The tension behind your face does not reason, plan, or make decisions

When the penalty for aborting after rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, that's when you know it's a war on women

Here’s my political activism for the next fifty years: I am going to slowly, one conversation at a time, make wealth redistribution cool again in theologically conservative American Christianity Not for the sake of politics, but for the sake of honesty

"We've been mediocrity-pilled by utilitarianism" -ellie describing the need for better aesthetics

Shadow work is like cleaning behind the couch. It's nasty, but adults do it because it's gotta be done. And once it's done, the putrid smell of rat poop no longer wafts through the living room. And sometimes you find things from the past that you've long been missing.

TIL cows moo with a regional accent

My preferred translations of tanha and dukkha are fast-grabby-thing and evil-vibrating-blob Makes it obvious what kind of thing to look for to see them. Translations like clinging & suffering make them sound like abstract ideas. They’re not, they’re fast subtle mental movements

The secret to happiness turns out to be not doing a specific fast clenching mechanic called tanha that we’ve known about for 1000y+, is easily reproducible by tons of people, and we don’t teach people about ever. It all feels like a cheesy plot point from a fiction novel

if we are actually in a simulation, our overlords must think it is so cute that we are off to build "the metaverse"

Why doesn’t anybody ghost ride anything anymore?

ChatGPT fails the only true benchmark

Developmental attachment theory contains a complete theory of trauma. It took me years to realize this

It’s time to scrap AML / KYC entirely. The idea that politicians should know how citizens spend their money is a new and deeply flawed idea. An entire generation has been fooled into thinking this is a necessary part of finance and the world continues to double down on an

All Americans should be horrified and outraged by the brazen terrorist attacks on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civilians. We grieve for those who died, pray for the safe return of those who’ve been held hostage, and stand squarely alongside our ally, Israel, as it

another day of pain and grieving and anger. I feel like my own family is hostage. my own family was killed many times over. praying for my two brothers who are in the military, as are their partners. Hamas must be destroyed.

Grieving continues today. Still hard to focus on anything but the atrocities. Been crying about the babies in Kfar Aza for the past few hours