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The Long Read

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:20 am

We all like a quick snack dont we, but for a balanced diet we also need something more substantial. Post those longer articles, polemics, and analyses here.

To get the ball rolling some interesting testimony from professionals who have to make the right decision quickly and under pressure.

Don’t panic! Meet the experts with a steady hand when catastrophe strikes.

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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:25 am

tl;dr
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:45 am

beaten to the post...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:26 pm

Oh you guys :roll:
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Post by laklak » Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:31 pm

Could you provide an executive summary, old bean? Ta.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by Rum » Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:37 pm

laklak wrote:
Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:31 pm
Could you provide an executive summary, old bean? Ta.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:13 pm

“Jordan Peterson insists his fad diet helps you lose weight and feel better. I tried it for a week, and let me tell you: it was truly, punishingly awful.”

My carnivore diet: what I learned from eating only beef, salt and water.

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Post by Jason » Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:09 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:13 pm
“Jordan Peterson insists his fad diet helps you lose weight and feel better. I tried it for a week, and let me tell you: it was truly, punishingly awful.”

My carnivore diet: what I learned from eating only beef, salt and water.
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Re: The Long Read

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:22 pm

“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack
How Inception changed the way we listen to movies




The internet and the sound’s creator refer to it as BRAAAM. (If you think you’ve successfully avoided it, here’s a sample). It may sound synthetic, but it’s usually produced with brass instruments and a prepared piano. Although it has its roots in a scoring style composer Hans Zimmer employed for much of the early ’00s, the BRAAAM heard in seemingly every trailer was first recorded for Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film Inception, and has been adapted, copied, and even outright sampled ever since. Is BRAAAM something that happened to us, or is it something we, as moviegoers, desired?...

https://longreads.com/2016/12/08/braaam ... undtracks/
There's also this: https://inception.davepedu.com/
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Re: The Long Read

Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:10 am

The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism
For almost half a century, something vital has been missing from leftwing politics in western countries. Since the 70s, the left has changed how many people think about prejudice, personal identity and freedom. It has exposed capitalism’s cruelties. It has sometimes won elections, and sometimes governed effectively afterwards. But it has not been able to change fundamentally how wealth and work function in society – or even provide a compelling vision of how that might be done. The left, in short, has not had an economic policy.

Instead, the right has had one. Privatisation, deregulation, lower taxes for business and the rich, more power for employers and shareholders, less power for workers – these interlocking policies have intensified capitalism, and made it ever more ubiquitous. There have been immense efforts to make capitalism appear inevitable; to depict any alternative as impossible...
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Post by Animavore » Sat Aug 10, 2019 12:34 pm

There's literally a site dedicated to this.

https://longform.org
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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:13 am

The Case Against the Grammar Scolds

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s book, “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries,” is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English.
It’s an age, too, that found Lynne Truss, author of the usage polemic Eats, Shoots & Leaves, garnering plaudits and book sales by offering readers rallying cries like this one: “If you still persist in writing, ‘Good food at it’s best,’ you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”

The vitriol is ironic—and, yes, I do mean ironic, Alanis-wise and otherwise—and not merely because it puts the pendants in a precarious place, karmically. (The subtitle of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, one might point out, itself contains a usage error: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation might more properly be written as “The Zero-Tolerance Approach.”) The irony is broader: To engage in such peevery, playful or otherwise, is also to ignore the long, chaotic, and deeply creative history of the English language. It is to assume that someone’s adherence to the moment’s current rules of usage is a signifier of that person’s education and worth. It is to assume, on the flip side, that to violate those rules is also to commit a very particular kind of violence against English and, by extension, its many speakers.
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Re: The Long Read

Post by JimC » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:29 am

A case of It's-picking?
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Re: The Long Read

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:31 pm

Really good article. :tup:

(N.B. The stylesheet on that page is 20,000 lines long - the web guys must've been paid by the byte)
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