As a rule, whatever you need to optimize, don't do. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who think religion is about “belief” don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.

"When you define yourself as "localist", nobody frames you in the "partisan" box; both the "left" & the "right" take you for one of them. The only people in favor of centralization are lobbyists, bureaucrats, & DC parasites. Yet the world is centralizing." - Taleb

It takes some humanity to feel sympathy for those less fortunate than us; but it takes honor to avoid envying those who are much luckier.