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TV show idea: a legal drama set in a zombie community, titled "Habeas Corpses."

I am sad to hear about the shooting at Michigan State. Fellow Americans, it's time to stop shooting your fellow Americans.

I had six meetings and calls yesterday. One was a no-show, and four of the remaining five mentioned ChatGPT in some way.

Scrolling through social media is a bit like a Snickers bar: enjoying a little here and there is fine, but if you overdo it, you'll be unhealthy and you'll feel bad.

"We must not mistake faith in God for faith in faith." -Brad Young, "Jesus the Jewish Theologian"

At least it wasn't a baked potato.

Alternatively: Too bad it wasn't a baked potato.

What will people do with their "Brandon" flags/merch if neither Biden nor Trump is the next president of the US?

No one is completely ok on his or her own.

What if [the trend] isn't a short-term situation, but persists for decades or centuries?

What is the core of your worldview? What could or would change that?

I know some people like this.

"...all his new acquaintances, in spite of the differences of their ages and their characters, had one point in common which made them all alike: they were all people with a splendid past and a very poor present. Of their past they all - every one of them - spoke with enthusiasm; their attitude to the present was almost one of contempt. The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love the act of living. [The boy] did not yet know that, and before the stew had been all eaten he firmly believed that the men sitting round the cauldron were the injured victims of fate. [The old man] told them that in the past, before there were railways, he used to go with trains of waggons to Moscow and to Nizhni, and used to earn so much that he did not know what to do with his money; and what merchants there used to be in those days! what fish! how cheap everything was! Now the roads were shorter, the merchants were stingier, the peasants were poorer, the bread was dearer, everything had shrunk and was on a smaller scale."
-Anton Chekov, "The Steppe"

I don't think I've ever used the word "excresence" in conversation.

You are a fantastic and awesome person. Don't believe that too hard, though, or it stops being true.

The "send" button is not an imperative command.

I imagine a seller of plate-glass saloon windows could have made good money in the Old West. Just have to stay a step or two behind the marshals.

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