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#ICE, carrying out the policies of Donald Trump, caused this nightmare:
"Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez returned to the U.S. this week after being wrongfully deported. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Estrada Juárez and her daughter, Damaris Bello, about their experience":
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/04/nx-s1-5770452/the-story-of-a-dreamer-who-was-wrongfully-deported-and-has-now-returned-to-the-u-s
#racism #brutality #irrationality

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Much of man’s thinking is propaganda of his appetites.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 261 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/82357/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #appetite #desire #emotion #irrationality #passion #propaganda #selfdeception #selfdelusion #thinking #thought

A quotation from W. H. Auden

Those who will not reason
Perish in the act:
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
“Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

A quotation from W. H. Auden

Those who will not reason
Perish in the act:
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
“Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

A quotation from W. H. Auden

Those who will not reason
Perish in the act:
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
“Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

#Myths and #MagicalThinking: #American Civil #Religion, the #EstablishmentClause, and “Codified #Irrationality” in Anti- #CRT Measures

https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/jcred/vol37/iss2/6/

BREAKING:

Our Anglesey reporter says retired folk are making it in their droves to take advantage of the Tuesday 10% off deal at Iceland stores, despite Storm Bram HAMMERING north Wales!

Thank the Lord for the generation wot didn't fight two world wars!

#bram #stormbram #weather #irrationality #catastrophism

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Surely the idea of a “limited war” is one of the most dangerously self-deceiving verbal gimmicks ever invented. For though war makes use of reason, as a weapon, it is not reasonable in nature. Its nature is the nature of pride and anger. It follows the brute logic of violent emotion, which points directly toward the use of the greatest available power.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79838/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #anger #brutality #ego #emotion #lethality #limitedwar #power #pride #selfdeception #unreasoning #violence #war #warfare #irrationality

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. They are in-sane, out of health, morally. Reason, which is food to sound minds, is not tolerated, still less assimilated, unless administered with the greatest caution; perhaps, not at all. Avoid collision with them, so far as you honorably can; keep your temper, if you can, — for one angry man is as good as another; restrain them from violence, promptly, completely, and with the least possible injury, just as in the case of maniacs, — and when you have got rid of them, or got them tied hand and foot so that they can do no mischief, sit down and contemplate them charitably, remembering that nine tenths of their perversity comes from outside influences, drunken ancestors, abuse in childhood, bad company, from which you have happily been preserved, and for some of which you, as a member of society, may be fractionally responsible.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1860-08), “The Professor’s Story [Elsie Venner],” ch. 16 [The Professor], Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 34

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

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STAYC -- Yoon

Bangs or no bangs, Yoon is quite beautiful.

I have no idea what Yoon is really like as a person, but I find myself believing she must be nice, even though life, literature, and common sense warn against inferring good character from good looks.

#Kpop #KpopPix #Yoon #STAYC #Beauty #Psychology #Personality #Character #PrettyPrivilege #Irrationality

Euler–Mascheroni constant! :euler:

In fact, the last one is:
\[\large\displaystyle\int_1^{+\infty}\mathrm dx\ \left(\frac{1}{\lfloor x\rfloor}-\frac1x\right)=\gamma\approx0.5772156649\]

Equivalently,
\[\large\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\sum_{k=1}^n \frac1{k}-\ln n\right)=\gamma=0.5772156649\ldots\]
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Unsolved problem in mathematics:
Is Euler–Mascheroni constant irrational? If so, is it transcendental?

#Euler #Mascheroni #EulerMascheroni #Constant #gamma #EulerConstant #EulersConstant #EulerMascheroniConstant #Irrational #Irrationality #Transcendental #Transcendence #Unsolved #UnsolvedProblem #Maths #Mathematics #Indeterminate #IndeterminateForm #IndeterminateForms #Inf #Infinity #HarmonicNumber #HarmonicNumbers #HarmonicSeries #Logarithm #Log #Logarithms #NaturalLogarithm #Integral #ImproperIntegral

Great introduction to our special issue on COVID19 Collective Irrationalities by Kengo Miyazono and Rie Iizuka #OpenAccess https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2023.2221929 #paternalism #VaccineHesitancy #ConspiracyTheories #nudges #irrationality #bias @philosophyofmind @epistemology @philosophy @psychology