"Very good." He's holding up very good.
kbal
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I guess all the large areas shaded blue where I'm pretty sure there aren't many roads (e.g. northern Ontario) are recent logging activity that still looks like roads to whatever software did the satellite image analysis.
It's been demonstrated that it's mostly an illusion, and yet it's hard to escape the observation that many people who haven't studied it in detail understand the concept much less well than they think they do.
12€ per month
That paywall is pretty high.
That many people failed to recognise the ubiquity of socialism in English political life was due to the mistaken belief that socialism was some utopia ‘spun from the humanity-intoxicated brains of various Frenchmen’.6 For both Toynbee and Webb, then, socialism could be English and even English Tories could be socialists.
(From the linked essay on John Stuart Mill, socialist.) This is providing more than I expected from an article about Ed Broadbent and the NDP. If people today are confused about what socialism means, apparently that hasn't changed much since 150 years ago.
foreign piracy in the United States
For a moment there I thought they were talking about actual pirate ships sailing across from Liberia to raid the east coast.
Public transportation.
Hundreds of farmers ask struggling federal government to save them.
Whatever doesn't kill me makes me contemplate my meaningless place in the irrational universe.
"After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements."
All the lines look blurry when you're squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.
Among the big cities Montreal is looking pretty good.
https://i.imgflip.com/601zqc.jpg