The audiobook in English translation is 19 hrs long but only 17 hrs in its original Spanish. Is Spanish more efficient, as a spoken language? Or does translation itself add time?

Woody from the "hollup, let him cook" Kingdom Hearts meme, with "cook" replaced by "be clear"

“Words”

The big innovation of Mahayana Columboism is there can be more than one COLUMBO per trichilliocosm at once
Columbo prime: “One more thing…”
Columbo of the Pure Land: “…and one more one more thing…”

*loudly so everyone in the house can hear* MOM THEYRE INVENTING BUDDHISM FROM COLUMBO

Buddha (paraphrased): in the superduper long term we are all John Maynard Keynes in one universe or another

Inside you there are two Keyneses. The first says that automation is proceeding at such a pace that your grandchildren will only need to work ten hours a week. The second says you should be paid by the state to dig up holes and fill them. Here's the rub, they're on separate trolleys...

i forgot about the secret third keynes #nokeynesnogains

Narrator: someone did invent something. Malthusians relaxed. And nobody ever had to think about natural limits to growth ever again! 😅

Malthus: but we can’t develop agricultural capacity to feed us as fast as we can reproduce ourselves! Ack!
Friend: I’m sure someone will invent something Thomas
Malthus: the maths not mathing!!!
Friend: *to onlookers* he’s cool he just invented economics

Wonder if Malthus’s friends ever asked him if he would “curb your malthusianism”

“Everything incisive and influential must be balanced with something stupid and unknown”

Narrator: he was not. He had gonnorhea

The upāya of Keynes, different lessons for different audiences: in the short term, we dig holes out of a Great Depression. In the ultra long term, we work ten hour work weeks. In the medium long term, we are all dead.

9% of kitchen table issue dems going "wow, based!" is so funny

Nobody’s invaded any countries to “save” Christian tradwives from scary violent men… yet

“Yes we know we belong to the land / and the land we belong to is grand” a lot creepier when you think about who originally got to say it

Two classic USian musicals analyzed so far: Oklahoma was originally about Native Americans (erased) and Puerto Ricans yelled at Sondheim about West Side Story

‪My settled teaching strategy going forward is:

100 & 200 level classes: in-person exams for the foreseeable future

300-level classes & up: start assigning papers again. Explain to students (mostly majors) that if you use AI in a 400-level philosophy class, you're only clowning on yourself

For the Han Chines: not bitter melon, but probably "stinky tofu"

Buddha (paraphrased): in the superduper long term we are all John Maynard Keynes in one universe or another

I don't remember where I read this but every culinary culture has an objectively super disgusting fermented food that is an "acquired taste" which if you acquire confers you cultural mastery

One of the passages I might be arguing with OP about -- on Obamacare

Race traitor! 😂 Kugua fam RISE UP

I think you're right that his name has become shorthand for a set of assumed political positions. Post-2025 I think BSJobs is read to mean "DOGE, but leftishly"

bsky.app/profile/aohs...

The upāya of Keynes, different lessons for different audiences: in the short term, we dig holes out of a Great Depression. In the ultra long term, we work ten hour work weeks. In the medium long term, we are all dead.

i forgot about the secret third keynes #nokeynesnogains

What's the status of "debate" over Arendt's characterization of "evil" as "banal"? Might have been a decade or so since I last checked in -- objectors countered that Eichmann and his defense team played up his dopey "I'm just following orders" bit and Arendt had been snookered

Inside you there are two Keyneses. The first says that automation is proceeding at such a pace that your grandchildren will only need to work ten hours a week. The second says you should be paid by the state to dig up holes and fill them. Here's the rub, they're on separate trolleys...