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"It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette [a puppet]" (cioran).
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devault had a similar post like this a little over a year ago[1]. if only we were all floss practitioners - seemingly, maybe naively, the most ethical ground in software been meaning to set up a stagit instance but it's really not my d
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reminds i have to give goethe's theory of colors [1] a serious look one of these days 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
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> while fantastic if that's what you're into - would not typically be useful as a mental health treatment hopefully you were thinking of cognitive behavioral therapy because you would be correct: > Whenever one hears the cla
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teaching ego-ridden[1] younger brother a lesson, i presume? 1: my perception/judgment of hemingway is poor (i haven't read him yet; i do have the old man and the sea lying around here somewhere) - so poor it's strictly base
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more so the idea that you work and then pay them tribute in order to live and survive in a space they "own"
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> I really like interfaces like this honestly. minimal cognitive load[1] from the outset: no (algorithmic) slop dumped onto your cortex - one of the reasons i've never been able to do, say, (music) streaming services 1: emphasis on
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don't overlook the first line by smith which i originally intended to highlight: "Landlords' right has its origin in robbery." in effect, from smith's early draft of "the wealth of nations" (~1763): "
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in some sense, landlords are feudal lords
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referring to the opening lines to marx's "rent of land": https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts...
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> To develop taste, study the world. well said for one should be able to discern , i.e., one gains a semblance after thousands upon thousands of impressions > Sorry, enough poetry don't apologize! poetry is quite analogous to de
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> Going from being nearly homeless as a child to being a well-compensated, and now wealthy, engineer really was motivating to give something back. Buying a few properties, renting them to lower income people [insert that adam smith quote
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> He said that he would often start by writing down a stream of consciousness an instance of a stream of consciousness in the sound and the fury : > and then the world would roar away and he and now this other you are not lying now e
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>> took a shot at one another which doesn't necessarily mean a "feud," a rather strong word i find. if faulkner and hemingway had such a "feud" why would faulker say the following in his art of fiction intervi
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must be a dream. a smaller, lesser-known landscape painter i like was a french artist by the name of alexandre louis jacob, you might find his work interesting: https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2016/04
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you've probably tried the doppler music player[1], right? i free-trialed doppler a month or so ago and i quite liked it 1. https://brushedtype.co/doppler/
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reminds me of roland barthes' conception of readerly (straightforward; reaffirms our ideology/offers no transgressions) versus writerly (complex; requires some leap/myth busting) texts
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> don't try to understand everything despite the fact that by reading a text you are actually rewriting it (i.e., borges: "All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare"), maybe reading should be like
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> understanding the issue intellectually does not necessarily mean making peace with it well said > What do you do when recovering from surgery? You watch TV to distract yourself from the pain, you don't touch it. funnily enough,
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isn't that how we make peace with it though? i'm thinking of suddenly becoming aware of a bruise and pressing on it rather hard to be sure
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have you read emil cioran? i find hope in his dire hopelessness, oddly enough, but also a friend, a companion, someone who is there with you, sharing analogous feelings
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https://fenneszreleases.bandcamp.com/track/haru-2
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Martin Hägglund – Knausgaard’s Secular Confession(boundary2.org)
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It makes me think of that astonishing line by Susan Sontag: "The [_____] race is the cancer of human history; it is the [_____] race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spr
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I recently discovered the Anthology Of Indian Classical Music (UNESCO, 1955)[1], you might enjoy it. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3r8LpSp6bM
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> The only reason myself and millions of other people have to deal with this stupid file is adding it to .gitignore as part of the ritual of spinning up a new codebase I stole this from somewhere: Create a .gitignore_global file and incl
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> 2000s was the golden era of gaming I recently discovered L.O.L: Lack of Love (Dreamcast, 2000)[1][2] due to stumbling upon the soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto[3], and I've been meaning to try to find a way to play it. 1: https:&
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It reminds me of how I stumbled upon the concept of soundscape ecology just a few months ago, e.g., listen to Bernie Krause's The Great Animal Orchestra [1]. Furthermore, tangentially related, from The Work of Wind: Land [2]: "C
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Do you happen to know if there are any places in California to go fly fishing, if any? My curiosity deriving from David James Duncan's The River Why and Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It .
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"Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even some who insist on it) are like usurers," says Kafka in his 1914-1923 diaries.

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