I'm not sure if this answer provides a root explanation for the question, but in a competitive (but not prestigious) undergrad business program the answer provides is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
Interest paid is offered as compensation for the opportunity cost the lender experiences by lending rather than immediately spending. I still don't see why this implies compound interest, except that vaguely the opportunity cost increases faster than the passage of time.
The Will to Change by bell hooks. I'm bringing it to a book club.
Good to know, I've thought about asking for a year of premium for my bday!
Racists having a laugh
I don't get it.
A+ meme, and also I'm in fact looking for sincere ideas/resources for how to be a parent trying to raise little comrades. Anybody got anything that comes to mind?
I used it--it was the first book I worked with. I still like it quite a lot and I often think about his guidance as I learn from my own meditation, or in the context of other readings I've done. For me, as a nerd (previously) pretty averse to religion, I found his nuts and bolts instruction really useful and free of "woo woo" entanglement which might have turned me off at the beginning.
For newcomers, his teaching is perhaps not the norm in that it sets beginners up to practice concentration, or Samatha meditation. It seems like insight/Vipassana practice might be more common for newbies. I'm not sure how much it matters that much, tbh. For me, just learning to sit and explore my reactions to sitting took plenty of time before the distinction between concentration and insight even meant anything to me.
"Blinken huffed his own farts for 3 hours or more, while Xi scrolled til tok and at one point appeared to have a separate meeting in the presence of Blinken, who did not appear to notice".
But seriously, wtf is the point of Blinken wasting a trip for the same old tropes and denials? Just to reinflate some anti china talking points for a few days?
Bald eagles are cool but have you ever heard what they sound like? Shame that they're claimed by burger land as official bird tho.