“It now doesn’t seem ridiculous to have ‘approval ratings’ that fluctuate week by week, because these are based upon the all-important ‘perception’ factor, which has in turn quite lost its own relationship to the word ‘perceptive.’”

― Christopher #Hitchens

https://youtu.be/RpGtwHzxnrM This is what this whole mess boils down to. How sad. How better, as a species, we would be without religion! #hitchens #christopherhitchens

This photo shows what was formerly a chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family live on Hitchen's farm, Seaford, Del. 17 children and 5 elders live in this made over chicken coop. The age of 10 of the children is given below: 1 Child is 3 years old; 1 Child is 4 years old; 1 Child is 5 years old; 1 Child is 6 years old; 2 Children are 7 years old; 1 Child is 9 years old; 1 Child is 10 years old; 1 Child is 11 years old; 1 Child is 13 years old. Another photo in this collection shows the Arnao family on Truitt's Farm. On the day of the investigation no berries being picked on Hitchen's Farm. The family went over to the Truitt's farm to pick. Handwritten notation: See them picking strawberries (Sept. 28, 1910) in photos & labels 1128-1129-1130. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Seaford, Delaware

#Arnao #Hitchen #Seaford #TruittsFarm #HitchensFarm #Truitt #EdwardFBrown #Delaware #tenth #Hitchens #EdwardFBrown #Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018674514/

#lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/202407240000_screwtape.mp3 #archived
#climate #haiku by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/112834854410048957
#Hitchens ~2011 on how the climate climate was bad and things were going to get worse
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/01/hitchens-201101
Kmp's Kamala note http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/kamala-candidacy.html

#lisp #emacs #clim
Working on a minor mode for accepting-values and presentations git soon

#ITS high trust historical computing, also by kmp^
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/social-computing-before-internet.html

#music @datakrash https://revenge.day/discography
#unix_surrealism @prahou

Hitchens about Putin back in 2005

#hitchens #putin

https://youtu.be/83OY6De6Ob4?si=2t6RQznUG3aA7ooU

#QoTD: “If you gave [Jerry] #Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”
― Christopher #Hitchens