WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 8, 2025

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
 
[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

Stefanie NeumannJan 24, 2025

horizon's silver
glimmer between the storm clouds
galumph towards Spring

---
#vss365 - #galumph
#VssPoem - #inability
#DailyHaikuPrompt - glimmer
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku

@worded_art
@dailyhaikuprompt
@vss365
@poetry
@haiku

Show threadBerlinFokusJan 23, 2025

"The ultimate goal of #terrorist movements is to expose the #inability of #governments to #protect their #societies, thus to compel concessions to the terrorists' causes. Where that end cannot be achieved because either the government is too powerful or the cause is too impossible, a steady diet of #pain and #suffering for the #TargetCountry becomes the terrorists' surrogate goal."

https://www.chausa.org/publications/health-progress/archive/article/july-august-2016/why-terrorists-use-female-and-child-suicide-bombers

.

Why Terrorists Use Female and Child Suicide Bombers

Suicide bombing used to be a disturbing phenomenon. It has become so common that now it is the phenomenon of women and children as the human bombs. From North Africa to Central Asia, it has become commonplace. How did this happen? Why does it happen?

www.chausa.org
OccuWorldDec 24, 2024

LAMBS

#Ok_Writer_2960 #Lambs #Folk #ToTheSlaughter #Dystopia #CrisisBurnout #Submission #Inability #Resist

Ms. Que BanhAug 16, 2024

*Me, my Mom & my youngest brother are some of the many thousands of patients in #BritishColumbia who have been on the #WaitingList for a new family #doctor since our previous GPs retired.*

When the province introduced its #HealthConnectRegistry in 2021, we were told this would help #patients to find a #FamilyPhysician.

About 900,000 #BritishColumbians have no doctor, and while the #Health Ministry continues to announce the recruitment of new #physicians, that number has remained fairly constant for years.

Yet the #inability of the Registry to make meaningful progress is only one of its failings.

More troubling is that the Registry makes no attempt to place patients based on their age or #medical condition. This conflicts with one of the basic principles underlying medical practice, that faced with an inability to treat everyone who needs help, those with the most pressing requirements should come first.

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorial-tell-us-where-we-stand-in-queue-for-a-doctor-9358753?utm_source=Times+Colonist+Headline+News&utm_campaign=b06b386dfc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d22ba5c6e6-a978a9ba3c-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=b06b386dfc&mc_eid=48512ab3b3

#BCpoli #PublicHealth #WeNeedFamilyDoctors #FireBonnieHenry #HealthCareCrisis #BChealthCare #StopEugenics #BCPublicHealth #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCgovernment #HealthCareFailures #AdrianDix #BonnieHenry #EbyTheEnabler #DavidEby #FamilyPhysicians #WeNeedDoctors #OathbreakerBonnie #BootBonnieHenry #CDNpoli

Editorial: Tell us where we stand in queue for a doctor

Some residents who’ve been on the Registry since its inception have never received an update on their status and still have no family doctor.

Times Colonist
WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 19, 2023

A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose:

«
AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/65585/

#quote #quotes #quotation #aging #badhabit #capability #condemnation #hypocrisy #inability #oldage #vice

"Age," The Cynic's Word Book (1906) - Bierce, Ambrose | WIST Quotations

AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit. Included in The Devil's Dictionary (1911). Originally published in the "Devil's Dictionary" column in the San Francisco Wasp (1881-02-12).

WIST
PSiReN-X Oct 11, 2023

#YouSee; one of the #MainProblems with #LotRO / #SSG is its #Inability to #Function as a #LegitimateBusiness #InAllMarkets; mostly because of #AllTheFraud... #Mostly...

#That, and the all the #RacistHomophobes...

I will #AlsoAlsoAdd; that's why #NoOneCares and #NoOneWorthIT #PlaysIT #NoMore... | #Diablo4World is #SoMuchBetter...

#DeadGame... | #ZombieApocalypse

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🐻​🚀🦹🪐

rotenotesSep 23, 2023
#capitalism #sickness #inability to #work David #Harvey
KemptonFeb 16, 2023
I thought of @bhaggart when I scan the article, "AI as Agency without Intelligence: on ChatGPT, large language models, and other generative models". [HT Grady]
//Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?// [HT Grady]
//“It also highlights the limitations of these LLMs, such as their #brittleness, #unreliability, and the occasional #inability to make elementary #logical inferences or deal with simple #mathematics.”// https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4358789
James WallbankNov 12, 2022

@ianbetteridge

I've heard the suggestion that Facebook is great if you're interested in people, and Twitter is great if you're interested in ideas. That was certainly the reason that I favoured Twitter!

#My #worry #about #Mastodon #is #quite #foundational—#its #apparent #inability #to #search #for #terms #that #aren't #hashtagged. #This #makes #it #much #less #effective #as #a #way #to #see #who's #talking #about #a #particular #aspect #of #a #topic.

Unless you write like that, of course!