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Plot twist: we're on a Möbius strip

(almost* Elysian:アルカディアを発進！)

Re: substitution of economic for moral reasoning, SMBC today https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1729111734-20241016.png gets partway there, but Körner (from whom I lifted the phrase) has a nicer story: suppose we are the managers of the Fund for Extremely Deserving Widows and Orphans, and we've just been donated a bunch of rare whales? Obviously, as whales reproduce more slowly than the risk-free rate of return, we need to kill them all immediately and invest the proceeds... (compare effective altruism?)

* which brings us back to helmets? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4c_KRY9KGo#t=408s

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Pardon my laziness, link to Koerner? Orphand theorems (and strategems) also deserve not to be culled (by obscurity, mostly) for the latest, refer back to the public goods taxonomy?

I think it was in Ch.17 "Time and Chance" of https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pleasures-of-counting/0... but only plan to be able to double check that (and provide page #) sometime before 2025.

))

(* rare stratagems, but i think you already caught that )

Not sure i caught the sclera drift

(esp since post covid)

denta coverage [by undies] might be … more decisive.. in “california” (circa 1993)

e.g. Kevin Eastman (in 2009) vs Shredder (in 1984), aka Oroku Saki (aka !! Raphael) (TIL)

[note that most camiknickers have same genus as most pants]

sclera was mostly something that was floating around my skull and leaked over into this potential well; I think in the meantime I've got a just so story: cats, dogs, and horses can use their ears to indicate if they're paying attention to something to the side, but our ears are immobile, and so we have large sclera to make side glances more obvious?

"either take your cross off or cover your denta"?

(wonder how much the Kali casting inspired that of Natural Born Killers the following year?)

[I'd been counting the strings as handles, thanks for the clarification!]

Right, i’d forgotten about that other thread, going back to that im a couple days (need to continue ramping up spare bw)

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