WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 25

A quotation from Josh Billings

Thare iz nothing we are more apt to parade before others, than our kares and sorrows, and thare iz nothing the world kares so little about.
 
[There is nothing we are more apt to parade before others, than our cares and sorrows, and there is nothing the world cares so little about.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-12 (1875 ed.)

More info about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/79269/

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Osna.FMAug 19, 2025
A leading German foreign policy figure has commended a recent meeting between party leadership and former U.S. President Donald Trump, asserting it highlighted... https://news.osna.fm/?p=12215 | #news #disinterest #exposed #german #politician
Trump's Ukraine Disinterest Exposed, Says German Politician - Osna.FM

German MP accuses Trump of disinterest in Ukraine peace, praising party leader Merz for exposing this stance during a Washington meeting - get the latest political analysis.

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Quantum SplashAug 3, 2025

😔 All that is necessary for the triumph of #evil is that #good people do nothing https://bsky.app/profile/veganftaofficial.bsky.social/post/3lvfii32fm32q

#passivity #indifference #disinterest #crime

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 29, 2025

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…

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N-gated Hacker NewsJun 30, 2025
🚀🤷‍♂️ Oh no, #NASA might miss out on the chance to watch a #space #rock whiz by, presumably because they're busy with more important matters—like losing #funding or misplacing telescopes. Meanwhile, the rest of us will likely just continue not caring. 🙄🌌
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/trump-budget-kills-nasas-golden-opportunity-to-see-a-killer-asteroid-up-close/ #Missed #Opportunity #Issues #Astronomy #Disinterest #HackerNews #ngated
An exceedingly rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines

“Nature is handing us an incredibly rare experiment.”…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 12, 2025

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1740 ed.)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…

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BellingenNSWDec 31, 2024

Quiet extinctions of invertebrates are largely unnoticed and unmourned

‘This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper’ TS Eliot, The Hollow Men

"Australian species have become extinct over this 236-year period...We predict that 39–148 species will become extinct in 2024. This is inconsistent with a recent pledge by the Australian government to prevent all extinction...Unless there is a major increase in investment and change in conservation priorities, and more effective control of threats, this rate of extinction will increase. We should not simply maintain the current conservation status quo and let these extinctions happen."

"So long as invertebrate extinctions remain nameless and invisible, this failure cannot be demonstrated, or readily overcome; and efforts will instead be directed towards the less imperilled, but better-known and iconic species."
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Woinarski JCZ, Braby MF, Gibb H, et al. This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction. 2024;2:e23. doi:10.1017/ext.2024.26
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper-estimating-the-number-and-ongoing-rate-of-extinctions-of-australian-nonmarine-invertebrates/D0DCAA03EBA7ACC25F98F7BF5D87A2A6
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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates - Volume 2

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sharkspezJun 15, 2024

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Moms would come in demanding 💊 medication to "fix" their perfectly healthy kids. I tried to reason with them, but some parents simply wouldn’t 👂 listen. How far would they go?

#adhd #selfmedication #medicated #deaf #disregard #apathy #disinterest #wondering #justwondering #pharma #bigpharma #pharmaceuticalindustry #pharmaceutical #listen #listening

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WIST Quotations moves again!May 20, 2024

A quotation from Shakespeare, William:

«
LEONATO: For, brother, men
Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/69329/

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Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 22ff (5.1.22-24) (1598) - Shakespeare, William | WIST Quotations

LEONATO:For, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel.

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NOWNOWNOWFeb 8, 2024
Where we are with computery technology at the moment is not only dangerous but outright irresponsible – things are complicated and manifold, things are badly explained or just not explained, things are lengthy and boring

There’s not many people who would tolerate this sort of abuse of their attention, with the exception of technically-inclined computer programmers and other such people who in earlier days might have been motorcycle obsessed, tractor obsessed, bridge and tunnel engineering obsessed, music theory and performance obsessed, astronomy and astrology obsessed system addicts – that’s a specific type of person with a specific hole in their lives filled by being obsessed with a system of some kind, and that phase only lasts a short while of their lives before which they were incompetent and after which they’re too tired and knackered to give a shit about that sort of crap because none of it really mattered after all

The dangerous aspect is the prejudiced assumption that everybody is interested in this sort of stuff and is invested into learning about it, knowing about it, and being fluent in it enough to actually participate in it as a common currency of the day – it isn’t, only for those computer programmer types, whereas for everyone else, it’s just boring and abstract and poorly explained, clearly the babblings of an inadequate personality with too much time on their hands and a deficient sense of when to give up

The bad thing is that our attention is being presumed – it is taken for granted that our interest is there, our attention is going to last long enough for it to make sense, and that we even see any kind of incentive in pursuing this meaningless babble long enough to see a potential result – for most normal people the answer is no, we’re not interested, no, you don’t have our attention for free, and no there’s no apparent incentive leading to a result that is useful – all we see is the hindrance of an unhinged philosophy-like uselessness of system on top of mechanism on top of system on top of mechanism, all too reliant on anyone’s memory to work more than once – nobody can remember any of that stuff unless they’re obsessed to the point of it being a character defect, and that’s the bad thing – assuming everyone is like that

#attention #interest #disinterest #intermittence #periodicity #incentive