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The Trouble with Sombreros (nybooks.com)
10 points by Thevet on Sept 22, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



English, antibiotics, and the internet came from my people's culture - and I think it's perfectly awesome for others to use them.

Of course, I'm quite thankful my culture borrowed the concept of zero from another culture.


I'm rather fond of Arabic numbers also. Imagine multiplication using Roman numerals!


The usual censorious nonsense. It's weird how the people most loudly barking orders about what others are and are not allowed to say, wear, write, draw, think, are all writers and journalists.


I know a lot of people who do that.. politicians, judges, police, people on the internet.. Though, journalists and writers have a wider reaching platform.


A prison for your mind. All hail our benevolent thought-police.




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