If you are stuck in your project and can’t progress, remember to introduce little changes into your process. Change small things about your routine.

Example.

I was stuck on one of the chapters because I’d published on the subject before and felt tired of it. No progress was happening but then mice were found in my office. The exterminator decided to extract them humanely (I don’t know the details) and the process lasted for weeks. In the meantime, I had to write in the lab instead of my office. I have found that writing in an unusual place gives me a huge boost, and this time was no exception. The difficult chapter was finished before all the mice were gone.

To achieve flow, disrupt routine.

This is why it is ultimately about religious differences. Most of us just don’t consider embryos and blastocysts to be worthy of this sort of moral consideration. It’s not a view we share, we don’t think it’s murder https://t.co/kI7PdR97ow

— Aleph (@woke8yearold) August 17, 2025

Forget blastocysts and religious views. What message do you think it sends to a child to know that her parents only want her on the condition that she causes no difficulties? That they wouldn’t want her if she were sick or imperfect in any way? What would it do to her to understand that, unlike other children, she’s deprived of the unconditional love of her parents from the start? These parents won’t become different people after she is born. The child is bound to be imperfect in some way like all people are. And with these particular parents, that’s not allowed by default.

These same people would be horrified if their spouses or friends cut off the relationship the moment they become sick or problematic in any way. And they are not dependent on these people in every way like a child is on her parents.

If you can’t get unconditional love even from your parents, where can you get it? This whole mentality is terrible.

Honest question: Why is the idea that the state (and the taxpayer) should assume responsibility for providing two FREE meals each day to the kids of parents who can easily afford to pay for them so popular among liberals? https://t.co/nRCMvuEgdd

— i/o (@avidseries) August 17, 2025

Because it’s a way to shuffle large sums of public money to private companies. This childish pouting about who can afford what prevents people from seeing that it’s always about the transfer of public wealth in the most undemocratic ways possible.

New death of the West stat: 42 percent of people in line to meet Buzz Lightyear at Disney theme parks last year were childless adults.

— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) August 17, 2025

Witkoff: Russia will legally enshrine its commitment not to attack other countries or territories and not to violate their sovereignty.

Are they not laughing at themselves yet?

— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) August 17, 2025

The problem with this plan lies in the “men can give birth” arena. Russia decides over and over again that another country is not really a country. And that its sovereignty is not real sovereignty. And then it attacks that country with complete certainty of not having violated its commitment to not attack other countries.

What needs to happen for people to understand the underlying principle of neoliberalism is that there is no reality? Reality is whatever I say it is at any given moment. The fight against the manifestations of this approach is doomed until you at the very least understand the rules of the game.

Yes, you should stop and do what’s natural to you. You aren’t helping anybody by torturing yourself. There are other ways to help which are much more effective. The road to finding those ways lies through inhabiting your neoliberal self as fully as possible because that’s how you’ll know what it’s really like and why it won’t work for many people.

Video from a few days ago in Rodynske, near Pokrovsk.

A Russian soldier murders a Ukrainian woman and steals her phone. This is what is being done to Ukrainians in occupied areas https://t.co/jPQyUA5V4E

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 17, 2025

Remember all those people who wept over a Russian soldier killed by a Ukrainian drone?

They have zero reaction to these murders of Ukrainian civilians by Russians.

Stupid, pathetic, completely owned people.

The semester starts strangely early, and I’m switching into a Fall time state of mind. I cooked lentil soup and my favorite dish of shaved steak with bok choy, mushrooms and Savoy cabbage. I have changed the dining room table layout. I brewed fennel and anise tea. And now I’m in the midst of my favorite neoliberal pastime which is creating a mood board and a list of guiding principles for the Fall.

It takes more work than it should to feel the approach of the Fall because we are in the midst of the worst heat wave of an already very hot summer.

How would you define the main difference between liberal and conservative?

I don’t mean the extremes. Only the actual standard liberal and conservative.

Together 10 years and she’s still a fiancee?

Dude, 6 is a huge compliment. You are barely a 2.