These stories were literally right next to each other on the Seattle Times today. This is not even a $1.9m plan… it’s $1.9m to get it started, then $5m a year. How about if we don’t spend millions of dollars parking RVs full of homeless?
Month: June 2022
Watch “‘Slaughtered’: Eyewitnesses Recount Killing Of Three Ukrainian Teenagers” on YouTube
Watch “Milton Friedman – Understanding Inflation” on YouTube
The Case Against Affirmative Action | STANFORD magazine
The Sad Irony of Affirmative Action | National Affairs
It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/why-we-lose-friends-aging-happiness/621305/
After reading this I sent the following text to the friend who shared it with me:
I value our friendship very highly. Our conversation in Venice about children being the purpose of life and only viable form of immortality eventually led me to rebuild my entire life around that. Now I spend all of my time with my kids and wife and am trying to have more.… read more “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart – The Atlantic”
Why Biden Shouldn’t Run in 2024 – The Atlantic
As European Leaders Visit Kyiv, Putin Cuts Their Gas Supply
I might be wrong about patents
I am reading the book “The most powerful idea in the world”, and the author makes a good case that the sole reason the industrial revolution happened was because of patents.
Spanking, and a reflection on other violence
First and foremost, we always need to fully comply with the law.
I read a number of articles and information on spanking, as well as on the reproducibility crisis in social sciences and psychology.
A lot of studies supposedly show that spanking has negative outcomes. However, the studies that do so lump together people who beat their children with fists around the face with those who do measured spanks on the butt.… read more “Spanking, and a reflection on other violence”