I think everyone who participated in the migrant grooming gangs should be executed and so should every journalist, politician and activist who shielded and protected those in the gangs.
Go full Iran, or Stalin’s USSR. Two in the head and charge the family for the bullets. That’d still be more merciful than what all those girls went through.
I mean, there can be a first edition of a particular translation or typesetting.
This is a good example of people wanting to look smart rather than actually be smart. That is, they do not understand the publishing world or typical publisher terminology. “First edition” just means the first released version of a particular typesetting. Thus, a work like Homer’s Iliad can and does have many first editions, depending on translation, publisher, and which country it is released in1.
The first printing of the first editions are particularly valuable in the rare book world, often.
For example, here is a first edition, first printing of the Iliad, though it’s not worth all that much.
Smart people are quite dumb.
This line from Molly Nilsson’s “1995” is probably the single best encapsulation of what it felt like to live then: “Back in ’95, we thought we were standing on the threshold to the end of time.”
Nailed it in one line. I wish I had Molly’s succinctness, but that is as close as one can get in words to the feeling of living in the era after the Berlin Wall fell and before the Oklahoma City Bombing, before 9/11, before the world turned.
Yes, we were wrong and in retrospect delusional that it was the end of history. That there was a brighter future in store. That we’d solve racism and hatred and blood feuds and war. But it sure as fuck felt like that. That optimism perfused everything. Those who claim it did not were too young to remember or are just lying. Most of them have some agenda, as well.
But I was there. I know what happened and what it was like.
Realizing that idiot leftists actually do loathe Western civilization and truly do want to destroy it so Third World hordes can take over was really disappointing. But, also, freeing. Then you know what direction to go.
Incredible live performance.
Progress for progressives. The “party of science” must also embrace technology and economic growth.
Just another day in Mamdani's New York.
New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers.
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed.
AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was.
The Pro-Gaza Left Is Oh So Quiet on Iran. Maybe it wasn’t about peace and human rights at all.
Taiwan passes Germany to become US' 4th largest trading partner.