Their original staff was a bunch of pretty serious journalists sourced from the BBC.

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It’s a type of bird but good luck knowing how to pronounce it. Ahh, English.

A few years ago I considered learning Greek. Abandoned the plan because Greek has the triple whammy:

• quite a hard language, with tricky grammar and different alphabet (phonetics easy tho)
• only spoken in one small country - not very useful (tho good for general culture - 6% of English lexicon comes from Greek)
• the locals all speak English (coz tourism) so you’ll have trouble getting a chance to progress

So: good luck.

Everyone who cares about privacy needs to have a response to this fallacy practiced and ready to go. The aim should be to convince skeptics that they too already have “things to hide”, or at least that they might show a bit of solidarity with the good guys who do.

Rhetorical questions can that be effective:

• Money: How much did you make last month? Oh! That’s private, right.
• Health: Would you be happy if your medical insurer could somehow get access to your browsing history? Hmm?
• Politics: So you really are an open book with nothing to hide! Fine. What about whistleblowers, investigative journalists, dissidents, etc? If we’re all shouting “I have nothing to hide - be my guest, spy on me!”, how effective do you think they’re going to be at holding the powerful to account - on our behalf?

The last argument is the really powerful one, but unfortunately it’s pretty hard to pull off.

Midnight Run (1988) but it was a VHS. Possibly the only movie I have watched more than twice, and I have watched a lot of movies. Very random.

I don’t think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

Interesting. Years ago I moved from an 18in desktop setup to something like your eeePC. Unexpectedly, I also found it fine. These days I have a 14in and it feels unnecessarily big and heavy.

If you’re happy doing things one window at a time (i.e. monocle view, or basically as on mobile OSs), turns out the floor’s the limit!

Since karma isn’t tracked, I don’t think it’s a real big deal having a negative score comment.

I agree this is an important counter-argument. My other points stand.

This particular alternative history is uninteresting because its premises mean you have to invent a whole parallel universe. In plain English: it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.

The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.

PS: I am saying that OP’s question is boring because it is unanswerable. It just invites a hundred other questions. If you want to ask THOSE questions, then ask them.

This exactly where I am on all counts. Stick with it!

The downvote button. It’s a hobby horse of mine. Slashdot got it right: if you’re going to tell someone to shut up, there should be a small price to pay.

PS: to the inevitable downvoters. Let’s be clear that you are not just saying “I disagree”. You are helping to hide my comment; you’re literally telling me to shut up. Would you do that in person, without so much as lifting a finger to justify yourself ? Of course you wouldn’t. In person you would have manners. This is the problem I have with the downvote button. It incites people to behave like uncivilized infants.

Agreed on all counts.

The real mystery to me is what value the echo-chamber residents get out of it. Why would someone join a group of people they already agree with, just to be told that their opinions are correct, and to shout down any interloper who contradict them? How is that not a boring waste of time? Is it that most people are insecure in their views and need validation, perhaps? It’s a phenomenon I still don’t understand.

Those pics are gonna give me nightmares.

For what it’s worth, I am one of those letters and it is somewhat irrelevant to my identity. My identity is the following: human being.

I consider the identity obsession of Gen Z to be mostly narcissistic self-regard. It reflects our society’s rampant individualism, where kids have become a lifestyle choice and pampered like fragile consumer objects. I don’t have any answers about how to fix any of this. Indeed I’m something of an individualist myself.

Be nice to people, but don’t feel the need to indulge their whims if it feels unreasonable.

Sure, but the third hottest is June, not September, so if the seasons last (12/4=) 3 months then logically summer began 3 weeks ago.

Well okay but the name “Midsummer” does kind of make my point.

Sounds awful. Your situation is extreme (ah rural America!) but I won’t deny there’s something freeing about cars. These days I hate cars with a passion, and I’ve always lived in big European cities where they’re completely unnecessary, but even I had a car when I was 20, and I loved it. But then a couple of years later I got rid of it, and that also felt like freedom and I loved that too… Anyway, just an anecdote. As for your situation, good luck, you’ll find a way out of there.

PS off-topic: I’ve always found “good luck” to be a bit lacking for these contexts, in French there’s the much better “bon courage”, sadly untranslatable but much more appropriate in your case.

For pace, it’s basically directly correlated with the movie’s age.

I have no idea how today’s young screen-addled audiences would even begin to approach the idea of watching basically any movie from the 1970s, let alone the 40s.

The only possible way to get to a shop is “a car”… Poor Americans!

This convention that summer “begins” at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it’s baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It’s already summer.

The correlation between ecological awareness and ecological damage is really striking.

And it’s paralleled at the individual level. People who see themselves as green typically have larger footprints than those who don’t - for the simple reason that green-mindedness is correlated with wealth, which is is correlated with damaging habits such as meat diets and flying.