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  1. Oct 2022
  2. Aug 2022
  3. May 2022
    1. Why should the reader have to read every citation or trust that an author is not taking a citation out of context, when hyperlinks are available?

      How do hyperlinks neutralize the ability for people to take things out of context? I see it all the time. The backchannels of Wikipedia are rife with it.

  4. Jul 2020
    1. What is the Presidential Election Campaign Fund? You can choose to have $3 go to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. This fund helps pay for Presidential election campaigns. The fund reduces candidates' dependence on large contributions from individuals and groups and places candidates on an equal financial footing in the general election. The fund also helps pay for pediatric medical research.

      What does pediatric medical research have to do with the Presidential Election Campaign Fund?

  5. Nov 2019
    1. To explain why Amanda Palmer was looking at a bum in Vienna, you might go back to the late 2000s, when drought in Syria exacerbated volatile food prices, raising tensions that by 2011 exploded into civil war.

      there it is

    2. “Compassion is very complicated. When I was fourteen years old, a man tied me to a table in his basement.”

      I thought this apparent non sequitur would be tough to beat, but later on we will see that achievement unlocked.