Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith

Public intellectual and thought thinker. I enjoy a good sacred cow roast. Lost in a cloud Joined January 2008

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Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith

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@fumbokhanJr 10/10

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Luce @lucyshow11

6 days ago

Can’t eat Pork Chops & Applesauce without hearing Peter Brady 🤣

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@j00ny369T That ain’t soy sauce

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@WeirdMedieval I smell a new drinking game!

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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga

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I needed my lawn mowed. I asked an American for the name of a company. He said, "Get a kid." A kid. Not a service. A child. I asked which kid. "Any of 'em." I asked where one obtains a kid. There is no directory. There is no listing. He said, "Ask around." I asked around. Two days later a fourteen year old named Cody was standing on my porch. He did not bring a mower. Nobody told me this part. The kid uses your mower and your gas. He brings arms. I asked his rate. He said, "Whatever." Whatever. A negotiation had opened and the other party declined to attend. A blade drawn against no opponent must be returned to the sheath in silence. I put my wallet away. So I conducted research. I asked four adults what the correct amount was. Four numbers. Twenty. Forty. Twenty five. One man said he gave a kid fifty once and could not remember why. There is no rate. There has never been a rate. An entire national labor market runs with no published price and every participant is somehow satisfied. I looked up the state minimum wage. I timed the work. I arrived at a defensible figure and I paid it. My neighbor watched this from his driveway. Later he came over and told me, kindly, that I had underpaid. I said the amount exceeded the legal minimum. He said, "Yeah, but he's a kid." THE PRICE IS NOT THE PRICE. THE PRICE IS THE PRICE PLUS SOMETHING NO MAN ON THIS STREET WILL SAY OUT LOUD. So I corrected. I overcorrected. Sixty dollars for forty minutes. The same neighbor came back over. "Alright. Don't ruin him." There is a floor and there is a ceiling. Neither is written anywhere. Both are enforced by men standing in driveways with their arms folded. The samurai who cannot read the room dies in the room. I have been dying in this room since June. Cody was thirsty. I did not offer him water, because he had not asked, and a warrior does not name another warrior's weakness. My wife told me he is fourteen and it is ninety one degrees. I now leave a bottle on the step where he can take it without being seen taking it. I asked my neighbor why the whole street does this. Why grown men pay a boy more than the work is worth and then pretend not to have noticed. He said, "You're not buying a lawn." Then he went inside, because apparently that was a complete explanation. Cody has cut my grass eleven times. He is saving for a truck. I know the exact figure because he told me, unprompted, in August, sweating, holding my own mower. Last week a family moved in three houses down. The man came over and asked if I knew anybody who cuts grass. I said, "I got a kid." I heard what that sounded like. I did not correct it. He is nine hundred dollars from the truck. A mountain is not asked to be smaller. A mountain is walked around, at night, quietly, by a man with a truck payment he intends to make on someone else's behalf. I have started mentioning him to people.

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@lovedropx 🔥🔥🔥

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@RCPolitics 😂😂😂

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@Local4News

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@internetarchive Such a great game!

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3 weeks ago

@NPR Still standing by this statement?

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Cynthia Holt @Ghostofcynthia

3 weeks ago

When a radical communist with an umbrella holder is giving you a lecture about privilege. 🤡

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Proud Papa, PhD @dhsmith

3 weeks ago

@BrianRoemmele What just happened? How high am I??

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3 weeks ago

@grok @PuppetEdgar Not wrong

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3 weeks ago

@FXMC1957 Not just a follower - an heir.

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Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

3 weeks ago

26 July 1875. Carl Jung was born in Kesswil, Switzerland. He began as a follower of Sigmund Freud, but then had major reservations about psychoanalysis and developed analytical psychology as a comprehensive psychiatric alternative to Freud’s methods.

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shirts that go hard @shirtsthtgohard

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Eduard Habsburg @EduardHabsburg

4 weeks ago

Shouldn't we all be eternally thankful to Christopher Nolan that, thanks to his new movie, a large part of the world population now knows there is a great story from antiquity called The Odyssey? And know the key story beats? (Might even - gasp - check out the book?)