@eigenrobot The professor only offered it because of the mass shooting at his school (Brown) during the previous semester, then when back to in person testing after the midterm tests were obvious Ai
@shagbark_hick Monastic life like the disciples is the ideal. "And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life."
There was a shortage of worthwhile things to invest in during the 2000s-2010s. That's why money was cheap. Now we have useful infrastructure to build. That's good!
Incredible that we wasted the 2000s-2010s low interest free money phase of the US economy completely on making a million versions of Doordash instead of building useful infrastructure
Interview with an 84-year-old farmer in New York, 1926.
The farmer describes the change heβs seen over the years, and what life was like for a farmer in the Catskill Mountains of New York State during the early to mid 19th-century.