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I’m glad you said this because you’re absolutely right and people should point it out until the term stops being misused.

I’m surprised no one here has yet made a “My Mother, the Car” joke.

I found it funny that in all this discussion of whether Gygax should be considered sole author and whether role-playing predates Chainmail that nobody brought up he wasn’t even the sole author of Chainmail. Jeff Perren co-wrote it with him.

What matters is the progressivity of the entire tax+transfer system, not just one side. The US has a higher top marginal income tax rate than Switzerland and the UK, just slightly lower than Germany and Australia.

Sorry. Binge-watching resulted in all the episodes blending together for me.

Not nearly as much as Kinja is!

Most of the old commenters on these threads left with the arrival of Kinja, and the place I’d left for was a pop culture Disqus channel mirroring some of the old threads here. But now two years later Disqus is ending channels, so the people behind that have set up a blogspot site with Disqus comments. And rather than

I saw Trollhunter first before Autopsy of Jane Doe. They say comedy can be hard to translate across different languages, but it worked just fine for me.

This seems like rather solid evidence that I was wrong. And vaccines losing their effectiveness isn’t an argument against the threat of a zombie apocalypse, which is what kicked this off.

One possibility is that they aren’t actually obsessed with representation and diversity but like to act as if they care about it more than they actually do.

Genji is renknowned as the first novel, but not necessarily the best. The Four Great Classical Novels might have better odds. I suspect that poetry tends to suffer in translation since so much of it is about how one says something rather than the meaning being conveyed.

You’re right, although the stuff about falling under his sway is more the book than the movie. The movie sort of sidelines her character in order to focus more on Hannibal.

Basically every welfare state in Europe relies on a VAT, a sort of sales tax. A broader tax base rises more revenue with less deadweight loss and tax avoidance. The progressivity of the system is on the spending side.

I’d like to hear Peter Greenaway’s answer to this question.

Most of the pop culture they cover even today is “western” broadly speaking.

Kudos for the graph. When I tried to look up infectious diseases generally a lowered trend was reported, but that study’s data ended before the spikes seen here. On the other hand, this is just for measles and I am still interested in all vaccine-preventable diseases.

Regular taxes can apply to all rich people.

Doing some quick googling, this study has data on deaths from infectious disease up to about five years ago. I’d like more recent years, but that covers about half of this decade. It says that vaccine-preventable disease death rates have declined since 1980. 

Are outbreaks more common than they used to be?

Do you mean that diseases are more common? That’s not at all clear to me.