REVIEWING EUROPEAN CITIES Compilation Thread of Threads on impressions from recent visits to European Cities and the ways in which they are changing in the 2020’s 🧵

"some people should die at work"

Underrated social skill: Activation energy. The common social protocol is to walk into a room and mirror everyone's energy. My favourite people come in like an energy wrecking ball and set the tone of the whole room. Surprisingly easy to do because everyone has mirror neurons.

DP Douglas Slocumbe is using arcane enchantment devises known as *checks notes* "lighting". Primitive movie makers believed you should be able to see things that were on the screen, such as the actor's face, the background, and important objects in the film.

Cookie acceptor

(pretty much just jacks off and orders doordash) im sick of livin through history!

Historically ultraelite a great descriptor

Hot take: Sexism is much worse than racism. In a (genuinely) racist state (there are very few such) the oppressed group can usually leave for one of 200 others, or alternately not emigrate there in the first place. Women are trapped with men. Single sex societies are unviable.

Solving and punishing murders is way up on the list of reasons to have government at all. It’s horrendous that so many govt officials and politicians — and voters— accept so much crime while launching half baked projects the government has no expertise or mandate for.

Person I know has been described as 'skittish' since forever. She did Trauma Release Exercises (basically you tire your inner tights with exercises like the one below and it starts to shake and the whole body) and now is just... not?? anymore?? Like is out of flight-or-fight!?!?

Surely noted tweeters have written on the pathetic phenomenon of the "phone case"

I think being slim versus fat is an issue of virtue. GLP-1 agonists work by making you more virtuous, which in turn makes you less fat. You've never debated anyone like me before.

God gives his gayest thoughts to his straightest soldiers

A question that lives rent free in my head...

I still think about this video

what women actually mean when they say this is that they want a man so attractive that even him fully expressing his feelings doesn't give them the ick and that men want a woman so attractive that she's beautiful even when not wearing any makeup i.e. both want a partner so