If you don’t go outside every single day during the day and look at the sky, you are performing a punishing biological experiment on yourself previously reserves for prisoners
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@dwarkesh_sp
podcast is like a smart guy’s idea of what the lex pod could be
always funny how shocked his guests are that he actually reads all their books
as an autodidact i love to talk to people about their specialty. most are happy to talk about it
the two exceptions: philosophy and physics
i can see the fear in their eyes when i express interest. they’ve been hurt before
I feel so bad for real philosophy phds bc there are so many deluded people who read on their own and form terrible, misinformed interpretations but confidently call themselves PHILOSOPHERS
@lillybilly299
a lot of common allergies are actually caused by not being exposed to the allergen during the first few years of life
1 point for Like That causing the allergy rather than vice versa
why is everybody so unhappy?
i noticed during covid that half the people i interacted with were having the worst day, week, month or possibly year of their life
this remains true and i’m not sure why. did we all forget how to be happy?
me: the agricultural revolution, and it’s consequences—
the late neolithic: “From several sites archaeologists have found statues of leopards apparently mounting, riding or even ‘raping’ humans, paws over the human eyes.”
several adult women i know have been diagnosed with autism recently and made it into a prominent part of their identity
what is going on here? cui bono?
it’s even more k-punk than that
vape juice, lacroix, and white claw are all downstream of a PE firm buying an artificial flavor manufacturer in like 2010 and trying to expand their market
Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for project managers or senior software engineers, let me know. I was on the team that let beautiful little communities grow up like weeds through asphalt cracks, beneath the notice of the algorithm
for my whole life i’ve taken pride in being impossible to offend
but maybe that’s wrong and i’m missing out on something? maybe being offended is good, actually.
twitter, offensepill me. tell me why i should be umbragemaxxing. clutch my pearls for me
anybody else think of yud as kind of a stallman-esque figure?
too smart to be ignored, too uncharismatic to win, stuck not-even-wrong shouting at clouds
whoever zuck hired to do reputation management this year deserves more money
dude has gone from being a useful idiot who nearly ended the republic to a chill family man standing up for safety against the excesses of twitter. gleaming coverage everywhere
bonuses all around
i was recently exposed to the idea of “junk miles” from road biking. that is, the idea that purely doing miles (or reps) that aren’t part of a conscious plan to improve is actively harmful
absolutely shook 😳
boomers are like the incas: successful in their pre-contact environment, but unprepared for the virulent zoonotic infohazards unleashed by the memetic barbarians recently washed up on their shores
what’s left is an absolute horror-show of raw garlic, burned potatoes, oil-soaked mushrooms, spirulina, cabbage, canned salmon and kale chips. the sludge left over at the bottom of the 20th century when all the memes have boiled off
179 tickets sold for vibecamp so far
it will either be a cozy intimate event OR a bunch of people who WANT a cozy intimate event will see this and buy tickets and then it'll get crazy big again 🤔🤔🤔
anyway go to mydotvibedotcamp and you can just buy without applying now
@astridwilde1
the heroes journey and other yungian archetypes being pushed by 20c mass media storytellers like lucas and spielberg is responsible for many of society’s ills today
i have a theory about harari’s sapiens
there’s two kinds of sapiens readers:
first there’s those, like myself, who are basically addicted to deep history/theory of everything books of which it’s just one that’s kind of forgettable
i spend a lot of time alone in public with my two young sons, and people from more uhh..traditional cultures make it clear that dads feeding snacks, changing diapers, wiping tears, is gay
it’s had a profound impact on my relationship with the world
If a man is ever changing diapers, there is something seriously wrong with the relationship or with the order of the home. It is a sign the family has much bigger problems.
woke up this morning to water pouring into my apartment, flooded streets, failing infrastructure everywhere
followed hours later by the arrival by air freight of a titanium phone powered by 3nm transistors, the pinnacle of high technology
the 2020s are wild.
@Empty_America
3br/2ba single level apartments with modest outdoor space, a hallway between living and sleeping spaces, and out of unit storage are surprisingly humane
basically, how middle class people in dense nyc lived until the 1990s
@LitMiddle
@default_friend
some might say that sowing the seeds of healthier social conditions that won’t blossom in your lifetime is the antidote to atomized hedonistic coping lifestyles
@Will_CostiganJr
@logic_denier
internet scolds are karmically inferior to bimbos it says it right there in the bardo thodol sorry buddy i don’t make the rules
idk who needs to hear this, but:
if your first association with the word “daddy” is sexual, you’ve probably been infected by a sterilizing meme, and your genetic material is at risk
learning to navigate the world of my kids’ friends’ parents, im struck by an intrusive thought:
how many relationships and experiences did i miss out on as a young child due to other kids’ parents not wanting to deal with mine?
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