All other welcomed only begrudgingly.
(and Diner’s Club?)
Josh Oakes
constructive cynicism in moderate doses
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constructive cynicism
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
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Most of us have been in supermarkets or restaurants that feature tanks of live lobsters, from which you can pick out your supper while it watches you point.
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster. Gourmet magazine, 2004.
A much more honest approach to Net Promoter Score.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde, 1900
Moreover, people actually get something out of running their own lives rather than being mere endpoints for network notifications.
Thomas Claburn in The Internet Of Pointless, Perilous Things for InformationWeek.
The household that prepares its own meals in its own kitchen with some intelligent regard for nutritional value, and thus depends on the grocer only for selected raw materials, exercises an influence on the food industry that reaches from the store all the way back to the seedsman. The household that produces some or all of its own food will have a proportionately greater influence.
Wendell Berry in The Unsettling of America
