Something something paradox of tolerance something something
Currently avoiding reading extremely interesting Wikipedia pages about civil rights because it would be major spoilers for the LBJ biography I'm halfway through
Crazy how caffeine just scales productivity infinitely!! At 3 grams you actually start being able to see the future
Cognitive behavioral therapy is just medicalized stoicism
Interesting - do people treat dunking as a defensive tool? It seems that ironically it would actually enflame arguments rather than prevent them
Lady the elevator is going up, not down! oh God she has airpods in!! She can't hear us!! Noooooo we are all condemned to mild awkwardness for the next 45 seconds nooo
LBJ only wanted extremely subservient aids, creating an environment where he could freely abuse them. He would force newly hired aids to watch him use the toilet as he barked orders at them, as a sort of literal "shit test". Wow
It seems on most of the internet, 1% of users cause 80% of problems. While the user count is small this effect is negligible, but grow just 1 or 2 orders of magnitude and they quickly dominate the whole site. It's becoming clear we have now hit that limit 😅
Being the first to break a big story could be worth a lot of money! But it's hard, rare, and less profitable, which is why big news orgs don't fund it, I presume. Outcompeted by blogspam. But the market is definitely out there for people not beholden to shareholders