the modern american mind can't imagine a life where stores are closer to each other and we don't depend on giant chains

This is what people struggle to understand and they will keep struggling. Apocalyptic 2°C is committed within around 15 years. 10°C is committed. 200 feet of sea level rise is committed. Everything is committed. It's all over. It was all over before I was born and I'm 55.

Prediction: Within the next 30 days (or minutes) @ElonMusk will claim that the whole internet is so corrupted with left-leaning legacy media opinions and woke mind virus content that it's impossible to train a truth-seeking AI (Grok) on publicly available data without censoring

A question to determine if you’re thinking critically: what proportion of the books & articles you read do you disagree with? If it’s near zero, then either you’re agreeing with whatever you read, or you’re only reading whatever you already agree with. Both paths lead to idiocy.

happy Nvidia earnings day

Truly a path to unhappiness and mental illness to do anything like this. You will accomplish nothing of value for the world or yourself. Instead why not buy a guitar, learn woodworking, adopt a child if you're too old to have another. Literally anything else

I know several people who left big tech around 2022 to go try their hand at blue collar businesses. All but 1 are now back in big tech. I nod earnestly when I tell them “yeah who knew that cash flowing a laundromat in Sacramento would be harder than earning $236,000 and a 20%

The globalization of news has made the whole world’s problems our problem, fostering a sense of powerlessness that’s led many to redefine morality from “doing good” to merely “feeling bad”. C. S. Lewis noted this in his 1946 letter to Bede Griffiths:

STOCK MARKET ISN’T WORKING OUT EXACTLY AS I PLANNED SO I’M GAMBLING ON MONKEY RACES IN VIETNAM NOW. #stockmarketcrash #BlackMonday

April 2025 was the second-warmest on record, with global temperatures remaining over 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. We've crossed the 1.5°C Rubicon— likely no turning back—tipping points loom. Mitigation is no longer optional; it's urgent. #ActNow

Hey Blick  finds ja super, dass ihr euch der Fake Ads Thematik annehmt. Dann solltet ihr aber auch sicherstellen, dass ihr selbst nicht von solchen Ads profitiert ;). Würde mal ein Wörtchen mit Teads reden.

Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.

I want everyone on this website to think very carefully about this graph and then consider whether or not you need to reorder your priorities at all.

The state of all Arsenal fans after the Lia Wälti announcement shows that she wasn’t only one of our greatest players but one of our best person, an ultimate role model and legend. This just shows how much everyone loved her and how much we will continue to support her

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Congrats on inventing self-control

Hey Spotify how can I stop a stupid AI slop "artist" from appearing in my release radar every damn week? Blocking the artist doesn't work. "Excluding from my taste profile" doesn't work either (clicked it like a dozen times already). I don't want this shit in there.

We basically choose our leaders via rap battle, then wonder why they’re better at performance than governance.

Elon is such a snowflake

Journalist: What material did you use to train the model? China: Yes.