Are you socially awkward, or just “spiritually Finnish?” If you find it awkward to make small talk, you may be “jingfen” (精芬) or “spiritually Finnish.” That’s the newly coined Chinese buzzword for a burgeoning identity taking hold among [Chinese] millennials… In Finland, even the extroverts are introverts, or so claim the Finns. They have a …
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in …
We judge everyone else in the world by their actions, and only ourselves by our intentions. Fix that in yourself. nono_baddog’s dad
Interesting exchange I saw on Reddit (emphasis added by me to indicate the point): Republicans think even $7.25 an hour is more than we deserve. Baby_Yoda_Fett Sad fact, i cant tell you how many people i talk to at work that think like this, they then say shit like “those arent meant to be jobs …
‘Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills’ — House Dems not happy with AOC for refusing to pay dues and funding progressive challengers tl;dr: Democrats in Congress are expected to pay dues to the DCCC (aka ‘D-trip’), an organization that helps the campaigns of House Democrats. AOC, who has out-raised every other House Democrat, is purposefully …
So let me get this right.We support the Iraq government in the fight against ISIS. We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like. We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him. We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the …
There was a Reddit thread about the complete extinction of the giant Chinese paddlefish (none found in the wild, none exist in captivity, and no living tissue samples to clone) and these two comments really stuck out to me on why species conservation truly matters in a big picture sense: Jesus. This planet is the …
Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood… Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have …
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, 2005
It’s a new year and a new decade*. Honestly, 2019 has felt like the longest year of my entire life. Everyone says as you get older the years start to fly by, and it’s generally been true for me any other year. I blow my own mind thinking back to events that happened less than …