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Jul. 21st, 2022 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Huh, apparently this was my most recent draft, well, I stand by it...
This kind of stuff is making me bonkers ... it's bad enough when it's random yahoos saying it but this guy is Canada's ambassador to the UN:
So I mean do we launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike before the ground invasion of Russia or wait for them to hit us first?
Ok anyway what I was coming in here to say for some reason was a thing about this tweet by Paul Graham, which I was gonna drop a screenshot of in here but I am reminded now that dreamwidth is charmingly tenaciously un-mobile-friendly, anyway Paul Graham said this on twitter: "Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia is leaving his operating role after 14 years. Who does he thank in his announcement? Their first three guests. That's why Airbnb has done so well. You can't fake that level of commitment to users." And the thing I wanted to say about that was, I like Paul Graham a lot, I think he is a smart and decent guy, and this tweet serves as a useful reminder that smart and decent people are also ruining the world.
I mean I hope they are because surely to God I am also ruining the world.
I've been meaning to say something about Dobbs in here but to the great relief of everyone I'm sure I don't have time for that at the moment. The thing I keep not saying about it on twitter though is I think it's really cool how the Americans run their country based on a collection of cryptic sayings of a bunch of guys from 250 years ago but what would be *really* cool would be to do it with like Heraclitus's fragments instead. "The one which alone is wise both does and does not want to be called by the name Zeus", I mean what's that got to tell you about whether you can pray on the field after a highschool football game, pretty much all you need to know I reckon.
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Currently at Crowe Lake: 25. High there today: 26.9. Currently under my porch: 22.2? I dunno I think it's broken.
This kind of stuff is making me bonkers ... it's bad enough when it's random yahoos saying it but this guy is Canada's ambassador to the UN:
When Hitler invaded Poland, even Chamberlain stopped looking for an “off ramp” and an “exit strategy”. We should show at least the same resolve.
— Bob Rae (@BobRae48) May 14, 2022
So I mean do we launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike before the ground invasion of Russia or wait for them to hit us first?
Ok anyway what I was coming in here to say for some reason was a thing about this tweet by Paul Graham, which I was gonna drop a screenshot of in here but I am reminded now that dreamwidth is charmingly tenaciously un-mobile-friendly, anyway Paul Graham said this on twitter: "Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia is leaving his operating role after 14 years. Who does he thank in his announcement? Their first three guests. That's why Airbnb has done so well. You can't fake that level of commitment to users." And the thing I wanted to say about that was, I like Paul Graham a lot, I think he is a smart and decent guy, and this tweet serves as a useful reminder that smart and decent people are also ruining the world.
I mean I hope they are because surely to God I am also ruining the world.
I've been meaning to say something about Dobbs in here but to the great relief of everyone I'm sure I don't have time for that at the moment. The thing I keep not saying about it on twitter though is I think it's really cool how the Americans run their country based on a collection of cryptic sayings of a bunch of guys from 250 years ago but what would be *really* cool would be to do it with like Heraclitus's fragments instead. "The one which alone is wise both does and does not want to be called by the name Zeus", I mean what's that got to tell you about whether you can pray on the field after a highschool football game, pretty much all you need to know I reckon.
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Currently at Crowe Lake: 25. High there today: 26.9. Currently under my porch: 22.2? I dunno I think it's broken.
