imagine being a billionaire. like, you put in work, nearly fail, but push onward anyways. you develop something novel. you make it scale. you push the envelop to do something that's never been done before. but then, part of the thing you win in the end game is a bunch of communists saying you should die or that you should be forced to hand over what you've earned smh. what an infantile ideology
Virtue doesn't have to be complicated. Nor does it have to be a grand gesture. For example, a virtue could be simple, like doing one thing at a time or cleaning up one mess before making another. If you want a measure for approximating integrity, consider that how you do one thing tends to become how you end up doing everything.
instead of writing about the stuff that makes you angry, why not write about the stuff that makes you full of the childlike wonder you get when you've like, discovered a new layer of reality after midnight
When God closes and locks a door, I reach for the lockpick set I purchased on Amazon dot com.
don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that
Mosquitoes exist. Yet so do things that are metaphorically mosquito-like. I'm not really a fan of this at all.
Today I learned that in 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote one of the earliest descriptions of germs, going on to say,
"...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose, and there cause serious diseases."
The germ theory of disease would not be widely accepted for another 1,900 years.
I fucking love snowclones. They are resilient. They happen everywhere. You can enjoy them. Snowclones are the best.
I fucking love dandelions. They are resilient. They grow everywhere. You can eat them. Dandelions are the best.
That's a nice solution you've got there. It would be a shame if it wasn't the root cause of the problem.