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I will be keeping a list of books read this year, along with a short review about them, and a rating.
The rating is a 1-5 scale:
5: This is one of my new favorite books
4: I would include this book on a list for anyone who asks for a book recommendation
3: I would recommend this book, but it would come with heavy caveats
2: I wouldn’t recommend reading, but I didn’t regret having spent time with it
1: I regretted reading this
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Things that don’t exist in California: exit polls for mail in ballots
Things that do exist in California: legalized ballot harvesting by political activist groups
Of course there is. People who vote by mail closer to or on Election Day are different from people who vote by mail early. They're significantly younger, and are therefore more likely to vote for progressive candidates.
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There’s a method opportunity, and obvious motive for fraud, the normal cross checks like statistical sampling in exit polls are non-existent, and the result was a 2:1 return from a candidate that was losing in every other batch of votes.
That smells. You’re being dishonest if you say it doesn’t.
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I really feel like somewhere around the 74th time you found yourself explaining this to people a lightbulb would go off and you’d be like, “yeah, no, I get it. This does sound ridiculous. We shouldn’t be conducting our elections this way.”
Of course there is. People who vote by mail closer to or on Election Day are different from people who vote by mail early. They're significantly younger, and are therefore more likely to vote for progressive candidates.
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The touch suddenly becomes much more sexual in their eyes when you start doing it to the au pair
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What does that have to do with driving a car into a building hitting police officers with a sledgehammer?
Ultimately, people like Mehdi Hasan will always run defense for groups that support and enable Islamic terrorism
In a saner world, all 4 of them would be executed
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The complaint of long hours by this teacher in this instance was staying up late to cut shapes out of paper.
As a person who got a STEM degree, worked in biotech, and then worked in elementary ed, I can say a lot of people have no idea what teachers actually do. This dismissive attitude regarding importance of early education is why we have the problems we do in this country. J/s
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Something like 80% of therapists have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. This is defended by saying they understand the issues they’re trying to treat. I think in most cases the absurdity isn’t that obvious, however here you have divorced women telling other women to make out with their husbands then roll over and go to bed it becomes clear that some experience is discrediting and failure does not always teach.
Jun 12
there's a sex therapist who has a ritual of making out with her husband every night before bed, and so many of the comments on her posts are some version of "but what if he gets turned on and I don't want to have sex" and i need men to understand and prioritize non sexual touch.
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I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
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Who made these cookies exactly?
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Again it’s remarkable how unremarkable it is that major left wing pundits justifying breaking officers spines with hammers because of their retarded politics. They’ll justify a black teen stabbing a white teen for being asked to leave because of their retarded politics. They’ll justify the mob burning down storefronts because of their retarded politics. They’ll justify your death too.
You were part of a government that murdered tens of thousands of people and then you went on TV to justify those murders.
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If you bother to look up why blacks were lynched you will find the reasons.
I understand the Motte and Bailey that's mentioned in this post, I think it's reasonable for people to reject vigilantism.
But the reality is rapists and murderers used to face vigilante justice.
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So a pregnant woman was abducted and raped while her husband went up the road to find a gas station to fix their broken down car. She was only able to give a description of her attacker so the police had nothing to go on, no suspects to arrest.
Mack and four of his buddies were driving home from a bar that night, they came across the car Mack got out and saw a woman asleep in the back. He got into his car and suggested they go back and rape her. This is according to his own friends all black. They said wtf are you talking about that’s crazy please take us home and Mack drove his friends home. We know this story because one of the friend’s father was a pastor. His father said they have to tell the police this story.
So the police on the instance of both his friend and a black pastor arrested Mack. He was placed in a line-up and the victim identified him as her attacker.
The rape of a pregnant woman at gun point was too much for the town to bear.
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I will be keeping a list of books read this year, along with a short review about them, and a rating.
The rating is a 1-5 scale:
5: This is one of my new favorite books
4: I would include this book on a list for anyone who asks for a book recommendation
3: I would recommend this book, but it would come with heavy caveats
2: I wouldn’t recommend reading, but I didn’t regret having spent time with it
1: I regretted reading this
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NPR if it was good:
May 31
The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald (1995)
A man travels the southeast of England, speaking to the eccentrics along the way. A series of strange stories by fascinating people. Tales lost to time, unimportant to anyone left alive. A beautiful collection of oddities.
There’s an overarching feeling of loss and ruin in these tales. Of a rural England past her prime, but still holding treasures. History through a fogged mirror, “On every new thing, there lies already the shadow of annihilation.” There’s no real narrative here, it feels like what NPR should be. A series of personal interest pieces about local bits of lore. It’s enjoyable and well done, but doesn’t really impart anything with you other than factoids and interesting connections.
This book would pair well with The Peregrine and A Month in the Country which all focus on the English countryside.
Rating: 3/5
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Justice without her scales becomes an instrument of murder:
The Aviator Eugene Vodolazkin (1999)
A Soviet criminal sent to the gulags is cryogenically frozen. He is thawed in the 1990s with amnesia. He only remembers flashes from his time before. He attempts to rebuild his life, from fragments, from memories, from forgiveness. It’s told from journal entries first by the man, then by his doctor and wife.
This is the second of Voldolazkin’s books I’ve read this year. I think Laurus was better but I hold it in such high esteem it doesn’t tell you much about the quality of The Aviator. I found this one compelling, interesting. A philosophical exploration of memory and sensation and experience, of death and continuity, of justice and of retribution. It has the Russian characteristics of being dour and pessimistic, but through it shines a hope of something better, a universe ultimately held in balance.
Rating: 4/5
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“There is an amazing moment when a picture begins to smell fragrant. Because genuine art is an expression of the inexpressible, without which life is not complete. Striving for fullness of expression is striving for fullness of truth.
There is something that remains outside the bounds of words and paints. You know that it is there but you just cannot approach it: there is a depth there.”
-Eugene Vodolazkin The Aviator
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The Aviator Eugene Vodolazkin (1999)
A Soviet criminal sent to the gulags is cryogenically frozen. He is thawed in the 1990s with amnesia. He only remembers flashes from his time before. He attempts to rebuild his life, from fragments, from memories, from forgiveness. It’s told from journal entries first by the man, then by his doctor and wife.
This is the second of Voldolazkin’s books I’ve read this year. I think Laurus was better but I hold it in such high esteem it doesn’t tell you much about the quality of The Aviator. I found this one compelling, interesting. A philosophical exploration of memory and sensation and experience, of death and continuity, of justice and of retribution. It has the Russian characteristics of being dour and pessimistic, but through it shines a hope of something better, a universe ultimately held in balance.
Rating: 4/5
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What insane administrative luck we have that it takes four years to be qualified in everything from biochem, to physics, to black studies, to education.
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I don’t think killing a man who raped a pregnant woman at gun point in front of her 4 year old daughter qualifies as “genocide.”
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That’s it
Who has the post about educations majors complaining about their work and it’s cutting paper shapes
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Ok but they introduced one of the greatest rule changes of all time. This dive was reviewable by VAR and he got a card for it.
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Once a month my phone sends me several push notifications. They’re for my predetermined buy orders. These alerts are a bit different from other ones I get, these alerts have the name of my daughter on them. It’s her account. I look at it. It has a decent chunk of cash. Not life changing right now, but more than I had to my name until I was almost 30. She’s still a toddler. God willing she will have a better life than mine (I haven’t had too terrible of a life).
Her fortune is of course not random. Neither is the construction of the house built before she was born.
An under-discussed aspect of society’s atomization is viewing one’s self as separate from the society that they were born from. They don’t view their lineage as an unbroken chain, something they’re apart of, they view themselves as units assigned to a place at random. As if their will is the only relevant factor, and because their will was not involved in what came before, what came before is separate, it’s random.
It’s also a great tool for the revolutionary. To emancipate himself from the past, from his society. It’s a necessary step towards the othering of a thing they wish to destroy. Society, home, culture, nation things that are ours become enemies.
“They’re the reason I am a failure in life. If society were truly just he wouldn’t be a success and I wouldn’t be a failure.”
It’s the heart of all revolutionary politics. It’s being mad your parents weren’t better. That they didn’t set you up for a better life. That your ancestors didn’t set up a better society. And in the blame, the alienation cuts off their own responsibility to build a better life for their children. Instead they want to watch it all burn, what do they care, it’s all just random.
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