Quoting Ezra
"I think there's a useful analogy to draw here. I think a lot about an article Mark Danner wrote in the New York Review of Books many years ago about the Iraq War, and it's an article that has stuck in my mind forever, because
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2025 U.S. Tariffs and Market Impact: Analysis and Historical Comparison
The 2025 Tariffs: Nature and Scope
In early 2025, the United States imposed sweeping new tariffs that marked the steepest trade barriers in over a century [1]. These measures targeted a broad range of countries and products, far exceeding earlier tariff actions in scale. Key features of the 2025 tariff
Why Oura Ring is Popular
The Oura Ring’s popularity is driven more by form factor, focused purpose, and software design than by sensor superiority. Here's the breakdown:
1. Form Factor Advantage
* Finger placement yields cleaner PPG signals than wrist-based sensors, especially for resting heart rate and HRV.
* Comfortable, screenless, discreet — ideal for
a poem about human suffering
"The Suffering Are Both Pointless and Destined"
I found this sentence in my notebook; I don't know if I wrote it or if it's from a book.
I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about it; I think it did a good job -
Quoting Kazuo Ishiguro
“The fascinating thing for me is the way people respond to being dealt a really bad hand. And sometimes it seems to me that if there is all you know, if that’s the world you have grown up in, you cannot see the boundaries for which you have to
Inner peace requires external validation
We like to think of inner peace as something self-contained, a state of mind independent of the world. But how can we even define "inner" without an "outer"?
Your sense of self is constantly shaped by the external--your relationships, your environment, the way the world responds
Cello etudes difficulty table
Made this table with ChatGPT, accuracy unclear.
Etude Book
Etudes (Grouped by Difficulty)
Total Difficulty (5–25)
Bowing (1–5)
Shifting (1–5)
Thumb Position (1–5)
Double Stops (1–5)
Special Techniques (1–5)
Lee Op. 31
1–10
5–7
1–2
1–2
1
1
1
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