Posts by Sacha
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If the rest of the book is as good it's quite damning.
Heard both Sandra Coney and Charlotte Paul discussing/reading their contributions and yes, you're quite right.
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and yet they sometimes seem to be thinking "if only I were bigger, you'd be dinner"
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Fear of *cats* seems less common
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"A shark would have found Anne Frank, like *that*
rofflenui
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people like talking about the items of culture they have in common
I agree - it's just that we have a wider range of sources now for conversational objects, as Bart notes. Look, we're even talking about scrabble.
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When did our days become soooo careworn, that "entertainment" became what we craved?
Uh, one of the longest working weeks in the "developed" world, thanks to low investment in productivity and capital funds, thanks to decisions made in the 80s and 90s by idiot neolibs some of whom still grace our parliament and business circles.
Note that I'm not expecting to find discussion about that on telly - and nor do I need it thanks to places like this. But the tensions in the underlying broadcast/publishing business models are becoming hard to ignore - hence the traditional industries trying to use copyright law to resist change.
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arguing is about comparing ideas worldviews and sometimes, hopefully, knowledge . The purpose is to end the discussion with more knowledge than you started not to "win".
Yes
(though I have learned that trolls bring out the worst in me and expecting them to argue in good faith is pointless)
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Tell that to amazon and google.
And facebook and apple
(was trying to add that same point last night, but overwhelmed by site glitches)
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as a persons income falls
sacrilege
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Very Thomas Pynchon
snap