{"id":7697,"date":"2025-06-13T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:59:14","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-508-euthanasia-nitpicking-and-homesteading-misadventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/06\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-508-euthanasia-nitpicking-and-homesteading-misadventures","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 508: euthanasia, nitpicking, and homesteading misadventures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>\n\n    On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li>Are you grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading this week\u00adend? Con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions! <strong>Still want these emails after you lose your Stan\u00adford account?<\/strong> Sub\u00adscribe for free with your long-term email address at <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tomtugendhat.substack.com\/p\/white-lies-hide-dark-truths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White lies hide dark truths<\/a> (Tom Tugend\u00adhat, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhat is assist\u00aded dying? Sui\u00adcide exists. Killing exists. Both are real, long\u00adstand\u00ading, legal con\u00adcepts. But assist\u00aded dying? That\u2019s a phrase sus\u00adpend\u00aded between the act and its denial. The bill claims to offer choice, dig\u00adni\u00adty and con\u00adtrol. But its lan\u00adguage and its silences speak vol\u00adumes about who holds pow\u00ader and who is expect\u00aded to dis\u00adap\u00adpear qui\u00adet\u00adly. Patients are not poi\u00adsoned, they are \u2018assist\u00aded\u2019. Doc\u00adtors don\u2019t kill, they \u2018par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate in the process\u2019. Insti\u00adtu\u00adtions aren\u2019t forced to com\u00adply, they\u2019re just not \u2018pro\u00adtect\u00aded\u2019 from being com\u00adpelled. Patients \u2018take life-end\u00ading med\u00adica\u00adtion\u2019, as if it\u2019s a herbal tea. Death is cleaned, blanched and euphemised. This new bill doesn\u2019t just hide the real\u00adi\u00adty of its actions; it hides the deci\u00adsion from the fam\u00adi\u00adly.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a mem\u00adber of the British par\u00adlia\u00adment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relat\u00aded in terms of \u201csafe\u00adguards\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/06\/us\/kentucky-organ-donations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doc\u00adtors Were Prepar\u00ading to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.<\/a> (Bri\u00adan M. Rosen\u00adthal, New York Times): \u201cFour years ago, an uncon\u00adscious Ken\u00adtucky man began to awak\u00aden as he was about to be removed from life sup\u00adport so his organs could be donat\u00aded. Even though the man cried, pulled his legs to his chest and shook his head, offi\u00adcials still tried to move for\u00adward. Now, a fed\u00ader\u00adal inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion has found that offi\u00adcials at the non\u00adprof\u00adit in charge of coor\u00addi\u00adnat\u00ading organ dona\u00adtions in Ken\u00adtucky ignored signs of grow\u00ading alert\u00adness not only in that patient but also in dozens of oth\u00ader poten\u00adtial donors.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/if-its-worth-your-time-to-lie-its\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If It\u2019s Worth Your Time To Lie, It\u2019s Worth My Time To Cor\u00adrect It<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cIf you say Joe Crim\u00adi\u00adnal com\u00admit\u00adted ten mur\u00adders and five rapes, and I object that it was actu\u00adal\u00adly only six mur\u00adders and two rapes, then why am I \u2018defend\u00ading\u2019 Joe Crim\u00adi\u00adnal? Because if it\u2019s worth your time to lie, it\u2019s worth my time to cor\u00adrect it. If one side lies to make all of their argu\u00adments sound 5% stronger, then over long enough it adds up.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/education\/college-students-are-using-no-contact-orders-to-block-each-other-in-real-life-4e3272b1?st=z6NSbQ&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Col\u00adlege Stu\u00addents Are Using \u2018No Con\u00adtact Orders\u2019 to Block Each Oth\u00ader in Real Life<\/a> (Pamela Paul, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): \u201cAdmin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors, ado\u00adles\u00adcent psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgists and soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists describe Gen Z stu\u00addents as fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent from ear\u00adli\u00ader gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions. Many have dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty with con\u00adfronta\u00adtion and lit\u00adtle expe\u00adri\u00adence work\u00ading through inter\u00adper\u00adson\u00adal con\u00adflicts, which was only exac\u00ader\u00adbat\u00aded by the pan\u00addem\u00adic. They have mas\u00adtered the ter\u00admi\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy of \u2018harass\u00adment\u2019 and \u2018dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion,\u2019 some\u00adtimes with just cause and oth\u00ader times to brand a run-of-the-mill dis\u00adagree\u00adment.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some wild sto\u00adries in here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/home\/2025\/06\/05\/i-tried-homesteading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My expen\u00adsive, exhaust\u00ading, hap\u00adpy failed attempt at home\u00adsteading<\/a> (Mike Rig\u00adgs, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cHow many square feet of raised beds do you need to meet a toddler\u2019s straw\u00adber\u00adry demand? I still don\u2019t know. We ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded 80 square feet to straw\u00adber\u00adries last sea\u00adson. The bugs ate half our har\u00advest, and the oth\u00ader half equaled rough\u00adly what our kid could eat in a week. Have you ever grown peas? Give them some\u00adthing to climb, and they\u2019ll stretch to the heav\u00adens. Have you ever shelled peas? It is an almost crim\u00adi\u00adnal mis\u00aduse of time. I set a timer on my phone last year. It took me 13 min\u00adutes to shell a sin\u00adgle serv\u00ading. Mean\u00adwhile, a two-pound bag of frozen peas from Wal\u00admart costs $2.42. And the peas come shelled.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/inside-the-secret-meeting-where-mathematicians-struggled-to-outsmart-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At Secret Math Meet\u00ading, Researchers Strug\u00adgle to Out\u00adsmart AI<\/a> (Lyn\u00addie Chiou, Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Amer\u00adi\u00adcan): \u201cOno says. \u2018I don\u2019t want to add to the hys\u00adte\u00adria, but in some ways these large lan\u00adguage mod\u00adels are already out\u00adper\u00adform\u00ading most of our best grad\u00adu\u00adate stu\u00addents in the world.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the protests in LA:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Still look\u00ading for arti\u00adcles with insight \u2014 let me know what you find help\u00adful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/la-riots-protests-illegal-immigration-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Delete That Pho\u00adto or We\u2019ll F\u2014 You Up\u2019<\/a> (Leighton Wood\u00adhouse, The Free Press): \u201cI have been to dozens of mass protests like the one that explod\u00aded in Los Ange\u00adles on Fri\u00adday. What I saw in Los Ange\u00adles on Sun\u00adday was dif\u00adfer\u00adent.\u2026 The demon\u00adstra\u00adtions are ugly, but so is what pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded them.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/11-theses-on-the-unrest-in-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 The\u00adses on the Unrest in Los Ange\u00adles<\/a> (Isaac Sauls, Per\u00adsua\u00adsion): \u201cTrump wants the fight. The pro\u00adtest\u00aders want the fight. So\u2026 we\u2019ll get the fight.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebignewsletter.com\/p\/monopoly-round-up-the-best-and-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Best and the Bright\u00adest Under Pres\u00adsure<\/a> (Matt Stoller, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cI do not know if there is a broad\u00ader real\u00adiza\u00adtion of the harm that elites have done among my class\u00admates.\u2026 Near\u00adly every\u00adone I met has matured into some\u00adone who is kinder than they were as a col\u00adlege stu\u00addent, will\u00ading to over\u00adlook flaws and acknowl\u00adedge vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. I was gen\u00aduine\u00adly impressed, and felt a deep con\u00adnec\u00adtion to my class. But I also peri\u00adod\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly asked, \u2018do you know some\u00adone who died of fen\u00adtanyl?\u2019 And the answer was always no, some\u00adtimes accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by sur\u00adprise that most Amer\u00adi\u00adcans do have per\u00adson\u00adal expe\u00adri\u00adence with a fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adber or friend, or friend of a kid, who died.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Why Do You Send This Email? In the time of King David, the tribe \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/06\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-508-euthanasia-nitpicking-and-homesteading-misadventures\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 508: euthana\u00adsia, nit\u00adpick\u00ading, and home\u00adsteading mis\u00adad\u00adven\u00adtures\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,219,240,167,247],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-elite-colleges","tag-euthanasia","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-209","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}