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Body in the twin cities, mind in the 16th-early 20th century. Thomas Paine was robbed…and so were we.
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My kingdom for the active disincentivizing of all this bullshit.
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The lesson, of course, is repeated time and time again in any number of texts from then to now.
Glad to see science confirm that it is no mere tale.
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This may be the oldest lesson we ignore.
“If you have become great after having been little,
if you have become rich after having been poor, harden not your heart because of your elevation…
Put not behind you the neighbor who is like you; be unto him as a companion.”
-Ptahhotep, c. 2400 B.C.
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I remember when history guy, science guy, vibes guy and philosophy guy were all one person (Bertrand Russell…many other 1940-60s intellectuals)
Science guy had to leave to do science for pay. History and philosophy guy left for academia.
Now its the vibes and quant guys duking it out in public.
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“I dont take the time to inhabit the mind of the author and see their points from their perspective, robbing myself of an opportunity to reaffirm there are other minds and that they work differently. I walk away only with that which reaffirms my own thinking, making it harder to think critically.”
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I refuse to believe that in order to have progressive pugilists, we need to accept sexual pests/offenders/predators.
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Exactly.
There are many theories from the vantage point of the facts we currently have…some are closer, some are farther away.
When you know someone likes a certain scenery and they pick a distant theory over closer theories because it has the scenery they like
They’re not measuring “likelihood”.
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Maybe i’ve read too much BF Skinner and 1940-1980 philosophy, but I wonder how much of what people
say they “like” to do is only because they don’t know what else they would do. You also see it in bad relationships
Is it fear of idleness/irrelevance? Or is it love? I think there is a difference.
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He’s the sweetest guy and, hey, glad he has a hobby. It’s good for him and keeps him going - im not judging.
Personally, however, id, uh, find another hobby. There are many.
I’d rather eat spaghetti out of a colostomy bag than have home improvement and lawn care as my hobby….at any age.
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I know an 80 yo man who rents out very nice homes. He does all the work to update them and then, when they are rented, he does the snow and lawn care.
He wont sell them, despite being able to make a mint. He “home improvement and lawn care is my hobby. If I sell them, I lose my hobby.”
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Checks (used to read hundreds a year, but no one reads her anymore…even though she is still writing)
Luke
Mark
John
Matthew
Mormon
Stamps (bought dozens of his books back when they were much cheaper)
Marcus Aurelius
Hardcastle
McCormick
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Release chemicals that cause the testicles of idiots to retract…..and detonate.
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If it’s a money thing, they need to tell us what is needed to keep all this garbage out of wikipedia. I pay $15 monthly, but would pay $100 or more to keep the slop out.
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In the boiled frog experiment, the data science (tm) guys believe there is nothing beyond the reading on the thermometer.
Useless.
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“used 1830s construction with no real link to even 20th century slang.”
Well, hell. This is basically how I describe myself - no wonder I also feel out of place. 😂
Thank you for helping to hold the line on the meaning of words - things don’t need to feel any weirder than they are!
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It’s like they all put on the ring of power and are halfway to the gollum stage….and all they can do is peer out of their cave and say odd fucking shit to one another.
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Goes to show how important it is to read and reinforce context. Especially when you have a word/phrase that, while a not a contronym or oxymoron, “sounds” like it implies something different or opposite of what it is.
I’d assume, for example, “teetotaler” meant “loves booze”!
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If only my TI-82 had been more obsequious, I could have taken state.
No…doubt…in…my…mind.
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You hope for: Star Trek
You receive: Army of people gripping their screens yelling “WORSHIP ME!!!!”
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She had to. She was building up the groundwork for when you asked her to explain people.
“Oh that’s B.F. Skinner.”
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Did these people watch Star Trek? If so, did they think “oh my god, that looks positively terrible!”
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We are all sweets Ahabs, but if we keep the mindset of second mate Stubb, we can eventually catch one of those whales.
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
*opens oven*
LOL!
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Since that is (sadly) not an option, I try to just pick one thing and try it again and again without any pressure on the outcome.
Sweets seem to lean a lot more on the unspoken techniques between the basic steps and, without a teacher, best you can do is keep trying.
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Even chocolate mousse, with its simple ingredients, will humble you when you try to equal what is served in the most unassuming cafe in Europe.
I cant tell you how many times ive fantasized about showing up at a bakery in Lisbon and saying “I will work for free - just teach me.”
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….at which point, I can only sigh and throw my whale bone leg on the table.
There is a reason bakeries exist. :D
Also, we often eat these things FROM a bakery, so even when we get it “mostly right” its never quite the same.
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Take heart! I ran a cooking club for a bit and “desserts that aren’t cake and, sometimes, even cake” were everyone’s white whale.
I was born and raised in Portugal and everyone would tell me about how much they loooooved XYZ Portuguese pastry and then would look at me expectantly….
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“Why can’t we capture the imagination of people and be dynamic like the people who founded this country??”
“They were almost all under 40 and most were under 30.”
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Thank you. Posting this was god’s work.
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A riff on Tom Paine’s “we have it in our power to begin the world again” would work.
“Hey, imagine if shit could be totally awesome.”
This is why, I think, “we’re not going back” was a flop. No momentum. No energy. No invitation to imagine.
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I think he omitted his awareness in cold blood and tried to bury it under that ellipsis. That is some guilty punctuation!
I’m sorry you had to deal with that. 😔
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“James and the Giant GREAT ASS!”
By Al Pacino Dahl
Already apparent we have a lot of writers who don’t read, but now we have writers who don’t write.
Readers need to start forming groups to retain their sanity - shit is gonna get weird(er).
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It can be draining to read these studies that don’t seem to have a clue what is causing the problem… When the problem seems clear.
So even though it can be a little frustrating to see that these issues were discussed so long ago, it’s ultimately a positive experience.
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You often post very clear-eyed, rational, common sense explanations for the (insert here) issue or nonsense going on and I think you’d find it refreshing and restorative to read someone writing about these things, in the same way…..in 1953.
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Cooper, if you’ve not read it already, you would really enjoy reading “the impact of science on society” by Bertrand Russell.
groupelavigne.free.fr/russell1953....
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I want Carl Sagan back.
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And we got all of that back in an non-exploitative way right?
It served our goals, right?
Egalitarian society and all that, right?
Neil? Hello, Neil?
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The preamble is the most important part of the constitution and the most ignored.
It begins by expressing the shared principles that give rise to the rest of the document. If those truths are no longer self evident, then nothing else fits.
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So thankful to Roberta Williams and Lori Ann Cole for giving me such good childhood games. :)
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The sweet spot for me came after the text parser interface + VGA
16 color palette (Early sierra)
And whatever Quest for Glory V was….
So many good interplay and sierra games that used that SVGA and 256 color palette and mouse interface. Ahhh memories.
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There’s an easy solution.
Just stick to what’s right and repeat it.…over and over and over again. Republicans did it with self interest…dems can do it with progressivism.
Time makes more converts than reason. And no one ever galvanized shit with strategic retreat and worship of poll data.
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The “slowing of failure” masquerading as winning. Blergh.
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Exactly.
Did MAGA ever temper their self interest to win votes?
Nope.
One party tells the people what to think and the other then asks those people what they think…
…the latter party by definition CANNOT be progressive, only regressive.
For once, let’s listen to principles and not polls.
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Sadly, im going to assume these are not Unitarian services.
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If there is one thing ive learned, its that you can be positively brilliant without ever having to illuminate what lies outside your own self interest.
That’s why people like Roberts will know every word of the federalist papers forget that “common sense” and
the preamble exist.
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Beige journalism?
White journalism?
“Churnalism?”
News Nepenthe?
Placating press?
Collaboration as coverage?
Personally, I use “shameful fucking dogshit”
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The night will feature a series of journeys through polling data guided by self-interest and blinkered perspective owing to comfort.
Or, as moderates call them: “principles”.
Side note: “Responsibility to win”?
Lazy smugness….i feel galvanized* already.
*er, corroded
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PS: that looks like a TUO cutlery knife. Cheap brand.
It is like $15-30 and marketed as if it is made by Hattori Hanzo or something. It is not.
I have one which needs constant sharpening. I use it to take heat off my one prized 8” Henckel’s Zwilling Pro.
Wouldn’t bother if I was rich!
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Thank you, thank you.
It is great to see that the art of punning still has so many pupils. (Heh)
The Twin Cities needs a pun-themed bar.