@ThePeterShep They are all dumb but I’m not sure that there is a non-dumb human-readable serialization format for document identification. They all make compromises and take shortcuts somewhere.
@ThePeterShep Do you see APA style as more arbitrary than MLA, ASA, Chicago style, or any other standard?
I’m only asking because they all seem kind of arbitrary. At some point within any given field someone’s OCD quirk got traction and people were like, “Ok, this is now what we do.”
Anyway, I thinking about this because I’m at this conference and people keep asking me what’s going to happen with abortion and when I tell them, they’re like “the people will rise.” And I have to be “no, they won’t.”
A quick reminder that this was almost 9 months ago but nothing has changed. LAPD is still a gang of vicious white supremacist terrorists. Nothing has changed.
Northwestern Medicine reports that 85% of non-hospitalized Covid-19 long-haulers suffer persistent neurological issues, including brain fog, headache and numbness or tingling. https://t.co/x7EFuhjCCf
“The Culture” in the Iain Banks novels is an explicitly atheistic, anti-capitalist, post-scarcity society.
The novel “The Player of Games” explores the ways in which people are vulnerable to manipulation, even in such a society, because of ego.
Just thought I’d point that out.