Before being admitted into his academy, Pythagoras required of all his aspiring initiates to first take a 5 year vow of silence. If they could not uphold this, they weren’t worthy of being entrusted with the secrets of the universe. Lesson in there. Learn to Shut The Fuck Up.

Defund the IRS

Mexican food outside of Mexico/USA never hits right. They don't have the ingredients. They don't have the tortillas or the chiles. Avoid Mexican food abroad.

𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 Need more Shia labeouf energy

Common trait among the unhappiest people I know: they hold grudges all over the place

In fact, I truly miss the homeless vagabond life in general, and deeply mourn the fact that now, as a father, I am prohibited by law from continuing this kind of a life. Homeownership is not really all that it's cracked up to be. It is vastly inferior to homelessness overall --

the worst thing u can ever do for yourself as a man is to pursue a mission other than the one buried in the depths of your being.

When did everybody all of a sudden start saying "magnetometer" instead of "metal detector?" I feel like I've just hit a Mandela Effect moment...

Build the White House ballroom so that Michael Tracey can fight people in it

This is what people tell themselves subconsciously, but the opposite is true in reality. You actually have more peace when you give your all and lose. I'll give a personal example. I did everything I possibly could to fight against the feds. Paid for the best lawyer available.

JACK OF FACES 🎭 If you plan everything, you leave no space for the unplanned to arise :)

The guy who installed this metal roof at our first building weighed 300 pounds and chain smoked all day. The way he moved his big body up and down a ladder was poetry, though. He built this roof in a ~week, by himself. And now, 12 years later, it's still going strong and in

the greatest periods of life are when things are moving so fast that you don’t even get a chance to stop and think, let alone reflect on where you are. blink and you’ll miss it.

Quitting my job to pursue my true passion: not having a job

How is it that the LLMs get things wrong constantly, the very simplest things, and make stuff up pretty much nonstop, yet they are said to be hurtling unstoppably toward god-like power -- if they haven't secretly achieved it already? Is this a con job?

goodnight ☾

Its going to ask you a question

In the throes of sciatica, I've been rewatching King of the Hill from the beginning. It's a very good example of a psycho-realistic adult comedy show that doesn't rely on the characters spewing forth a torrent of predigested therapy-chatter to communicate things about themselves

I felt most alive when i lived alone in a foreign country and could just take a bus to who knows where on a weekend, preferably a greeny countryside, with nothing but google maps and a few rehearsed phrases for how to order a chicken-based meal, coffee, cigarettes and a lighter

guys who work in office jobs from home: i need like 10000g of protein or i will literally die guy who actually does manual labor: did yuo know seven elever has a deal where two taquitos free if you get monster energy drink