Ancient Texts from the Only Redeeming Feature on Facebook: Facebook Memories
October 28th Edition
October 28th Edition
October 28th, 2021
There's big money in not making the world better.
October 28th, 2021
If Manchin and Sinema didn't exist, some other currently cowardly Democrat would feel obliged to step up to make sure their party didn't get too progressive.
October 28th, 2020
Nobody unfriended me after I asked conservatives to stop stealing my good time vibes so there are definitely a few liars and thieves on my friends list.
October 28th, 2018
"I was even more dubious about the other part of Cancer Research UK’s criticism: “staggering”. Is it staggering? Was anyone at that charity staggered? Did they expect better from Philip Morris International? “What a big advertising budget you have, Grandma!” “All the better to dispassionately address our products’ health implications with!”
I don’t believe they were staggered and it’s a mistake to pretend that they were. It’s totally the wrong way to think about a corporation. Everything a corporation says is hypocritical unless it’s “our entire raison d’être is to maximise profits”. They hardly ever say that and who can blame them. But that’s completely what they exist to do and that’s fine, as long as we’re wary and make sure they observe the law." -- David Mitchell, Guardian Column 28-10-2018
Followed by this additional comment:
"What I think Cancer Research UK should have said is this: huge corporations like Philip Morris International spend a lot of money on research, so if they think this tawdry attempt to curry favour will work, then it probably will. Significant numbers of people will be fooled into believing that a company, the main product of which has caused millions of premature deaths, can have its customers’ health interests at heart. Significant sections of the public are listening uncritically to what corporations tell them and taking it at face value. That is nothing less than a national education emergency." -- David Mitchell continued!
October 28th, 2014
October 28th, 2021
If Manchin and Sinema didn't exist, some other currently cowardly Democrat would feel obliged to step up to make sure their party didn't get too progressive.
October 28th, 2020
Nobody unfriended me after I asked conservatives to stop stealing my good time vibes so there are definitely a few liars and thieves on my friends list.
October 28th, 2018
"I was even more dubious about the other part of Cancer Research UK’s criticism: “staggering”. Is it staggering? Was anyone at that charity staggered? Did they expect better from Philip Morris International? “What a big advertising budget you have, Grandma!” “All the better to dispassionately address our products’ health implications with!”
I don’t believe they were staggered and it’s a mistake to pretend that they were. It’s totally the wrong way to think about a corporation. Everything a corporation says is hypocritical unless it’s “our entire raison d’être is to maximise profits”. They hardly ever say that and who can blame them. But that’s completely what they exist to do and that’s fine, as long as we’re wary and make sure they observe the law." -- David Mitchell, Guardian Column 28-10-2018
Followed by this additional comment:
"What I think Cancer Research UK should have said is this: huge corporations like Philip Morris International spend a lot of money on research, so if they think this tawdry attempt to curry favour will work, then it probably will. Significant numbers of people will be fooled into believing that a company, the main product of which has caused millions of premature deaths, can have its customers’ health interests at heart. Significant sections of the public are listening uncritically to what corporations tell them and taking it at face value. That is nothing less than a national education emergency." -- David Mitchell continued!
October 28th, 2014
My one true love best boy Judas Soliloquy Velociraptor. I guess this pic was an obituary post because he'd just died on the 25th. I love him so much still!
October 28th, 2012
Flash 13: Another comic that used the title Gorilla Warfare. And it was on the last page to avoid spoilers! Link to the Comic Review!
October 28th, 2010
#6 From Burton: "An Arab holds that he has a right to marry his first cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, and if any win her from him a death and a blood-feud may result. It was the same in a modified form amongst the Jews and in both races the consanguineous marriage was not attended by the evil results (idiocy, congenital deafness, etc.) observed in mixed races like the English and the Anglo-American."
[This is not part of the memory! Just clarification for what this is: This was a footnote from Richard Burton's translation of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night. His notes are often fascinating. And racist. Although far less racist than the mainstream thoughts of British people at the time. He was actually pretty progressive, what with translating The Kama Sutra and developing some kind of Columbia House Book Club to get around obscenity laws when publishing it!]
Flash 13: Another comic that used the title Gorilla Warfare. And it was on the last page to avoid spoilers! Link to the Comic Review!
October 28th, 2010
#6 From Burton: "An Arab holds that he has a right to marry his first cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, and if any win her from him a death and a blood-feud may result. It was the same in a modified form amongst the Jews and in both races the consanguineous marriage was not attended by the evil results (idiocy, congenital deafness, etc.) observed in mixed races like the English and the Anglo-American."
[This is not part of the memory! Just clarification for what this is: This was a footnote from Richard Burton's translation of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night. His notes are often fascinating. And racist. Although far less racist than the mainstream thoughts of British people at the time. He was actually pretty progressive, what with translating The Kama Sutra and developing some kind of Columbia House Book Club to get around obscenity laws when publishing it!]
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