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Here’s a good immigration idea

Posted on July 18, 2019

Elites want more immigration. The common folk want less immigration. But the common folk only notice immigrants as being bad when they are being unproductive, freeloaders, and terrorists. Very few people complain about the Filipino serving them coffee at Tim Hortons for example. But everyone complains about the Syrian Refugees. The solution? Have a good immigration system where the people who come into the country become community members/productive, and stop publicizing the intake of immigrants. This way the immigrants willRead More→

Difficulties in Communication

Posted on July 6, 2019

One of the things that happens now and then is that I speak with people who have different assumptions than me. It then becomes difficult to tell them why they’re wrong if their assumptions don’t line up with mine. If I do not know my own assumptions in the word, and if they do not know theirs either, then it is nearly impossible to negotiate between the two positions. It is possible however to say something which “jogs” the philosophicalRead More→

A Visit to the Apple Store

Posted on July 6, 2019

Below is why I think I will not go into a job helping other people with simple problems like fixing their computers. I went to the apple store today to hand in my laptop because the battery needed replacing. A young man helped me behind the genius bar. Within moments of talking with him, you could tell that he was intelligent, but throughout the conversation I had the unignorable feeling that he was patronizing. His words flowed fluently, he wasRead More→

Why you shouldn’t trust Economists

Posted on June 27, 2019

Economics is sold as a “science” in university and in the greater social world. But this is a lie. I found it difficult to say why before, but now I have a powerful story which will do so for me. A few days ago, I started my first online business. However, it was my first time, so I was scared it would failed. I was also an atheist, but I tried praying anyways. “God, if you grant my store success,Read More→

On Ideology

Posted on June 24, 2019

When I went to SciencesPo, one of the things I noticed is that ideology passed as “thinking” for most of my professors! And I was absolutely dumbfounded by this because to me, ideology is not real thinking; it’s just the application of an existing structure onto new facts. Even worse, the students who simply applied the ideology often got really high grades too, thus making me even more annoyed that I, who was trudging through the difficult work of thinkingRead More→

Should You Dress Better?

Posted on June 20, 2019

Here’s three different reasons. One reason for why you shouldn’t dress “better” or “worse” is because when you dress better, you’re doing it to impress other people. If you’re dressing to impress, then you’re spending time trying to change yourself in order to seek the approval of other people. And this is generally a bad life idea – shouldn’t people value you for your personality, intellect, and skills, instead something as superficial as the way that you look? As aRead More→

The Long Run Game

Posted on June 18, 2019

One of the things which I’m slowly learning about as I grow older is the existence of the “long run game.” In my last blog post you may notice how it is the case that this exists for adults: at one point in time it seems like someone is doing something for compassionate reasons but then when you zoom out and look at the actions and their consequences through time you realize that in the long run their actions areRead More→

How to use people and be compassionate

Posted on June 17, 2019

I am a kind woman… I am a selfless woman. I am an empathetic woman. I think my makeup is too thin. I better go buy a better brand; or let someone else ‘gift’ it to me. I will entertain the attractions and attentions of suitors and friends even after I know that I will eventually disappoint them, as I am not interested in a long term relationship or in fulfilling commitments I made in order to be friends. ButRead More→

Day 2

Posted on June 16, 2019

Do you ever feel afraid you might hurt a child or get in trouble for treating a child badly when you’re around one? Because that’s how I felt today at a party where 3 generations were present: grandmothers, new moms, and children under 8 years. The people at the party were all Filipinos. They were celebrating the lives of their relatives who had passed away. You could tell with one mother, who came from the Philippines, that she knew whatRead More→

Day 1

Posted on June 15, 2019

One of the things I’m doing is starting a dropshipping business. For the last two weeks I’ve been writing “make an online store” in my schedule but nothing ever happened. So last night I wrote out an “instructions manual” for starting a dropshipping store with 7 steps. The goal is to be up and running in 7 days. The problem with first starting with dropshipping is that you don’t know whether your store idea and products will work. And byRead More→

Welcome Back.

Posted on June 12, 2019

Dear World Wide Web: Last summer I stopped writing daily blogs because I went to school. But The results from daily writing were amazing and well worth the blogging. Now that I have more time, I’d like to return to daily blogging this summer. So here’s the challenge: write a blog every day for the next 80 days. You’re going to see blogs mostly about the problems which I can’t stop thinking about, and there will usually be trends thatRead More→

On Framing (the truth)

Posted on May 30, 2019

A doctor once encountered an anti-vaccine, conspiracy ridden mother in an emergency room with her smallpox-ridden son. The new doctor didn’t know how to convince the woman that she should let her son have the vaccine, and was thus flabbergasted. He told his boss doctor about it, and the supervisor basically said “watch this.” The boss doctor went to talk with the woman. She said that vaccines were a hoax propped up by big-pharma in order to give us autism andRead More→

#metoo vs. movies

Posted on January 2, 2019

Happy New Year! I just watched Burlesque for the second time in my life. My first time was when I was eleven. It was a good movie then, but I didn’t understand what was going on then as well. Let’s get the criticism on my mind the most out of my head first. I think the writers should have made Ali a bit more arrogant, and then have had her demolished for it in the 2nd half of the film,Read More→

Crazy, Stupid Love (2011)

Posted on December 27, 2018

2011 was a good year for movies I guess! Since I’m not able to extract an interpretation from a film yet, I’m just going to summarize the film instead, and hopefully that which I sift out of the film in my plot summary will be useful. Another thing: movies are soooo complex. Too complex to just encapsulate in one blog post. So a plot summary will have to do for now. There’s a whole bunch of plot lines in Crazy StupidRead More→

Limitless (2011)

Posted on December 17, 2018

Limitless kept me edged. It made me want to go over my whole life with a fine toothed comb and fish out every single thing that I had done wrong, and then write them all down, and then figure out how to insulate myself from the cumulative weight of all of the sins I had committed. Below I’m going to try and interpret it. It’s a great story. At the beginning, Eddie Morra is a writer living in NY. HeRead More→