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I'm using my Kroger card as a bookmark! I accidently washed my wallet in the laundry last night. And I brought home a POUND of shrimp from work to eat for lunch today, I ate that last night. So we got that going for us

If I was a robot I’d beep like r2d2 but I can still communicate in spoken languages I just ruse everyone to think I can only beep and boop cause that’d be funny

Pro tip, Naples airport security line is like 90 minutes long at 4am so just plan accordingly

"Deprovincialization" - still learning English! Also, and funny enough in the same sentence, "rankle". I mean I guess I've certainly heard the word before, probably half paying attention to a show or movie. Rankle. Quite onomatopoetic you might say

Dr. Carl Sagan writes about the Great Demotions, the discoveries that our planet, star and galaxy are rather unremarkable in the universe. Here's a fun idea, "Last Thursdayism". Its a satirical logical argument that it's not possible to prove that the universe, all its visible light and us with all our memories for that matter didn't just pop into existence last Thursday. It's not logically falsifiable, how curious!

Here's a good joke! Aristotle, Plato, St. Agustine and St. Thomas Aquinas walk into a bar, and remark how the all the celestial bodies orbit the Earth. I respond "holy shit time traveling philosophers" and promptly leave the bar and go to ihop

Wow, very dense and beautiful imagery. My campers are too loud and I can’t concentrate. I read 10 pages in 30 minutes

Something about reptiles idk I gotta go back and read my bookmarks and highlights

Site director Viktor Brukhanov also had the task of effectively planning and running the entire city surrounding the plant, that's called an "atomgrad". He had a bronze statue of Prometheus placed in a city square. I didn't know his origin; Zeus was so enraged by the theft of the god's most powerful secret that he chained Prometheus to a rock, where a giant eagle descended to peck out his liver every day for eternity

Not only did I lose my bookmark irl I somehow marked this as finished so screw it I’m just gonna start uhhh here

I haven't updated for a few days - anywho this book is an absolutely gut wrenching piece, it really keeps you coming back aching for some sort of peace and resolve

30 pages a day lets go baby this shit aint nothin to me

I'm slackin I gotta get back on my 30 pages a day

Ok I guess my last update didn't save? Whatever - here's a fact that I found to be totally bananas. Its estimated that nearly HALF of all humans have died before the age of 5. Wow, keep the hits coming Mr. John Green

I love an Indianapolis shoutout in my book; a real "granfalloon" moment for us all. IU!

I tell ya what I am NOT interested so far! But I don't read a lot of fiction, I'll give it some time to marinate

18 pages plus change (foreward by Angela Davis)

In a 2016 poll 91% of Republicans and 94% of Dems reported being "unsatisfied" or "mad as hell" about "money in politics", and I would really like to see the breakdown of who among them knows of or furthermore understands Citizens United, AND what sacrifices they'd be willing to make to truly rectify its consequences - would you for instance write to your rep? Protest? Or are we really that apathetic? I'm guilty too

p165 "Unless Democrats stand squarely on the side of democracy against oligarchy, much of America w2ill continue to believe him or any future politician who imitates Trump's authoritarian demagoguery."

So I had these thoughts on a quote that Reich says on page 92, regarding the capitalist view that "if some people aren't pad enough to live on, the market has determined they aren't worth enough" - I think what anti-union, pro free-market people fail to really reconcile is that its a question of who we want to be, and like Reich, I don't want to be a member of a country that permits poverty like the system does now

Seen this guy on Insta? He's alright. Could be taller tho. Hit the gym pal.