Yeah. I feel like most sensible ideas suggested on here implicitly carry the caveat that, for whatever reason, they're unlikely to be implemented by any British government. But I still like to d… (View Post)

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)