Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
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Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
Harry Potter and the futile attempt to wash your teeth the night before the dentist to not get lectured
Indeed, the famous drug lord Pablo Escobar started his criminal career smuggling cigarettes and other consumer goods before switching to cocaine. Thus the system of governance creates a comparative advantage for criminality, perhaps the main factor that made Co -lombia a global center of drug trafficking.
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Men who watch television now spend seven hours in front of the TV for every hour they spend hanging out with somebody outside their home. The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species. Since the early 2000s, the amount of time that Americans say... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
TV and Pets have replaced each other
Some of this screen time is social, after a fashion. But sharing videos or texting friends is a pale imitation of face-to-face interaction
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
I think this argument/line of reasoning is not really explored well. Why is it obvious that it pales?
“And the skill of the writer is best displayed when what she suggests is much more than what she says…
I’m interested in the ordinary or, rather, what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary…
But I still think that those who are more or less arbitrarily given the job of telling stories shouldn’t be concerned about the serenity of individual
These examples show that in different contexts Colombian politicians apply different standards and rules of behavior. Sometimes, when nationally advocating for sound economic policy or the Vic -tims’ Law, they appeal to universal principles. At other times, when involved in peripheral politics, they apply much more parochial standards. That people... See more
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From 1973 to 2023, the size of the average new single-family house increased by 50 percent, and the share of new single-family houses that have air-conditioning doubled, to 98 percent. Streaming services, video-game consoles, and flatscreen TVs make the living room more diverting than any 20th-century theater or arcade. Yet conveniences can indeed... See more