Do not feed evil, or it will surely grow.
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Proposal: *daily
I propose that, for any word that ends with the suffix “day”, the suffix can be replaced with “daily”. The new word shall be equivalent to putting the word “every” before that word. For example, “Mondaily” means every Monday, “Tuesdaily” means every Tuesday, etc. Seems a useful shortcut to discuss these. For example, “Fridaily I go into the office” seems a little quicker and simpler sounding than “Every Friday I go into the office”.
Continue reading post "Proposal: *daily"He who lives by the sword shall see violence as the solution to all ills.
Complete freedom
Pure or complete freedom is an impossible theoretical. There will always be constraints on a persons activities. Lack of constraints and control is essentially what freedom is. One is not free if one is constrained. And removing certain constraints for one person can allow them to constrain another.
Continue reading post "Complete freedom"Ideas: Library after-hours lockers
Lockers would be installed outside of a library facility, accessible after hours. If a patron can’t get to the library during its open hours, but wants to take something out, they could request after-hours pickup. A librarian would get those items and put them in a locker. The locker would have a scanner based lock that would be set up for the patron’s library card. At any time, they could come, scan their card, open the door, grab the materials, and close the door.
Continue reading post "Ideas: Library after-hours lockers"I will be voting for Kamala Harris on Tuesday. I felt a positivity when she took Biden’s place. There are a lot of reasons I think it would be bad for the country if Donald Trump is elected again, but January 6th ought to be enough by itself.
It’s somewhat odd that this particular election is on Guy Fawkes Day this year, with the day’s connection to V for Vendetta and the authoritarian government it depicted.
If you are a US citizen, please vote your beliefs on or before Tuesday. It’s important.
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Our life is a giant puzzle, with a great many pieces that must be fit together to make it “right”. Each individual task, project, area of our life that we work on is its own puzzle, composed of many pieces that must be fit together while also fitting into the larger puzzle that is our life. Likewise, our life is part of a much, much larger puzzle that is the world, the universe, everything, and as we work on our life puzzle, we must look at that larger puzzle and ensure ours fits into it.
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To all wrongdoers, may you see, and atone
Ohioans, tomorrow (Tuesday, the 8th) is the day to vote on issue 1. I suggest we all get out to vote. The issue is whether to make it harder for citizens to amend the constitution. I am a hard no on the issue, and would hate to see what limited power us citizens have reduced further in favor of politicians.
Continue reading post "#4116"A friend of mine was commenting that Jaws got pushback for inciting fear of sharks / swimming with the low odds of getting bit by one, while The Birds didn’t get pushback in spite of the low odds of getting attacked by a bird. I opined that it was probably Big Beach instigating the pushback. I imagine with the tourism money they have a better lobby than Big Bird.