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Or is it? Once the past becomes foreign enough it becomes less politically salient, so study of it becomes more truthful again. We find it far easier to be dispassionate about Alexander's empire than Victoria's empire, to name but one of many examples.

#history #scholarship #thoughts #media #journalism

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People want to blame Pandemic problems on US politics, but most countries did comparably badly.

Unless they're an island, NPIs are garbage.

No one had general availability of vaccines early.

Who was notably better then average? How did they accomplish that?

_Avengers: Endgame_ was supposed to be the mega-crossover, but didn't include anyone from _The Defenders_.

_Spider-man: No Way Home_ had Matt Murdoch (Daredevil) cameo as Peter Parker's lawyer.

(Technically a spoiler, but very minor.)

"According to fact-checkers and legal experts, undercover agents cannot be named as unindicted coconspirators."

That is a narrowly targeted fact if I ever saw one, damn.

Tell me that without telling me that masterclass here.

Well, No. But actually Yes. But actually Go Fuck Yourself.

Remember, there's only one social media site dedicated to protecting the works of its members from censorship.

Alice: I'm gonna take what you said, rephrase it to remove all the nuance, then argue against an exaggerated version of that.

Bob: Please don't.

Alice: Oh, so I'm not allowed in the conversation, am I?!

It's a good day to be fixing support issues in ancient browsers and not reading Twitter.

I am debugging an error on Opera 12 because Google Lighthouse has an overbroad check.

How is your day?

Here's a blast from the past:

"For the sake of simplicity, we’re going to assume that our application is JavaScript-only and that our users will always have CSS."

Gonna watch an anime with King Arthur in it.

No, not _Fate: Stay/Night_!

One set in Britannia.

No, not _Code Geass_!!

*grumble*

Just roll the tape already. We'll see if they stick the landing or crash face first into the ground.

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Firefox supports a nonstandard "or" combiner for media queries on link tags. That doesn't work in Chrome or Safari.

The standard spelling for that operation is ",".

Somebody made their web page's rendering dependent on the CSS load order.

We were talking about raising the sanity waterline as a moderate intervention.
But the years have shown that this is a time for drastic revolutions.

We will shake the faultlines of all worldviews to usher forth a sanity tsunami, a cataclysm or reasonableness. We will flatten mountainranges of delusion and push the dust into the deep-sea trenches of impartial anticipation

I was tempted to report a suspected sockpuppet with the phrase <this user smells like feet.>

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