It really is just weights, protein, ten thousand steps, consistent sleep, devoting yourself to an ideal, making yourself more than a man, making yourself untouchable, becoming something else entirely
I would probably vote Joe Biden for the rest of my life and nobody else. I can’t think of someone in my lifetime that did more to shore up American (that is, liberal) hegemony than him
Aristotle says that arguing with random people is a waste of time because the average person doesn't know how to argue and therefore will not help you become better at it (let alone help you clarify a point). A nice thought to post on the "argue with random people" app.
Guy who directs a movie about Keynes’ failed bancor currency at the hands of Harry Dexter White at Bretton Woods in 1944, in the style of 12 Angry Men, called 12 Angry Bankers
I think it's not paradoxical when you remember that, compared to the West, the Soviet consumer market was extremely underdeveloped. When you don't live in a consumer society and don't have access to a lot of low-effort entertainment, you read a lot more and go to the opera.
@TsarinaBomba You should want the most conservative Jew in bed with the mafia doing your taxes and the most proglodyte blue haired Xey/Xem making your coffee
@fxxfy It was a swing state not too long ago, and home to many utopian socialist experiments before the Civil War. You best start believing in Happenings
@credenzaclear2 You’re right to hedge with Canticle for Leibowitz because you’re basically describing Cormac McCarthy who was messy. Don’t know if you can square that though
Normally I hate farehoppers in the Metro. But sometimes you see a young prodigy who is so smooth and silent in the act you can only admire and respect their dedication to a certain excellence
Every time you walk by Union Station on a random weeknight it’s a party on the right wing of the entrance for the most nebulous stuff. Like what do you mean “Operation Pathways” is having a gala in there. Just name it Eyes Wide Shut Soirée and call it a day
Every two years a Kennedy dies after hang gliding in a lightning storm with their daughter’s best friend and your boomer relatives shake their head sadly and chalk it up to the curse