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Purple Orchids by: Alfonso Alberto Ramírez Alvarez Favorites | Saturday – April 18, 2026 F avorites... Why do people have favorites: favorite foods, favorite music, favorite literature, favorite animals, favorite politics , favorite people , etc, etc, the list can be made very long? Do I have favorites? Well, allow me to return to myself later, as this is a part of my " Personal Notes series ".      First of all, it would do you good if you understand the concept of favorites as an extension of preferences , a topic I often return to , and in turn an extension of some kind of individualism, and really it must also be said: favorites always describe the substantial in the object, never the essential. Secondly, I actually struggle quite often to understand the whole concept of having a favorite, mostly because the world is such a large place, and even the material world is really too large for me to just narrow in on some substantialism, if you will. I can admit that ...

Taenghwa ( 탱화 ) Painting, Joseon ( 조선 ) Should Anorexia Become Normalized? Friday – April 17, 2026 A norexia is an issue that I have raised in the past; you may read about that in my post: " Anorexia and the Body ".      I have decided to cover this issue yet – again  because there are a lot of fat people in the world, and in the spirit of egalitarianism it appears that certain pressure groups and adjacent activists, often feminists , believe that it is quite evil to promote, from a profane perspective may I add , health and lifestyle factors that tend to promote health, such as not binge-eating. Is it really the case that binge-eating is the new normal? No, at least not yet but there are actually real people that want to promote this, and they even claim that their lifestyle, as if everything is about preferences , is healthy and that skinny people are the ones that are unhealthy. To me, this is simply outrageous and really a sign of our times, read " Disintegrat...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Shortwave Radio | Thursday – April 16, 2026 S hortwave radio is on my mind – again. Not that I have mentioned my radio interest very much on this page, although I have alluded to this in some posts , but that is all besides my point: I find radio communications of all kinds important for one reason – freedom . Now, I am not someone that tends to talk or write a lot of about freedom, although I have done this in the past as well , but I do find it important to evade government control and coercion as much as possible, and one of the most effective ways of doing this is through the medium of the airways. Now, it is also true, I should make clear, that shortwaves in particular are not the only "radio medium", and there is surely a physical science behind this, something that I may return to later. But because of physics, in the material sense , shortwaves in particular tends to travel very far distances, depending on conditions , and this means th...