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I have been trying to come up with a better illustration of the issues I have with Americans today, and after rejecting a few ideas I settled on the pandemic. The only problem with that one is that I'm not sure this is a uniquely American phenomenon. It's not. Everyone made mistakes, chief among wh...

Let's not forget this:

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan, 21/5/2011

We're probably smarter than ever. Not buying it. Attention spans are now so short that scenes in movies and TV can't last more than 6 seconds. In the past, people were required to think and be imaginative. Go back before TV and people listened to radio shows, where it's necessary to edit the entire...

arthwollipot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:51 pm What makes you think it was unintentional?

Because it's somewhat prurient if not.

The Modest Proposal thread? Is that active? Is it the same old Modest Proposal thread? Or a new one with a similar name? It's the one I started late last year to make the suggestion that rather than let the forum wither away, let the members take it over and try to reinvigorate it through a collabo...

What has changed over the years is the "unenlightened" part. We're morons. Collectively, we can't tell reality from fantasy. When John Kennedy said, "Let's go the moon!", America got to work, paid taxes, and started a big push to teach math. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor...

President Bush wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:35 pm https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2NJWnbs ... A0bTNtazE4

That is fucking legendary!

Yes, there was a botstorm that killed performance... It's being well and truly over-sold as a "storm". It's nothing even remotely unusual, and well within the boundaries of what to expect on 2024 internet. I could fix it in 10 seconds. Also, I'd been meaning to say that I did notice, and ...

You mean you're wondering how they have sex, right? I'd guess that applies to over 90% of straight adult males. I definitely wonder how it goes down. Or up... They'd make a fortune on OnlyFans for sure. Is it a bad thing that men feel like that? Maybe it is, but it's how life works and as long as p...

arthwollipot wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:37 pmBut people don't read books for fun...

Which is a tragedy.