You have to get used to reading old stuff and the specific time period you’re reading. Reading Godwin and Burke was slow for me at first.
For Popper, you have to get used to a more academic or dense/wordy/complex/difficult style than Rand but a more accessible style than many other academic philosophers. It’s partly some of the subject matter itself being difficult and partly writing style.
Be patient. It’ll improve with practice, experience and problem solving.
Literacy rates were lower then. And I think way fewer people would read hundreds of novels like a fair amount of people today do. Maybe we’d find them a bit slow and clumsy at reading or something; I don’t know; you’d have to ask a historian.
But also, they were used to how people talked (and wrote) back then. Culture and language shifts make things harder to understand. You’d also have more trouble with their speeches or plays than modern ones. It’s not just about reading.
I just highlighted multiple and just copy and pasted. The links were pasted over too. Only thing I really had to do was edit the formatting. Idk how it works, but it copied over the black background of your website in sheets. I just had to change that.
The reason it took me a bit of time was that I’ve been trying to use https://www.libreoffice.org/ Calc (their spreadsheet). I didn’t want to pay for microsoft and thought it would be neat to have a more “permanent”/off-line program, but its been a bit annoying to use. I decided the other day to use sheets (I really like the syncing feature, can jump between my PC and mac) and just download backups of my sheets as a “permanent” solution. Its not like I’m trying to make complicated sheets anyways. I’m just keeping track of various things like what shows I watched, books I want to read, etc.
I made the spreadsheet in sheets in like 10 minutes. If that?
Sleep has actually been going pretty well. I think next week I’m going to track it better, but for the past two weeks or so its been pretty consistent. I do feel much much better with this consistent sleep schedule.
Only real change I’ve done since last time I posted about this was blacking out my room. I think that along with a some smart bulbs that I set to slowly get bright have helped a lot.
My door would let in light through the gaps. I tried using weather stripping to block the light, but it didn’t work. I ended up buying two oversized black curtains and I put them on both sides of my door to block out all light (I used some tension rods I already had). For my window I used the idea from this video: How to Block 100% of Light from Window with Removable Cover (That ACTUALLY works) and changed it up a bit. I tried using his magnet set-up and had trouble getting it to work. I instead tried the same idea with velcro (and fabric glue which I think has helped? idk) and created a de-attachable cover for my window. Its been working well.
I also have been working out consistently again this past month. I was kinda on and off after moving back home. Luckily, it wasn’t cause of low energy or anything (I think my house is finally clean, well at least for now maybe there’s mold that’ll come again later). I was mainly just busy with moving back home and trying to get my life back into routine during may and june.
I don’t disagree with the stats about incarceration and I do think the amount we incarcerate is bad. However, I always wondered about the comparison regarding how many people the United States incarcerates. Are other countries truly better or are they underreporting?
Speaking about people who can’t post bond: I think there was a county in Texas that was infamous for its refusal to work with people on the issue of bond. I believed it was Harris County, Texas. I think in the modern day bonds are kind of an unnecessary tool. I’ve heard that bond was originally to make sure you come to court, but I think with modern surveillance and what not thats less of an issue.
Also it’s odd to me that if the idea behind bonds is making sure people come to court, then why not set bonds based on the individual, instead of the crime. Have them give a bond that will make sure they come to court, but not bad enough to hurt them. I don’t think bonds should be punitive. Also some people cannot be bonded out, that doesn’t make sense to me. If they’re not guilty why are they being punished in anyway.
I also think our society doesn’t work with this stuff well. There’s legal protection (at least I think so) for your job in certain medical scenarios, there is no protection while being held in jail.
The Norfolk Four was notable to me because I actually live very close to where that happened.
Summary from memory: women gets raped and killed, rapist leaves clear DNA evidence. Detective think its the neighbor. DNA evidence says no. Instead of releasing him, they instead think the neighbor had a co-conspirator. The neighbor held her down and she was raped by another men. This process continues up until like seven people. I forget the details but the final convicted amount was 4 people. Also the story of how they get their freedom back was lame. They needed a pardon from the governor at the time and even with clear evidence of misconduct he had to be pressured into it.
I have. I liked it. However, I had a few issues with an eye mask. Lose enough and it would move off my face, tight enough and it hurt. Though those issues were workable. The main reason I decided to blackout my room is that the eye mask worked a bit too well at blocking out light. So when I had some light bulbs turn on in the morning I wouldn’t get any light.
I’m a bit unsure how much better I feel getting some “wake-up” light in the morning, but I think its been helpful to being more rested. At the very least I’m no longer jarred by the light in my room when taking my sleeping masks off.
