No but you might get the Nobel Prize for Economics

Richard Scarry? I thought this looked a lot more like Ben Garrison.

xcancel, not cancelx

If you’re within walking distance of a train line, it sometimes works out alright. But only if there aren’t complications along the way.

Vegetables you can’t easily identify plus names you can’t pronounce plus not emphasizing a clear aesthetic form = fear.

Chiccanoogo, also Seakima, and whatever you call Portland being in Winona.

The answers from the Swedes do not look very linearly independent from those from the French.

Also there are spikes based on proximity, see the Danes on the Germans and Swedish, the French on the British and Germans, the Spaniards on the Moroccans.

ram the gate, then get the ram

we need to start actively, rampantly polluting the training data as soon as possible

hurry, worker, take your cpu and your modem, and run a script to post fallacies on reddit and quora and stackexchange

Wow if only there were a technology for heating that could turn any biomass or carbons into radiant heat with modest emissions and zero pollution, that was buildable and supplyable in rural areas.

We don’t really need to wonder, we saw what the reaction was to kidnapping Maduro.

“You should have gone through Congress first”

Figure 1: conspiring against oppressed people in Europe

Figure 2: conspiring against oppressed people in Africa

Figure 3: conspiring against oppressed people in Asia

Figure 4: conspiring against oppressed people in the Americas

“We must protect the outcomes of the George W Bush administration”

We have “on the chopping-block” as a very well-established expression. I think “economic chopping-block” is a good equivalent.

I feel like the “cherry tomato salad” meta is finely diced cherries, sliced almonds, and chopped kale, with maybe a creamy poppy seed dressing or something.

The project of Western civilization seems to be largely oriented around diminishing how many steps people take. Not merely as an energy-efficiency thing, but as something that indulges the human capacity for laziness.

It’s backwards to think about “getting your steps in” when the whole society is structured around stopping you from walking places, by either bringing every resource right under your nose, or positioning it so far away that it would take several hours to walk there.

It started with domestication of equines, progressed with the emergence of an underclass who could serve as porters or rickshaw operators, and went into overdrive with modern technology that hooked us on every last indolence through the power of ecological overshoot and resource depletion, concealing our connections to this through the opacity of the market.

We tell ourselves histories about people having to go seek things out on foot, like it’s an unthinkable horror story.

Walking is one of the most fundamental things to being human. You can think and talk and perceive and process the world while you walk. You form a real, internalized, unalienated connection with your world and the people in it when you walk. When we are unable or disincentivized to walk places, we end up with all kinds of health problems, which ironically then get trotted out as reasons why we shouldn’t walk places, and the spiral deepens.

Smash the asphalt, send up the gas stations in a cloud of smoke, retvrn to communal living in the longhouse, and for the love of all that is holy, allow a pedestrian radius of more than 20 steps for major daily functions. A society that is sprawled out in the interest of bringing convenience to everyone right in their portioned-off space is not a society worth living under. A wise society has everyone (besides the critically infirm) walking at least 2 kilometers a day.

America esse delendam
Europa esse delendam
Occidentum esse delendam

the people who own the Fallout IP deeply resent anyone who thinks that humans may be able to come together and achieve things after a disaster

Cf. The Walking Dead and TLOU for starters, each to some extent.

We see famous media pessimistically portraying human prospects in disaster scenarios as far back as the mid 20-th century, where just 11 years after Lord of the Flies was published, a small group of boys ran away from a boarding school and lived on a deserted island without murdering or splitting from each other.

Expat is part of an extensive lexicon of chauvinist words which are selectively appended to people solely based on their place in the world order.

You switched countries either under your own volition, or under someone else’s. If you were in control of it, you’re an immigrant. If you weren’t, you’re a human trafficking victim.

No one has an agency of “Expatriation” that they go through, you go through the Immigration agency in the destination country.

Poached pears were one of my favorite homemade side dishes growing up. There were never leftovers.

Kinda hope there’s some “No Shahs” momentum building in Iran. It would make such a great pairing across continents and imperial divisions.