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Hedley Kow is an English folktale recorded by Joseph Jacobs in 1894.

There was once an old woman, who earned a poor living by going errands and such like, for the farmers' wives round about the village where she lived. It wasn't much she earned by it; but with a plate of meat at one house, and a cup of tea at another, she made shift to get on somehow, and always looked as cheerful as if she hadn't a want in the world.

Well, one summer evening as she was trotting away homewards she came upon a big black pot lying at the side of the road.

"Now that" said she, stopping to look at it, "would be just the very thing for me if I had anything to put into it! But who can have left it here?" and she looked round about, as if the person it belonged to must be not far off. But she could see no one.

"Maybe it'll have a hole in it," she said thoughtfully:—

"Ay, that'll be how they've left it lying, hinny. But then it'd do fine to put a flower

Antinatalism is the philosophical belief that procreation is morally unjustifiable. It applies primarily to human procreation, though some antinatalists apply these principles to all sentient life. Antinatalism as a concept extends far back into human history, and has been grappled with, in one way or another, by many of the world's religious traditions. Modern Philosopher David Benatar sums up antinatalism nicely in a series of axiological deductions, found in his book, "Better Never to

a chunk of data held in machine-readable binary format, indecipherable by and unfriendly to humans.


"…usually refers to a device driver module loaded into the kernel of an open-source operating system… "
—wikipedia


In general terms a binary blob is something capable of being read and acted on by computer hardware, but a black box, genrally seen as hermetically, impenetrably formatted against human

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