Edward

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@moonbeamdreams_ I would add to this: thematic holidays eg, swim camp, tango in BA, go to learn a language in the native country. Basically the only reason I travel anymore

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@ryancbriggs @Vincent32418497 I live in sandycove. The cold and rain aren’t bad for the winter, but the wind and the darkness and the grey skies are. If we had a bit more sun, a bit less wind, and slightly longer days, it would be fine here

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

Smartest people from high school

All doctors (it was popular to do this if you were good at school)

Smartest people from med school
Histologist & microbiologist

[Paul Millerd @p_millerd]

Smartest people from high school

Unemployed “writer” and “indie consultant”

[Seán Sheehan @SeanSheehanBA]

Brilliant seeing so many of the team speaking Irish 👏👏

[SkyWatcherD🇳🇬 @SkyWatch07]

THE GREATEST EVER HURLING TEAM
#LIMERICK
🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

#GAA #LIMvGAL #HURLING #ALLIRELAND #CROKER

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@IrishNHTips ?

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Football is a simple game. 22 players chase a ball for 90 minutes, and England lose to the first good side they play in a tournament.

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

Is there anybody out there?

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@p_millerd We can't escape work, we can only hope to engage with it in a way which is nourishing and fulfilling

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@FantasyHurling WOD is in there already for me

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@boldthadyquill ?

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

Don’t know the people in this rationalist scene well but very man of them fail the sniff test and are just obviously weird in a way that the community either doesn’t notice or seeks to explain away. The kind of people that a normal person would run a mile from

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

i would really prefer to never have to talk about this again in public but here goes. i was heavily involved with brent dill for a substantial chunk of 2018, when he was embedded in the bay area rationality community. based on those experiences i never want to get involved with him ever again and i highly recommend none of you ever do so either. please note that this is the strongest condemnation i have ever written publicly about anybody

brent dill is basically a cult leader, and the thing he constantly does is basically attempt to start or take over cults. when he is talking to you he is constantly attempting to probe you for any psychological weaknesses he can take advantage of in order to convert you into one of his supporters. most people find him repellent but he is good at finding vulnerable people this will work on

when this is happening to you, from the inside it feels like finally you've found someone who's saying things that make sense, that matter, who's bravely pointing out the elephants in the room nobody else is willing to, who is being unfairly persecuted by the popular monkeys, who's showing you all the social rot and promising in so many words that maybe, just maybe, you and him can fix it together, because you get it, right? you're not like the others. you see the truth. you're so special. or whatever. he will tailor different versions of this pitch to different people based on what he's figured out about you. the pitch includes, among other things, a sophisticated defense against any attempts to warn you about him, which look like confirmation of his persecution thesis

(importantly, i'm not saying the stuff he points out is wrong, that is itself part of the trap. he pointed out a lot of things about the rationality community that were true in some sense and were part of the reason we - black lotus - were drawn to him instead. cult leaders always work like this. there is always at least a kernel of real value mixed in with the poison and demons, but it is as far as i can tell literally never worth it)

getting out from under brent's manipulation and control was one of the most destabilizing experiences of my entire life and one i have spent years recovering from. the whole time i thought i was making my own choices and seeing things clearly - that i was built different - and i was essentially having my mind taken over in ways i had no idea were possible in the real world and that, if present-me were to describe them to before-i-experienced-them me, i would flat out not have believed. if you've never experienced anything like this you are blessed. i had to reconstruct my entire understanding of myself and the world from scratch because i had lost trust in everything in a very deep and fundamental way; in particular i had to reconstruct my entire understanding of good and evil because i had lost trust in my ability to discern whether anything at all was good or evil

if you are the sort of person who brent has decided is worth targeting, you are not prepared to deal with somebody who's put literally all of their skill points into manipulation. in the next tweet i will link some resources that might or might not be helpful. may god have mercy on our souls

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@ComedianConn I think they would rather play Clare, who they have already beaten well, than Galway, and so I think they got the harder draw, assuming the beat Offaly, which they should.

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@GetMentalWealth What kind of dance though? Like a feel many forms of dance don’t transfer to spontaneous flirty dance as they are very specific

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@gearoidmurphy_ Probably Sandycove

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

Suez moment for the US

[Agustin Lebron @AgustinLebron3]

So it's been roughly 20 years since the modern anti-aging/life-extension movement got going.

What do they have to show for those 20 years? Anything at all? Rapa is a joke, metformin, NAD precursors are bullshit, etc.

Exercise and not being obese is still the winner.

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@dieworkwear should belts be worn with corduroy trousers?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Wishing the Irish in Ireland and around the world a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Ukraine deeply appreciates Ireland’s significant support at the political, economic, and humanitarian level, as well as the shelter your country has given to thousands of Ukrainians.

May peace and plenty bless your world
With a joy that long endures
And may all life’s passing seasons
Bring the best to you and yours.

[Edward @Edward_Says_]

@simonsarris @interpretantion A bigger lever than all of those forces is US political unrest at what looks like a prolonged war. Trump historically TACOs when public opinion shifts, eg Minnesota, and so I think he will most likely TACO and claim victory, leaving behind a nightmare and residual high oil prices