I once read of Etienne Macdonald, “As a man, his character cannot be spoken of too highly; no stain of cruelty or faithlessness rests on him.”

(It was the 11th edition Britannica. They could use language like that.)

Enh,. It’s an old problem. You should listen to Socrates bitch about books sometime.

In the book they’re called, “Delphi markets.” Not a bad name, really.

Also featured in Douglas Adams’ great book, LAST CHANCE TO SEE. Worth reading for the condom scene (to protect a microphone), and the language barrier in getting one in Shanghai, if nothing else.

John Brunner used predictive markets as a plot device in his 1975 novel THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER. Dated as the prose feels now, it’s still got lots of stuff, and worth finding.

Yeah, they need to be called “tariff taxes,” just to get the point across.

Alexander proposed a four story limit in PATTERN LANGUAGE (21). Rome got to a million people with something similar.You might stretch it to six stories, but you really don’t need much more.

My apologies. Seeing too many contractions reads “Amurrican” on my end. Which is a me problem.

As a 62-year-old who saw TOS in broadcast, too damned bad, buttercups. (Not you, the complainers.) I *like* Holly Hunter curling up like a cat in the command chair.

It’s true that many people on this self-selecting, not at all representative sample we call the internet like to whine about everything. It’s also true that many calling back to the ‘90s are doing so because they were 15 then, and now they’re 45.

Like the line from CRAZY RICH ASIANS goes, “it was never my job to make you feel like a man.”

That’s just mean.

Accurate, sure, and I like it, but…

I mean, if Attila the Hun was a Democrat, he’d be called a woke radical liberal (as far as the Republicans are concerned, all liberals are radical), because he used a horse, not a car.

Remember the Liberal Party is a thing in Canada (and is currently the government). It’s not like the American, “person I disagree with.”

Hey, just ask our parents.

Socrates’ point was you couldn’t understand a concept *unless* you could commit a text to memory. It’s why he didn’t write a text, himself.

My point was that people of a certain age complain about “kids today,” always saying they’ll ruin the future, and have done for at least 2,500 years.

Socrates said the same thing about books and memorization. (Or so Plato tells us. In a book.)