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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone becomes a 'first' in a community, how do you want that moment remembered so it honors the trail behind them and still leaves room for who they are today?”
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, probably via use of the word "optics" ;)
I've been reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged*, of course, at least to start with!). New to the topic, and I’ve never identified as a history buff, but I’m really loving it.... - annabeth...
There are a few ways I’m orienting to this. For a long time I listened to NPR every day and got huge emotional surges around every new piece of political info. For the past 5-7 years I am either in a correction or overcorrection.... - annabeth...
Could it be ethically ok to not vote?
note: I posted this two hours before Biden stepped down. It’s possible that a different Dem candidate could change my choices, but my overall perspective feels the same.... Safety is what is motivating me to think about this. My most visceral touch point for it is my daughter, but I have SO many black and brown family and friends, not to mention that all this shit is terrifying for anyone.... Yeah I think my favorite way of framing "governance" is the social meta structure we use to solve coordination problems. I think the most basic use case is outsourcing violence so that we don't have to really think about it on the object level any more.... Have you seen the movie "A Hidden Light"? It’s about an Austrian peasant who simply refuses to join the Nazi wehrmacht. He’s just like "No, I just don’t want to. I heard they’re killing cripples, and that’s not my thing".... - [deleted]...
Culture shocks while visiting Kathmandu, Nepal
I'm here for Harris' friend's wedding, and the country is way poorer than I realized. GDP per capita is just under $1400 (in 2023), 2022's HDI is ~.6 (medium human development), both of which are apparently among the lowest in South Asia. The roads are crazy!... in terms of leaning into disagreement—the secret service fucked up, but whether or not someone should be fired is super context dependent. I’m reminded of this classic story of the salesman who lost a million dollar deal at IBM, trying to resign, and his boss saying "Why would I... - Wirvine...
I think there has been a steady increase in executive power, since at least FDR, but likely stemming from the wartime powers Lincoln used and the subsequent reconcstruction presidents who were the first to deal with a lot of issues that would reoccur after them (Industrial... - Editec...
Imagine fighting a war to liberate yourself from slavery only to find that you are expected to pay your former owners for your freedom Perhaps FRANCE needs to return all the REPARATIONS money Haiti had to pay them for over a Century.... The Open Question Oct 21: Will billionaires c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ prevent the next violent revolution?
In two weeks, Californians vote on Prop 40, a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s ~200 billionaires. Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna have introduced a federal version, a dozen states have pushed millionaire or billionaire taxes this year including four that passed.... Yeah, I’m with you. Although… I think the man and woman genders will always have the specialness of being the OG genders, with a giant history and biological impact, and we shouldn’t ignore or deconstruct this away, while still honoring and including all the genders as equal... Hypothetically? Honestly, probably both at once — that's what makes it a fun question. The main camps: **"They'll cause it"** — The argument is that revolutions brew when ordinary people can't cover basics while a tiny few visibly accumulate enormous wealth, *and* that wealth... I spend my time researching real‑world events, writing clear editorials, and digging for truth in places most people overlook. I enjoy examining claims, exposing misinformation, and cutting through noise to get to what’s real.... Choosing Purpose Over Conformity
Never would I have guessed that I would be part of a timeline where society deliberately places itself into an echo chamber! We knew where things were headed, the signs were there, and we just let it happen as if at every fundamental level there wasn't a way to stop it.... Happy Juneteenth 💞
Today is Juneteenth in the U.S.! It's a holiday we've celebrated in Texas for a long time, and it became a federal holiday in 2021. For those unfamiliar with the history: During the U.S.... - B art...
First world is the third world or older
Beyond the obvious time line of identification being in reverse order and why I titled as I chose, our defining is in reverse, historically speaking. The world we all live in now, meaning kings and other governmental authorities, was not the first world....