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Division was manufactured when Trump became president? So what do you propose as the reason for why he became president in the first place? Who is responsible for that?

This is a collection of interesting old websites: https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume 2, On Reading and Books, 295 - "Because people always read only the latest, instead of the best of all times, writers stay wit…

Just moving my lamp around (i.e., making my face whiter, I'm guessing?) could add 2-3 points. Putting on glasses could do the same. Not sure what to make of this.

Of course the methods listed should be effective regardless of the language as they simulate immersion, but it will not be so "painless" the further away you move from the European…

What kind of work do you do? I've heard nice things about working for the government (in terms of QOL, anyway), though of course the work is nothing sexy.

'If anyone should think he has solved the problem of life & feels like telling himself everything is quite easy now, he need only tell himself, in order to see that he is wrong, th…

Private schools can be and are as unfair as they want, only it's upsetting when they still maintain pretenses suggesting they are not. It's nice that this sort of due diligence and…

Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest discusses this, only it's a film.

Other commenters here seem to say that the culture, if not the modern phenomenon, of children moving out of their parents' homes early is more characteristic of the West (U.S., Wes…

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever,…

You didn't make any value statements with this data, but it should be noted that disparities in representation have nothing to do with whether or not groups should or deserve to be…

This design exists in the form of the more complex Yamaha Tenori-on, which was featured by Four Tet in There Is Love In You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20ukzn_rsw It's also …

I thought I was clever to disable YouTube viewing history, thus replacing all the interesting and addictive videos I normally get lost in with the most inane garbage from the typic…

Stalker is still the most beautiful film I've ever seen. I took a film class in college and fell asleep when we were watching it (embarrassing, but the professor was wholly underst…

I actually looked through a few LeetCode problems a couple months back and had a brief panic that I found tricky/nonintuitive to formally prove from first principles problems that …

If you're "just a normal person with a few computers at home", it is VERY easy to obtain secure copies of LTSC for free if you look in the right places. And I can attest to how ple…

It's SO nice hearing that I'm not the only one who thought this - it was actually around this release that I just gave up on iPhones and moved to Android phones. The amount of fidd…

I've wanted to like Apple's way of doing things for years - Unix-like and support for MS Office, "ecosystem" integration - but every time I've used their products I've returned the…