Whoa, brexit referendum is in two days? Better finish up that article I've been putting off for two months.

This feels like high school homework all over again.

Another irregular verb:

We have a grassroots movement.
You have a pressure group.
They're a lobby.

There are many things that get called "lifehacks". Few are actually worthy of the name. This one is.

TLDR version: Mental hygiene starts with physical hygiene. By cleaning up and taking care of yourself, you’re engaging in a sort of symbolical catharsis that has powerful psychological effects. When you...
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Priorities, people.

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"Your hair looks great today, like a young Stalin!"

Uhh, thanks ?

There is serendipitous symbolism to Troy being located in present day Turkey.

Because that Turkey is a trojan horse is beyond discussion.

The fight is about *whose* trojan horse behind *whose* walls it will be. East or west.

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Erdogan is milking the situation with the skill and gusto of an oriental merchant.

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The customary thermonuclear bomb thrown into a popular controversy.

On June 6th, the Swiss rejected Universal Basic Income (UBI) in a referendum by an overwhelming margin of 77 to 23 %, which I publicly predicted on reddit weeks ago based on intimate knowledge of t…
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Insight: all the people predicting the imminent collapse of civilization desperately wish for it. In reality, things have never been better.

Dear Brazilians,

In the line of my work today, I hooked up a promising research team working on the Zika virus with influential people at the WHO.

If the olympics happen, it will be only thanks to me . You're welcome. Plus a few million healthy babies.

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Just another day at the office.

Z.

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Starting to think ISIS stands for "Imbecile Self Identification System".

European politicians be like:

1. Let’s ban Uber, raid Google’s offices and sue the shit out of every profitable technology company trying to do business on the continent.

2. But but but why doesn’t Europe have a Silicon Valley?

"Unrealistic standards of beauty" = what everybody under the age of 50 can achieve with 5 hours of light exercise a week.

Quick read. (5 minutes or so)

The Economist ran an interesting article about the ancient question of power corrupting people. Here’s the link. Are the kinds of people who seek power predisposed to evil*? Or does power cor…
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Fortunately for marketers everywhere, authenticity is one of the cheapest things to fake.

Twitter delivers some truth.

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There is a massive trend of happily ignoring, or even excusing, real problems, while shooting the messenger - a culture of publicly scolding people for noticing bad things, but not for doing bad things. I suggest we refocus our attention.

Queen Elizabeth II. called Chinese officials “very rude”. The media responded by calling it a “diplomatic gaffe”. The event is fascinating because it illustrates an importan…
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I've been invited to two weddings in the last week. Independently of each other, both invitations addressed me as "Dark lord".

I should probably take a good hard look at myself.

Something programmers and language teachers have in common is that they both spend a lot of time hunting missing punctuation.

"Many receive advice. Only the wise profit from it."
(-Harper Lee)