247) Day 15 -- Reason #15 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
I remember reading articles about the coming insurance-catastrophe, THIRTY YEARS AGO, circulated amongst the re-insurer companies — which are ginormous pots of money that insure the insurance companies.
The re-insurers knew, decades ago, that climate change costs for insurance companies were going to rise to uncontrollable levels in the near-to-medium future. Which is happening…now. Literally now, in 2025.
116) Dealing with the Devil: Adventures in parenting, Part 4 — Role-play, kids, and personal growth
One of the most basic, “meta” points that I know for sure sunk into my kids’ minds from their encounter with Asmodeus (and others that have occurred subsequently), is the fact that the best lies, the most devious propaganda, the most slippery, manipulative messages, are built out of the truth. The more truth that’s in the lie, the better it is. The absolute best un-truths will be built entirely out of truths, put together in such a way that, holistically, as “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, they take on a different kind of meaning.
71) Purpose -- Part 3 -- I hate you.
If I met you on the street, or at a party, or in a class, or at a job, there is a very, very, very good chance that we would get along just fine. Or at least would be able to refrain from cannibalizing whichever of us was unlucky enough to get knocked unconscious first.