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Last night, I asked the guy to try one strawberry. He replied, "But they're at the end of their life."
Earlier, Katt and I were talking about how the strawberries were at the end of their shelf life and how we should finish them that day. I assumed that kind of talk was over his head? But no, like a voice-assistant speaker, he picks up more than you think he does. -
11-4-4-4. This is a milestone of sorts — I don't think I've ever gotten every set to a minimum of 4!
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Non-Stop Scroll Shop's fifth (?) birthday, I "> -
I was just thinking about how, though it's been almost four years since we brought the guy home from the hospital, that memory doesn't seem that much more distant than when he went into the pool without us at swimming lessons for the first time, less than a year ago.
When I was a kid, things that had happened two years ago seemed distinctly further away than things that happened a year ago. I felt like I had a solid sense of time-distance.
This is probably an insight that everyone else has had, but it just occurred to me that kids have a more proportionate sense of distance for events in the past because they have changes in themselves to measure against. Any 9-year-old was really different a year ago. So, events that happened to them happened against an obvious marker that has since changed. Whereas a 41-year-old probably wasn't much different last year. -
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Lambburgers! They look identical to the ham- kind. Hopefully, that helps with kid acceptance.
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Walked most of the way to the bar because it's 91°F, and I don't want to be drenched in swear back at work. 11-3-4-3. In retrospect, with the shade and only 50% humidity, it's actually not as sweaty previous days that were in the 80s.
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11-5-3-3. Longer than normal break between first and second sets in order o let someone work in. Tried to focus on getting my chest up to the bar in order to avoid neck shenanigans. Again, really needed to get out there to settle "oh man it's a whole new week with a ton of stuff to do" anxiety.
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Well, the tuna turned out overdone, and no one was into it. The guy had a few kernels of corn, a couple slices of cantaloupe, and milk for dinner. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We are always grateful for a non-shutout dinner.
I am glad I started pickling those vegetables, though! -
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The weird confluence of factors that lead us to buy a bean bag that is expensive as an IKEA loveseat:
1. Due to growth of son, we now need more lounging space than is provided by a KLIPPAN in our living room.
2. And we probably should've had more comfy seating in the first place for guests. We usually vacate the couch and sit on chairs, but if there's guests from multiple parties, they're forced to sit together on the KLIPPAN or one guest sits on the KLIPPAN and others sit on chairs. (We at least have a ton of chairs.)
3. Serious couches that go beyond the IKEA and West Elm level of quality are two or more orders of magnitude more expensive. That leap is still hard for us to make.
4. Serious couches all seem huge and intended for vast suburban single-family homes.
5. We are never sure if a couch will fit up our narrow-ish Massachusetts stairwell. We had a serious wooden frame couch (a hand-me-down from my parents), but had to abandon it when moving into this apartment.
6. There's an undoableness to a decision to get and move in a couch that's expensive and large. -
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Heh, the guy gasped sincerely when I told him that whales are mammals.
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I don't like how I have to drain my brain completely in order to sleep.
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That realization drove Sethi, a professor of human rights law at the Georgetown University Law Center, to spend the subsequent year and a half traveling the country, conducting in-depth interviews with the survivors of hate. Those conversations form the basis of his new book, “American Hate.”
No matter where I went, no matter who I met with, almost everyone said something similar. The 2016 campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump emboldened, empowered, facilitated and legitimized the very worst forces in America – racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, sexism. There was a nearly uniform belief that hate nowadays is more visceral and widespread than many of us could have imagined just a few years ago.
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11-4-3-4. Dawdled a few times during the run because there was this fascinating sun thunder going on. It thundered a lot, and the clouds loomed pretty hard, but it never rained while I was out there.
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On the origins of the western concept of free speech.
Critics like the Old Oligarch may have been exaggerating for comic effect, but they also had a point: as its etymology suggests, isegoria was fundamentally about equality, not freedom. As such, it would become the hallmark of Athenian democracy, which distinguished itself from the other Greek city-states not because it excluded slaves and women from citizenship (as did every society in the history of humankind until quite recently), but rather because it included the poor. Athens even took positive steps to render this equality of public speech effective by introducing pay for the poorest citizens to attend the assembly and to serve as jurors in the courts.
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If isegoria was fundamentally about equality, then, parrhesia was about liberty in the sense of license—not a right, but rather an unstable privilege enjoyed at the pleasure of the powerful. In Athenian democracy, that usually meant the majority of one’s fellow citizens, who were known to shout down or even drag speakers they disliked (including Plato’s brother, Glaucon) off the bema. This ancient version of “no-platforming” speakers who offended popular sensibilities could have deadly consequences—as the trial and death of Socrates, Plato’s friend and teacher, attests.