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Insane fact about American red tape: There's more green energy waiting to be connected to the grid than there is energy on the grid right now.

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Imagine Jesus telling you you loved someone just like He would have

“Established is His law, and changeless it shall stand Deep writ upon the human heart, on sea, on land”

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The opposite of a homological word, a word that possesses the property it expresses, is a heterological word, that is, a word that does not possess the property it expresses. Question: Is the word heterological itself heterological or homological? If it is homological, it has

"Almost the central theme of the book is the contrast between the Hobbits (or "the Shire") and the appalling destiny to which some of them are called, the terrifying discovery that the humdrum happiness of the Shire, which they had taken for granted as something normal, is in

It would astound the whole monarchist past that, considering the now utterly rotten condition of the most essential institutional fabric of our civilization—from jurists who unleash schizophrenics with knives, to virologists who invent pandemics—we can fret about “bad kings”

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You can just do things.

You can just ignore the zeitgeist. You can do things that are against the pop culture. You can just set your sights on higher things rather than lower things.

Remembering that Will Stancil exists and thus you’re doing fine. You can just do things. You’ll survive failure. You’ll survive anything. Look at Will Stancil. God is so merciful.

Lewis talks about the danger of pretending crime is a disease and criminals patients. What he predicts is precisely what we now have. The only way back to normal is normalizing retribution. The only solution is real justice, immediate, and radical by liberal standards.

The neuroscientist just stared for what seems like forever, registering the obvious, when my actor friend finally burst out in a laugh; " Hahaha Buggy here just destroyed your life's work!". The doctor admitted that no such data existed.

I said that in Catholic moral theology, the body conforms to the operation of the soul, and so we would expect to find in the body, signs of the soul's degeneracy. The dinner party was appalled by my choice of word. I continued...

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@eigenrobot @realLPBeria @kitten_beloved @orthonormalist That definitely covers a significant aspect of American self-identification with regards to liberty, and I agree with much of it: Different modes fulfill different functions best, merit has primacy, and authority is contextual. However, it's missing an extremely important

Men also don't seem to realize to the extent that women *only see the variance* and the mean or average simply...disappears for them.

Men severely underestimate the variance in women’s tastes