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When do addicts become connoisseurs of the substance or service they are addicted to?  And when not? Inspired by

[dnbruxxa] No one wants transparency in government

Those who want big government know that big government will often function poorly, so don't want to make it easy to gat

[bfqllxax] Alpha Centauri before public domain

Which will happen first: a song that came out this year becoming public domain, or humans colonizing Alpha Centauri? O

[nwasgdxx] Meta identity politics

Malcolm X: Identity politics is the way to get shit done. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Identity politics will lead us into

[hnisimlu] Fat Mystique

The premise "society will not accept seeing me in my mutant form" for Mystique in the X-Men universe would have been mo