there’s half a dozen definitions of god out there and 5 of them are real. unfortunately most people mean the one that doesn’t exist

I say this without snark: Our political system rewards people for being maximally divisive, performative, angry, and attention-seeking. In other words, it often rewards mental instability. It is so dire.

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One possible use case for sortition is creating "youth assemblies" ostensibly to provide youth input on issues but actually it's to get the delegates to hook up with each other. Sortition solves TFR

Landlord found new tenants 🥳

If Mamdani does a good job, it's good for sortition If he does a bad job, it's also good for sortition

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

We need Operation Paperclip for Iranian apartment architects

Guy who can't wait for the whispering earing to be invented so he can put it on

Finance is literally a school of magic. It's how you transport wealth from the future to the present

this show is so good

Grocery store express lines should add a $5 service charge if your transaction takes more than 5 minutes for any reason

The optimal sociopolitical order imo is libertarianism for the higher classes and authoritarian paternalism for the lower classes. I'm skeptical of caste systems, so the only way I see to achieve that is some sort of social credit-based system