It’s OK, though. As soon as all women are finally removed from women’s teams, sport will become competitive and interesting again. Sure, it will be dudes only on both male and female teams but that’s a small price to pay for true progress.
Let’s use the now infamous shakshuka video as an exercise.
Whether the woman in the video did or didn’t choose to be alone doesn’t matter. It changes reality not a whit. We are hypnotized by the concept of choice and it distracts us from what really is.
“Choice” is a story the woman on the video tells herself and others. She can change her mind about the story at any time. But that won’t change the facts.
We all create stories to make reality more palatable. There’s nothing bad in it. Actually, it’s very healthy. But there’s a growing trend where people invest some words with such strong meaning that reality fades away completely. That’s why I suggest this exercise: imagine the woman in the video saying “I chose to live like this” and then “I didn’t choose it. It just happened”. See how this is the exact same woman in the exact same situation?
I have been watching a lot of Netflix documentaries about serial killers. Yes, things at work are that good.
But what I notice about these documentaries is that they all push a single idea: police are bad. They are bad, bad, bad. So bad, in fact, that you end up reaching a conclusion that we’d be better off defunding them all into the infinity.
It takes a lot of ingenuity to get this message into stories about scary serial killers who were apprehended, brought to justice, and removed from society. You’d think that’s an argument in favor of having a criminal justice system. But Netflix keeps redoing Making a Murderer, getting people used to the idea that they should give up everything that guarantees their well-being for their own good.
But hey, it’s not completely stupid. Every day I increasingly think it is, in fact, a great privilege not to be referred to as, say, “a pink body” that needs to be saved. It’s good to be a complete human person and not some colored body that requires saving. Plus, nobody depicts me as a disintegrating blob of uniform color. That’s privilege right there.
Either Putin is an insane maniac ready to start a nuclear war or he’s a reasonable person ready to negotiate a peace deal in good faith. You can’t have it both ways. Strangely, the exact same people who shriek “don’t move or Russia will escalate” keep repeating “a peace deal now”.
This is one of many examples of how reason has been swapped for raging emotionality. People don’t even try to be consistent. They are proud of being all over the place and not burdened by logic.
Some kids know they want to chain-smoke as young as 2-3 years old. Early signs include pretending to puff on a crayon, holding a pencil between their middle and index fingers, strong cravings for candy “cigarettes,” and rapidly making “huffing” sounds or deeply exhaling.
Be an inclusive adult. Tell them about people who smoke.
Educate them on the long and diverse history of tobacco use and smoking, from Native Americans’ sacred rituals to European sailors and beyond.
Show them pictures of iconic smokers from diverse backgrounds and the vintage ads that made smoking look cool. Ensure they recognize they’re part of a long and chic tradition.
In spite of his recent comments, I don’t think Putin is anti-Semitic. I don’t think he particularly dislikes Jews. Compared to what he has done to Russians, Jews have had it very easy with Putin.
As I’ve been saying for over a decade, Putin seems to have a deep dislike of Russian people. He’s been dedicated to population replacement in Russia because he clearly prefers Central Asians to Russians.
As for Ukrainians, Putin doesn’t think they exist. He thinks they are Russian. Which proves my point that he really detests Russians.
People are asking if I continue to paint, and yes, absolutely. From recent masterpieces, here’s a portrait of Klara with her favorite toy:
I’m now working on a nighttime view of my native city of Kharkiv in winter. It’s really incredible that you can find paint-by-number kits for every landmark view of Kharkiv. The one I chose isn’t glamorous or pretty but it’s a place that means a lot to me for personal reasons.
It’s a very intense feeling to be able to paint such a far away place, especially when you can’t draw a convincing stick figure by
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