alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival

sb used my church's music director's email address to send out what is probably a phishing email

rip marco

and to jesus christ, who did NOT sin

it is possible that i just haven't inspected the wikipedia home page a lot until the past year but i feel like wikipedia's did you know section is like disturbingly into being Transgressive

i should find sb offline to talk politics recreationally to

a lot of the posting style on threads overlaps with how 'pages' on facebook have been posting for some time

i think the user base of threads comes mostly from facebook, which is largely people who would never be here even without threads

i know our attention spans are all cooked but cmon

dawg it's been less than 48 hours

there is an obvious reason for this but i just realised it's been over a year since i substantially worked on anything in my alternate history timeline that isn't closely connected to the church and maybe that's impoverishing my life somehow

oh yeah i agree this is very Bad but it can be hard to dislodge people from this state

i do have to say it does complicate things that some of these communities would not have existed without the internet nonsense

now if only i could understand that i have to start my homework even when i don't know how i will actually complete it...

i think even though it sounds startling at first this is generally not in conflict with my existing views. we are to 'feebly struggle' all the days of our lives even as we know it won't be enough to save ourselves.

gist of the campus ministry sunday sermon today: striving will not make you fulfilled or happy, and it will not give you a new birth, and it will inevitably crash down and burn whether in academics or finances or romance or friendship

oh yeah fair nobody else has any money or organisation

the poem is titled 'first lesson for you, child' and ends with four lines
'homeland, each person only one
just as there is only one mother
homeland, whoever forgets,
will never grow into a person'

but the poet later claimed the last line was inserted by the editor

one of the most-remembered poems in the vietnamese curriculum has the doublet 'the homeland is a sweet bunch of starfruits/for you to climb and pick every day' which always confuses me bc i've never had starfruit that isn't sour

this is mechanically possible under RCV but also seems like no third candidate in this race has any money or organisation

this being an RCV election, it is entirely mechanically possible that sb who could win head to head against either top two candidate fails to make it to the top two!

One of my core predictions for tonight's market open was that gold prices would jump higher, because geopolitical uncertainty has been one of the main drivers of the debasement trade. That's playing out tonight. Gold is moving higher as markets open...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/investment...

there's a critical mass of power and wealth that thinks order is fake and gay

Optimal ratings are threshold partitions; under linear supply or Cournot, thresholds solve a k-means problem using only the quality distribution, enabling simple, data-light design, from Hugo Hopenhayn and Maryam Saeedi www.nber.org/papers/w34889

i took 'who have not been involved in the hostilities from the outset' to exclude Israel

but i think last year the UK and France acknowledged they were defending Israel

yeah it's very easy to go actually we were helping Jordan shoot down missiles over its airspace

so is the UK committed in not assisting in the defence of Israel this round?

my laptop hasn't turned on all day so maybe that's a sign to tell me to go to sleep early. or i can pretend that there's nothing else to do so i should download hinge.

i'm afraid there's no order only new

yes, i agree with you, should have made that clear