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  1. Make the Decision Right: A 1987 Aphorism Against the Age of the Open Tab

    An old professor of mine, holding forth in 1987, handed his students one sentence to carry out the door: don't make the right decision; make the decision right. He attached a coda that landed harder than the maxim itself. Regret, he told us, is mindless. I have been turning that sentence over for nearly four decades, and the turning has become its own education, because the sentence makes a metaphysical bet most listeners never notice they are taking. It claims that rightness arrives after the choosing, manufactured through labor and revision, and that no quantity of advance analysis can locate it beforehand, since the future refuses to sit still long enough to be computed. With one stroke the professor moved the entire moral weight of decision-making off the moment of selection and onto the years of execution. Pick a door, any door, then build a house behind it. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/06/20/make

  2. Sweets and taxes for #Russia ➡️ more bombs and rockets on 🇺🇦 #Ukraine.

    If your charity organizes transports to Ukraine, tell them not to send #Mars products.

    And if you have friends in Ukraine, or simply stand with it, don't buy products from a company that helps kill even more of your friends than in the years before.

    »#US company #Mars (owner of brands such as #Snickers, #Twix, Mars, M&M’s, #Skittles, #Orbit, #Pedigree, Royal Canin, and #Whiskas) has leased over 40,000 sq m in a logistics complex under construction in #Moscow, Forbes.ru reports.

    Consultants say this is one of the largest recent warehouse real estate deals in Russia. According to them, Mars is leasing new warehouse space in #Russia due to business growth.

    The American company announced in March 2022 that it would cease new investments, halt advertising in Russia, and suspend imports and exports to and from the country.«

    b4ukraine.org/whats-new/mars-n

    #RussiaIsATerroristState