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Wed 2 Sep 2020 10:56

@TheHarmDoer The effectiveness of a tweet is measured by its effect on people likely to read THAT tweet. Obviously.

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Wed 2 Sep 2020 10:41

@HaraldKml You miss the point. If you want to say you’re non-ideological you disavow BOTH sides or you’re tacitly taking sides

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Mon 31 Aug 2020 18:54

@Prolapsarian I thought the main argument for a 4-day week was that people are more efficient if they work less so you wouldn’t need to hire more people anyway, except for jobs you can’t speed up like a movie usher or somesuch

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Mon 31 Aug 2020 10:13

@sm9eb @davidwengrow okay anyone have a theory why my spell-checker, both on my phone and computer, systematically changes “Kings” or “King’s” to “Kong”s? It’s not even a word!

Mon 31 Aug 2020 10:11

@Palomar_qfwfq @sm9eb @davidwengrow I know. We’re waiting for the editor to get back to us. Well… it’s still August.

Sun 30 Aug 2020 22:25

@dominichills5 @sm9eb @davidwengrow it’s actually very clear that the characters referred to as “temple prostitutes” in a lot of the Sumerian lit are not anything like what we’d think of as sex workers, but often, of extremely high status & engaged in activities we don’t understand at all

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Sun 30 Aug 2020 17:47

@Ksquared56 @davidwengrow @sm9eb There’s a lot of interesting possibilities. One striking feature of such burials is how often they were physically deformed or unusual: hunchbacked, dwarfism, extremely tall …

Sun 30 Aug 2020 17:14

@sm9eb @davidwengrow Well King of Corn is just from Fraser. There’s no necessary reason to think theatrical Kong’s were killed. That’s more likely to develop later as a way to contain the power of real ones.

Sun 30 Aug 2020 11:45

@Dutchography @RhythmRuler So you’re saying Jeff Bezos actually believes that Amazon has created more and/or better paid jobs than it has destroyed and therefore that tax revenues from the relevant industries have gone up not down?

Sun 30 Aug 2020 09:43

@avi_khalil @davidwengrow @SamLowryBR We offer a series of explanations building on some of the ideas in my essays in On Kings

Sun 30 Aug 2020 01:45

@davidwengrow @SaltleyGates oh fine, then play yourself. That means I’ll have to do it too. Only movie I was ever in was an art film where I did a long monologue as a father giving bad advice but I don’t think it was ever released.

Sat 29 Aug 2020 18:38

@Ksquared56 @davidwengrow @sm9eb there is absolutely no reason to assume all human social development worldwide follows the same pattern, and a great deal of evidence that it does not

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 17:38

@zug_01 god why are Marxist ideologues SO BORING? Yes, I would like to abolish the wage system too. That doesn’t mean it’s the only thing you’re ever allowed to talk about. Totalitarian much>?

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 17:37

@exyz_Jeremy yeah, they make the publishers sell at prices so cheap that the publishers can just pay their own overhead and there’s nothing left for the authors

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Sat 29 Aug 2020 14:01

@PraxisCast @frankthetank622 What specific argument about naked power are you objecting to?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:58

@Dutchography Are you saying that’s what he actually thinks, or that’s his propaganda line?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:54

@PraxisCast @frankthetank622 You’re saying he’s making money to get power. But then you’re saying he’s wielding power to make money. That sounds like a bit of a circular argument. How does it differ from my saying his making money is itself an exertion of power as an end in itself?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:46

@_woIfgang @frankthetank622 Slave how? Psychologically? He fears some phantom future competitor?

Sat 29 Aug 2020 13:39

@frankthetank622 Can’t the Fed just print him a trillion and give it to him so he’ll go away? I mean it wouldn’t make any difference if he didn’t spend it. If that wouldn’t satisfy him, doesn’t it show it’s his power to take the money from authors that’s really driving him?

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