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Interesting website. I was rather shocked by the Woman King entry - I knew that historical films like to take liberties, but did not think they had the audacity to completely rever…

This is Bloomberg, not NYTimes/Atlantic/The Guardian/VOX/NBC/Washington Post/CBC/..

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> I think these diversity efforts are doing the exact opposite of what they intend to do. They intend to neuter any opposition by ensuring every organization is riddled with politi…

> makes it VERY clear the Federal government is in charge. And when the federal government ignores the likewise federal laws binding it and directing its actions? In any other situ…

> States have no standing in enforcing immigration laws Think that over - states have no standing in enforcing the terms of their joining the union? On the other hand states are al…

> 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives Is that how you got your username?

The federal government "eroded local control" and forbade states from enforcing immigration laws, despite itself being derelict in enforcing those laws: https://www.nytimes.com/202…

> If the capacity to be bitter has survived millions of years of natural selection, perhaps it serves a function Deterrence being one obvious function.

You have nothing to apologize for, at least not to me. I just wanted to highlight what usually gets forgotten in these self-flagellating discussions - people like me who learn Engl…

> a world that is set up for people like me The anglosphere, not the world. I assure you there are many parts of the world not set up for people like you. I live in one of them. We…

> humans don't vary that much. Compare with some other species (dogs are often used) where there is a wide range of size, intelligence, and any kind of thing humans might have bred…

Would it be a good idea to make society more inclusive for the less fortunate, intelligence wise? How would we go on about this? By eliminating advanced school courses, perhaps? ht…

> Weird how the places (and demographic groups) with any actual immigration voted remain. This sounds like interesting analysis - do you have a link? > And how we are still unable …

The Commission argued that the American lobbyist was the "best candidate" for the job. That a group of 27 countries with one of the world's most sophisticated antitrust arsenals is…

But any time surveillance legislation comes up, the police say they have a "going dark" problem. Surely they're not lying?

> The draft legislation defines misinformation as material that is unintentionally “false, misleading or deceptive” and is “reasonably likely to cause serious harm” The usual trick…

That's because official translations follow the rule of “Readers in English should be able to enjoy the story without thinking about it being a translation,” - an impossible standa…

In Yugoslavia, a family with a single modest income (relative to Yugoslavian incomes) could afford a house with a garden, a cheap car, and to support two children, including colleg…

> Personally, I find the prospect of doing 1 day of work, and potentially having an impact on hundreds of various artistic works thrilling. At issue is compensation. The studios do…

If it were simply "over", there would be no need to buy them.

Always the same trick - bad actions earn you guilt and responsibility, that can spread to anyone associated with you, to the whole society. But good actions earn you zero benefit, …

This sounds like they sold something they never owned - i.e. "the right to sell without paying you royalty". Reminds me of the recent case where Disney tried to argue that in an ac…

> A couple of years ago some of the leading media companies in our country (Norway) started consolidating "power" by acquiring small local newspapers all over the country. This sou…

> You need to have journalism as a regular, paid activity, in a press company, from which most of your income comes So a part-time, amateur citizen investigator/journalist gets spi…