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My favorite basic bookkeeping book for just the basics.

Barron's E-Z Bookkeeping by Wallace W. Kravitz, Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Barons Education Series 2009)



Reminds me of this podcast, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?”

The argument being if fines for breaking rules are not proportional to wealth, then wealthy people will become disdainful of those rules.

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2024/09/how-if-you-g...


"...improperly filled root canal; some root material remained inside the tooth..."

UGG. I've been experiencing noticeable tinnitus this motorcycle season. It is to the point I'm now actively investigating. Recently I read neck pain or tension can cause tinnitus. I have a terrible mattress. I'm contemplating a move, so I've been holding off on replacing it. Trying exercise and stretching in the mean time.

I also had a root canal in November 2023. The tooth was sensitive and this only abated somewhat after about six months, which is coincidentally when I noticed the tinnitus.


I would advise an x-ray of that tooth, to see if there is inflammation.

Do you speak Japanese? A key for buying items from eBay (non-Amazon, non-Alibaba items) is to communicate with sellers. How do you do this if not in Japanese?

Use proxy services like jauce.com

What an internet treasure.

“Of course, the contents of the hard drive might incriminate Rawls, but the contents of the hard drive are not considered testimony for Fifth Amendment purposes.”

Huh


I had “emigre” family in Wisconsin from NorCal. We talked a lot about the social fabric of their community. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Was the problem. High unemployment. Low paying. Low status.

We would talk about offshoring, loss of industry and for my part I couldn’t imagine a solution that could counter the corporate incentives and opportunities of globalization. It appeared as an intractable problem; sorry. Nothing we can do.

Then _politically_ everything changed in 2016. I’m not convinced there have been any truly new economic outcomes or innovation, but there is certainly a lot of rhetoric (“I alone can fix it.”).

I look at political speech through this lens. The archetypical voter I imagine repeats illogical arguments and makes contradictory statements, and they’re ok with that because of the problem they are fighting—namely that their future was lost to corporate profit and an economy that doesn’t need their labor. A hopeless battle for any individual. It’s existential crisis, and they need to unite. (Unions are weak in these times.) The politics of the right pander to their hopes (and same could be said for evangelical crusade on abortion rights. And Roe was overturned.).

Now put into this mix this chaos character creating new “ideas” using free low cost social networks who need viral content to drive views (advertising revenue).

This is literally creating the conditions envisioned in Susan Blackmore’s “Dangerous Memes”. Agents of chaos with Wuhan-chaotic-minds.

Terrifying. I’m imagining long ago someone in Prussia was reading about Freud’s work and had a terrible neighbors named Goebbels.


You can’t buy hash in the legal markets, right? What’s the substitute?


My legal market has all kinds of hash. Some is more traditional like bubble hash, others is modern like live rosin etc.


> “… languages seem inherently sequential, while ideas and knowledge tend to have a more hierarchical structure…”

Careful with your musings, or you might start thinking semiotically!

Diachrony and synchrony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diachrony_and_synchrony


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