Monday, April 28, 2025

Times are great, people are terrible

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Re-reading Team of Rivals about Lincoln, and there are three take-aways: People are terrible. Politicians, preachers, women, enraged that a...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Milford Sound, New Zealand. 2/4

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  Milford Sound. (Technically a fjord.) Photobomber Video of reaching the Tasman Sea .   If you turn due west, you don't hit land until ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Update on One Step for Animals

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From here One Step for Animals was founded in 2014. Last summer, donations started declining. This got worse in November. Besides our recurr...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Save Our Planet

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Happy 4/20. More  
Friday, April 18, 2025

New Zealand's South Island 1 of 4

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  Rear view from our first Airbnb near Manipuri. As far south as we've ever stayed.  As always, click any picture for larger. Good eveni...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman Endorses "Losing"

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Switzerland Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman died by assisted suicide in Switzerland in 2024   Also: Peter Singer and Kasia de Lazari-Radek on...
Monday, April 14, 2025

AI and Friendship and Chemicals

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The last selfie we took Down Under. Angela Chen's latest at Vox's Future Perfect is  The rise of chatbot “friends.” Interestingly, s...
Friday, April 11, 2025

"Go Vegan!" can never fail, it can only be failed

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I publish on Substack once a week, and the most recent was the reasoning behind One Step for Animals .  Little did I realize that Kenny To...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The Codependent Problem

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Doesn't take his self-worth from anger. This entire bit is worth reading, but this is really worth considering: Do you actually want to...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Breaking: Record $1,250 Offer on Top Card

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Application link The Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) Visa card has a new record-high 100,000 points welcome offer / sign-up bonus (SUB). (All...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Cilantro-haters are wrong and will burn in Hell

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For the longest time, I never really understood the word "normative," even after reading definitions. In short, saying something i...
Friday, April 4, 2025

Technology and the North Island

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from yet another Matt:  The value of technological progress  (personal examples) Pictures below from New Zealand's North Island. We didn...