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Re:The Simpsons by the Data by snowwrestler on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:13AM (#12603571)
The whole point of studies like this is to show that this not a new issue, it's been happening all along. The only reason it feels like "fomenting" to you is that you didn't notice it, and now that you do, you realize you liked it that way.

> Isolation on all sides is really all that's derived from exercises like this.

Helping fellow humans participate more fully in society is the opposite of isolation.

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Re:The Simpsons by the Data by linksnapzz on Friday September 30, 2016 @10:45AM (#12612737)
"Two! Four! Six! Eight! Homer's crime was very great!"

"Great, meaning large or immense!"

"We use it in the pejorative sense!"

Not only has it been happening for years, Simpsons writers have already mined the comic self-seriousness of self-appointed "helpers" who think it's a problem...

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