I would suggest that parents who have degrees generally have higher expectations for their children, and one of the triggers for depression can be a feeling of failure, and the shame of letting other… (View Post)

PB.com doesn't use an algorithm to promote the most contentious and divisive comments (we do that organically by responding to the most contentious and divisive comments). It's the use of a… (View Post)

Your last point is, I think, spot on. More generally you can claim that technology in general seeks to remove the friction from life, but it's often in the friction that interesting things happe… (View Post)

I cannot hear the words "direct action" without implicitly adding the preceding words "non-violent" to them. It was always, always, always "non-violent direct action". (View Post)

On Henry VIII it surprised me as an adult to learn quite how long he was married to Catherine of Aragon - more than twenty years! Obviously he went through them with bloodthirsty pace afterwards, but… (View Post)