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"I'm John Laurens in the place to be! Two pints of Sam Adams, but I'm workin on three!"

The beer Sam Adams wasn’t brewed for another 208 years, so either:

Lin Manuel Miranda was human and made a mistake

liquified parts of founding father Samuel Adams were sold in 1776

John Laurens can time travel

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hamilton: i'll make the world safe and sound for you

hamilton: also here is a pistol and i'll see you after your duel fam

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I am not a theater geek

I am not a musical geek

I am not a singer or songwriter or a musician

I hate history

I couldn’t’ve told you who Alexander Hamilton was two months ago

But I would sell my soul to have Hamilton Tickets

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MY TABLET IS FINALLY FIXEDDDDDDD

LETS REJOICE WITH COTTON CANDY GARNET

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A tiny beauty

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jesus christ, be polite to children and show them manners. fucking say excuse me when you walk past them, apologize to them when you cut them off, thank them when they’re courteous to you. they’re not little objects that don’t matter. you should be a fucking example and teach them how to treat people, instead of acting like they’re these invisible THINGS that don’t have feelings or don’t notice when they aren’t acknowledged. be polite to children the same way you’d be polite to someone of your own age group or older. you can respect a child.

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I’m watching a show on using philosophy for modern situations and the episode I’m watching right now is about “working less.”

They’ve interviewed a representative of an employer organization and he said something like: “I don’t think a shorter workweek is viable because people want to work, they want to provide value.” And I think the latter part is true, but doesn’t necessarily imply the former part.

I agree that people want to work and provide value, but the mistake he makes is equivocating that with making money/profits. If we, somehow, make a four-day workweek the standard, people won’t just be lazy one additional way per week. Instead, they’ll provide things of value that can’t be easily expressed in money.

People want to work =/= people crave a job

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Buddhism is a hundred times more realistic than Christianity: posing problems objectively and coolly is part of its inheritance, for Buddhism comes after a philosophic movement which spanned centuries. The concept of “God” had long been disposed of when it arrived. Buddhism is the only genuinely positivistic religion in history. This applies even to its theory of knowledge (a strict phenomenalism): it no longer says “struggle against sin” but, duly respectful of reality, “struggle against suffering.” Buddhism is profoundly distinguished from Christianity by the fact that the self-deception of the moral concepts lies far behind it. In my terms, it stands beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche (via thatlitsite)

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The importance of “due process” and “innocent until proven guilty” cannot be stressed enough and anyone wanting to cast them aside for retributive justice really have no idea what they are asking for.

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PSSSSSST.

BERNIE SANDERS IS POLLING BETTER THAN THE TOP 3 REPUBLICANS NATIONALLY

BERNIE SANDERS IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE FROM BOTH PARTIES WHO HAS A FAVORABLE RATING IN THE EARLY VOTING STATES

BERNIE SANDERS IS ELECTABLE PASS IT ON

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Juvenile justice reformers have tried for years to figure out what works to help rehabilitate youth in trouble, and a recent shift away from locking kids up has been at the forefront of reform efforts. One of the most common alternatives to incarceration is to order kids directly into probation, instead of juvenile hall.

But the goals of these alternative approaches don’t always match the reality — and disproportionately impact youth of color.

The juvenile hall in San Leandro, Calif., has 360 beds — all of which were full when the detention center opened eight years ago. Today, the facility is half-empty.

Meant To Keep Youths Out Of Detention, Probation Often Leads Them There

Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio

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I keep getting bored with makeup.

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The background here: my girlfriend had a 1944 dollhouse that she grew up with, and acquired bits of ‘furniture’ to make the experience more real. We were just down at her mom’s place for the holidays and, feeling nostalgic, she set up the bedroom. Her cat, Sunny, being the quirky thing that she is, finds new things interesting and manifests this curiosity by lying on them. These pics capture that moment: a small doll house bedroom with a gigantic Maine Coon, head resting on the pillow and everything. The first pic caught her getting comfortable, with her tongue just sticking out of her mouth.

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Maybe someone's already asked this, but:

Does it bother anyone else that Pearl was the only one at Steven’s play? Where are the other gems?

Maybe they’re busy on a mission or something, okay, fine, but: where was Greg?

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[My piano teacher] never seemed to judge me for my mistakes.  Instead, he’d try to fix them with me: repeating a three-note phrase, differently each time, trying to get me to unlearn a hand position or habitual movement pattern that was systematically sending my fingers to wrong notes.

I had never thought about wrong notes that way.  I had thought that wrong notes came from being “bad at piano” or “not practicing hard enough,” and if you practiced harder the clinkers would go away.  But that’s a myth. In fact, wrong notes always have a cause. An immediate physical cause.   Just before you play a wrong note, your fingers were in a position that made that wrong note inevitable. Fixing wrong notes isn’t about “practicing harder” but about trying to unkink those systematically error-causing fingerings and hand motions….

Often, I think mistakes are more like bugs than errors.  My clinkers weren’t random; they were in specific places, because I had sub-optimal fingerings in those places.  A kid who gets arithmetic questions wrong usually isn’t getting them wrong at random; there’s something missing in their understanding, like not getting the difference between multiplication and addition.  Working generically “harder” doesn’t fix bugs (though fixing bugs does require work). …These days, learning disabilities are far more highly diagnosed than they used to be. And sometimes I hear the complaint about rich parents, “Suddenly if your kid’s getting B’s, you have to believe it’s a learning disability.  Nobody can accept that their kid is just plain mediocre.  Are there no stupid people left?”  And maybe there’s something to the notion that the kid who used to be just “stupid” or “not a great student” is now often labeled “learning disabled.” But I want to complicate that a little bit. Thing is, I’ve worked with learning disabled kids.  There were kids who had trouble reading, kids who had trouble with math, kids with poor fine motor skills, ADD and autistic kids, you name it.  And these were mostly pretty mild disabilities.  These were the kids who, in decades past, might just have been C students, but whose anxious modern-day parents were sending them to special programs for the learning disabled. But what we did with them was nothing especially mysterious or medical.  We just focused, carefully and non-judgmentally, on improving their areas of weakness.  The dyslexics got reading practice.  The math-disabled got worksheets and blocks to count.  Hyperactive kids were taught to ask themselves “How’s my motor running today?” and be mindful of their own energy levels and behavior.  The only difference between us and a “regular” school is that when someone was struggling, we tried to figure out why she was struggling and fix the underlying problem, instead of slapping her a bad report card and leaving it at that. And I have to wonder: is that “special education” or is it just education? Maybe nobody’s actually stupid.  Maybe the distinction between “He’s got a learning disability” and “He’s just lousy at math” is a false one.  Maybe everybody should think of themselves as having learning disabilities, in the sense that our areas of weakness need to be acknowledged, investigated, paid special attention, and debugged.

-Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity

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