**Intesting links I've stumbled upon and brief comment on them:
(1)
“This is not fraud, it’s caveat emptor.”
while private equity are focused on cashflow, equity market investors aren’t really focusing on how much cash has been ripped out of the business. All they seem to care about is profit.
(2)
GiveWell has more competition. Possible impact audit by Innovations for Poverty Action Incubatee, Impact Matters
(3)
3 philosophers: Augustine, Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld
(4)
‘It’s empowering when blokes seize my arse’. Why is feminism so confusing? Why is there so much objection to objectification?
It's empowering when blokes seize my arse
The awkward language (here and also in the text itself) is a giveaway: this is a web-scraping site that finds other people's content, replaces some of the words with approximate synonyms (automatically) to make it harder for their plagiarism to be spotted automatically, and reposts it. (Presumably with crappy ads or malware or something, which will be how they make their money.)
I think this is probably the original, and since it doesn't have "pick up" (as in "acquire as a sexual or romantic partner...
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