right in the best cases it comes off the same as 'webster's dictionary defines X as..."

imagine having the good fortune to have stopped before herbert realized he'd written himself in a corner and needed to invent the no-globe

my tip to people interested is that, as with the end of war and peace, if it even occurs to you that you might want to stop reading its probably time to do so

i subscribe to the newsletter of someone i greatly respect who does this constantly and as a coping device i have taught my brain to just glide over the offending sections without registering anything

constant problem with migration policy is the optimal policy for people who already live in a country is almost always to lessen barriers to entry and exit. people will just go elsewhere if there isn't work unless you're threatening to lock and bolt the door behind them once they leave

think you might be right. the de facto end of the asylum system here and clampdown on legal immigration was carried out by the social dems about ten years ago and no, no one has been rewarded aside from the far right

we're a bit ahead of you on this curve in sweden, so i would recommend everyone brace themselves for arguments that the coming mass unemployment is the fault of the immigrants you didn't force out

i always read these sorts of posts as marketing for startup founders but yes: social and emotional growth is the point of pre-k. all the kids are 'good at math' in pre-k, because the curriculum rarely goes beyond "can you count to ten"

www.dn.se/sverige/rege...

the same goes for limonov, a fascinating individual and a synecdoche for 1990s russia who yes, was also clearly a pretty awful person

(please do not reply to me about the math, this is a dumb shitpost)

this is a higher level of textual analysis than i had in mind! in my experience its missing things that are clearly stated in the first few paragaphs (as stephen described), taking everything they do parse literally, and assuming an idea presented without explicit, lengthy condemnation is endorsed

a very irritating tendency to read the absence of a 'this is bad and i condemn it' disclaimer as endorsement or at least cowardly bothesidesism. do not remember people struggling so much with this five or ten years ago.

i have a worryingly large and increasing cohort of friends and acquaintances i no longer share writing i like with because they've internalized this style as normal and react pretty negatively to any subtlety in prose

i do wonder how a return to fun, campy bond is going to be received, as by the time the next one is in theaters bond will have been a gritty, jason bourne-inspired character for a quarter of a century