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Eating from street food stalls is the most overrated travel thing. The food is almost always disgusting and far better versions of the dishes can be found in sit down restaurants with better hygiene, less spoiled oils, and a far more pleasant atmosphere, that doesn’t cost much more.
The notable exception is from established venues in traditional markets — and these are not really stalls, and more like Limited hour restaurants.
I almost stopped writing because no one was engaging.
Then someone told me, “I’ve been reading everything you post.”
That’s when I realized: silent readers exist—and they matter.
So I kept writing, even when it felt like no one was watching.
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This is what a great ceiling looks like.
St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland (1347)
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I do not know why the White House Correspondents Dinner is still a thing.
It had a good run.
Time for it to end.
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Can Japan hang onto its ‘nice things’?
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Last Feb I casually posted this neck stretch on Instagram (that I thought everyone knew 🤷♀️) and it blew up in a way I couldn’t imagine. It’s now been viewed over 8 million times 🫣😬🤣 and has brought so many wonderful people into my world.
So give it a go, it’s a pretty lovely stretch. (Though it’s not actually magic, it’s just an up…
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I just got back from teaching my class and every word of it this is true, this is no exaggeration. He is writing from an American university but it is exactly the same in Canada.
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It’s pretty telling that 80% of the newsletters that add my email address to their list without permission are focused on AI. The entire industry is almost as grifter-friendly as the crypto industry.
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—Cardinal Arinze
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One week after his passing, nearly 5K words in a deep dive into a great career. Includes a detailed comparison of Foreman to some of the great punchers of the last 100 years. Live on the Corner Stool. Hope I did him justice.
Probably a good idea of GOP to stay away from religious-leaning candidates for Congress. They invariably bring an ingrained but wrongly sympathetic attitude toward illegal immigration, refugees, etc.
How Lankford scored a B- at NUSA is a mystery. Co-sponsoring a Democrat-led amnesty should be an automatic F. Maybe NUSA needs to revise its grading scale.
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This writer has an interesting perspective. In a very short statement; the solution to environmental degradation is to focus on conservation and reuse of resources.
The Bloomberg media apparatus — by way of columnist Jessica Karl — has now been rendered nervous by freedom of expression, the bedrock on which Substack’s business model remains so gloriously anchored.
Karl frets and fumes about this amazing platform’s accelerating growth during the past four months. She claims such success “raises concer…
