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Relevant, from deep in the footnotes of a 1820 edition of Nennius I found in a used bookstore >Not only men, but women were thus occupied, to whose insufficiency the defects of man…

Legalized caste system

Yes, considerably.

>I'm sure the inhabitants of the many countries the British invaded and continue to hang on to would disagree. Propose one colony where the indigenous society was freer

>Not. No one cares about the Fed's muh "consumer prices". No one cares how much the price of furniture or museum tickets or televisions or cigarettes is changing (which together co…

The etymology suddenly makes me wonder whether living somewhere in which your "tribe" (race, etc.) is not reflected in the majority might be the cause of many anxiety disorders. It…

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No. There's a third side pushing for the Scandinavian solution. Pro-vaccine, but anti-mandate. A little while ago, everyone wanted to be like Norway or Denmark or Sweden -- now the…

Not an argument

Shhhh... don't let science get in the way of the ongoing power grab by the surveillance state and the ongoing money grab by big pharma

So? If the extent of the "ban" is discontinue of availability at a middle school by the authority of a local government or citizen school board in Oklahoma or some such place, it i…

A distinction should be made between banned books that were actually censored by governments, and "banned books" that merely featured in pathetic political quarrels at American mid…

Even though people are not so familiar with classical Indian civilization, they were very highly literate and the extant corpus is enormous. It easily rivals or exceeds classical G…

Not necessarily - it was literally anything. Any publication whatsoever in Europe up to about 1800 was apt to be in Latin. Science, history, geography, correspondences, laws, recor…

I have studied linguistics at an advanced academic level, but I cannot parse the title. The article itself is less coherent than those AI random text generators. Maybe the author s…