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So... they support anabolic processes. Shall we avoid eating and drinking too?

You're right. Reading this text without having heard it, it reads like a speech. The only thing that gives it the poetry sheen is the same tired slam poetry delivery that you can't…

That is irrelevant. Pointing out that unions have effected negative changes or engaged in discrimination internally in the past is not an argument against the idea that they're nec…

>"such as those in most of England and Wales" Aren't Welsh dialects generally rhotic?

"The term 'glen,' a Gaelic word that means 'narrow valley,' is not specifically included in that protection." Well, the Scottish Gaelic word is actually gleann, and glen in Manx (a…

The Idiot is one of my favorite books of all time. Reading it in high school was definitely a formative experience. It was my first introduction to many existential concepts; parti…

Happy to see a Welsh translation, but I'm interested where the word for hovercraft came from. The hofren part comes from hofran (which is just a borrowing of hover), but what about…

It's a bit silly to say that people only started moving on to new chords /after/ Wagner.

Not to downplay the influence that the classical music tradition has had on popular music, I think it's incorrect to say that rock and pop are direct descendants of classical music…

That's a shame, I thought Pyongyang Time was kinda neat. It's a callback to historical Korean timezones

Yeah, almost two decades after the famine. And were the Gang of Four not imprisoned political opposition? Your comment reminds me of the famous Mao quote "No investigation, no righ…

In addition, the best healthcare system in the world, according the WHO, is in Cuba, where it certainly isn't run on a for-profit basis. Moving medicine away from the private secto…

I'm not sure I see how that means they're selfish.

Real news takes a back seat more often than not. In the past 8 months(?) MSNBC didn't mention the war in Yemen once. The silence on the issue was only broken when Bernie Sanders br…

Given the fact that Google apparently stores the pictures you've taken with your phone (at least on Android?) and Snapchat saves all of the pictures you've sent with it for an unkn…

This article is kind of silly. It has a short description of an attack that has been attributed to North Korea, but there are serious doubts about whether they actually had any par…

And if a hypothetical commune became dominant and an existential threat to the existence of a hypothetical libertarian society? The Communist Party of the Philippines operates as a…

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I don't think I quite get your point, are you implying that destroying an unjust society is equivalent to the injustice of the society?

I'm not convinced you actually understood my comment. I'm not saying that processing and distribution in the context of capitalism and imperialism are qualitatively different from …

What, do capitalism and imperialism not exist? I think that the issue here is one of poor wording; spices weren't the first foods to be subjected to the processes of production and…

What a useless article; the author makes it clear that they were never intending to properly entertain the ideas that are put forward by the referenced authors and just go for quic…

This is the first I'm seeing it and I really dig the design, I just wish the paragraphs were a little more narrow.

It's worth noting that Chile under Allende was working on implementing a computer-based planning system[1], but unfortunately we don't know how it might have worked out cause of th…

The issue is that unilateral US military intervention hasn't solved similar situations in the past.