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Sure, but that doesn't mean I lost my brain in the progress. Most of the bad people in society certainly aren't criminals.

TBH, Condé Nast can only be blamed for a small part of Pitchfork's fall. They've always been wildly inconsistent in their ratings and beholden to a few darling artists, and none of…

> They present how the world is improving in an irrefutable way but media and politicians would only focus on the negative People are allowed to have their own opinions about what …

This seems to conflate the idea of a nation (ie a people) with that of a country or state, which I find pretty odd. Many countries are composed of many constituent nations, many of…

I mean if being politically energizing is all you care about, just court folks scared of immigration. Of course if you actually want to not make the world worse you need to argue f…

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The oddness of referring to the "slave trade" is the height of the "Atlantic Slave Trade" far predated the peak of slavery in the US and contributed directly far more to the Caribb…

> Why in the world would they delete that data vs just putting it on mute/ignore/etc? If you're serious it's because having a fig leaf is useful to reduce risk in controversial bus…

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I don't believe any of this is true—it certainly smells a lot like Cold War propaganda from the 50s. I don't believe we currently have anywhere near the nukes produced to have this…

Ok—you seemed to have missed the main point. If people react to xyz, it doesn't matter if xyz is actually occurring. In fact the only thing that matters is peoples' reactions.

Yes, this is exactly what I mean—media distribution is inherently a losing war against the internet.

Do you have a peer-reviewed source? I should have specified before-hand. If we're referring to "science" in any meaningful sense, of course.

I mean it in the sense that Marks used it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation I mean this not to imply a structural sense of our society, only the shock th…

The common supposition about video is that convenience makes the price worth it versus piracy. It'll be very interesting to see this unfold. Not only are streaming services in dire…

> I find it really challenging to talk with people who have completely separated their work from their emotional being. Is this not everyone? Who the fuck brings their emotions to …

> There's no underlying nexus between the list of symptoms beyond statistical correlation Correlation is correlated with meaning, so what are you saying

The book ostensibly lacks Wittgenstein and/or Chomsky. Not much point in discussing the 20th century without them....

> On the contrary, many old-timer traditional literature-focused e.g. Object Relational psychology schools are having a heyday having their insights shown to align with reality usi…

Not to mention this presumes some "default" way the mind works that is commonly presumed and commonly accurate, which seems transparently absurd.

I've heard this reactionary spiel my whole life—it's easy to be afraid. Terrible way to run a society, though.

I'm sorry, S3 insures your data in case of loss? How come they don't ask the value of what you're storing then?

What is wrong with the tried-and-true "alienation"? This seems like a continuation of trends that were happening long before computers came around.