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Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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It is odd, isn't it? I like some jazz (although not so much the stuff that sounds like everyone has just been acquainted with their instrument, or for that matter with jazz itself). But people who *really* like it are often extraordinarily persistent in their belief that others should too.
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and so it should, the hoops they have to jump through
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Oh, it's definitely the latter. They know deep down just what a silly affectation it is, but to change their style guide would be to admit that the little people had it right, and our readers won't wear that.
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They also misspell the very simple word "teenagers" by adding an entirely superfluous hyphen between "teen" and "agers".
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Whatever it is, it is an absurd affectation that only persists because the New Yorker's sense of its own importance also persists.
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I thought it was just me this irritated the shit out of. Good to have you on board.
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Anyway, New York is a fascinating place, and will be quite the city when they get round to cleaning it.
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“It would be a disaster for our students to have no idea how to effectively use one of the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created”
They don’t do introductory library courses?
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You don’t get rid of me that easily
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Well I suppose any of your valuable time spent trying to patronise me isn’t spent trying to patronise minorities, so we both get something out of this exchange.
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Just as well, really.
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So do they know what happens, bolstering one of your arguments, or are they naive, bolstering the other? It can’t be both.
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The substantial take-up of doorbell cams is probably not a uniquely urban phenomenon.
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Yes, it’s a minority voice, but it’s a loud and insistent one, and it seldom seems to take account of all the more direct and invasive forms of surveillance British society has eagerly embraced.
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Same in Poland where trust is much lower. It’s simply accepted as a way of facilitating the delivery of services.
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I mean it’s one thing to discuss issues of implementation in a country which has a long and inglorious history of botched rollouts, but “we can’t allow ourselves to become a surveillance society”? Chaps, it’s already here.
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There won’t be anything suspicious about one of his rockets blowing up though