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First drafts are shit
“The first draft of anything is shit”
Hemingway via Samuelson?
A short explanation: No writer will produce a perfect first draft. Instead, we do our best in the first draft and then polish (or reconstruct) in editing/rewriting.
So your first draft is totally allowed to be shit. Beautiful flowers grow from shit…..
Different
90% of people: It’s OK that you’re not exactly like me. I’m sure we can make this work anyway.
The other 10%: We can’t accommodate people being different. How do you think the world would look if we allowed everybody to be different? Get in line and adapt! … You can do it!
Hallucinators
Alien overlord: So, about this…?
Assistant: Helios… or Sol. It has many names.
Overlord: Right, was it the fifth planet?
Assistant: The third.
Overlord: Ok. And they’re called hallucinators?
Assistant: It seems a fitting term. They hallucinate when they dream, when they interact with many types of written language, when they watch, so called, visual narratives not to mention when they think about their future. It’s hard to tell when they don’t hallucinate.
Overlord: Right. So the recommendation?
Assistant: We steer clear of these crazies. We cannot have these beasts roaming the galaxy. We might even consider putting up a fence…
American World View?
Judging from certain comments from certain citizens of the US, one might start wondering if this is how they think:
Misreading
“The White Bros”?
(Oh, ok “The White HOUSE”…)
Ohne Drive
OneDrive
in German:
Ohne Drive…
Fun fact: When I tried to crop the image in Photoshop… it crashed… of course it did… 🤦
Speaking of the causes of Autism
A MAGA-free (as in, MAGA-explanation-critical) discussion about the causes of autism and the increase of autism diagnoses:
What I miss in this discussion is more secondary causes of the number of diagnoses. Like the distance to a diagnosis center or place to get a diagnosis (Austin/Laredo—mentioned in the video). I’d love to have seen more about other causes to go get a diagnosis, like increased demands in school, or, for that matter, aware parents wanting to give their kids fair opportunities in school and life… and whatever else might be explained by this type of reasons as well…
Needs head examined
Wants the Nobel Peace Prize.
Charges Ukraine for the weapons needed to defend against Russian terror.
Needs head examined.
One-Star Review
“Everybody in this book was failed people. They all had all these extreme problems, and whatever they tried to do, they failed over and over again. Except for the villain. He always managed to do what he wanted. Totally believable. NOT! All people in this story were dysfunctional incompetents and failed idiots! Steer clear!”
/Mary Sue
Talkwards 