BoxOfRain

Not the US but The Inbetweeners very accurately summed up my experience of a British comprehensive school. It was like that but the buildings weren’t as nice.

Moral authoritarians in general should be strongly opposed no matter what their values are, I struggle to think of a more retrograde force against human progress than the kind of curtain-twitching, ag…

This is exactly my position, I’m very pro-vaccine but I despise the surveillance state as the apparatus of tyranny.

London is pretty amazing for public transport as well by British standards. I took up cycling when the office moved because my new bus route was just under £6 to go about six miles, which took an hour…

>The modern office is designed around a type of person: A morning person, an extrovert, and someone with no kinds of sensory or attention issues. As someone with a sensory disorder, I'm litera…

Cheers for the advice!

Definitely steeling myself for a long hard slog to get to a decent standard, but fortunately I can be very motivated when it comes to things this interesting!

Thanks for the advice! This sounds very much like the sort of thing I'm looking for.

Thanks for the recommendation.

We can only behave according to what is acceptable in the present moment we happen to exist in, it would be unreasonable to ask people to attempt to predict future morality when making ethical choices…

Nice one, centurion! That film has so many absolutely classic scenes with the Romans. My personal favourite is the "romanes eunt domus" scene!

>Ordinary people aren't as familiar with death, and don't have a wide range of responses to it because society hides it and pretends it doesn't exist. I relate to this so much. I had…

"Bollocks" is a little less severe than "bullshit" in British English, but that word is still considered swearing by some. I agree that bullshit is the perfect word to describe the…

I'm not American, but wasn't the US government itself a non-partisan entity prior to and in the period immediately after independence? Either way, I get that they're regulated in theory…

You probably would have to ban entities like corporations, partnerships, and non-profits from endorsing a candidate. It would essentially extend and make permanent the concept of Purdah to those entit…

We'd be bringing it into the public sphere where it can be regulated better at least, that's already an enormous improvement. I just think it's insanity to let essentially private and u…

This would fit quite nicely into another fairly radical idea which is to reform our countries as "zero party democracies". It strikes me that a lot of political ills come from within partie…

>it's my understanding that you could change the display colors and sprites by poking a memory address As far as I know FreeBSD still lets you poke around in /dev/mem, you could make…

Definitely agree, programming languages are tools. There's different tools for different jobs, but nobody says "Engine, proudly made with Wrench" or "Shed, proudly made with Hammer…

>That’s why I think exceptional measures should expire automatically I'd go even further than this, I'd argue that all laws that ordinary people are likely to come into contact with in …

There's a huge spectrum of opinion between libertarianism and wilfully endorsing authoritarianism because you happen to agree with a particular policy. You don't fight a common threat indivi…