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Is it possible for people to stop polluting perfectly valid namespaces? I understand that the metaphors and analogies make snese but every time this occurs, whether it's software, …

By this metric, stoning is anarchist in nature.

Just curious to know how many people are tired of only digital streaming? Would prefer not to hear the "I love streaming, it works with my lifestyle, no talking in theaters etc" or…

I ran into this same issue. But I asked myself, if I passed through and left because no one was active, why not plant some seed content for the next person that passes through? I c…

But is this actually a personal attack or pointing out a fact and providing an opportunity for introspection? He declared, unsourced and uncited, that Winston Churchill thought tha…

The irony being that if the public domain had actually been 28 years as it was originally legislated back in the 18th century in the United States, this kind of change wouldn't be …

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The original comment speaks of knowing someone killed by Kaczynski. I never said anything concerning the number of his maiming victims or potential victims.

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They did PR for Union Carbide following Bhopal, so not hypothetical: "Considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were…

>It contained many subjective ideas presented as hard fact, as well as some naive romanticization of pre-industrial societies. You may enjoy reading this: https://theanarchistlibra…

While this is totally understandable, it's also an example of the Identfiable Victim Effect. Kaczysnki's actions are humanly understandable with the ability to impute human motivat…

Anyone who disagrees with Kaczynski's ideas because they came from a convicted terrorist should read the works of Jacques Ellul instead, of which Kaczynski's was largely a popular …

Milinda: I have spoken no untruth, reverend Sir. It is on account of its having all these things—the pole, and the axle, the wheels, and the framework, the ropes, the yoke, the spo…

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and…

Ugh, let's unpack this. Trying to maintain a stable ecology is nativist. Those seeds are just looking for a better home with more biological opportunity. All the lifeforms currentl…

I'll write the practical version instead of the urbane rhetorical retrospective. And before I get the metacontrarian responses, yes, these all require certain sacrifices in order t…

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth wate…

It's 2023, people, and I can't believe we're even having this debate. Seriously? Farmers working with their kids and teenagers learning trades is a clear violation of child labor l…

Regardless of the actual merit of the alkali theory, the color shifts of anthocyanins (like those found in grapes and berries) when they change PH is striking. They turn from these…