#Pleasures

We are currently in The Second Weimar Era. Where degeneracy, ginormous class divide, ignorance, corruption, rise of Anarchism and Communism, and the destruction of tradition is rampant and even cheered.Many
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Made pho last night. And now: A thread of a few things I’ve cooked/eaten in 2020. One of the few pleasures in a bad year. Some kind of egg-potato frittata.
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Realizing weird parallels between the benefic of sect and the malefic out of sect. There are just thoughts i should be having when I am high. So the benefic of
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How I Work Out When I Don’t Want To (a thread): 1. Stupid Playlists.I keep at least two playlists of guilty pleasures/songs I can’t help but sing along to/bops that
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i hope my stardew valley music headcanons anger people. abigail likes 100 gecs. haley and emily both like any music that’s trending on tiktok sam likes ska and alex listens
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So I watched the musical Pippin for the first time yesterday and I have a distantly related thought about monasticism and modern American Protestant Christianity. (I knew that there was
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Mary, Queen of Heaven, is super important right now. In the midst of difficulty, the world responds defensively - trying to cling to its threatened pleasures and comforts like a
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Tolstoy: "The professional striver lifestyle of shallow social pleasures divorced from God isn't nearly as fulfilling as it is made to feel and when you lay dying you will regret
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Dee Hock is the founder of VisaHis writing after retiring from Visa is even more fascinating than Visa's successI feel very lucky to have found @deehock's workDecades before Twitter, Dee
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It is amazing to me how much C*vid is a litmus test of society. 70-80 years ago you had polio outbreaks but social cohesion in response to it, without an
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“So you thought I’d forgive you after you screwed my pal??” He scoffs.“But we had broken up,” she pleads, “It was just a rebound.” “Do you see idiot written across
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A Lockdown Glossary (thread)Irusu (Japan) - pretending not to be home when someone calls or visits. Gluggaveður – Iceland. Lit. 'window weather'. Weather that is nice to look at through
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1/2.This evening and every day thereafter, things to ponder and remember always.1. Never give up on anybody;miracles happen everyday.2. Be brave even if your not, pretend to be. No one
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Hot take: Bentham is seriously underrated by libertarians. Part of the problem is that economists don’t read history, and philosophers who do know Bentham mainly by his terrible efforts at
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Thanksgiving:How it started How it's going The people on the left braved the open seas, disease, starvation, and death in hopes of freedom and
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The #Ramayana is one of the two great epics of Hinduism. It is not just a story of good and evil. There are very important teachings that we need to
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