I used to work with some developers in Ukraine. We were on a zoom call talking about a website that sold shoes while the city a few miles away was getting bombed. I asked them if they didn’t want to go home. They said “no, if we went home every time we’re being bombed, we’d never get anything done.”
two things: 1) your posts are fire and i gotta take a class in how to post from you 2) yeah, i feel like we all need to be out in the streets. this is nuts. i'm literally teaching gov't and i should be able to lead "btw the world's richest man has access to 6 trillion dollars"
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
I have a paper that I need to write, and I’m struggling to find the motivation. How am I supposed to care about my education or my career potential when everything is going to shit?
I try to remember my anthropology professor's words during the first trump election- after pompeii, survivors did their laundry and fed their babies and made dinner. history has been one catastrophic event after another, and the dishes always need washing.
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The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
The alternative is he’s not changing his underwear, and that’s a bridge too far.