I used to read the encyclopedia for fun when I was young (a perfectly normal thing to do!) and even as a child when I read one patron of Titian had a private room to enjoy the works, I thought “I’ll bet he did.”
December 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I used to read the encyclopedia for fun when I was young (a perfectly normal thing to do!) and even as a child when I read one patron of Titian had a private room to enjoy the works, I thought “I’ll bet he did.”
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It's an extremely common misconception that people who have verified identities or are using their "real" names are less abusive online, but it's not true. Pseudonymous and anonymous people behave less abusively than people using their "real" names: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Digital Social Norm Enforcement: Online Firestorms in Social Media
Actors of public interest today have to fear the adverse impact that stems from social media platforms. Any controversial behavior may promptly trigger temporal, but potentially devastating storms of ...
journals.plos.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It's an extremely common misconception that people who have verified identities or are using their "real" names are less abusive online, but it's not true. Pseudonymous and anonymous people behave less abusively than people using their "real" names: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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8. I am so appalled that the Trump/Ferguson FTC dropped this case. Local independent grocery stores are being driven out of business — and their customers forced to pay higher prices — by two powerful companies who've been told, in effect, that they can violate the law with impunity.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
8. I am so appalled that the Trump/Ferguson FTC dropped this case. Local independent grocery stores are being driven out of business — and their customers forced to pay higher prices — by two powerful companies who've been told, in effect, that they can violate the law with impunity.
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6. Why does Pepsi do this? Walmart’s promise is: Keep us the king of our domain and we’ll make you the king of yours. Walmart helps Pepsi dominate the drink market in exchange for Pepsi ensuring that Walmart dominates groceries.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
6. Why does Pepsi do this? Walmart’s promise is: Keep us the king of our domain and we’ll make you the king of yours. Walmart helps Pepsi dominate the drink market in exchange for Pepsi ensuring that Walmart dominates groceries.
Though some of his inner circle will opportunistically capitalize on random tantrums as they happen.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Though some of his inner circle will opportunistically capitalize on random tantrums as they happen.
Even by his first term, his brain had deteriorated to the point where making plans that took more than a couple of hours seemed beyond him. There’s no great plans; he just lashes out on impulse.
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Even by his first term, his brain had deteriorated to the point where making plans that took more than a couple of hours seemed beyond him. There’s no great plans; he just lashes out on impulse.
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Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.