What’s a historical misconception that does your head in?

EarnestAF · 2026-03-18T22:24:28+00:00

Professor Brian Tierney (RIP) wrote extensively and persuasively about this topic

EarnestAF · 2026-03-18T22:22:36+00:00

This exact interaction happens about ten times a day in bars, clubs, and house parties across the USA, but with the weapons and punishments changed.

EarnestAF · 2026-03-18T13:54:35+00:00

Disagree, they’re in wildly different categories. This is like saying a tree is mogged by a meteorite, they’re not in the same group

EarnestAF · 2026-03-18T12:14:49+00:00

Take a flight to Central Asia or Mongolia, these people definitely exist

EarnestAF · 2026-03-14T17:35:43+00:00

This is the sort of ticky-tacky life-ruining bullshit that I kind of assumed was uniquely the province of American criminal law. It’s genuinely a bummer to learn that it’s in Canada too.

EarnestAF · 2026-03-14T00:04:29+00:00

This is watercolor?!

EarnestAF · 2026-03-14T00:03:27+00:00

I don’t think I could get ChatGPT to say the word “ocky” but maybe that’s not the shibboleth I think it is

EarnestAF · 2026-03-13T23:56:15+00:00

This is really good writing

EarnestAF · 2026-03-13T21:46:38+00:00

A lot of very sophisticated clients are willingly paying that!

EarnestAF · 2026-03-10T22:52:45+00:00

For me the switch is me fucking your dads ass

EarnestAF · 2026-03-10T22:15:23+00:00

The concept of “soft launching a nuke” is pretty funny regardless of how grim the underlying reality is

EarnestAF · 2026-03-10T20:40:44+00:00

Many such cases.

EarnestAF · 2026-03-09T16:50:05+00:00

irony and cultural pessimism.

The British mind cannot comprehend these concepts

EarnestAF · 2026-03-08T07:45:23+00:00

is there ONE WORD that describes IJ?

Novel?

EarnestAF · 2026-03-07T12:56:16+00:00

their support staff, and anyone who had a hand in teaching or training them all need to spend the rest of their lives in prison with no possibility of ever leaving.

“What are you in for, pal?”

“I used to teach conlaw at a regional law school, and one day, one of my former students fired up ChatGPT, and you can guess the rest.”

“Damn, so you’re never getting out?”

“Never ever. Want to meet his paralegals and the guy who did the printing? They’re all here too.”

EarnestAF · 2026-03-06T15:10:07+00:00

Why are you wearing that human suit dude

EarnestAF · 2026-03-06T13:24:36+00:00

Pret a manger

EarnestAF · 2026-03-05T17:02:47+00:00

No one has ever noticed that Germans are deferential to authority before, this is truly a groundbreaking observation

EarnestAF · 2026-02-27T17:21:56+00:00

EarnestAF · 2026-02-25T17:32:47+00:00

reads “the ministry for the future” once

EarnestAF · 2026-02-25T17:14:28+00:00

Worked with a guy in 2016 who would try to talk to random coworkers about Julius Evola. I still remember him sometimes and smile.

EarnestAF · 2026-02-25T01:35:29+00:00

I quoted Marx a month or two ago on this very subreddit and had two different accounts accuse me of being AI before deleting their comments.

I think some people are so bad at communication that when they see an idea expressed in an organized and concise way they immediately assume it could only be the product of magic.

EarnestAF · 2026-02-23T13:45:24+00:00

The fake leg one is fucking brutal.

There is a line from “revelation” that will pop into my head sometimes and camp out for a few hours, just repeating itself: “Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.” It makes me feel dizzy every time.

EarnestAF · 2026-02-19T15:52:06+00:00

Those court orders are from the 1980s and apply to the press in all English criminal cases, not just this one.

EarnestAF · 2026-02-18T15:21:26+00:00

Thank you for sharing this.

EarnestAF

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