Physically Weak Men More Likely To Be Socialists

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.— Barry Unsworth, born  in 1930 

“Being kind to the unkind is a higher art of kindness”
― Slavic Saying

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor 

The servers at The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, a series of pop-up restaurants in Tokyo, are all living with dementia, which means that you might not receive what you ordered. 

All of our servers are people living with dementia. They may, or may not, get your order right.

However, rest assured that even if your order is mistaken, everything on our menu is delicious and one of a kind. This, we guarantee.

“It’s OK if my order was wrong. It tastes so good anyway.” We hope this feeling of openness and understanding will spread across Japan and through the world.

Give Your Yard Back to Nature Popular Mechanics. Once-fringe idea goes mainstream. It’s a good idea, too.
 

The Population Bust: Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It Foreign Affairs

  Efficiency for what? We talk of “optimizing” our diets, exercise, and appearance, but rarely of optimizing child care or political representation... Choices 

 

We Still Don’t Know How Gravity Works

IDEASPosted: August 16, 2019 2:59 pm

We can calculate what gravity does — whether to a cup elbowed off the edge of a table or the disk of light bent around a black hole — but we still don’t have a clue what causes it. – Washington Post

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”

… Study: Physically Weak Men More Likely To Be Socialists | Daily Wire

Irony has been around for a long time. I think what is being talked about here is the currently fashionable in-crowd faux irony.

…Overcoming Bias : Against Irony

CalPERS Board Member Theresa Taylor Breached Confidentiality, Board Engaged in Apparent Criminal Violations of Open Meeting Law in Attacks on Pro-Transparency Board Membrs

CalPERS has managed to outdo itself, in a predictably bad way.. .