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No wonder, after centuries of soul-searching, Dracula decided to make a home there

The related Adler resources is 1) an essay I just found on the net: How to Mark a Book,

2) his book The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto which BTW is required reading for a friend of mine pursuing PhD in Education, helping to sketch out this telos I was referring to (one chapter/summary can be found here).

From Paul Krugman's "The General Theory of Enshittification".

@Vikas If what you're reading is primarily non-fiction, I highly recommend Adler's classic How to Read a Book.

@Robusto This German pianist Magdalena Haubs impressed me a lot when I came across her recording + recital quality performance of famous intermediate-level pieces for:

What's with the chat reply-to message thingie? Why can't it link your reply to the message you clicked on as it used to do for the last 15 years? I sure as shit don't need to be told what message I'm replying to. I already know that.

@HippoSawrUs Every day I look in the mirror and tell myself "You're better than everyone." It works great for me, maybe not for the people I interact with.

Is that Jesus in the chatroom? Just checking. I can't tell without the sandals.

C'mon, doggy, you're smarter than that.

Is the US going through a transition like the Roman Republic to the Empire, like where the Roman Senate is scared of the ruler and just lets hime do anything? Or is Trump being illiberal and the rule of law is just slow and ineffective but in the end things won't fall apart?

But there hasn't been a world war for so long that people have grown stupid.

Word of the day: manse. "[US] a large house with a lot of land."

> Scroll on, you mighty river of quotation!

I must say I am not concentrated nor patient at all.

Yeah, but all that's exhausting.

@CowperKettle Word of the day: Trumpistan.

The article I linked above (which, BTW, it's quite revealing and well-written as to what women really want with man, not from man) also introduced me to a few concepts in addition to those 2 words (invented by Asa Seresin):

> A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks. x.com/wylfcen/status/1945991757163839805

@Vikas Doesn't seem sarong to me.

@Vikas you look like an M&M but you're safe because I η π

A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago

> There are thousands of studies showing food and exercise is often the best medicine to prevent and reverse disease. Quality meat qualifies as a medical expense if it treats or prevent an illness, and a doctor substantiates the need.

I don't really have book smarts nor street smarts. I'm more of a bread smarts kind of guy. But some call it naan sense.

Hope you know where your towel is -- Perl 5.42 has released

Can't you use a desktop like a real person?

Another accidental similarity is that name of Smaug (officially from Germanic verb) happens to be slightly similar to Slavic word for "dragon" (e.g. Russian смок (smok), Polish smok).

@HippoSawrUs If I ever get a headstone (doubtful) I would like it to have one of those sets of eyes that stare at you wherever you are: the abyss staring back at you.

@M.A.R. BE SAFE!

@TwineeeTheZeldaWizard I think CowperKettle and tchrist meant KJV's rendition of Matt 5:14-16 wishing you (already possessing the "light of this room" in your soul) to proclaim this light to the world, not keeping it to yourself (like hiding a candle "under a bushel"). Thus, even though you're unsubscribing, spread the word for others to come.

The U.S. Is Switching Sides

> Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

> Hot take: stealing someone's fresh baked pie that they set on the window sill to cool.

I have six eyes.

@TwineeeTheZeldaWizard We don't speak English in this room unless absolutely necessary.

"Sporadically" derives from the sporran (/ˈspɒrən/; Scottish Gaelic for 'purse'), a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress, is a pouch that functions as a pocket for the kilt.

drey – a squirrel's nest, ball-shaped, high up in a tree (vs. the exact same thing in your shed, which would be a den?). It's compicated…for a ball.

@CowperKettle Usually one would say "bogey on your six" (meaning six o'clock; in other words, right behind you). Which is where bike radar scans for bogeys.

How a tail light radar saved me today

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness." - Anne Frank, 1943

The context is always "I have some trivia that I know and feel compelled to tell everybody so that they know that I know."

Ultimately, who cares.

It's 90°F already. This is ridiculous. Why don't we have solar-powered everything by now?

@TwineeeTheZeldaWizard you should unsubscribe to some other chatroom. This is the one where things actually happen.

@TwineeeTheZeldaWizard Go forth and bring the light of this room into the world!

R.I.P. Brian Wilson