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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

She did just that, and the fact that they were well used gave exactly the right impression she needed of someone who knew, when it came to birds, what she was talking about. We had met before, so when he encountered me in Austria he asked me what I was doing there. These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal.

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Gotta love the Alps

10,000 Birds

bla bla bla (add interesting text here) >> fast forward >> the end bit… so the real reason I wanted to write this blog post is that I wanted to share this video: [link] All these images were taken right here, where we live and make fancy schmancy binoculars. But then again, those are some pretty hard acts to follow.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. In contrast, abstract-rational entities, like personhood or rights, are not.