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Tips from S on how to spend less eating out

Published in November 27th, 2023
Posted by in How to, Strategy
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I must admit I am hopeless to give advice on reducing the cost of eating out, because eating out to me means about as much as a book on string theory does to the next person. Fortunately, I got “saved” by S who has taken a year off to travel around US and Canada by […]

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Thousand Islands

Published in November 27th, 2023
Posted by in How to
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I suppose I should have developed an appropriate level of cynicism when it comes the familiar products I use: No, they are not proprietary products based on secret formulas painstakingly developed by bench scientists during many years of research. No, most products are simply comprised of a few simple ingredients to which you add a […]

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Utopia

Published in November 22nd, 2023
Posted by in Philosophy
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In our brave new world, progress is the process of inventing and creating products and services that can be sold at a profit to the consumer. Here, profit takes precedence over all other values, and so marketability is the primary form of aesthetic value. Thus, the product that sells the most IS the best. Therefore […]

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