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  • Rome Abandoning Roman Numerals

    Rome Abandoning Roman Numerals0

    • July 23, 2015

    The barbarian conquest continues. The Telegraph reports that the city of Rome will be abandoning the use of Roman numerals on “street signs, official documents, bills and identity cards,” because they are “too complicated” for today’s people. I know, I know. Some will say that we shouldn’t fuss about this one action, that it doesn’t indicate

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  • Romanticism Is Killing Marriage. Is it Time to Rethink Some Things?

    Romanticism Is Killing Marriage. Is it Time to Rethink Some Things?0

    Today, arranged marriages are almost unheard of in the U.S. and Europe, though it remains a fairly common practice in many Eastern countries, including India, China, and Japan. To the modern mind, the very notion of an arranged marriage is somewhat antithetical to both our ideological values (individual choice) and romantic concepts (“true love”). For

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  • Roman Catholic Cardinal: Muslims and Christians Don’t Worship the Same God

    Roman Catholic Cardinal: Muslims and Christians Don’t Worship the Same God0

    In a piece earlier this year, I presented philosopher Edward Feser’s argument that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, in spite of their different understandings about that God. Feser is a Catholic, and as I pointed out, his view aligns with recent Catholic documents on the topic. By no means, however, is this position

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  • Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters

    Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters0

    There’s a scene in The Big Lebowski in which The Dude bitterly objects that the pornographer Jackie Treehorn, viewed by the local sheriff as an upstanding citizen who “draws a lot of water” in Malibu, “treats objects like women, man.” Lazy, inarticulate stoner though The Dude may be, even he understands that porn is a shady business and that

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  • Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs

    Robots Ready to Scoop Ice Cream Jobs0

    California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an increasing pace, are serving customers, as fast-food joints and grocery stores adapt to

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  • Robot Friends Aren’t the Path Out of Loneliness

    Robot Friends Aren’t the Path Out of Loneliness26

    Mark Zuckerberg thinks you don’t have enough friends. Yes, the king of that behemoth we all know and – ahem – love as Facebook has identified a serious problem in the lives of Americans and, never fear, is here to help. His solution? AI friends. The average American has around three friends but would prefer

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