yesman

The Internet is like a library: repository of knowledge, it's also like cable TV where every crackpot has a broadcast license.

How you use it is up to you.

I hate America, because that's where I'm from and what I know the most about. If I lived in your country, I'd hate it more.

In several US states, the Amish are required to have lights on their buggies because asking drivers to maintain a speed where they can avoid collision with an object the size of a shed is just too burdensome.

If you're a person who prefers to type commands than click through menus then you should try the "run" program in the "powertoys" suite from Microsoft.

It a launcher program that's superior to Start in every way. You can type in plain English system commands like "shutdown"; a search that actually works; you can pass queries into your browser's search engine; and of course launch programs by typing in their names. You can even enter entire registry addresses to open regedit at the desired location.

This is a complete replacement for the Start Menu.

Annon is just the typical internet media critic. They've probably written 10,000 words about the writing of "The Acolyte"

This is a bad take. Sometimes fiction is the best way to understand history. Furthermore, since authors are people in history, the often provide something more valuable than the outcome of a battle or the death of a King: the ideas, mood, and cultural of normal people in historical context.

Traditional Histories are crippled by survivor bias and are centered around elites.

ACAB is about the whole system of law enforcement being corrupt and not the characteristics of individual pigs.

Privately, Trump has suggested he understands that he could lose in November if he does not dramatically change his approach to the race...

This sounds like the person "with knowledge of [Trump's] thinking" is trying to reassure themselves.

This statue looks like it lost it's hands at one point, and was repaired with a pair of gloves and plaster of paris.

"Centrist" is a phony identity. It's a put on, like journalists who pretend to be "objective".

The whole thing is a reification of the concept of political "spectrum".

Self identified centrists are usually people who've only been recently engaged in politics. They imagine themselves as neutral arbiters; the consumer that chooses the best ideology. They represent themselves as above politics, when in reality they're operating on an elementary understanding.

Politics is values. The left values equality while the right values hierarchy. No human being has ever valued the midpoint between hierarchy and equality.

I don't really get it. Sure, the exposed prongs would be energized once you plugged one side in, but if you plugged the other side into a second outlet (assuming you didn't cross live/neutral), nothing would happen. (those two outlets were likely tied together anyway)