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Prayers and Answers

September 22, 2023

I was contacted by a friend the other day who is really going through a tough time right now. I won’t go into any details,

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AI and Directives

September 21, 2023

Interesting conversation about the developments in AI here:   ‎The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Should we press pause on AI? on Apple Podcasts Some of

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Luke 13 and 14

September 21, 2023

Reading through Luke in my Bible time and I’m noticing a theme jumping out at me.  Luke 13 Fig tree that doesn’t produce fruit- give it

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Political Compass Test

September 17, 2023

This is the political compass test.  The description below is from the website.  “Please note that this isn’t a survey, and these aren’t questions. They’re

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Lex Oppia Debate

August 30, 2023

195 BC. Rome. A motion was brought by the pleb tribunes to repeal the Lex Oppia.  The Lex Oppia, brought by Gaius Oppius during the

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August 2023 Reading

August 29, 2023

Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy  (1874) I know, you want to say “maddening” rather than “madding”, but that’s not the title. Madding means frenzied. The

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The Male Gaze

August 22, 2023

Ok, so with the release of the Barbie movie, I have been reading from women how the movie speaks to them. One of the terms

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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.