The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

moron qualifications and participation

If I know anything about them is they are arbitrary

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Jim Dalling
Dec 02, 2021
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And they typically bring the biggest benefit to those who wrote them.

Meow.

This is personal.

Yesterday I wrote about the difficulties involved being granted permission to use your knowledge in a jurisdiction different than where you developed that knowledge.

That’s really what the cab driver story really is about. That, and a bias towards the belief that ‘we do things different around these parts.’

or

‘We don’t trust other humans to value humans like we do’.

Which is funny.

From what I can tell, a tooth in Iran and a tooth is Dublin are essentially the same.

Ditto the nervous system.

And?

I am reasonably secure in my belief that gravity on the other side of the planet works the same as it does where I am. Those people are not walking on their hands. Lionel Ritchie did not shoot his video there. (though I am certain that there’s a place in the multiverse where people fall up)

The same doesn’t seem to apply for whatever people come to see people like me about. The qualification requirements betw…

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