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Got a mechanical keyboard today, let’s see if it has any positive or negative effect on my writing

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Right now it’s quite fun to write with it.. feels like a real jaunt of a writing experience

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Will it make me more excited to do long form writing?

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I need to learn to press shift with my left hand when typing a question mark. My current habit is to always press shift with my right hand even if the character I need to type is also on my right hand, and I think this is a significant slow down

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How much thock? Pretty good thock…

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The USA’s slow moving politics provides its democracy resilience

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It seems like the inability of any individual to create make unilateral, significant policy change within one’s lifetime is a source of resilience

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No matter how much that may frustrate us liberals and progressives who are pushing for significant change as quickly as possible

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Going to bring in a couple reminders of note ideas

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The US President should shed away the pageantry of the position to make it more of a servile role

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I got this idea from Kemal Kilicdaroglu during his campaign earlier this year

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I think the videos he took in his modest house might have been what inspired this

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Maybe disassemble Air Force One and a lot of the pageantry around their position so that it becomes less of a prestige related role

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This type of thing may reduce those running based solely on ego

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Though possible it won’t make a significant difference here

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More like a servant of the people role, like a Prime Minister

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Raising children

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If you have a lot of money, should you simply guarantee basic Human Rights for your children in lieu of a proper government doing so?

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Housing, healthcare, food, other basics…

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White American

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Being white is being comfortable in most public places

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Most public places are places where white folks are comfortable

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This was initially a thought that came from thinking about what we need to do to build public places that are truly inclusive

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Many Third places are more accessible for the White American

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Libraries may be an exception to this

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If you could hibernate indefinitely, what year would you want to wake up ?

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The far too small but also too pervasive epidemic of overly precise communication

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Math people seem to be in this significantly

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But of course, it’s rampant in philosophy

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Dropping articles

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The English language seems to slowly be dropping articles

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possible this is my bias because a lot of Turkish people drop articles

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it seems like this is a possible efficiency gain

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100 Years of Translating Wang Wei

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19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

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read this with two friends redacted

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using redacted to indicate places where I can come back and put names in if the person is ok with it

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Would a Toki Pona sign language be easy to learn ?

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Are tangled cords like shuffled cards ?

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How are Ella Fitzgerald vocal recordings so high quality ?

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