Bearing witness. Fascinated by evolution and time. Everything but moderation. Beauty is virtue. All I want to do is live in a village in Greece.
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Thought I’d dip my toe back in the water.
Baby steps.
6 Nov 2020
As a child, I was a piano prodigy. I entered my first piano completion at age 6. Bela Bartok. By 18, I was burnt out. I have barely touched the piano since.
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These are the environmentalists who want clean energy and then they punish the person who has done the most to promote this cause.
Jun 12
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Jun 13
Dems are going to lose again.
Jun 12
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Jun 13
Elon deserves every last cent.
Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.
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Little Italy in Cleveland.
Jun 12
Friday night negronis in Little Italy.
Bought the dress to match the shoes. As one does.
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The price of glamour.
Jun 12
Friday night negronis in Little Italy.
Bought the dress to match the shoes. As one does.
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Friday night negronis in Little Italy.
Bought the dress to match the shoes. As one does.
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Jun 12
True accountability for doing something horrible can only be provided by time. Another version of karma’s a bitch.
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I have been asked to participate in the feeding of the homeless, which is a common charity activity in the US. It usually goes like this:
You stand on one side of the table and the people you are trying to help stand on the other side of the table. Your job is to reach out with your serving spoon to put food on the plate. Eye contact is seldom made. Words seldom exchanged. And God forbid you accidentally make physical contact.
So now when I am asked to “feed the homeless,” I will make a plate for myself and go sit at the table with the other people who are eating. If I can’t do this, I don’t participate.
Jun 12
Charity is sympathy and empathy is empathy.
youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw?si=MKjO… via @YouTube
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Jun 12
Cleveland is bringing glamour back. Fashion show last weekend under the massive outdoor chandelier in the theatre district. Behold.
Jun 12
There was an interview with Sam Bankman Fried a few years ago where he bragged he only wore 3 t-shirts. That he didn't care about clothes. But he owned beautiful mansions all over the world and lavish apartments in New York and Paris.
So he walks around badly dressed on purpose making the public commons ugly for all of us, while owning beautiful homes he can enjoy in private.
It's this attitude that creates the modern ugly world. Make the public areas ugly. While enjoying beauty in private.
That's a new thing. Thankfully, we have beautiful cities from a long time ago that never adhered to that philosophy. We have wonderful paintings of people dressed spectacularly. Who cared about the aesthetic commons.
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Charity is sympathy and empathy is empathy.
youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw?si=MKjO… via @YouTube
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The good news is that at this point Jonathan Haidt is not good or bad. He is irrelevant.
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Something I am seeing with my children and their friends who are in their early 20’s is that they have had had enough experience with technology that they have become adept at navigating it and managing it. They have learned how to use social media to their advantage, and they have learned how to avoid the pitfalls. They are WAY better at managing it than those of us who inherited this technology later in life.
Jonathan Haidt thinks that he is protecting children by putting the genie back in the bottle. Well you can’t actually put the genie back in the bottle as we see below.
In the meantime, what he advocates can only make kids more vulnerable. More vulnerable by attributing mental health problems in children to technology rather than to parenting. More vulnerable to addiction by making technology forbidden. And more vulnerable because kids are robbed of the time and experience to grow those muscles that will prepare them for the new age.
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Jun 11
Nobody actually wants your charity.
Jun 11
Charity as the highest good is a myth.
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Charity as the highest good is a myth.
Jun 11
The logic of charity is giving without expecting anything in return
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This is interesting. They want the Greek ancestry represented in Nolan’s Odyssey but if you disagree with that view, your Greek genes aren’t Greek enough.
Racists.
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Jun 10
Most of the surgeons I know work out and are in great shape.
Jun 10
Surgery is a physically and mentally taxing .... depending on the speciality .... Your band and knees get destroyed
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Jun 10
Have a baby. Everyone should have one thing in life that they would die for.
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I never took the word of any one person or data source for what should be considered fact and I’m not about to start doing that with AI.
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So I really don’t care whether or not the Odyssey movie has Greek actors in it. I DO care though that the Greek restaurant I am eating at is run by Greeks.
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