Eric FoltinFeb 5

The First Dance Was the First Mistake

What song instantly teleports you back to a very specific bad decision? There’s a song that doesn’t just bring back memories. It kidnaps you, duct tapes you to the passenger seat, and drives straight into a flaming pile of choices you absolutely signed off on. For me, it’s “Every Breath You Take.” The creepy anthem we all pretended was romantic because the 80s were a lawless wasteland. That song was the first dance at my wedding. The first dance. Slow swaying. Smiling relatives. […]

https://ericfoltin.com/2026/02/05/the-first-dance-was-the-first-mistake/

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 17

A quotation from Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Comment (1830-10-05), “Table Talk”

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #coleridge #samueltaylorcoleridge #baddecision #decisionmaking #fear #folly #politics

Comment (1830-10-05), "Table Talk" - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | WIST Quotations

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!May 9, 2025

A quotation from Orwell

If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), "First War-Time Diary"

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 8, 2025

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: My life needs a rewind/erase button.
HOBBES: ... And a volume control.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1987-09-22)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #calvinandhobbes #baddecision #erase #life #regret #revision #rewind #selfcontrol #time #volume

KerryBostonFan42Mar 7, 2024
#uswnt As a fan of women’s soccer and #uswnt I can't feel good regardless of the outcome of this game. It's not soccer. More like waterpolo-soccer. #BadDecision #Bad4WomensSoccer
BC Métis Man ✅ 🙉🙈🙊⚖Dec 8, 2023

Goes to show you those that went to "Wharton" make really bad decisions too. Look at the Orange Menace for many more examples.

#wharton #lol #baddecision #wtf #menace #orangemenace #orangefelon

ldunlopJan 26, 2023

Needed to go to bed early. Instead watched four episodes of Vikings: Valhalla.

#baddecision

Luke MacNeilDec 4, 2022

I've been eating #mushrooms and thinking #zen lately. I'm listening to a lot of #alanwatts and #terrancemckenna - #carljung and #paulstamets

My #ego is extraordinarily motivating, and has helped me develop #skills

It's also the source of every #baddecision I've ever made.

One of those guys said "The ego is an excellent servant, and a terrible master".

If there is no ego, if there is no "I" or "me"... then we really are all one, like grains of sand on a beach - with nuclear weapons.

secitem.atOct 19, 2017

Did the NSA know about KRACK before?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-krack-vulnerability-security-experts/

#krack #nsa #baddecision #snowden #hack #flaw #security #infosec #cybersecurity

NSA won't say if it knew about KRACK, but don't look to this leaked doc for answers

Given how the NSA has tried to hack anything it can, many looked to one top secret leaked document for answers.