death & taxes | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:00:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png death & taxes | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Probing Companionship: Investigating Lurrus https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/04/probing-companionship-investigating-lurrus/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2020/04/probing-companionship-investigating-lurrus/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:00:51 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=21597 And so, the devastation of Modern continues. At least, if you listen to most social media where companions are concerned. I remind everyone again that meaningful data on the matter is currently non-existent; all anyone has to go on are their personal observations. And then the echo chamber will come into play as those observations […]

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"I don't know what this world is coming to," once hollered The Soul Children. Indeed, society as we once knew it is becoming increasingly unrecognizable. Is the solution to succumb to our basest animal instincts, or to put mind over matter in a true triumph of human spirit? Today's brew report encapsulates that struggle, as […]

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