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I'm not going to engage with someone who didn't read the original article, nor is familiar with the domain. Sorry.

I'm not going to engage with someone who didn't read the original article, nor is familiar with the domain. Sorry.

Hot Pockets are not a rebranding. Hot Pockets are economically adulterated putrescence masquerading as a meat pie. Ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NI…

For breakfast you could have a Pop Tart, a jam-filled pastry: Ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN B1 [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN B2 [RIBOFLAV…

I'd be interested in participating in a dialogue with this goal in mind.

Even for those that somehow meet and exceed those expectations, they are so outside the norm that the success itself kind create a kind of survivor's guilt[^11] and alienation unto…

Now clearly, we're not quite there yet, but the rise of groups like Identity Evropa, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Rise Above Movement, Proud Boys, etc are all furthering the breakdo…

I wrote this three years ago on reddit but no one read it. Ironic, I know. It'll happen again, seeing as how this is a two day old story, but posterity matters. I'm really late to …

Do you think you're enabling them in their bad habits?

Blue herring n. 1. The intersection of shibboleth and affectation that signifies the tribal allegiance of the idea, anterior to the idea itself. 2. Rhetoric rooted in rambling obsc…

That these facts inhere in the physical world (and I don't disagree) does not directly correspond to the beliefs of the individuals living in said world. Language exists and is the…

If you want to call Cromwell a hypocrite, the most tenable and intellectually honest but still ungrounded point of attack is that his support of liberty of conscience did not exten…

"Your pretended fear lest Error should step in, is like the man who would keep all the wine out the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy…

Dorothy Dunnett is the hidden gem of historical novelists. If you mashed up the romanticism of Dumas, the Machiavellianism of Martin, and the polymathic nature of Joyce, you would …

found "think of the contributors" http://laurent.bachelier.name/2018/07/a-proposal-for-sanitiz...

"I was digging through your garbage from fifteen years ago and found a swastika doodle on a takeout napkin!" "Why were you digging around in my garbage at the dump?! Don't you have…

How is it a straw man, exactly? It's a position that is being "earnestly" defended by you and several others already in this thread. Your perspective is pointless Calvinist softwar…

I really wish the fellow travelers behind Emacs would launch secondary projects to act as middleware for browsers and window compositors. Having a singule abstraction layer to cont…

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Rust, is in fact, Iron/Oxygen, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Iron plus Oxygen.