@KyleEssary Nice work. Good for you.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/33234014","date_published":"2024-03-10T13:30:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-10 13:30","date_timestamp":1710077445,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"32783599","content_html":"@Denny @jabel I wouldn’t have the first clue as to how to prepare for something like that. On my recumbent trike, I could do a three-day excursion. But that would require some serious prep. Those Tour Divide folks are made of titanium and pure stubbornness.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/32783599","date_published":"2024-03-03T15:10:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-03 15:10","date_timestamp":1709478630,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"32783456","content_html":"@Denny @jabel 35-50 mile gravel rides ain’t no joke. Proud of you.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/32783456","date_published":"2024-03-03T15:06:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-03 15:06","date_timestamp":1709478413,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"32781249","content_html":"@jabel Thank you. More than a few who have completed Ragbrai multiple times will confess they are mentally ill. They express it in a quiet, reflective tone. “Yeah…” (long pause) “There’s something wrong with me.” That’s usually on Day 4 or 5 when the hallucinations kick in. 😂
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/32781249","date_published":"2024-03-03T14:14:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-03 14:14","date_timestamp":1709475261,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"32780868","content_html":"@jabel In 2019, I did Ragbrai on a normal road bike. All 470+ miles in 7 days. Vowed to NEVER do that again. Got COVID in 2020 and it annihilated my cardiovascular system. A recumbent trike solves the balance issues. Climbs are slower… but at least if I need to rest, I can lock the brakes and not fall over.
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\n\n\n\nThat would break my personal record in 2019 of 89.32 miles.
\n\n\n\n77.2 miles (indoor and outdoor) thus far this season.
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\nChristopher Mims, The Invisible $1.52 Trillion Problem: Clunky Old Software\n
I'm not tech savvy. Does this explain at least some of the intermittent outage weirdness in recent years?
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\nThe plural is croutons. I checked NINE print dictionaries.
\nNine is enough for me. You?
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/32555090","date_published":"2024-02-29T01:59:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-29 01:59","date_timestamp":1709171990,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"32551215","content_html":"@patrickrhone I’m assuming someone was unaware of this?
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\nFrank Hebert\n
@mitchw What model did you purchase?
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\nFriedrich Nietzsche\n
Indeed.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/32024634","date_published":"2024-02-19T16:45:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-19 16:45","date_timestamp":1708361153,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"31172766","content_html":"@adders If you sat down and asked them about their lives, you would discover quickly a lack of larger purpose. Therefore, they fill the void with that foolishness.
\n“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.” - Eric Hoffer
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\nJeremy Scahill, WITH NETANYAHU THREATENING RAFAH INVASION, BIDEN PREPARES TO SEND ISRAEL MORE BOMBS\n
But remember... \"Just shut the fuck up, go to the polling site and vote for Biden without any doubts or reservations.\"
\n\n\n\nRight.
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\nMartin Hackworth, What do the far left and the far right have in common? An embrace of totalitarianism.\n
@patrickrhone @jagibson Those vibes are so specific that I’m willing to wager they’re true.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/31119047","date_published":"2024-02-16T15:06:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-16 15:06","date_timestamp":1708096018,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"31116313","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nU.S. manufacturing is not in decline and never has been. We are still one of the greatest industrial powers in the world. The story of U.S. manufacturing and its alleged demise is actually a story about deceptive political narratives of decline and how they distort our view of the world.
\nRobert Tracinski, The Manufactured ‘Decline’ of Manufacturing\n
Hmmmmm.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/31052445","date_published":"2024-02-15T12:55:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-15 12:55","date_timestamp":1708001745,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"31002959","content_html":"@Denny 💯
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/31002959","date_published":"2024-02-14T16:28:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-14 16:28","date_timestamp":1707928119,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30993598","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is rare for a mass movement to be wholly of one character. Usually it displays some facets of other types of movement, and sometimes it is two or three movements in one.
\nEric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements\n
And often, the enemy of my enemy is...
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/335/","date_published":"2024-02-14T13:22:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-14 13:22","date_timestamp":1707916943,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30965485","content_html":"@Denny @mbkriegh @stupendousman One of my neighbors is very active in our community. He’s lived here his entire 50+ years. I asked him yesterday what he was hearing around town. His response: “I haven’t heard ANY pro-Trump rhetoric. But I’ve heard a lot of disgust about him. Nobody’s happy with the choices.” Still… we’re a long way from November. The memory of 1/6 seems to still be present.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/30965485","date_published":"2024-02-13T23:23:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-13 23:23","date_timestamp":1707866585,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30936345","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
\nNeal Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business\n
Prescient.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/30931174","date_published":"2024-02-13T12:59:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-13 12:59","date_timestamp":1707829180,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30837362","content_html":"@evan You can also criticize the US government and specifically President Biden for its funding for Israel which is being used to purchase weapons… which are being used for eradicationist policies… and still support President Biden’s re-election campaign.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/30795626","date_published":"2024-02-10T19:59:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-10 19:59","date_timestamp":1707595166,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30773310","content_html":"@joshuapsteele I’ve found this useful in the past. Apologies for the delay… I’d not tagged the link properly in the vault. The work of Dorothee Sölle on this subject area is insightful, specifically Beyond Mere Obedience: Reflections on a Christian Ethic for the Future. It was published in 1970. It was/is prescient.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/30773310","date_published":"2024-02-10T11:02:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-10 11:02","date_timestamp":1707562979,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30731809","content_html":"@dwalbert I grew up in small towns and probably share some of the same experiences.
\nI’m reminded of the late Michael Bean’s lyrics:
\nFor people like us
\nIn places like this
\nWe need all the hope
\nThat we can get
@joshuapsteele It is a tale of woe I share so that those who make the same journey avoid the pains of various and sundry pitfalls.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/paulcraig901/30726499","date_published":"2024-02-09T14:01:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-09 14:01","date_timestamp":1707487296,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30723320","content_html":"@joshuapsteele Also… when you are finished, prior to turning the water back on, spray leak detector on theoutflow before reconnecting the supply line. If it bubbles, grab another kit and rebuild it again. Bubbles = bad.
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\nAnil Dash, \"Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement\n
What I believe.
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\nC.J. Chilvers, Principles for Newsletters\n
Only $4.99 for 37 years of wisdom on the subject. If you're publishing a newsletter or thinking about it, the ROI on this purchase is a straight no-brainer.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/320/","date_published":"2024-02-08T11:19:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-08 11:19","date_timestamp":1707391140,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30604304","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut no one’s waiting any longer for factories or big-box stores—to say nothing of the mines or unions—to save them. “Too many have come in to try to save us, and they don’t,” [Les] Stapleton, the mayor of Prestonsburg, said. “We got to do it ourselves.”
\nSam Quinones, \"Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.\"\n
This is how things really get done in rural America. The MSM only cares about the tragedies, not the triumphs.
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\nMorgan Housel, \"A Few Thoughts on Spending Money\"\n
Amen.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/318/","date_published":"2024-02-07T12:17:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-07 12:17","date_timestamp":1707308220,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30554804","content_html":"\nUNANIMOUS RULING: Appeals court denies Trump immunity in DC election case
\n\n\n\nHe'll appeal to the Supreme Court. A unanimous ruling makes it dicey for the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court.
\n\n\n\nThey still might. But there would be consequences.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/317/","date_published":"2024-02-06T15:50:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-06 15:50","date_timestamp":1707234602,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30543455","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/316/","date_published":"2024-02-06T11:58:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-06 11:58","date_timestamp":1707220680,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30493202","content_html":"\"Twenty-seven thousand dead—two-thirds of them women and children,\" said the senator. \"This is unacceptable.\"\n\n\nBernie Sanders... Vermont Independent... the moral voice of the Senate... introducing an amendment to remove $10 billion in supplemental aid to Israel to purchase \"offensive weaponry.\" I still be... www.paulcraig.blog","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/315/","date_published":"2024-02-05T14:03:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-05 14:03","date_timestamp":1707141780,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30459362","content_html":"\nIntellectualism is a common cover-up for a fear of direct experience.
\nCarl Jung\n
Patty Hearst was kidnapped 50 years ago. Was she a victim or terrorist?
\n\n\n\nOr something else? (Not sure how much of that book I believe.)
\n\n\n\nI doubt we ever get to the truth. But, this guy probably knew.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/314/","date_published":"2024-02-04T20:14:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-04 20:14","date_timestamp":1707077640,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30443166","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the first era, technology was here to catalogue us.
\n\n\n\nIn the second, it was here to empower us.
\n\n\n\nIn the third, it was here to observe us.
\n\n\n\nIn the fourth, it is here to replace us.
\nBen Werd (@benwerd on Micro.blog), \"The four phases\"\n
He's right. Read the post.
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\nTimothy Noah, \"Biden to Big Pharma: Gouge Prices and We’ll Snatch Your Patents\"\n
Both parties have had 43 years. There's bipartsan support for... well... doing something about pharma pricing. I'm skeptical this will happen. But it would be nice.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/312/","date_published":"2024-02-03T22:39:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-03 22:39","date_timestamp":1706999983,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30389136","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/307/","date_published":"2024-02-03T11:11:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-03 11:11","date_timestamp":1706958660,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30369732","content_html":"\nThis is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you.
\n- Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead, as quoted in The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country.\n
\n\n\n\n\n\nThe House Foreign Affairs Committee is moving forward next week with legislation to permanently defund UNRWA, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the primary vehicle for humanitarian aid in Gaza. ... UNRWA works exclusively with Palestinian refugees and is among the largest employers in Gaza, operating schools and distributing aid.
\nRyan Grim, Republicans Move to One-Up Biden and Permanently Defund UNRWA\n
Ah yes... of course they are.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/311/","date_published":"2024-02-02T23:26:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-02 23:26","date_timestamp":1706916407,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30332780","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can cite all the statistics you want. Big moral questions are usually easily answered. The actions based on the answers are another matter entirely. Those are often complicated.
\nAnonymous local Christian pastor\n
Fair enough, Padre. And thanks for the advice on priming the basement bathroom walls.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.paulcraig.blog/random/306/","date_published":"2024-02-02T10:47:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Paul Craig","url":"http://paulcraig.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc97ce01c093afb600afc01363a5d49fe%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"paulcraig901"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-02 10:47","date_timestamp":1706870820,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"30278716","content_html":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf there is one subject the US education system bungles more than sex ed, it’s financial literacy.
\nAlaina Demopoulos, \"Are you ‘loud budgeting’ or ‘doom spending’? Finance according to gen Z\"\n
Our local high school offers Personal Finance and a host of other \"Family and Consumer Science\" classes. Also, Gen Z has embraced a methodology popularized by... Dave Ramsey? Strange days indeed.
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