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People keep on wanting to rank cultures on a scale of better to worse. They want reassurance that they're in one of the "good" (advanced, progressive, ancient, conservative, complex, simple, etc.) cultures and somebody else is in a worse one.

But it doesn't work like that. There aren't better or worse cultures, any more than there are better or worse languages or better or worse alphabets. They're just different styles of being human.

Not a big fan, okay not a fan at all, of SE Cupp but sometimes, she actually makes sense; This is one of those times youtube.com/watch?v=nuU9l6cnEz

"A cache of 243 paintings found in an English castle, all depicting canine subjects, suggests Vermeer’s true aspiration was to become a dog portraitist." hyperallergic.com/811644/newly

Would someone please explain to me why, other than news orgs, nonprofits, even celebrities - why does anyone want or need a blue checkmark? I don't understand the allure and the competition for followers either. My brain can't process this...

From Al Franken April 2020 April 2020 but remains true to this day...even more so after Jan 6 2021 alfranken.com/read/mike-pence-

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We interupt this weekend playlist for this utterly fantastic piece of advertising from Twix.

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CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.