The Last Post Game!!!!

[Swatopluk]

In 1984 the masses still can read (the machine*-written prawn novels that party members are allowed no access to)

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*mechanical computer, not typewriter

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

But it is expected that they don't learn to read much or a simplified language.

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[Swatopluk]

Actually it's the outer party that has to learn the newspeak to make its members unable to become the seed of revolution. At least at the stage described in the novel there are no plans to extend that to the proles.

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

You have to control that minority that has the ability to understand what you're doing.

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[Swatopluk]

And the Dems seem to have won 3 senate seats. That includes Warren winning over Brown and both Neanderthals* (Akin and Mourdoch) losing.

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*my apology to the true Ice Age hominids

[Griffin NoName]

*my apology to the true Ice Age hominids

especially as we interbred with them and appear to be about 3% their dna

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[Swatopluk]

Now's the question: which 3%?

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[Griffin NoName]

Not the ice-age bits - I can't stand the cold.

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[Swatopluk]

Neither the one for the strong backbone

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[Griffin NoName]

Nor the flat head.

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[Swatopluk]

Not sure. Experiments have shown that a well-dressed Neanderthal (modern human with lots of prostethic makeup) can walk among us without getting noticed as unusual.

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Apparently the Denisovans' gene legacy is present among New Guinea and Australia aboriginal people, and while not the same thing as Neanderthals, recreations may hint a resemblance.

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*supposedly our ancestors had a chewing muscle attached there (like modern gorillas and orangutans). Apparently it happens 1/100 people or so IIRC.

[pieces o nine]

Now's the question: which 3%?

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One is tempted to draw a line -- however tenuous -- to our vaunted "1%" . . .

[Swatopluk]

Apparently the Denisovans' gene legacy is present among New Guinea and Australia aboriginal people, and while not the same thing as Neanderthals, recreations may hint a resemblance.

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*supposedly our ancestors had a chewing muscle attached there (like modern gorillas and orangutans). Apparently it happens 1/100 people or so IIRC.

And it's better for keeping the monocle in place

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[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

In the back of my head?

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