A personal library. A room dedicated to the purpose.

“Lefty Loosey righty tighty”

One arrow points up to the left, one points down to the left.

They don’t think you have disposable income. They don’t care about you if you don’t.

Elon’s always been able to learn on the job.

I saw the stuff for the first time recently and it’s underrated. No nostalgia required

The functional difference is that the Supremos set themselves as the arbiters, so while Trump will get immunity for anything, Biden will get immunity for nothing.

We’ve proved the popular religions wrong definitively, but the truth’s turned out to be unbearably horrifying for most people.

We’ve got way more figured out than what religious people think.

Faith is the rejection of the possibility of producing a hypothesis.

No alaskan bull worm?

They finally got Sopwith.

In an interview, Douglas Adams said after lengthy consideration John Cleese picked 42 as the least interesting number.

That’s what people say, but in practice people have their own ideas and just project them on to god.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez started before 1970 but his career stretched long after.

That’s Sundiver. Startide Rising is the sequel.

How about “the fairer sex”?

Kitchenaid for kneading + measuring ingredients by weight = consistent bread

And conifers

“don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity” is good advice for friends and family.

It’s bad advice for salesmen, politicians, corporations, etc. They are more sophisticated than you and will take advantage of your willingness to extend trust after bad behavior.

You’ve probably hit upon a good metaphor for what’s happening.
I believe each time we sleep parts of our personalities are torn down and rebuilt slightly differently.
Whatever the mechanism, you aren’t really the same person you were years ago, you’re a different person with many of the same memories. The “self” is a useful simplification of reality. At the fundamental level, its not possible to define “you” and “not you” at a moment in time, much less across spans of time.

What the West gains is a diminished Russia less inclined to adventure. That’s a big gain.

The most important goal in this situation for the West is to avoid war with Russia. Since Russia has the resources to wage the war for a long time as long as the West doesn’t join it, then whether Ukraine wins is purely a Russian decision.