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Bryan Pickel
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Is my image in the mirror another person? He seems to be left-handed whereas I am right-handed.
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I suppose being cool is different from being awesome, which already has its own literature. academic.oup.com/jaac/article...
RIGGLE, NICK. On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck. London: Penguin Books, 2017, 224 pp., 2 b&w illus., $20.00 cloth. Book Reviews
In On Being Awesome, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle sets out to give an account of what it is to be awesome and, conversely, what it is to s
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November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Highlighted text: That the Reigns of good Princes have been always most dangerous to the Liberties of the people. For when their Successors, managing the Government with different Thoughts, would draw the Actions of those good Rulers into Precedent, and make them the Standard of the Prerogative, as if what had been done only for the good of the People, was a right in them to do, for the harm of the People, if they so pleased; it has often occasioned context, and sometimes public Disorders, before the People could recover their original Right, and get that to be declared not to be the Prerogative, which truly was never so: Since it is impossible, that nay body in the Society should ever have a right to do the People harm; though it be very possible, and reasonable, that the People should not go about to set any Bounds to the Prerogative of those Kings or Rulers, who themselves transgressed not the Bounds of public good. For Prerogative is nothing but the Power of doing publick good without a Rule.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Jesus returned with a turkey on the fourth day.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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It isn’t Thanksgiving.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The struggle is real.
google search for "Pickel Attitude", with AI Overview reading: "The query "pickle attitude" most likely refers to the work of philosopher Bryan Pickel on attitude ascriptions, which analyzes sentences like "Michael believes that Lindsay is charitable". It could also be a reference to the customer service concept, "Give 'em the Pickle," which means going the extra mile for customers."
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Especially incredible when their actual drug policy is flooding the market with illegal drugs: www.wsj.com/world/americ...
America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico’s New Drug King Cashes In
The Trump administration’s war on fentanyl created an opening for ‘El Señor Mencho’ to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by the ton.
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Taking over from Szabó.
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I can't imagine anyone betraying their own children like this: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Vance and Trump Call for Rehiring of DOGE Staffer Who Quit Over Racist Posts. Musk Obliges.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Similarly, we don’t give young school children calculators or excel when learning arithmetic even if these wind up being important for many tasks using arithmetic.
November 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Both. And also, what will the law be? What should it be?
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Help people file their taxes!
October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM