Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Loneliness tax and covid

 There’s a single New Jersey deli doing $35,000 in sales valued at $100 million in the stock marketCNBC


Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy Wired



Chess of love

The earliest fully recorded game of modern chess – from the 15th century CE – is a poem about love.


Why governments turn a blind eye to tax office abuses

Even more than his predecessors, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will feel tempted to put to one side the unfair collection methods used by the tax office. Picture: Gary Ramage
Even more than his predecessors, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will feel tempted to put to one side the unfair collection methods used by the tax office. Picture: Gary Ramage
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There is a very simple reason why the politicians on both sides of the parliament are reluctant to tackle the abuse of power taking place in the Australian Taxation Office. 



Hand grenades lobbed  at our taxation system

Some of ATO’s actions “may be perceived as unfair and without basis”.
Some of ATO’s actions “may be perceived as unfair and without basis”.
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The Inspector-General of Taxation and Taxation Ombudsman have thrown hand grenades on the doorsteps of Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg that, if left unattended, will unleash revolutionary forces.

Olivia Ash (Indiana) & Peter H. Huang (Colorado), Loneliness in COVID-19, Life, and the Law (111 pages):

This Article analyzes loneliness in the COVID-19 pandemic, life, and the legal profession, especially in legal education. This Article examines: (1) loneliness: what it is, who is lonely, how loneliness affects an individual, and recent evidence about experiences of loneliness in the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) personal, organizational, and societal costs of loneliness; (3) current research about well-being and loneliness in the legal profession and legal education; (4) results from the first loneliness survey of law students; and (5) three evidence-based interventions to mitigate loneliness: mindfulness, talk therapy (cognitive behavioral therapy), and inclusion.

In so doing, this Article investigates the individual, organizational, personal, professional, and social costs of loneliness.



Why Read the Classics? Abdelfattah Kilito, Baffler 


Japan to Dump Treated Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean Bloomberg


Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years Defend Democracy


Airborne plastic pollution ‘spiralling around the globe’, study finds Guardian 


Injectable gel found to help reinforce and resurface joint cartilage New Atlas

A way away from prime time. Only mice studies.