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paying for civilization

Anne Helen Petersen on paying taxes: “It helps restore busted habitats, and continues work on a project making it so that there’s a trailhead within ten minutes of everyone in the county — not just people who live in the more desirable areas. It’s regrading hills to make trails more accessible. It’s making civilization better, more […]

Posted on 2 January 2020 and filed under links, outbound, thoughts

Elegy for a chickadee

Counting up the little losses in the face of looming disaster.

Posted on 18 February 2018 and filed under misc, thoughts

is facebook like smoking or factory-farmed meat?

I’ve seen a few comparisons lately of Facebook to smoking, as if it’s something that experts agree is bad for your health and we really should give up. But I think it’s more like a eating factory-farmed meat. You have the general sense that it’s bad, and if you really looked into how it gets […]

Posted on 13 February 2018 and filed under small, social media, thoughts


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