No, no, no. We don't currently have the luxury to pretend that emotional doesn't mean "irrational" "hyper-emotional" and/or lots of other negative crap with the constant stream of stinky brown sexist bullshit flowing out of Republican mouths, along with the weekly attempt to take reproductive rights along with social…

So? If the title of the article was "I believe Winston," would that be basically the same as saying "WINSTON'S ACCUSER FILED A FALSE POLICE REPORT" even though the DA is refusing to charge her with a crime either?

That's not why shit is expensive in Australia. For one videos games don't go to $125. The reason why certain things are expensive is because laws allow companies to get away with this, but the ACCC deals with it. Example. Adobe products are ridiculously expensive here and the ACCC(Consumer affairs) found there was no…

as a fellow australian, at Uni and working at a low wage job, I can totally live off my and my husbands wage, we even have a mortgage we are easily paying off. I think that paying more to ensure that people can live off their wages is great. I'm happy to pay for the extra wages.

Stuff costs more, but we have a really rad standard of living. Aussies love to whinge (might be a universal worldwide thing) but that fact that stuff costs a lot doesn't really affect our lives meaningfully. We just whine about international price differences, and buy it anyway - because we can, because we all make a…

I've never had my order taken by a computer at a fast food restaurant in Aus... Thinking about it, the only times I've ordered food without the aid of a human waiter or cashier is in Japan. Under 16 year olds get $8.97/hour and that increases each birthday to 18 (full adult wage). I would assume that most under 18…

Yeah, it turns out when you pay people to do a job, they do a better job. Who knew!

That's ridiculous. The legal minimum wage in Australia is $16.37/hr. I assure you, we have plenty of thriving fast food restaurants.

It's hard to say in any market because you have to make assumptions based on the elasticity of demand for that good, the cost structures in that particular market, the margins, and a host of other factors.

Except that prices usually only increase very slightly relative to minimum wage increases, with very little effect on employment.

It's not a joke. The fact is, there are a lot of economists who view raising the minimum wage as a positive thing.

Or a lot of people who have a much better understanding of economics than you.

See Ontario, 2010. And no, the national igloo did not melt.

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That was the first time that I'd read the word "quadroon" as well!

VC Andrews' books are considered YA? Aww man...all of this time I thought I was bad ass and smart reading my mom's adult books.

Let's also not conflate evolutionary biology, which is a scientific field that works on testable (i.e. falsifiable) hypotheses (like actual scientific fields do) and evo psych.

BREAKING NEWS: WOMEN LIKE SEX. WITH MULTIPLE PARTNERS. OR NOT. WHATEVER.

A protected class should, linguistically, be a "protected factor." The Civil Rights Act (among other acts) prohibits favoritism based on certain factors, including national origin, race, gender, and veteran status (but, famously, not sexual orientation).

Yes, I think I read it multiple ways, all of which confused me.