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That sounds like loosing control of a protest to me

> I would guess that the British Army et al. killed at least as many people in India as were burned alive as part of funerary rites. Interesting. What is this based on? When it com…

British Empire has on the UK National Curriculum since 1988 and was taught in history classes before the introduction of the National Curriculum. This is conveniently forgotten by …

Trivially demonstrated by immediate downvotes for posting anything left critical on HN

Yep. Reward friends and punish enemies. At long last the right has learned to play the game that the left has played for decades

This kind of intervention can be useful in the right groups but (as with NVC) also provides great cloaking for natural manipulators. For example saying "there is a lot of raised em…

Procians bothered by the cost and status of Halikaarnian work. Its not about what "AI" can do, its a about what you can convince people AI can do (which to the Procian is one and t…

I think old distinction between the words "unsociable" meaning not wanting to socialise, and "anti-social" meaning causing trouble to society, is useful. I guess I'm swimming again…

Thought for a moment this would be a transcript of the captivating Adam Curtis documentary by the same name.