One Of The Most Boring Forms Of Discourse Is When Two Opposing Sides Are Like, "They're Hypocrites!"

The Fertile Crescent

A very important question is one about questions themselves. Namely, how do you find better questions?

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

I saw a man this morning going from tree to tree, painstakingly painting each leaf of every tree yellow, red, and gold, one by one. I always wondered how they got that way.

Hate speech isn't real. Please stop making stuff up and go touch grass

Guy in front of me at the store talking about how some words should be illegal. Didn't have it in me to explain how things work. Guess he may never know.

Hate speech isn't real. Please stop making stuff up and go touch grass

people don't change as much as you think they do. they mostly become what they already were.

If you're aware of an annoying pattern you keep doing, you've already won half the battle.

being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways

imagine being a billionaire. like, you put in work, nearly fail, but push onward anyways. you develop something novel. you make it scale. you push the envelop to do something that's never been done before. but then, part of the thing you win in the end game is a bunch of communists saying you should die or that you should be forced to hand over what you've earned smh. what an infantile ideology