How to cope with watching movies that starred old people when you first watched them but now are younger than you?
25.03.2025 08:36
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How to cope with watching movies that starred old people when you first watched them but now are younger than you?
So, the plan is to make Americans poorer so they would forego their email- and desk-jobs to go to work in the factories. I wonder who those Americans are. I think they are mostly imagined by the new elites who would never want their children to do that.
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No, it wouldn't. It doesn't work like that; you have no idea what you're talking about. But you got some nerve editing professional writers being a non-native speaker yourself. Maybe consider grabbing a linguistics professor next door to explain this to you, since you don't trust the sources.
I predict that within the next 2 years there'll be a person who employed a plastic surgeon to look like this.
Translation:
A girl with a tattoo on her butt will steal your cold crypto-wallet.
The markets soared under Biden because they anticipated Trump. Now they're falling because they anticipate post-Trump. A forward-looking machine, you know. Trump should save the stock market by immediately cancelling all future elections.
Cherrypicking. It as well ends by Russia losing and the regime falling.
All hail Plato!
Zelenskyy is a ten times a man compared to the other two, put together.
Two moral weakling, tyrant-fellating, cheap showmen for simpletons, barking at one of modern history’s great men. What an age we live in.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Hate to be that guy, but he's right and you're wrong. This is a non-restrictive clause and using "that" in this case is absurd. You can read a sub-chapter on this here (scroll below a little): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English...
It’s astonishing how fast our institutions (courts, legislatures, press) have acquiesced to normalizing corruption at the highest levels. Either that or it’s astonishing how long our fundamentally fragile democracy has lasted.
I’m sitting here staring at a wall and wondering wtf has actually happened and why everyone seems so ok with it.
Interesting...color categories are not innate, at least for monkeys. Do humans depend on language for their consensus over colors?
Color me intrigued.
I'd be in favour of an inquiry into whether SARS2 causes brain damage, or people are too fragile to survive a merely inconvenient calamity without going insane, or they just shouldn't be on the internet because they get lost in fiction.
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This is not the kind of language that a hostage/spokesperson of a totalitarian regime would use. Like, totally, not *that* kind of language.
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In the previous media era, learning was about knowing where to find information. Now it is about knowing which information to reject.
This is the kind of unreasonable cynicism that really gets on my nerves. Go, try living in Russia to get a feel for it, as my mother would say. Open a business there. Or at the very least read Nothing is True but Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev. I'll eat my hat if it does not change you.
A thoughtful piece. Well worth your time.
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The Founders thought the political parties were a no-no. In abstract, political parties or factions diminish the main advantage of wisdom of the crowd—diversity of opinions where errors cancel each other out. Instead, you get a Congress of roughly two "persons."
To me, the main lesson of the first Trump's term was how much of the American political system is honour-based. Instead of laws and rules—customs and conventions with no sanction but shame for breaking them. And hence the system is being captured by corrupt fools with no shame.
Not gonna lie, this dialogue has a nice flow to it—like a good screenplay.
I believe that 20 minutes spent petting my cat, Jennifer, is a productive allocation of resources.
That was fascinating. The guy is like an LLM with a two-sentence context window and no attention at all. He just constantly goes on a new tangent the last few words reminded him about but never gets past the beginning of the new story either.
Great point.
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@helenlewis.bsky.social is so very thoughtful and good.
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Wow.
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A mass hysteria about an imaginary disease with psychogenic symptoms would be a reasonable thing because infectious diseases are a real risk. Got ya.
An exercise in gross generalisations, this essay should be taken with a handful of salt. But, man, it is an enjoyable read. Old-school and stylish; very fun.
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