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Mixed feelings on this. Tell culture allows people to express their feelings directly without prompting, but can also be used manipulatively when insisted on as a behavioral standa…

There seem to be two meanings of “unexpected” not being differentiated here: 1) name-derived terms like Debian, or the French ‘poubelle’ in the comments, which have become generici…

For all the other reasons that people on this site might hate this article, nevertheless it succeeds in doing the one thing that Scott asked of journalists: that they respect his p…

I don't think, given Scott's recent defense of Steve Hsu, that he'd really want people fired for doing ill-advised things, even if they could be reasonably construed as dangerous, …

"th" is occasionally /th/, for example in the compound word "hothouse".