On 9/2/26

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Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly toward the end of his vacation. He showed his vacation to his camera, which pictured it, preserving it forever: the river, the trees, the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat behind which he stood with his camera preserving his vacation even as he was having it so that after he had had it he would still have it. It would be there. With a flick of a switch, there it would be. But he would not be in it. He would never be in it.

At the extreme end, in some species, high-status females can actually prevent other females from reproducing altogether. They do this by stressing lower-status females so badly that they cease ovulating. Failing that, a high-status mother might kill another mother's baby or even physically expel the woman entirely from the social group.

Inspiration & Quotes × Money, Work & Power

Capitalism has more often than not been declared the culprit in this historical destruction of communities...the truth is, the political state, by its incessant centralization and bureaucratization of power, has done far more...to effect this destruction

The duality of man

On August 10, 1897, Felix Hoffmann, a chemist with the Bayer Company, synthesized acetylsalicylic acid from willow bark; it went on sale as Aspirin and conquered the globe. Eleven days later the same man invented another substance that was also to become world famous: diacetyl morphine, a derivative of morphine-the first designer drug. Trademarked as Heroin, it entered the market and began its own campaign. "Heroin is a fine business,"

Misc

Beliefs as a medium instead of monuments

Insurance terms that go hard:

  • Moral Hazard
  • Winner’s Curse
  • Adverse Selection
  • Pure Premium
  • Subrogation
  • Concurrent Causation
  • Utmost Good Faith
  • Fortuitous Loss
  • Force Majeure
  • Acts of God