When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
If anyone in Hawke’s Bay, especially Hastings, would be ok to look after Dusty if I need to go to hospital or if I get sick, I’d be quite keen for you to get in touch.
It’s not a matter of if but when. While not regular, it could be a few times a year. It would also need to be at very short notice.
A sad thing: You read a book from the library and find itenlightening. Then you go to college and a few years later go back to the library and try to find it. You can discover no sign that it ever existed and by this time cannot remember the title to buy a copy.
There was some interest in this, so here's my favourite quote so far on weeding -- from Charles Osburn's historical review in The Library Quarterly (2006, p.41):
"Deselection is a matter of undoing, not just doing.
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Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...
I'm glad we have LinkedIn because it's like a special little sandbox where we can keep all the business people and their business posts.
Keeps them running wild through the internet like warthogs.
I think this is the key life lesson we can all learn from our kids. Imagine if we lived all our relationships like this? Letting people have their boundaries & their processes, letting go of expectations for linearity or specific outcomes, focusing on taking all the time to build trust & connection
Woke up to a Spectrum internet outage so I’m currently nestled near a bog, arranging lily pads in the shapes of letters to form this post. Nearby heron told me it’s gonna be a beautiful day.
