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"extortion of protection money"

Under that definition, all their ancestors are dead.

It's like they are just bad at this. The one device I have where I can't block YouTube's ads is set to route through Tokyo, so the ads are in Japanese, which I barely understand.

Yes, apparently I learned Swedish as soon as I stepped off the plane in Stockholm. I'm even logged into your site and you have my home address, you twits.

America could sure use less internal combustion and more high-speed rail.

Uh, what? I'll use a quote when it neatly captures what I was thinking, and credit it to the original author. The phrase is the important part I guess, but fair play to the author.

If you're drawing authority from it, that's on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.

No, I'm providing a counter-example and rejecting the argument that only lost media entitles you to consume media for free.

1984 missed that our telescreens would be portable and the hate isn't limited to two minutes per day.

When I return from the library instead of the bookstore it is with the deepest shame.

As a child and into my teens, I had an inner monologue that was switched on all the time. After practising meditation and reading without subvocalisation, I was finally able to 'shut up' where stopping the monologue was as easy as stopping talking. Anyway, I'd encourage anyone to give it a try. Now being able to think without distracting chatter is well worth it for me.

He often squints reading the prompter, and he has to concentrate so his manner of speech moderates significantly. Then you see him flip the switch to freewheeling bullshit.