By the way, your link gives 502 Bad Gateway at time of writing
Another argument that occurs to me: Imagine if it was the norm among criminal defense lawyers to hold back when they believe their clients are guilty, and to advocate zealously when they believe they're innocent. Now, imagine a lawyer who mostly follows this practice, but engages in a bit of corruption: pay enough, and they'll act like you're innocent even when you're not, or at least there's a chance they will. Of course, they do this rarely enough that the prosecutors won't notice. The prosecutors, in turn, see the corrupt lawyer not holding back, and take this as reason to believe the client is likely innocent; at this point, perhaps their code of ethics kicks in, and they less-than-zealously prosecute the client!
If anyone wants to use/distribute this as part of a Summer Solstice celebration, or any other rationalist celebration, feel free! Attribution to "Arti" is appreciated, as is letting me know you used it, but neither is required.
...I would have been happy to release this as CC0, but I realized I don't want it remixed/used to justify industrial farming of animals, who (unlike the watermelon) do have preferences as individuals. So I guess if you want a formal license, CC BY-ND is fine, but with my explicit blessing to collate/collect with other works as long as the text isn't modified (and if you want something less restrictive, contact me and we can figure something out).
I recognize that this applies to many fruits, some more closely than watermelon, even. But, well, see the title.
(My partner mentions bananas in particular, but if it were about bananas I would have felt dishonest if there wasn't some mention of banana republics, and that's not the tone I'm going for.)
We say to the watermelon
"We accept your offering of sugar. We will share our riches with you in return, that you may have the safety and plenty to grow even sweeter."
And we say to the watermelon
"You make these seeds to carry on your line, in the only way you know how. But we are clever, and if you leave your seeds behind we will spread your children farther than your seeds could ever have carried them."
And we say to the watermelon
"Another great summer. Let's do this again every year."
And we say to the watermelon
"Come travel the world with me! My friends want to meet you.
And we say to the watermelon
"I love you."
The person who eats Good Food (possibly Healthy Food, possibly Expensive Food, possibly Ethical Food, depending on their social circles) but never really notices how much they enjoy the actual taste of different foods. I don't think this is a particularly good example, because it's perfectly coherent to eat Healthy or Ethical Food without caring about taste at any level. (In fact, I'd say taste is the only argument (besides maybe price) against eating food that's at least one of those.)
Google tells me that the "the crust has more nutrients" thing may stem from a 2002 study which found pronyl-lysine (which supposedly helps prevent cancer) at much higher concentration in crust vs the rest of the bread. The search results seem mixed on whether it's true; CNN says no, but my top result says yes.
I use Vim, but I'm a bit surprised to see (lisp + vim) recommended over (lisp + emacs), since aiui emacs is much more common/better supported in the Lisp ecosystem. (I learned Vim while using C-family languages, then later learned Lisp.)
Also, I'd recommend Racket and How to Design Programs for learning Lisp and programming. (This is based on me having taken the intro CS course taught by the book's author; I can't say for certain that the book on its own is as good as the course, but I expect it to be pretty good.) Main downside is that the only vim bindings plugin I've found for DrRacket isn't very good. (I believe it has some emacs features built-in, though.)
It's worth checking whether insomnia is caused by sleep apnea / sleep disordered breathing - it's more common than you might think (not just a thing old men have), and has serious effects.
(Commenting this because of the "low barrier" thing - I don't currently feel up to hunting down the diagnostic resources that convinced me to look into whether I had it, but I'm hoping the mention is better than nothing.)
It's April 2nd now. What was actually in the posts? (And did anyone actually pay the 1 BTC?)
Feedback: The title of this post makes me think it's primarily soliciting donations from the wealthy (in particular those who got rich from having BTC when it blew up), and that you're not really trying to get people like me to make donations on the order of $20. I'm unsure if this is true.
(I know the title isn't meant to be literal, since the funding goals mentioned are in the low-single-digit BTC range, but it still has an anchoring effect.)