blood sucking leeches versus privacy sucking websites …
and both of them are judging you
hopefully we’ve already switched to a perennial calendar (preferably something like an ISO week date calendar (a variation of a leap week calendar)) by that point which would make things a lot easier to adapt to a new situation …
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
—G.K. Chesterton paraphrased by Neil Gaiman, “The Red Angel”, Tremendous Trifles (1909)
“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”
”Labor Day – the day we celebrate all those who can’t afford to take the day off.”
just point it out to Vance
a pharmaceutical company profiteering off a health crisis? nah …
(whereas I hate infinite scrolling pages)
a couple years later, someone caught Amazon pulling the same thing …
some RSS readers allow you to run filters on specific feeds BUT if those feeds are happily padding out their off-season, chances are they’re keeping it generic enough there’s nothing to filter against :(
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Pëtr Kropotkin (1902)