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This sentence by Dostoyevsky hits so hard. “You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

@raptros_ 👑

made a good steak sandwich again award

69 acres of private Tuscany for €690k ($797k). The land includes an olive grove, a fruit orchard, a cork oak grove and 20 hectares of woodland. A natural spring produces 3,000 litres of water a day, solar panels cover the electricity and yes, it does have wifi. It's also been renovated, 370m² (3,983 sq ft) across 3 floors, 3 beds, 3 baths, with a pool and a sauna. 50 km to Volterra. Off-grid, self-sufficient, sauna, pool..what's missing here?

The frustration is valid, but "warehouse costs" aren't the motivation. Every piece of inventory you have laying about, doing nothing, is the physical manifestation of currency that could be doing literally anything else. Less inventory, more money for other things, hence JIT.

Reminder… Judge Arthur Engoron and Leticia James claimed Mar-a-Lago was worth between $18 million and $27.6 million. Forbes just valued Mar-a- Lago at $650 million. 36 times what they claimed. They scammed just to get Trump on fraud. They both belong in prison. Evil.

Just cut off a student driver. welcome to the real world nigga

It has always been pretty evident that Gatsby was supposed to be Jewish. It makes a lot more sense if Tom’s bigotry is aimed at him. Also American class politics are not rigid enough to explain why Daisy never considers him a serious option, even when he shows richer than her terrible husband and offering to rescue her from her bad marriage. An ethnic/racial angle is always implied. And, of course, his name, Gatz, sounds Jewish and he’s in business with Meyer Wolfsheim who is explicitly Jewish. Not surprising that he was written as Jewish and 1920s era editors encouraged Fitzgerald to make this less explicit.

No it's not. Acres came first, sections were invented later. We use acres in places (e.g. New England) where there are no sections.

“Young men: what’s stopping you from getting married to a single mom with 2 baby daddies and settling down in a former meth house for 194k?? That’s a cheaper than the home I bought in the 90’s”

Who knew a home baked lemon pound cake would lead to a cop admitting under oath he isn’t sure if Afroman banged his wife or not.

genius xkcd remix bravo

@eigenrobot you are neither first, nor leftist, nor snowflake. discuss.

is that success?

I'm listening to Plutarch & he starts the life of Pericles with a basically unrelated ramble about how certain women buy 'puppies and young monkeys' instead of having children. Truly nothing is new under the sun

same, and I am AGGRESSIVELY not learning who he is this week better to go pull some rocks or pick up some branches

"No country has a right to exist. Countries must fight for their existence, as do we all." I press send on the tweet. I smile. I sip from the k-cup coffee the office serves. I revise the excel books. I submit my time in accordance with the client's expectations. The morning sun is shining into my office window, and the glare hurts my eyes. As I pull the chain that lowers the shades, a genetic memory is activated in my head. I am raising the sails in the Mediterranean. In the dead of a moonless night, my fire ship approaches the Ottoman fleet. I whisper to myself, "Konstantí, you are going to die." The resolution focuses me as the shadow of the Turkish fleet grows. I let go of the chain. I sip more coffee. It is bitter enough to let me know it is working. I have added more value than the client expected. It is a good day.

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4/ which way, Western Man?

it's totally not taking the edge off

@jackvsaunders 5/ ...and thanks for the kind words, friend!

@jackvsaunders 4/ No, there are two distinct series: - Aristillus - Red State The latter series is comprised of Red State Mars (out in ~8 weeks), and prequel Red State Earth (exact publication date unclear - either later this year, or spring next year) x.com/SixBitProxyWax…

consumed with rage and blackpill think I'll make a double espresso to help take the edge off