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I stayed with a succession of farmers while cycling across South Africa (with all the land fenced off, your only choice at the end of the day is finding a driveway and following it…

"For most of its history, nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer, so not proletariat." They certainly were in the context we are speaking of here. Official Soviet terminology, ap…

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This reminds me of the wide range of reactions sparked by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror , his most avant-garde film. On one hand, you can put that film on before a gathering of fairly …

Exactly. Those churning out such posts on LinkedIn, would very much prefer if other people did not even carefully read the actual content, but rather simply assumed “Wow, this pers…

I wonder if that means that lower sex drive does not necessarily mean lower testosterone? This is not a purely theoretical question. I spend half the year traveling the world in wa…

Taping your camera doesn't necessarily look like anything. I have a small piece of electrical tape over my webcam, and it blends in so perfectly with the background that other peop…

I don't think you realize how powerful OpenWRT is. It's a whole Linux environment where you can write your own shell scripts and schedule jobs, etc. If you have created a set of yo…

I did some FOSS hacking as a teenager a quarter-century ago, so learned Emacs, but then ultimately chose a career unrelated to software development. I still use Emacs for anything …

The Nordic countries have a longstanding tradition of state-run “folk high schools”. In fact, in modern economies where it is harder for unemployed middle-age people to find new wo…

> It would have been much more useful if you could just mount it like a hard drive without special library management software. When I got my first iPod in 2006, I immediately put …

In Muslim society, one can choose not to believe in Islam and have no problem, as long as one continues to outwardly perform the expected public rituals, recite the shahada etc. (Q…

> the West African tribes often sold the slaves to Europeans I think that you are being disingenuous here. The African tribes that sold slaves were not necessarily the slave’s own …

It's easy to see African chattel slavery in the US as worse than the Barbary practices: European slaves of Barbary owners could be and often were ransomed out of slavery by their s…

"eventually a lot of people would figure out that there's not as much 'there' there as they supposed." Let's be honest: most of us here know there is more 'there' on the myriad uni…

The US is frequently called late to ending African chattel slavery because it already happened in France and England decades before, and even English conservatives were calling for…

You're not using the terms "structuralism" and "post-structuralism" correctly. The term "structuralism" has its roots in Saussure, in linguistics and the notion of l'arbitraire du …

> no consensus that Jesus is divine, or about the nature of the divinity ascribed to him, even after the declaration in 325 of the Nicene Creed Which shouldn’t be surprising, becau…

People often consider the 2000 X-Men film to kick off the explosion of superhero films in the new millennium, and that was pre-September 11, so I’m not sure that correlation is cau…

"I've almost never heard of Hi Res with a totally new master that wouldn't have been previously available as CD, to be honest. This isn't common, right?" It has been a few years no…