Zach Weiner does it again

Link.

No pressure!

Link – and if you haven’t yet read through the archives of abstrusegoose, don’t waste another second, go do it right now! This one was just too wonderful not to blog:

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Smbc.

The difference

Well, one of them:

That would be the economist’s take. The economist with philosophical leanings would probably add that even if people claim that they find the idea of putting a value on another human being horrible, they do it themselves all the time anyway without even thinking about it.

Inside

Link. Just felt like sharing. In marginally related news; I recently stumbled upon this website. Haven’t taken a closer look yet but I probably will at some point.

Too good not to share

Link. To be fair, the first picture doesn’t tell the whole story; quite a few doctors actually are way too busy working at that particular time of the day (/night) to wonder about these things. I owe more than one of those doctors my life, so I think it’s worth mentioning.

What would keep the average economist up at night? Government stimulus?

Here’s a neat and very relevant link to the engineers reading along (related to the latest xkcd-cartoon).

How many firms “deal” with their economic troubles

My previous post on newspapers just reminded me of this strip, which I would assume is actually more relevant now than it was when it was first made four years ago:

History repeats itself…

I was just in a bad mood and decided to take a dive into the collection of cartoons I have stored on my computer. This one is from 2002.

Quote of the day

An important point from Johan Nordberg:

A lot of people describe Vilks´ attempt to make fun of religion and people who want to ban his drawings as a conflict between free speech and religious freedom, even journalists and some people who defend free speech. That is a total misunderstanding of the concept of religious freedom. Having the freedom to believe in whatever you want does not include a right to dictate what others think and say about those beliefs, just like free speech does not include the right to dictate what others print and say, and the freedom to vote does not include the right to force others to vote for the same party. In the western, liberal tradition, freedom is a “negative right” – it protects you from coercion from others, it does not give you the right to coerce others. Those who want to punish Vilks are opponents of religious freedom.

Whenever a journalist call this a conflict between those who believe in free spech and those who believe in religious freedom Iran has won a tiny victory.