The art of the shock merchant is to know when to stop. How outrageous you can be without being too outrageous. Kelvin MacKenzie had "it" for a very long time, Nick Ferrari still does. In a … (View Post)

That ignores any people yet to be born. All the stuff about differently-sized infinities is one of the reasons I ended up in physics not maths. (View Post)

Aren't they both liable to be echo chambers, depending on who you choose to follow and who the TwiX algo is pushing this week? The key difference is that TwiX increasingly pushes the "thoug… (View Post)

The man and woman on the street mostly won't hear about this at all. Remember how little news most civilians consume. It will fire up the online social conservatives, but they're not exactl… (View Post)

A bit about the case here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-65581850 As one of the appeal judges said, It is a case that calls for compassion, not punishment. There are times (and I'm prett… (View Post)