Highest paid employee of each state. Blue = not a coach.
Vice President Endorses Chocolate Gun Control
I thought, “Oh my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum. You throw it away.’ And that’s how easy it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value. Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still has no value.Elizabeth Smart, the effect of abstinence-only education on the experience of being raped
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns. Only a thin band from Ohio to Nebraska are “General American,” with no obvious Northern, Southern, Eastern, or Western features. That and Florida.
I enjoy reading stories like this because it is like hearing someone else say, “Sorry about how dead your fish are,” which will only make sense if you read the whole thing.
I have angered people. I try not to do that. I do think there are people who hate men, but I think it is mostly caused by thousands of years of misogyny, sexism, inequality, and a powerful patriarchy turning inward on itself. If you want to know my thoughts on this issue, this article articulates them pretty well. I think that’s all I will say on the matter for now. If you are really so upset with my opinion that you feel compelled to unfollow, I hope you have a nice life and a lovely day.
I posted an excerpt from this article a few weeks back and now I am glad to have read the whole thing. Thanks, Frogman.
When we put the old and the sick out of sight, we enable a baseless fantasy of eternal health and youth. What is it doing to us?Kreider strikes again!
This is to be read multiple times.
If your goal is to end up passionate about what you do, “Follow your passion” is terrible advice. So the first fundamental misunderstanding is this idea that we all have a pre-existing passion that’s relevant to a career, and if we could just discover it, then we would be fine. Research says actually most people don’t have one.Cal Newport
Sean CarrollThe kinds of questions I think about—origin of the universe, fundamental laws of physics, that kind of thing—for the most part have no direct impact on how ordinary people live their lives. No jet packs are forthcoming, as the saying goes. But there is one exception to this, so obvious that it goes unnoticed: belief in God. Due to the efforts of many smart people over the course of many years, scholars who are experts in the fundamental nature of reality have by a wide majority concluded that God does not exist. We have better explanations for how things work. The shift in perspective from theism to atheism is arguably the single most important bit of progress in fundamental ontology over the last 500 years. And it matters to people … a lot.
Or at least, it would matter, if we made it more widely known. It’s the one piece of scientific/philosophical knowledge that could really change people’s lives. So in my view, we have a responsibility to get the word out—to not be wishy-washy on the question of religion as a way of knowing, but to be clear and direct and loud about how reality really works. And when we blur the lines between science and religion, or seem to contribute to their blurring, or even just not minding very much when other people blur them, we do the world a grave disservice. Religious belief exerts a significant influence over how the world is currently run—not just through extremists, but through the well-meaning liberal believers who very naturally think of religion as a source of wisdom and moral guidance, and who define the middle ground for sociopolitical discourse in our society. Understanding the fundamental nature of reality is a necessary starting point for productive conversations about morality, justice, and meaning. If we think we know something about that fundamental nature—something that disagrees profoundly with the conventional wisdom—we need to share it as widely and unambiguously as possible.
