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Capitalism and Greed

April 9, 2024

One of the interesting things to me in the current discussions over capitalism, is that those who talk down about capitalism typically blame the profit

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March 2024 Reading

March 29, 2024

I try to read one Italian novel, and one history/political theory book per month. I started early on the Italian novel thinking I’d be finished

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February 2024 Reading

February 27, 2024

Starting off 2024 doing some heavy lifting: first I read one of the more difficult Italian novels in Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, then tackled the nearly one-million-word novel,

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Gen Alpha Kids

February 15, 2024

When you swipe to the left on Android phones, there are a bunch of articles that are supposed to be related to things you like.

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Good Luck!

January 19, 2024

Luck is the concept of an improbable event happening through random chance- the outcome is beyond the control of the person affected. If the improbable

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.