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Academic Capture

August 2, 2021

This is a somewhat modified transcript of a conversation between Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein on Academic Capture- meaning corrupting influences on science in the

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Covid v Vaccinations

July 26, 2021

That title is probably a misnomer, but something that has been driving me a little nuts lately is the provisions made for vaccinated individuals to

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Forgiveness Discussion

July 20, 2021

My son sent me a podcast discussion about Forgiveness.  While the people in the podcast don’t acknowledge this or distinguish between them enough, there are three

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Selection

July 15, 2021

So yesterday I cleaned up some posts that didn’t fit in the blog’s format, but I deleted one that I probably shouldn’t have, and it

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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.