A Diet Survey
I would like to get down to a healthy weight. So I am asking SG a very specific question: What have you done that has moved you from an unhealthy weight to a healthy one?
Why Youth Culture Is Pushed
Almost every American alive has been raised in a youth-centric culture. If it isn’t the left outright pushing the idea that youth have some sort of unique wisdom to offer people, as if I have any reason to respect Greta Thunberg’s opinions on anything, it is a culture in which age is simply treated as an unmitigated disaster.
Godzilla Minus One Is Not A Ten
I’m not going to review the movie here, as there are plenty of reviews already, and I generally endorse them. I will only add that this transcends its nominal genre.
Binary Thinking
Continuing on from unary thinking, which you should read before this, we come to the obvious next step of Binary Thinking, which as the name implies is the process of believing that everything in some domain cleanly fits into two categories.
The Why Of Quote Posts
This is a post for nerds who are interested in the mechanics of communities. If anybody gets anything else out of it, that’s just a bonus.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapter 25 and 26
The subtitle for chapter 25 in the translation Castalia uses is Whoever wishes to reform an existing government in a free state should at least preserve the semblance of the old forms.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapter 20-24
A series of chapters that I can dispose of in some quick notes: Chapter 20 observes that as few as two virtuous princes in a row can produce a lot of capital.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapter 19
Chapter 19’s précis is: After a strong Prince a weak Prince may maintain himself: but after one weak Prince no Kingdom can stand a second.
KoMoL Book 1, Chapters 16 through 18
Chapters 16 through 18 deal with the question of corruption within a state, and whether a people can maintain freedom or regain it, especially in light of their own corruption.
Nefarious (movie)
I took advantage of the family being away on other business to see Nefarious in the theater today. I will assume anyone interested has either seen the trailer or generally knows the premise, so I’m not going to do any recap.