When I was a little boy my Dad asked me if I wanted to learn how to whittle a grasshopper.
He gave me a pocket knife and a piece of wood and said “Here you go son, cut off everything that doesn’t look like a grasshopper.”
I still think about this.
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
- Ernest Hemingway
Honest opinion:
With the way @DoorDash treats its customers already in regards to service complaints and customer feedback,
The LAST thing this country needs is to allow them to push into the healthcare market.
If another pandemic hits Im choosing unemployment over being an essential worker.
I worked thru the entire pandemic, getting Covid twice.
No hazard pay, no extra comp time, no paid lunches, and we were forced to work holidays.
Know what we got? A Snickers and a Reese’s.
@BBCWorld She’s prepping for the internal fight to take over. Kim Jong-un has no heirs and she is next in succession. Kim’s health has been suffering and she knows there will be a struggle between her and the generals for who takes over
@JeffHillinChina@AP I thought so, too. But the Pope authorized this statement to be released. Apparently the Church will recognize the marriage as legal and genuine, but the Church will not give God’s blessing on the marriages.
Lincoln, Gangs of New York, and There Will Be Blood are all playing right now and if you switch between them.... you realize:
Daniel Day Lewis is a different kind of actor. It’s a completely different kind of ability than a normal or even high level actor.
@RepCawthorn @ChrisCuomo@tedcruz This tweet didn’t age well, ya know, with Ted Cruz abandoning his state and constituents during one of the biggest power outages the state has seen during one of the worst winter storms the state has seen while going through the worst pandemic the state has seen. Ur a bad person.
What mows my blind is we can turn dirt and rocks into something that can fly to another planet, land itself, then explore that world, do cutting edge science all while sending back video and audio. Insane. Congrats to everyone involved 👏👏👏
The wild thing about Crash Course is that students think everyone knows about it, teachers think it’s their little secret, and administrators have no idea it exists.
This is not a great outcome for getting funding, but we’ll figure it out.
"One of the most prevalent — and damaging — themes in our culture is the need to be right. It is so deeply embedded in our belief system and in our collective psyche that we never even pause to consider it." - Jeff Bezos