Repost: Elizabeth Brown, "Florida Lawmakers Vote To Raise Stripping Age to 21"
I don’t have a strong opinion one way or another…
REPOST: Sawdah Bhaimiya, "Gen Zers are suffering from 'menu anxiety,'..."
“A third of Gen Zers also said they ask other people to order at restaurants because of this anxiety.”
Nitpicking Foods
This list is not about my preferences. If you’re curious about those: Yes, to pinapple on pizza. No, to cream cheese in sushi. Meat rare. Sub toppings pickled. And most important: wet your dries.
@Everyone and Choosing Violence
@everyone shatters the mindlessness of doom scrolling. It forces you to be mindful.
Repost: ThinkChina on baizuo (white left)
The Chinese have a word for the ‘white left’
Repost: Noam Chomsky, "The False Promise of ChatGPT"
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
It Costs $$$ To Be Kind
In most countries, restaurants exemplify the kindness tax. Kind people tip, so kind people spend more.
Choosing Your Unique Sensabilities over Common Sense (Gator River)
I can’t afford common sense. It gets in the way of logic and reasoning. Common sense told Billions that the Earth is flat, despite other planets being globes. It meant human flight was impossible.
Gold-Plated Passports to Pompous Pedagogy: The Luxury Express Lane to the Ivory Towers"
Why schools should let rich families buy their way in.