Adrian Ellsworth

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This has gotta be a prank.

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@goodreads

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@doyle6000 @goodreads I like this one too. His course through the Waking Up App is also great.

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

Rose does excellent work here. In 2009, Philip Roth predicted a post-literate society. When he claimed that novels “wouldn’t be able to compete with the Screen,” he was dismissed as a Doomer. Turns out, he was accurately diagnosing the illness.

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Shit in the bushes!

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@SDDonovan Hey, you’re multi-genre. What do you have against drama! 😂

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I'm trying to decide whether this art is more influenced by Jackson Pollock or Georges Braque. Thoughts?

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There. Fixed it.

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@Gabino_Iglesias Jake Emory never enjoyed the casino. But he couldn't escape the prejudice that that's where the fun was. Consequently, he dedicated all of his time and a considerable share of his public pension to it.

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@ericweinstein https://t.co/V5MaoINAxb

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@AmericanGwyn I like the analogy. It’s not perfect, but it reminds me of economists…and critics.

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I can always tell the bank account is going to be depleted by the end of the month if the recycle bin is overflowing with cardboard at the end of the week.

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

Valid Rules for Writing

To echo St. Paul, they are: Faith, Hope, and Clarity… and the greatest of these is clarity.

1. Believe people would do what you show them doing.
2. Care how things work out for your characters.
3. Understand what is happening and why.

These are true in every language.
Peculiar to English are these:

1. We use present tense for jokes and tall tales. When we want to be believed, we always switch to past tense.
2. First person is farther removed from the action than third person limited, because it is remembered by the narrator.
3. Second person is mandatory for recipes and instructions — because it is in the imperative mood.
4. English adds prepositions to verbs to make compound verbs, which may be correctly used to end sentences with. [Verb: “to end with”]
5. English uses two-word infinitives, which may have modifiers inserted whenever clarity demands. [“To boldly go …”]
6. Your style is the way you SPEAK ALOUD. Write like that, and your language will sing. Follow Strunk & White, and your own style will never be found.

That's a pretty good list. Otherwise, consult your own language usage and use it — why write in someone else's version of English?

[Adrian Ellsworth @AdrianEllsworth]

@PhilippusArabus Also, some of these agencies divorced from either congressional or even executive branch oversight make policy decisions that have all kinds of budget implications—and social too for that matter.

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@PhilippusArabus Not entirely. The regulatory state—not to be confused with the concept of the deep state—acts as a tax on industry. If reduced it’s at least possible to see a positive effect on GDP, which would reduce the deficit.

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@luinalaska Look on the bright side. 60 Minutes ought to rename its program 60 People--because that's about how many people watch it anymore.

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@deely4871 @mm_305 @twatterbaas Correct Answer!

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@therabbithole I'm surprised to see the Medicaid number on par with Medicare thinking Medicare was a much larger program. According to Grok, Medicaid spending is now higher than Medicare. In 1990 it was $110B Medicare / $72B Medicaid. That's a problem in and of itself.

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@elonmusk Did the data include TINs used by businesses and non profits? For the uninitiated a TIN also has nine digits but there's one dash after the first two digits.

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@jordanhk92 @bariweiss It's worth adding that one should ask too how important freedom even is to people broadly speaking. I value it. But Covid more than proved that a wide swath of Americans don't. As @michaelmalice frequently opines, most people would rather be safe than free.

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@jordanhk92 @bariweiss Toying with the idea of abolishing congress or round filing the constitution seems obtuse to those in possession of only a McEducation, but reading Yarvin or Burnham opens the mind to the fact that neither freedom nor goodness are synonymous with any system of government.