28T06:43:16.000Z

nevermind

NeverYouMind · 2017-06-28T06:56:47.000Z

Raz0r:

Except that’s been studied since the 1970’s. So there’s been nearly 5 decades where it’s been studied. Nice troll try, tho.

Except it was global cooling back then…

Zatalcon · 2017-06-28T07:03:26.000Z

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po_pimpus:

Of all the race-baiting scumbaggery…

That’s not a race thing, that’s a low down, filthy coward and his bitch that need their asses kicked, thrown in jail, then have their asses kicked again.

“Black vs White”… Fuck outta here.

Gotta love the misleading narratives that leave off the whole end of it and made it like some black vs white hate crime. Funny it was a bunch of black people who came to the help but lets leave that off. That dude best of got caught and arrested and sent to jail, him and his dumb bitch deserve a ass kicking and some time time behind bars. All over some mother fucking cold chicken. Fucking disgusting.

The extended version:

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lets be real here. If this was the other way around, in where a white couple did that to a black mother and daughter, it would be labeled as racism, regardless of white people helping. Those two are almost common around some parts in NYC.

nevertheless, i do agree those two should be beaten to a pulp before getting locked up. Sadly, going behind bars is like top street cred to some of these fuckers.