Red curry with Leslie.
Engineers don't understand things like "feelings" or "emotions"
2 months ago
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Okay, I’m reblogging this now because it’ll be easier to find on my tumblr than on Pinterest, since the Pinterest copy is lower resolution.
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I’m not religious at all, but in a metaphorical way I pray for a world where nobody has to pray for a living wage.
Or pray at all, I guess.
2 months ago
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"Almost everyone is musical. Music is an actual bodily need. Another saying goes ‘If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well,’ but I disagree. Like Chesterton, I feel that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing even badly. Playing the piano is not something to be graded. Adults should take it up the moment they feel the need to play music. As a matter of course, children should be given lessons without pressure. Playing the piano should be an act without material value. It must be a road of discovery, a trackless territory, and never a means of showing off. The piano won’t serve the ego’s craving for recognition."
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—David Dubal, excerpted from the pianist’s recent article “Let’s Tickle the Ivories” inThe New Criterion
~Susan Leem, associate producer
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1 year ago
Homeopathy is a sham. Once the prevailing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that something has no medicinal value, we should really disallow it to be sold as having medicinal value, unless significant clinical evidence shows cause to reconsider.
Simply:
1. If something is shown not to be effective by a large body of well-researched scientific evidence, you should not be allowed to market it to the general public as being effective at all.
2. This should only change if, at some later point, a very large body of well-researched scientific evidence demonstrates that the original conclusion was wrong.
1 year ago
Direct quote from my mother this morning: “You’re going to work for an Arab?”
1 year ago
I went on a huge rant about Laffer curves today and why they are basically meaningless.
I should really write up something formal about it, because I kept discovering new problems as I thought about it.
