My interpretation of the Maine poll is that it shows a partisan rally around the flag effect. There is no sense of a common accepted reality in the US anymore, so the default assumption is that a sca… (View Post)

Have you ever tried following the routes of railways that have been closed and dug up? There's a few interesting pieces to see in relation to the old light railway that used to be around hereabo… (View Post)

Would that have been Thatcher herself? (View Post)

I think Facebook makes about $80 of annual revenue for each of its daily users, mostly from selling ads shown to them, while those users are riled up to increase their engagement. (View Post)

Eh? Back in the day, on Facebook, say, your feed would be a reverse chronological order of posts by the people whose posts you wanted to see. That would be it. Same with twitter. And then you could a… (View Post)