i just found out those teenagers also had horrible political opinions. now you can retroactively discover Sridhar's joke was funny.

but instead of saying them, why not join me in figuring out how I can do good and stay close to love ones while also not living in the US anymore...

yep. the venerable Michelin prince marco pierre white has two things that he constantly says, often one right after the other:
"perfection is lots of little things done well"
and
"it's through accepting imperfections that we achieve perfection"

it's a microcosm of ND at large: too much money, some degree of bubble syndrome, unwilling in all kinds of ways to take important stances--but a lot of good stuff and continuity with important things buried (somewhere) underneath it all, if you know where to look.

He was a complex guy, but most of his colleagues for the past twenty years have been normie Catholics floating about the Center for Ethics and Culture.

there's the MacIntyre who thinks businessmen should be killed, the MacIntyre who talks a lot about the virtues of Jane Austen and random fishing villages alike, the MacIntyre who thinks de Koninck was the most important Thomist of the 20th century, and then about 60 others.

i heard he was ailing a few weeks ago....my guess is that it's accurate, but obviously good to be cautious...

you really don't have to hand it to him.
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it would be like if a documentary called "norm macdonald presents: Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up" became very popular.