"In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience."
Stokely Carmichael
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"The Dischord work ethic is very similar to skateboarding when I came to know it. If you wanted to ride something, you had to build it. So you had to learn how to build. A ton of enthusiasm, coupled with a crude understanding of hammer, nails, and wood gleaned from building tree forts would be the basis for a series of horrible ramps. But each one got a little better. Eventually, you’re good enough to build a house. It’s the same with music: it’s borrowed instruments plus a little talent, and bash it out until your skills catch up with your enthusiasm. I still live by that way of thinking: Don’t let not knowing how to do something stop you from doing something. Just get started—figure it out."
Jason Farrell (Bells Of, Swiz, Fury, Bluetip, Sweetbelly Freakdown, Red Hare) (https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/10/13/dischord-records-a-roundtable/)
"A TERRIFYING new “legal high” has hit our streets. Methylcarbonol, known by the street name “wiz”, is a clear liquid that causes cancers, liver problems, and brain disease, and is more toxic than ecstasy and cocaine. Addiction can occur after just one drink, and addicts will go to any lengths to get their next fix — even letting their kids go hungry or beating up their partners to obtain money. Casual users can go into blind RAGES when they’re high, and police have reported a huge increase in crime where the drug is being used. Worst of all, drinks companies are adding “wiz” to fizzy drinks and advertising them to kids like they’re plan Coca-Cola. Two or three teenagers die from it EVERY WEEK overdosing on a binge, and another TEN from having accidents caused by reckless driving. “Wiz” is a public menace — when will the Home Secretary think of the children and make this dangerous substance Class A?"
“If alcohol were discovered today, would it be legal?” - David Nutt - Drugs without the hot air: minimising the harms of legal and illegal drugs
"Almost every time I’ve talked to a reporter has gone this way: they had already decided the narrative beforehand. I’m never being asked for information — I’m being used for quotes to back up their predetermined story, regardless of whether it’s true. Misquotes usually aren’t mistakes — they’re edited, consciously or not, to say what the reporter needs them to say."
Marco Arment.
So true. So sad. This and extreme political polarization are in my opinion journalism’s 2 biggest sins in recent years.
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The boundaries of many communities or created by fiat or accident — or both. The United States and the USSR split Korea on the 38th parallel because that line stood out on a map in an officer’s National Geographic. Earlier that same month, Germany was divided into zones of occupation that reflected, more than anything else, whose troops were standing where at the time. Many of our own American states were created by royal charter or act of Congress, their borders drawn by people who would never see the land in person. Absentee mapmaking was and still is a much more pernicious problem in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East — and everywhere else that tread of Empire has stamped the soil.
Only very occasionally have maps been drawn to reflect “the will of the people” and even in those cases, as we’ve seen in Israel, which began its modern history as, officially, the British Mandate for Palestina, the question naturally becomes: which people, whose will.
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Dataclism - Christian Rudder
Bane - Final Backward Glance
“Listen, I’m not walking away from here
with a bunch of things I still need to declare.
A wasted life is worse than death
it’s up to you to figure out the rest.
This is my final backward glance.
I’ve never been much good at saying goodbye.”
Font Men - Mini Documentary
"An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose"
Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
"Earnings don’t miss estimates; estimates miss earnings. No one ever says “the weather missed estimates.” They blame the weatherman for getting it wrong. Finance is the only industry where people blame their poor forecasting skills on reality"
Morgan Housel - Business Insider
"If you have acted, or plan to act, in a way that keeps doctor-assisted suicide illegal, […]. I want you to die a painful death, and soon. And I’d be happy to tell you the same thing to your face."
Scott Adams - I Hope My Father Dies Soon
"La verdad es que yo no suelo ver la tele. Pero no es pedantería: es que soy demasiado inteligente como para que me guste"
Cristian Campos - Ni para cafres servimos (ZoomNews)
"There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"
Howard Zinn
"The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine, by implementing a policy of systematic spoliation to the profit of the State, made all productive activity impossible. The reason is, not that there were no more large fortunes: on the contrary, their build-up was made easier. But the foundation of their build-up was now no longer creative energy, or the discovery and bring into use the new sources of wealth, or the improvement and development of husbandry, industry and commerce. It was, on the contrary, the cunning exploitation of a privileged position in the State, used to despoil people and State alike. The officials, great and small, got rich by way of fraud and corruption."
Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff on the Roman Empire. Not much has changed ever since.
"In the pursuit of health, wealth & peace
Try not to dwell in the rear view on momentary street.
Shun substance for distraction.
You can’t squeeze love from hateful action."
MLIW - Health, Wealth and Peace
Parametric Expression.
Creepy as fuck