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The "naming" is Americans.

"Yankee" is derogatory or at best playful. "Usonians" isn't a word or in the form of a word.

"American" or "America" in this context is short for "United States of America" and has been used that way for generations, here and around the world. For the geographical term, use "North America," etc.; for the cultural, perhaps use "Anglo-America" or "Latin America."

After all, a deck of cards is The Devil's Picture Book[0][1].

0. https://beaconlights.org/sermons/a-deck-of-cards

1. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68367

There always was. Like there's a gym crowd, there's an intellectual-hobby crowd.

"A handgun in a house" is statistically extremely unlikely to be "used for murder/suicide."

Codex wrote you a website, or wrote you a pluggable CMS usable and configurable by non-coders?

LinkedIn, too. Tech influencers (I mean "AI Professionals") with long, rambling musings about why lames just don't get Jev.

Same thing on Twitter, I noticed last night. Making extraordinary, categorical claims too.

I'm perceiving a lot of enthusiasts of the race to the bottom here. Yes, Dell and Linux could offer prices and convenience that undercut frontier hardware companies like Sun and SGI. But now what do we have? The loss is palpable to those of us who used to work with varied hardware competing to awe us, not to mention filling niches much more satisfactorily than one-size-fits-all.

E.g. institutional prestige that inheres in arcane scientific knowledge in modern times, which in turn yields political and social clout.

"I can't practice minimum quality control as a web dev" doesn't sound like a problem with the standard.

Work is a good.

It's not much of a stretch to see this as certain powers punishing Facebook for not having actively suppressed the Trump campaign.

Everyone's parents "suck"--they're humans, they're learning, they have problems of their own they struggle with, etc. There are no purely good parents. I'm not excusing actually wretched family conditions, but have been noticing almost every young adult now deplores an unfair childhood--and I can't help but think we'd all be healthier if we could recognize that a childhood with some problems is statistically quite "fair."

Given an effective sample size, parents have a much higher success rate ensuring children do not grow up as hazards to the society than publicly-funded programs do.

This is a very cogent observation that I'm afraid is going to go over many heads. Children and parents are intrinsically suited to each other by genetics, shared environment, and other empirical factors. Societal and legal reasoning that asserts a child as a Platonic form cannot in fact benefit the singular development of that child.

You didn't replace the battery[0]?

0. https://www.ifixit.com/products/iphone-13-mini-battery

It's to make commercial use of paper mind-numbingly easy in terms of calculation and avoiding waste.

The discussion as I understood it was alternatives to modern capitalism.

You're using quite a broad brush with "non-conformist," so I'll assume you're referring to Roman Christian martyrdom. The perception of Christians in that era was more or less that they were being coerced to libel Christ and suppress his memory, who moreover had the vital Answer for humankind; and to dissolve their brotherhoods as conspiratorial organizations, including by incriminating friends and family and (in time, certainly by Diocletian) to libel their ancestors. This is quite different from the modern, essentially Reformation, view of them, which is that they were ideologues with an obstinate disinclination to lose the argument. Another misconception is that they were under continuous persecution, when in fact Roman enforcement was more like a limited number of notorious showdowns well spread out over time and terrain; however, this one is not just a modern view but was also promoted by fairly early hagiographers[0]. Finally, resisting even per the rationale I've described was quite controversial, and not all Christians refused to capitulate, even after it had become an established religious concept and practice. For example, see the Donatist controversy in re traditores[1].

0. https://classics.cornell.edu/news/roman-historian-views-earl...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatism

The idea that Christianity equates to "very very clean" scholarship regarding "original texts" would surprise most Christians in most periods. It's also not plain to me how this could even amount to a religion, considering all the practical, anthropological value adherents naturally expect one to provide.

Executive fiat, given the right executive body, and undergirded by healthy autarkies or other cell-type self-direction, worked well in most locales for most of the years humans have been humans. Certain flashy civilizations, Sumer, Greece, have tended to draw the spotlight incommensurately with their population sizes. But even these functioned much more like what I describe above than anything modern.

Many such mutual activities are being lost. But I can't believe permanently.

What percentage of Condé Nast's or Bertelsmann's gross receipts do you think goes directly to editorial and print workers?

He could hardly complain about his, as he didn't have one.

There were and have always been trading and other exchanges all over the world. The Egtved girl was traveling from north to central Germany, probably for marriage. Now, if we mean most people did not do this, then sure. But there's a persistent idea that ancient cultures were not in contact with each other, and this is largely disproven.

Political movements can certainly be an important factor of modern power given the right instigators, but transferring the importance to oneself is, again, damaging mania.

"People" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

In Hades, yes. Vanishingly few of us actually control our fates or societies even to a small extent. The modern tendency to think like we do is a form of mania. By indulging it, we damage the only control we really have, our relative health and peace of mind.

> opt-in by default

That's called opt-out.