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mayiplease··on [dead]
Obvious fake. No one in that position would busy themselves posting to reddit about it
mayiplease··on Inside Putin's Circle
https://archive.ph/RXgCG
mayiplease··on Freud and Faith (2007)
The Reformation doesn't happen until well over a thousand years later, and the Eastern Orthodox church is just as panoplied and so visual that it gave us the word "icon". I think the original wording is better.
mayiplease··on 500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
When it gets to the actual usage, this article is anticlimactic. It barely even mentions it, and is quickly over. There's also nothing new here: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22wan+fukkit+funling%22. This seems to be a press piece on a recent documentary. The documentary makers have done well for themselves. They got quite a few hits out of it: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-scotland-f-word-hi....
mayiplease··on The art of the hermit
"Six weeks on and we are all holy men and women."
mayiplease··on Classics for the People
Chomsky has written about how there were quite a few remarkably literate working-class journals in the 19th century. Unfortunately I don't have a link to where he said that.
mayiplease··on Humans Can Survive Underwater
Hold on, what evidence do you have that Lomborg ever held that first position? I've run into interviews with him since forever and remember his position has having been very consistent: climate change is real but not an existential threat and we should be more rational in prioritizing our responses to it. Or something like that.
mayiplease··on Defending Switzerland’s coffee stockpile
This was blowback from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-coffee/swiss-govern....