• Optional
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    1014 days ago

    Fortunately, forty years of mostly questionable social science has proven, albeit very inconclusively, that visual media has no effect whatsoever on the viewer. Which is why this sort of thing is, as they say, No Big Deal.

    This academic review is brought to you by the upstanding fellows at Shell Oil, The Deutch-Russo Benevolent Fund, and Cambridge Analytica. As you were.

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      414 days ago

      “…Things like that, you know, the usual big guy lies” said Ford Prefect “You know, I’m not even so sure they were wrong” said Zaphod Beeblebrox in a relaxed tone. “I mean suuure, maybe on some idiotic races here and there like humans or…” “What? What about humans?” Piped Arthur Dent.