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PassTheCheesePlease 6 points ago +6 / -0

Brilliant book, one I only found due to this site. "Progress is the hypocrisy that refines the vices"... words written 100 years ago yet they could define our era.

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PassTheCheesePlease 27 points ago +27 / -0

"Social Justice Warrior" absolutely began as an insult - it's an evolution of "keyboard warrior" i.e. someone who might talk a good game but is full of shit.

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PassTheCheesePlease 21 points ago +21 / -0

This and 90% of other similar claims are just humble brags: "I'm so hot I get harassed" etc.

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PassTheCheesePlease 4 points ago +4 / -0

That logo is the UK's channel 4. They were woke before it was even a thing.

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PassTheCheesePlease 11 points ago +11 / -0

Red shifting it the light waves being stretched out my the motion of the source relative to the receiver. Red light has longer waves so the light moves towards the red end of the spectrum... It's not literally red and the colour has nothing to do with how far it goes.

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PassTheCheesePlease 8 points ago +8 / -0

Don't forget regular updates on 'January 6th' as if that has any fucking thing to do with the UK.

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PassTheCheesePlease 16 points ago +16 / -0

The funny thing is if it was Britain at war with Russia the BBC's coverage would never be that pro-British.

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PassTheCheesePlease 3 points ago +3 / -0

"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It's the template for almost all dystopian fiction and it'll probably be banned before too long at this rate (given the author is Russian).

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PassTheCheesePlease 15 points ago +15 / -0

The Force Awakens: baited as a sequel, then switched for a shitty reboot.

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PassTheCheesePlease 3 points ago +3 / -0

Harmful Opinions was great. Off the top of my head there was also a porn star and the one female looking transsexual in the western hemisphere, but I forget the names.

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