Yeah. I'm the neurodivergent person who usually turns on the light when they come into work. All my coworkers seem to enjoy dwelling in darkness (and cONsErVe eNErGy) but I apologize in case I'm waking anyone up and flip that switch anyway. We get a lot of visitors and the place shouldn't look like a frigging bat cave. Plus, I need the energy that the light gives me, like you said.
My lockscreen is a photo I snapped at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts a few years ago. On the one hand it represents a very personal memory. On the other I just find it aesthetically pleasing, so maybe someone else might as well? Thanks for posting your favorites, by the way!
edit: this version isn't cropped right, sorry, but if you take the middle part it should fit nicely on a phone.
Yes, we need to grow more independent of the U.S. (while maintaining good relations with it). Investing in a flourishing European arms industry will not just secure our independence and strengthen our common defense. It will also be an investment that pays off economically via jobs created here, corporate taxes paid here, etc.
I wish we could invest into building a more peaceful and just world instead. But that is not what our current situation calls for. Right now we need to safeguard the peace and justice we have already. We've come a long way and mustn't allow an aggressive and ruthless neighbor to threaten what we've achieved up to this point.
I learned a few years ago that the Duke is, in fact, not frozen waiting to be resuscitated. Of course I only learned this after arguing with my prof in film class about it. Classic urban legend.
Now I'm worried about any other hoaxes I might have absorbed in the pre-Internet years.
At least I know that the Glomar Explorer was not looking for manganese nodules.
Abraham Lincoln thought they could not. In his inaugural address, he opined that the union was formed for perpetuity and that if the accession of a state to the union required the consent of all other states, so would its secession. He was, among other things, a lawyer so he usually knew what he was talking about.
Oh, that's mostly about thermonuclear war. Much as I support Ukraine, you don't want to give Vlad the impression he needs to send nukes somewhere and start the Doomsday spiral. It takes some fine balancing. Morally, you are 100% right.
IDK why people are downvoting my post. That's literally what that is.
I visited a talk with Peter Singer in Washington, D.C. a few years ago where people applauded a guy who had considered joining an NGO and decided to become an investment broker and donate to Effective Altruism instead. 🤔
I treated every undergrad paper like a dissertation. Didn't work out all that well. My grades were excellent, though.