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Maybe VR Shouldn’t Give You Heaven—Maybe You Need Hardship

WIRED 

VR can impart experiences that range from being a Sudanese refugee seeking asylum to being a different sex, even to living with physical disabilities. The post Maybe VR Shouldn't Give You Heaven—Maybe You Need Hardship appeared first on WIRED.

Unemployed are turning down work

News Herald Sun 

AROUND a quarter of all dole recipients are skipping job interviews or failing to accept decent work, new data reveals.

Firmino in Liverpool squad for Dortmund clash

Goal.com 

The Brazilian was an injury doubt for the Merseysiders' trip to Signal Iduna Park after missing Saturday's draw with Tottenham, but has travelled with his team-mates to Germany



More chest thumping and zero reason from Donald Trump on his border wall plan

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Not only is Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump sticking to his cockamamie proposal to build a wall along the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border, he's now outlined how he would compel the Mexican government to pay for it. In the process, he displays significant ignorance about human migration,...

'Panama Papers' blockbusters make waves abroad, but secret money is a U.S. problem too

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

The headlines about the “Panama Papers,” the gigantic trove of offshore records that surfaced this week, were all about the famous names connected to secret financial accounts: Russia's Vladimir Putin, Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko, China's Xi Jinping, Syria's Bashar Assad, Saudi Arabia's King Salman...

Where are all the Prop 47 savings? L.A. County has no idea

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

The Los Angeles County auditor reported Tuesday that Proposition 47 has generated millions of dollars in cost savings, but the most significant part of his findings had to do with the county's jarringly inadequate grasp of the basic numbers that describe and measure its workload.You will recall...

Debating the death of a Palestinian assailant in the West Bank

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

To the editor: I see the argument supporting the apparent cold-blooded killing of a wounded Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli soldier as analogous to the myriad excuses given by American police officers who shoot unarmed people with impunity. ("In Israel, many now find justification for the...

America's 1% don't need to go to Panama to hide their money

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

To the editor: This very successful long-term “asset protection” industry in Panama assists some of the world's heads of state, their families, and their friends — in Russia, Pakistan, China and a dozen other nations — in squirreling away their millions to avoid taxation. ("After massive 'Panama...

Forget Congress and let the Fed handle tax rates

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

The Democratic presidential candidates want the wealthy to pay a lot more in taxes while the Republican candidates say they think everyone, very much including the wealthy, should pay less. That disagreement has been at the crux of America's rapid-fire budget-related crises, from the near-default...

Is the proposed Port of L.A. rail yard an environmental bait and switch?

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

After more than 10 years of analysis, a 5,000-page environmental impact report, countless public hearings and seven lawsuits, a judge last week blocked plans to build a new rail yard at the Port of Los Angeles. The new yard, to be known as the Southern California International Gateway, was planned...

Inflammatory rhetoric in poor communities shows how Trump has wounded America

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

To the editor: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is riding the wave of poverty and misfortune in places like the Bakersfield area community of Oildale. Blaming Hispanics for blue-collar injustices only causes prejudice and fractures communities. ("Conservative Oildale could be a bellwether...

Patt Morrison asks: Alan Alda

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Movies and novels about scientists tend to trade on the socially inept genius who can win a Nobel Prize but not the girl, and on science itself being inscrutable and mysterious. Real science is nothing like that, but how do we know that if scientists can’t tell us? Alan Alda, the actor, writer...





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