buttermilk biscuit cut in half with butter and a slice of spinach & onion omelet

alternately when in season, a thin slice of toasted multigrain with thick slices of heirloom tomato and two eggs fried over hard, optionally fresh torn basil

but a PB&J on wheat is also a fine breakfast

I like punk for chopping, rock and pop for sautéing, and folk for baking, but it’s a lot of a lot of different things. As long as it matches the tempo of what I’m doing with my hands it’s all good.

no, I listen to music

Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick

floowed by

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Donathan Montgomery Augustus Dickle, what did you DO?

time to pay more for haircuts then, not less

It’s less “women are too weak” and more “the point if war is to kill off excess young men so there’s more young women available for powerful older men”

more like Joe Nosejob

I feel like you learned something about the use of language from the replies to the first draft of this post, but I notice you did not retain my correction re: “net” positive.

Okay, three things, least important first:

Using “net” positive already refers to comparing it against the negative. If you want just the positive before comparison, use “gross”.

Second, there is no positive to eugenics. There are hypothetical gains to make but they are unrealizable. This is because the mechanisms to decide who gets to reproduce will immediately be corrupted. Immediately. Every time.

And finally, the negatives are huge. Personal anguish, public unrest, widespread violation of civil rights depending on how draconian you make your regime, the downsides are huge and certain.

So unrealizable and uncertain gains at the a huge and certain price: No. No eugenics.

If you want to personally have lots of children with smart, beautiful, talented people, well, get in line.

No, if anything I sound warmer, because most of what I know is social niceties.

If everything’s on one platform, how much does that platform cost?

And if everything is one one platform, how robust is it against censorship?

I rarely have time to kill at work. I don’t get paid by the hour, so I need to work to make money. And if there’s no work to do I go home. In the very rare times when I’m waiting on someone else I usually eat, hydrate, or take a smoke break.

using the past tense seems optimistic, but yes

It’s not the canals conspiracy user, is it?

Asia Minor is more like Turkiye, North Macedonia, the Baltics

we call it the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and NE Africa

but if someone said “Eastern Mediterranean” or “Southwest Asia” I suppose I’d know what they meant

Affirmation most of all, but really all except gifts

Since when is not knowing you’ll do harm an valid excuse for harm done? We all fail to anticipate sometimes and shouldn’t be punished for it, but we should still strive to correct those wrongs.

Sadly, yes.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that age automatically makes one wise, but yes, inexperience does automatically make one naïve.