Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
You’re focusing on the wrong part of my argument. The cat bit was a humorous throwaway.
Memento mori is directly and explicitly tied to humility and mindfulness. This is well documented from both contemporary and historical sources and is absolutely distinct from the indulgence of “making the most out of life”. YOLO is about risks and embracing the experience rather than contemplating the consequences. YOLO is closer to “hold my beer” than anything else.
This couldn’t be more incorrect. Memento mori is a call for humility. Carpe diem is a call for purposeful action. YOLO is a “hold my beer” moment preceding a calculated stupidity.
Carpe diem is a call to action - to not fritter your life away on inconsequential things. YOLO is a polite way to say “fuck it”.
Not technically correct, superficially correct. “A cat on a pillar and a caterpillar are basically the same thing! Amirite?”
Memento mori is a caution against excessive pride. We are all equal in the grave and we are all going to die. Memento mori tokens or reminders were carried by powerful people to remind them to temper their decisions and maintain humility. Definitely not the “fuck it” attitude of YOLO.
Sing it brother! Suddenly not knowing where anything is or locking me out of alternative apps is fucked.
Can I help kill it? I hate that goddam thing.
From Robert Reich:
Billie Eilish can’t run for president. She is under 35.Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t run for president. He was born in Austria.Donald Trump can’t run for president. He engaged in and supported an insurrection.It’s in the Constitution, folks.
Eta: there was already a post on the Reich quote. https://lemmy.world/post/9894249
Are you thinking of Madison Cawthorn? Cause Gaetz is still in there er… plugging away.
It is now. The widdle puddy tat dates to 1989.
I don’t disagree with that, but she knew exactly what she was brought in to do and jumped in with both feet. Would it have been someone else if she turned the gig down? Of course. But she said yes so it was her.
Thank you! I’m normally the crank making this comment. Also don’t forget for the heroin example that the acetyl groups get cleaved after crossing the BBB so it goes back to being regular ol’ morphine before it can bind to a receptor.
The Linux program that had a cat chase your mouse was Neko.
I remember Carly Fiorina getting hired and almost immediately things started turning to shit.
He doesn’t need any help in the GOP primary. Every other candidate is in single digits lol.
Smith in his appeal to the justices asked them to take the rare step of reviewing the issue before a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, weighs in.
There is nothing rare about the request. It’s called “cert before judgement” and the DoJ used it 10 times in the four years that Trump was president.
It’s most commonly used in a situation like this where the appeal is interlocutory meaning the appeal stops the trial cold while it’s resolved.
My hopes were so high for the stupid thing. They couldn’t tell the story in front of them that was already loaded with allegorical social justice issues. They had to reinterpret the entire thing and just plain fucked it up. Just sad.
Projection is a powerful drug.
So MGOW for women.