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from time to time I think about this post, which I think remains in the top 0.01% of everything I have ever read https://t.co/TTSEBlL16T
there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to carry his lifeless body on his back for 6 hours. The climber then blocked the sherpa on Instagram https://t.co/AJW70vJ3Kr
we already live in a boring dystopia https://t.co/4feoT4DWSC
free vpn installer tonight queen? https://t.co/sAUAEk5KLu
Guy describes how his friend is the group’s Airport Dad (takes everyone’s passports, double-checks everything, etc) the comments are full of ladies who wanna marry him https://t.co/K8vG9srMVw
this mf failed to detonate his shoe bomb once 22 years ago and now everybody everywhere has to take off their shoes at every airport forever until the end of time https://t.co/b2G0T9ZiKt
for itsy bitsy https://t.co/VUToDp4Avw https://t.co/aoC2x8ogtA
love this: awkward shy rejection-sensitive pimply asian guy asked 100 girls out on a date. 19 said yes! 10 were lesbian. concludes that he got over his fear of rejection in a single day https://t.co/7oocai2DLq
kind of cool to know: a lot of celebrity Wikipedia pages have photos of them at comic con because there’s one guy (Gage Skidmore) who photographs them all https://t.co/xnsZWEf1Ox
anyway. 👑 Gelje Sherpa!!! 👑 May you have a great rest-of-your life and may your name and deeds echo eternal through Valhalla 🫡 > "Saving one life is more important than praying at the monastery," said Gelje, a devout Buddhist. https://t.co/LbbnUrOS4o https://t.co/Dgb7aWtJpw
the tragic thing that I suppose lots of people have to learn the hard way is that getting people to care is an almost completely independent skill to acquiring achievements or accolades. it’s mostly storytelling actually https://t.co/9lnJ1KC2Ky
casually dropped banger from The House Bunny (2008) https://t.co/aVBzOTJAW7
one thing ive learned as a serious-hobbyist media consumer is that if a movie like this is actually made, it will somehow end up being the most profound one with the actual richest understanding of the source material https://t.co/2PdkxOviVS
first real good 9/11 joke i've ever seen https://t.co/0Wi7VtHyBA https://t.co/1YymShDCFp
feel like I haven’t see a “there are too many podcasts, why is everyone trying to start a podcast” take in a while https://t.co/YA2yUWGa2n
this remains to me one of the most interesting emails ever written https://t.co/GEXLlbvEyL
I can’t take Whiplash seriously because the premise is flawed; you don’t get good as a jazz drummer by becoming a human metronome. The whole thing has a cartoon model of musical excellence. Maybe it should’ve been a movie about sports instead https://t.co/u8AGnmmJuW
the plane studying stance is my favorite part https://t.co/zE6r8Cbi95
I like this photo I took when I was out on a walk today https://t.co/0B8vXzy57j
you can meet enough new people and build a new life amongst them well enough that the people in the former group become a comparatively insignificant rounding error https://t.co/mOJPcpSYsO
here's a video of the sherpa. astounding. I would've assumed that having one's life saved like this would be a humbling experience, one of profound gratitude https://t.co/fDAspP9O35
excellent minute of a comedian getting a hot girl to do a side by side comparison of hot girl mannerisms https://t.co/H4958AXAJS
looks like Ravi has since updated to acknowledge the sherpas, and unblocked Gelje... who responded with tremendous grace https://t.co/Std02cBLK3
the sherpa, Gelje, had even persuaded his own client to cancel their own attempt so that they could save Ravi's life. Ravi then subsequently did media appearances and ig posts etc and said nothing about Gelje. Blocked him!! https://t.co/XjnWzR8qjO
for future ref, the recommended reading list at the back of the manual of The Sims https://t.co/LVOU1ZUxcd https://t.co/bNnUFU90r7
@solarsystern i think maybe in his narrative he might be mad at the sherpa for revealing his vulnerability, like he doesn't want to admit that he needed help
Request for Netflix show: ethnic aunties travelling and cooking together. An Indian aunty goes to Mexico and meets the local aunties there. And compare cooking recipes, and complain about their children. Repeat with aunties worldwide
when tiktok is good it’s really good lmao https://t.co/i0LmjnMi0Q
this is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. it’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. a nice example of “the universal within the particular” https://t.co/pjGISo3RGt https://t.co/3n474p0a8j
one of life’s big “cheats” is: you can learn a lot by reading a lot and talking with a lot of people and thinking through it all
collecting notes on what seems to be an emerging story of animals being onboarded onto our superstimuli https://t.co/4xWC04Vjsv
kids feel the blues too big source around this age is that people no longer find you cute. now they scold you for making mistakes. mama’s too busy with the new baby. nobody claps and whoops and cheers for your accomplishments like they used to. you’re on your own now kid… https://t.co/ZVR69xJ3VS
one of the funny things about life– hilarious when it happens to others, humbling when it happens to you– is meeting someone who’s casually, indifferently better at a thing than the median person who makes an identity out of it
a while ago people were asking how come it took humanity so long to develop agriculture etc. i suspect the answer is basically this. innovations are deviations which threaten the prevailing social order and so they tend to get put down https://t.co/zBZOls8gMb
this is gonna sound like a bit, but i'm serious: if there's one thing i suspect might be a cure to all ills, it is good reply game. i'd argue that good reply game, in le guin's sense of "love is not a stone that sits there, love is bread that must be remade anew, daily", IS love https://t.co/c6Cx1rQ3CA
care and competence is sexy!! https://t.co/U5INkkLHyZ
I just discovered the Pepsi rebranding slides from 2008 and it is truly breathtaking https://t.co/idhAbVWufp
when I was a kid so many adults used to tell me “when you have a child of your own then you will understand (why adults bully and manipulate and condescend to children)” and like yeah now I understand… that all those adults were wrong and messed up lol https://t.co/onrBEu48sg
i'm happily married 10+ years with a wife and son who love me and i have none of that shit together lol. this is the "shiny lure" class of advice i was talking about. ime the only thing you actually need in a relationship is to know/learn how to relate to each other healthily https://t.co/j00J3M1pNq
periodic reminder: have you taken a minute to write down what your actual problems are lately? the practice of properly describing a problem often reveals its solution
imo: if you’re deliberate about “doing the reading”, whatever that means for any domain, within a year it’s possible to be in the top ~5% in the scene. This is because 95% of people don’t do the reading https://t.co/cGLCJf3hQV
Friends, I have found,,, a salmon vending machine https://t.co/RyY2oj63Ln
i'm so curious to understand the economics behind this business. have they actually built the thing? how much did it cost to make? what do they do if nobody buys it? how did they finance it? do they sell smaller subs? let's investigate https://t.co/ZOmAOEjKNd
a dairy cow eats ~100lbs of food and shits ~60lbs of hot stinky manure daily, you never see that in the pictures https://t.co/AjTygZAmDX
i figured this out by age ~6 and it made me miserable, occasionally even suicidal, until i was about 22- but after that it's basically been paradise. (there's an interesting parallel between how people flinch from the full truth of the lowest lows and the highest highs) https://t.co/hHFHydoYDP
sharing this for all the mfs who ask if it's over for them at 27 https://t.co/fBL6MOMLI5
when I was in the military I was responsible for a file, meant to track loans of certain items. one month my superior yelled at me for not bringing him the file. “but nobody loaned anything,” I said. “I don’t care!” he shouted. “your job is to bring me the file!” https://t.co/jxROIEqHl1
yknow, I don’t recall a single man telling me, when I was growing up, how great it is to be a dad https://t.co/jKcVu2xSX1
this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐 https://t.co/7uu4B9YhpH
my wife is a smart sensible woman and it seemed sensible to both of us that it would be a good idea for her to socialize with other moms online and it seems like every day she is just being bombarded with horror stories https://t.co/vOaLiswqAE
these were the shoes, the FBI probably still has them https://t.co/68lcyP5GuQ
whenever people say things like “I don’t want to bring children into this horrible world” I ponder about the people who had kids during the Black Death, when it felt like God was actually abandoning humanity in real time. maybe those people didn’t see parenthood as a choice
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Same Student 10-Minute Timelapse https://t.co/REIJz3sBXd
we made a lil guy https://t.co/BPp4KOvAjc https://t.co/RPnmuHLt3f
from time to time I’m reminded that the Internet has ruined me https://t.co/HsCrCgylJk
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nietzsche has a quote that's like, "insanity is rare in individuals, but in groups it is the rule". over the years as i've participated in all sorts of groups i've come to see more clearly how and why this is true
this was me up until ~27. i still occasionally have a bit of it. ymmv, but in my journey my understanding has been, the way out is through. you can't banish the gut reaction. rather you gotta find a way to be deeply immersed in the feeling "I am safe, I am loved, I am cared for" https://t.co/7zw70kEoHc
@OGgranolabar @illegalth0t same energy https://t.co/qraUdMvtMA
if you havent in a while, i recommend going somewhere nice and sitting with the question, "what do i really want, anyway?"
this was part of my reasoning when proposing to my wife when we were 22. If it didn’t work out in 5 years, as long as we didn’t have kids yet we could be 27yo divorcees with basically no downside https://t.co/64yn4coBTu
Only just learned about students from Singapore’s top girls’ school getting into trouble for praying to the school’s statue of Athena 😂 frankly I’m with the girls, I think it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do. You put a goddess of wisdom statue & you expect girls not to stan? https://t.co/1AnwlxPtpy
my wife is watching a video of a guy recite prime numbers for 3 hours and she’s getting flustered and angry at some of the numbers
the most legendary comeback in fighting game history https://t.co/QgNsnKrjbp
me: I love you wife: how much me: why this obsession with quantification wife: what gets measured gets managed
@enrondripgod technically all flowering trees are cum trees https://t.co/XJTCsn04cc
@nicoleaimee @katiehannigan “once you’ve dug yourself into a deep pit... keep digging” - archaeologists
a culture undersecretary who actually gets culture https://t.co/ZltTfl4vUh
market value should really be called market sentiment https://t.co/DPsh5bTCoU
a fun thought experiment i like to give people is, 1. imagine you're dating someone who is basically identical to you psychologically/emotionally etc, same worries n anxieties and pet peeves etc 2. how would you drive each other insane? what would ya'll fight about? https://t.co/WcZdtZfr05
i'm always fascinated by how some kids have better theory of mind than some adults. it's always funny because it's sort of unfinished/imperfect, but this gets completely lobotomized from a lot of people https://t.co/745SXKTiBe
just a PSA; did you know: you can discuss your relationship issues with your partner before doing anything drastic like breaking up suddenly with no context? I’ve been hearing from multiple people that their partners did not seem to know this
some people, upon seeing this, may experience a flash of insight that reconfigures their entire model of human expression and behavior https://t.co/SSwpygNcos
the most sick overpowered skill i unlocked in my 30s that wouldve been incomprehensible god-mode to my teen and early 20s selves is that ive learned how to enjoy being misunderstood
the next month, nobody loaned anything either, but I made sure to bring him the empty file. this time he yelled, “are you stupid or what? what’s the point of bringing me an empty file?!” in that moment I was enlightened
I generally try to stay clear of giving people “you should do this” type of advice, but I think one thing I do wanna push for is: you should try to get your ass out of your hometown, to somewhere on the other side of the planet, ideally in your early 20s. Save up, spend a month
growing up in singapore in a hindu family i never really understood our religious practices until i went to my grandpa's village in india and witnessed the moon and the night sky and the bewitching quality of fire in absolute darkness https://t.co/NYB2R4iDWk
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waiting for the community notes like https://t.co/B5BMn8OUy3
it’s better than many books and novels and movies and entire tv shows etc
king shit 👑 https://t.co/8hKWlqMesr
once again discovering that a few minutes of thinking through a problem on paper was more effective than vaguely ruminating about it in my mind for weeks
once you learn to shoot your shot just right you basically inhabit a completely different reality than 99.9% of people and it just looks like the world magically opens doors for you https://t.co/XlM1bsUR7x
There’s an interesting story here to be told about how the men think they’re talking to each other but maybe it’s actually the women who are controlling the conversation https://t.co/tTsnC9tyL8
@skylxrksays George Michael - Careless Whisper.mp3 https://t.co/y0hT7dPs6b
if you’re sufficiently charismatic, people who are attracted to you will thirst over specific “ordinary” features - even body parts - in ways that they wouldn’t when someone else without that quality has those same features. A lot of people seem to misunderstand how this works
a lot of loneliness plays out like this: people accumulate past grievances that they feel have not been appropriately heard. they front-load interactions with this (eg complaining about ex on first date), which makes other people feel unheard. this perpetuates the wretched cycle
sometimes I experience a flash of insight that feels like a real breakthrough, and then I find out I had the exact same insight years ago but didn’t quite manage to translate it into meaningful action. which is sobering, humbling and sometimes kinda ominous experience
I do love being 30. My favourite age yet. I have money. I have time. I have friends. I have health. I have everything I ever wanted. Adults take me seriously. Kids look up to me. Women of all ages flirt with me. My parents are still healthy. It’s perfect. I am very blessed
this seems correct to me and it also seems like a really glaring example of JBP's internal conflict that seems to be eating him alive; he is not in alignment with his own stated principles https://t.co/jySWJPwmyF
@PressHerald same energy https://t.co/BeBo9xSkaC
the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking about outcomes they don’t want. you might as well joke about the outcomes you do want
everything changed when the girl I was dating got disowned by her family for it. felt like I got sucked into a vortex of adulthood. it broke and remade almost everything in me. got married, got a flat, got a job- in that order. it took my in-laws about a decade to come around https://t.co/AFg8aR08oV
My wife predicts divorces & failed relationships with stunning accuracy and I have learned a few of her tricks relationships are fucking hard, and to work they need a sort of functional “economy” (gratitude, laughter, kindness) and waste elimination system (pain, resentment)
i’ve never encountered anything more interesting than my son. “you’re biased because its your kid” is of course true and it is the *point*. imagine looking in a mirror but its both you and your favorite person mixed together and it’s alive and independent. enchanting, bewitching
it’s all one guy! Gage Skidmore, showing up at comic con every year https://t.co/ewwtDvXYvq
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I’ve gotten thousands of DMs over the years from people telling me about their problems. Here’s one interesting pattern/cluster I’ve noticed, which I’d loosely describe as “anxious self-flagellating ambitious guy who desires greatness but refuses to learn from his mistakes”
one of the most depressing forms of internet illiteracy to me is when parents seem oblivious to the potential consequences of posting undignified/unflattering pictures and videos of their kids. we have already seen this play out with the kids of some of the early family bloggers