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Dec 29, 2023 ∞

Your expectations do not make my reality.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

Richard P. Feynman

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Oct 25, 2023 ∞

It's the GOP, stupid

Paul Krugman writing at The New York Times

Right now America is a superpower without a fully functioning government. Specifically, the House of Representatives has no speaker, so it can’t pass legislation, including bills funding the government and providing aid to U.S. allies. The House is paralyzed because Republican extremists, who have refused to acknowledge Biden’s legitimacy and promoted chaos rather than participating in governance, have turned these tactics on their own party. At this point it’s hard to see how anyone can become speaker without Democratic votes — but even less extreme Republicans refuse to reach across the aisle.

Any decline in America’s perceived status on the world stage is at the hands of Republicans who have gleefully throw their support to full blown chaos in response to Obama’s presidency.

Dec 2, 2022 ∞

Tarthang Tulku

Instead of running after patience, relax and let it come to you. Loosen the tension in your body; open your concentration and allow your emotional energy to flow. Let the warm, soothing energy of patience arise within you and flow through your body easily and freely. This practice is the act of patience.

Good thing to remember that you can’t get patience by chasing after patience.

Apr 21, 2022 ∞

Robert Reich in a tweet from April 10, 2022

When corporations are enjoying near-record profits, we would expect corporations to pay the higher wages out of their profits rather than to pass them on to consumers in higher prices.

Please, someone tell the former Secretary of Labor how capitalism works.

While it would be ideal if corporations paid higher wages out of profits; the structure of capitalism - make as much money as possible - doesn’t reward that.

Apr 21, 2022 ∞

This. So much this.

If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.

Apr 9, 2022 ∞

Robert Reich starts off a substack with

By igniting a culture war over sex, the GOP is distracting attention from Jan 6,

He should know this culture war was been ongoing for decades.

Apr 7, 2022 ∞

Mike Masonic writing at Techdirt

I feel like I keep needing to write this, but once again, no matter who does it and no matter which company they’re targeting, it’s wrong for politicians to promise to punish companies for their speech. For some reason, many people’s position on this point changes based on whether or not they like or dislike the politician, and whether or not they like or dislike the company. But it’s wrong.

Completely agree.

Jan 20, 2022 ∞

You are the person you are