@FischerKing64
@typecfemale
The choice is rarely between reading a book and listening to an audiobook. It's between listening to the audiobook and doing nothing, listening to an audiobook is better than just pining to read a book
@jdcmedlock
All things being equal? Working the least number of days is best for me, but spreading the work over the most number of days makes my hours most productive
@IRHotTakes
Realism can be an useful descriptive framework. But it's prescriptions are often pungent, the idea that a declining Russia has a moral right to sphere influence over is unwilling neighbors is absurd and an anti-china Amerco-Russo alliance just isn't going to happen
@SwannMarcus89
The idea that you work hard so that your children can benefit is dear to the hearts of many people. Even if you tell them that the tax won't apply to them, it is in opposition to their sacred values
@ontopic
@Suzanne08053
@JeffSharlet
He called the pope a “false prophet” and a “servant of Satan, and he renounced the reforms of the Second Vatican Council as an “ideological, theological, moral and liturgical cancer.”
@tszzl
Aurelius wrote the Meditations for himself. It was his private diary.
The best business writing are leaked internal memos. The same is true for philosophy. Why learn business or philosophy from theorists when there are practitioners that exist?
@bryancsk
Progressive omnicause causing them to support unionized workers or maybe a smart strategy to try to signal environmentalism won't reduce heavy industry employment
@Molson_Hart
@zerohedge
@DoombergT
Convertible debt is a bond with the right to convert to equity ie. An embedded option. The volatility from becoming a meme stock (and his options purchases) increased the value of that embedded call option, making it easier for the company to raise money
@district12kitty
@Noahpinion
I don't have a good handle on how to think about long covid risk. The fact that someone who is more knowledgeable than me is deeply worried is concerning to me
@ded_ruckus
@kymeriandawn
I think the lock-in drives the resentment: people hate their landlords and employers.
If you don't like your grocery store, you can just go to another one, If you don't like all of the grocery stores, well, that's a consequence of market forces, not one person
@BL_Balthaser
King is a saint of the American Civic Religion and the founder of the modern American nation. Most American political philosophy descends from or claims to descend from him