Maybe he got the wrong message from Supersize Me

Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted

Cyndi Lauper played Glastonbury last year, which was probably a big factor introducing her to a new audience

The existence of folk etymology suggests that actually many speakers and listeners do care about it (whether accurate or not) and that all feeds into meaning.

Isn't it the other way round? Writing (which we invented <10kya) is the brain hack. People are arguably forming far worse parasocial relationships with LLMs than they are with anime waifu pics, for example.

Have you seen the film 'Pig'?

What, you can't start your own pyramid scheme within the pyramid scheme?

It's only the elites.

Morlock origin story.

I went to a comprehensive in the north of England, and there was a lot of it. I think they mostly died of heroin overdoses, so no way of finding out if they changed their minds 50 years later. The '70s and '80s we're pretty grim up there.

I don't think we need to speculate, because this wasn't a step change, it's been a gradual process going on for decades - the % of gen X affected < % of millennials < % of gen Z, of course, but there are certainly people who've been in this situation for 30 years or more already.

And then councils start using it to assess both, I suppose.