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There’s also a group in Chicago and its surrounding area: http://shape-note.uchicago.edu I’ve been a few times and had a lot of fun.

Who is not considered a joke by many people on both sides of the aisle? He seems to be considered highly reputable by many on both sides of the aisle as well. Certainly more reputa…

Basically: research, hypothesize, prototype, test, iterate, deliver. It's not new, but here we are with new terminology. It is good because if you're a design firm you sometimes ne…

Neil Postman has a lot to say on this topic, which he terms the "news of the day" throughout Amusing Ourselves to Death. For example: "This idea — that there is a content called “t…

In neither case is the person's tribal identity used against them for writing things that others don't like. Orson Scott Card holds a professorship. He just published a book this y…

Who has been destroyed in this fashion?

The colors are great, really comfortable contrast level, and the typeface is easy to read. Fairly tight information density, but low-density layouts are a common complaint with the…

What injustice has been dealt to the subset of "the players" who are outraged about this?

WRT your claim that Kavanaugh somehow will not contribute to the prohibition (or extreme restriction) of abortions: - Kavanaugh was nominated after private meetings with a presiden…

You have shared two sources of broad, country-level data. The study tracked localized effects on individuals. These are not necessarily in contradiction! Though whatever you're inf…

Nixon _reluctantly_ created the EPA as a response to one of the only periods of sustained popular environmentalism in American history. I'm unsure why this gets bandied about as a …

YouTube is not a clear pass-through from one's truly held interests to the computer screen. I am not interested in fake news, Peppa the Pig, superhero movies, Logan Paul, Lil Durk,…

If you are there to live rather than to tour you will find that the traditional date format is pervasive in daily life. Banking, legal documents, etc.

Despite a few quibbles (especially re: the prominence of browser settings menus), following these recommendations would be a great help. The clock bar at the top of the screen in G…

It's a fine idea that public money will not be spent, but you don't have to look very far to find an example of the city and a development partner breaking the same promise (Obama …

You have had good financial planning habits in your family for two generations. That is in some sense "training" that many first-world poor people don't get.

My point is that whether a belief is popular, or whether you think a belief is common sensical has no bearing on the truth value, social value, rationality, or perspicacity of that…

You know you have a weak point when you rely on "my interlocutor has an unpopular opinion" and "my interlocutor just lacks common sense" as means of argument.

He plans to "give away" money to an LLC he controls, which makes donations and invests in companies with some kind of social mission. Not saying an LLC that makes investments in fo…

Everybody who comes to know about systems calls will have learned the concept for the first time. Some people come to that knowledge by becoming a web developer, gaining some rudim…

You may be interested in reading Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, which says (roughly speaking, and after Kierkegaard) that the striving to find a meaning in life is the …

It is possible to include minority groups in a community without pandering or using reductive caricatures. It can be difficult if the community has little familiarity with the actu…

I have traveled a lot from Chicago to Iowa City, which has no rail service, via both Megabus and a Greyhound subsidiary. Don't know that I would call it a rural route. Or rather, I…