Recent content by Derec

Unfortunately, this is too little, too late. Unfortunately, Zohran "end goal of seizing the means of production" Mamdani is still a shoo-in for mayor of NYC.

A documentary about pearl divers could be interesting. Especially if they are free diving.

Joanne Chesimard (alias "Assata Shakur"), a BLA terrorist who was involved in the fatal ambush of police officers in 1973, finally kicked the bucket. It would have been better had she died in prison where she belonged, and not hiding out in Cuba, but it is what it is. But what followed is far...

Can Putin even prosecute another war? Russia has been suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties (and yes, I know that includes injured) and has lost a lot of mechanized equipment like tanks as well.

Young black males are shooting far more people per capita. So why did you feel the need to single out young white males? Apparently, they found a handwritten note. ICE shooter’s writings were ‘definitively anti-ICE’ and included ‘hatred for the federal government,’ prosecutor says

Yes, making something legal will expand the market vs. keeping it illegal. But why are you treating that as a bad thing? It should be a matter of personal choice in free society. I do not think that one tattoo shop (or coffee shop or burger joint) begetting another necessarily leads to...

So you say, but if that were true, would you really only use sources that back the prohibitionist agenda? Isn't that alone a pretty good reason for legalization? Another big reason is that it makes the society more free. Just like keeping gay sex legal makes the society more free even if...

What does that even mean concretely? Only allow government-run brothels, like the government-run liquor stores in some states? Too much regulation does not help snuff out illicit trade, as it becomes difficult to comply with all the onerous regulations. There should be reasonable regulation...

You tend to do that a lot - ignore most of the points raised against your position. - But there is risk of exploitation, as that NY Times article shows. - There are professions more dangerous than sex work. - Do you really think health and safety of sex workers are not negatively impacted by...

You are making a claim about my motivations, and you are basing it on nothing except your prejudices. It is not. Huh? I am not getting your point here, if there even is one.

Me neither, so I cannot judge how elaborate her performances are, or what the production values are. I am not an OF connoisseur myself either, but my understanding is that for most OF subscribers, there is some form of interactivity, even getting custom videos for additional $$$.

This truly is the strangest timeline. Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

That's why I disagree with simple minded "tough on crime" just as much as I disagree with its polar opposite, the simple minded "criminal justice reform" that has been popular this past decade. We need a smart approach that makes distinctions and is responsive to how how policy changes work in...

You make that claim a lot, but you have not shown it to be true, or even plausible. Each of these problems is much easier to deal with when the industry is not made illegal in its entirety and law enforcement is not wasting money persecuting consenting adults. Sex work has existed in every...

A lot of unpack there. The reason many people are stuck on two genders is not really inertial. There is a real binary here, even if it's not perfect. On the physical level, there are various intersex conditions. And trans can perhaps be understood as intersex with regard to brain-genitalia...