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I love the lines the sun made in the foreground throughout the year.
via Columbia (name).
Columbia (pronounced /kɵˈlʌmbiə/) is a poetic name for the Americas and the feminine personification of the United States of America. It has inspired the names of many persons, places, objects, institutions, and companies in the Western Hemisphere and beyond.
Look at that sassy America!
Remember when magazine covers used to be ballsy and culturally relevant?
Nowadays they just do shameless shit like this remake from a few years ago.
No,” said my dad, shaking his head sadly. “No, because print will run out of money, and you’ll be telling your kids, ‘Oh, when I was little, we used to buy information that we read while we had coffee in the morning. A person delivered it every day to my door and it was sort of uncomfortably dry, the paper and the ink used to print it, but everyone who contributed to it got paid and had health insurance. And now we all sit at home and look at the computer.’
Lawrence, 71, made his getaway in his wheelchair, with $2,000 in cash on his lap. He was headed back to his rented room at the nearby San Diego Downtown Lodge, but he took a meandering route down Seventh Avenue until the police caught up with him five minutes later.
And just like that, the rush was over. But that was all part of the plan.
The way Lawrence tells it, Monday’s robbery of a Chase Bank was just a desperate ploy to get back behind bars, where he believes he will receive better medical care than he has been able to obtain on his own.
Jesus.
Robber says he did it to go back to prison - SignOnSanDiego.com
I think taste offers the closest, the richest, source domain for understanding morality. First, the links between taste, affect, and behavior are as clear as could be. Tastes are either good or bad. The good tastes, sweet and savory, and salt to some extent, these make us feel “I want more.” They make us want to approach. They say, “this is good.” Whereas, sour and bitter tell us, “whoa, pull back, stop.”
Second, the taste metaphor fits with our intuitive morality so well that we often use it in our everyday moral language. We refer to acts as “tasteless,” as “leaving a bad taste” in our mouths. We make disgust faces in response to certain violations.
Third, every culture constructs its own particular cuisine, its own way of pleasing those taste receptors. The taste analogy gets at what’s universal—that is, the taste receptors of the moral mind—while it leaves plenty of room for cultural variation. Each culture comes up with its own particular way of pleasing these receptors, using local ingredients, drawing on historical traditions.
And fourth, the metaphor has an excellent pedigree. It was used 2,300 years ago in China by Mencius, who wrote, “Moral principles please our minds as beef and mutton and pork please our mouths.”
Edge: JONATHAN HAIDT: The New Science of Morality
How should we talk about morality, exactly?
“First, you’ll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all — so much! incredible! — suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn’t, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn’t even guess. In particular, you’ll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn’t know about and didn’t know they had, and you’ll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well.
“You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you’ve started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of hidden information, which is much more closely held than mere top secret data, you will forget there ever was a time when you didn’t have it, and you’ll be aware only of the fact that you have it now and most others don’t….and that all those other people are fools.
“I’ve done that before, as a junior associate, but it’s dangerous,” DiCaprio says with raspy wistfulness. He has a vision of privatized British hospitals crumbling into a foamy sea. “But the only way to do it is to infiltrate the client’s internal management consulting group to convince the board that it’s their own strategic objectives they’re implementing.”
“If you fail,” says Watanabe, “you will stay in ‘limbo,’ which means spending the rest of your life developing dynamic solutions for leveraged market-driven global enterprise frameworks across downstream cross-platform industry. If you succeed, I will help you return to your former career as an independent boutique retailer of imported artisanal tapenade.”
Before you drink from a skull,” said Manisha Ma Bhairavi, “you must first find the right corpse.
“This is a man who rowed across the Atlantic ocean, crossed Greenland by foot, bicycled through India on highest road in the world and never said no to a venomous snake in his life.”
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From the founding of the prison system forward, there was a serious, lively debate about the purpose of punishment: Should the prison be devoted to vengeance, making criminals pay with their time and their blood for their transgressions against society? Or should it be devoted to reform, mending broken lives and making better citizens? Each position has its contradictions, but each links punishment to a certain theory of justice. Can we say the same thing about the vast, sprawling prison system of our own time? Some see it as the triumph of a vengeful ideal of punishment. But I wonder if our system has any connection, anymore, to the ideal of justice. The prison has become a warehouse for the poor and the undesirable. It seems to be built on fear and confusion, not on any shared sense of justice.
