Zoe
@mbother
Zoe
blorpington
7h
Just like anything else, heavy users of Catholicism sometimes need to up their dosage to stay level. And since Vatican 2, the amount of Catholicism in a single service is simply not enough to meet the needs of those who are most profoundly effected.
7h
Just like anything else, heavy users of Catholicism sometimes need to up their dosage to stay level. And since Vatican 2, the amount of Catholicism in a single service is simply not enough to meet the needs of those who are most profoundly effected.
Why I joined a weird Zoom book club
This line originally referred to “Sméagol the dragon.” Sméagol was a hobbit who was corrupted by the One Ring and rebranded as Gollum. The dragon’s name is Smaug. I apologize for the error.
Four trade deficit myths hurting the economy
Failing to prioritize stupidity over malice causes things like paranoia. Always assuming malice puts you at the center of everyone else’s world. This is an incredibly self-centered approach to life. In reality, for every act of malice, there is almost certainly far more ignorance, stupidity, and laziness.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Tom H
7h
The democratic party apparatus is largely run by lawyers with JDs. The politicians, many of the staffers, most of the non profit executives, and many of the thinkiest think tankers have JDs. It is central to law education in the US that policy legitimacy is derived from the process that creates the policy, there is no focus on outcomes. Its ... See more
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The democratic party apparatus is largely run by lawyers with JDs. The politicians, many of the staffers, most of the non profit executives, and many of the thinkiest think tankers have JDs. It is central to law education in the US that policy legitimacy is derived from the process that creates the policy, there is no focus on outcomes. Its ... See more
Big-Ass Truck Abundance
The United States is the capital of review mania. The need for feedback and affirmation is “a very American thing,” said Gerd Leonhard, a Zurich-based self-described futurist, book author and corporate consultant. “Europeans don’t do this; we’re not gung-ho to write reviews, and many people will refuse.”
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I’m not saying that you want bad things to happen to you. That would be ridiculous. Of course you want to avoid making terrible mistakes and hurting the people you love. What I’m saying is that you want to experience the suffering caused by those bad things if they do happen . If you truly make a mistake, you want to feel regret. If you truly hurt ... See more
You Actually Want to Suffer
One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the reason why we’re easily distracted, but the real reason behind our inability to focus has less to do with the sheer quantity of media and more to do with our laziness when it comes to distinguishing wh... See more
Evan
Evan
11h
Liked by Ben Krauss
In a world where all political media panders to its audience, only one man was willing to stand up and tell his that they are old and uncool.
Evan
11h
Liked by Ben Krauss
In a world where all political media panders to its audience, only one man was willing to stand up and tell his that they are old and uncool.
Progressive millennials are old now
But I do think it’s bad that in both cases we struggle so much, as a society, to actually sustain discussion of working-class life and working-class problems without transmuting it into discussion of middle-class problems.