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[Steve Inman @SteveInman]

No commentary needed for this classic. 😭

[Jostein Henriksen @Josteinhe]

Wolfgang Wee som svelger uriktige påstander i samtale med Glenn Diesen.

[igg @Iggsigg]

Å dø. Tenk så flaut. All oppmerksomheten. Begravelse. Taler. Unna vei, her kommer viktigper i sin _egen_ kiste.

Nei da vill jeg heller leve

[Skrillex @Skrillex]

Sidechain the whole earth

[Sash Zats @zats]

What are your most useful automations?

[Alaric @0xAlaric]

One aspect of historical life that most misunderstand is the degree to which things could just... happen, without any possibility of averting them.

We live in an administrative state, with Lovecraftian levels of bureaucracy dedicated to dealing with every possible occurrence. This hasn't always been the case.

For example, take it back a few centuries and people could just... walk into your village with swords and say you're now their slave. What are you going to do, call the police? The men of the village *are* the police, and if they're overpowered there's no recourse.

For women, being taken as a war bride was a non-zero possibility in life. That was just a possibility you had to live with.

Even more recently (18th, 19th centuries) sailors could be "recruited" by press gangs. Kidnapped, often from a tavern or similar, and forcibly interred in the Navy. That's just your life now. Got too drunk and woke up on the HMS Victory as a deckhand.

There are dozens more examples. This sort of randomness is a more primordial way of life, one that we've done our best to excise from modern society.

But in reality, it is still the base form of life - we just do our best to work around it, to make such actions undesirable in the long run.

However, this is a double-edged sword. While you're unlikely to be pressed into military service or taken as plunder... alienation from such risks creates a false sense of control. A sort of false belief that because these things are disincentivized, they can't happen.

After a lifetime exposed to such an environment, you begin to believe that everything in your life is under your control, that nothing can happen without your approval. This manifests as anxiety, neuroticism, fear of loss of control.

At the same time, it disincentivizes action in the moment; everything should be planned long-term, played prudently and slowly.

Because everything becomes a long-term game, we build an unfamiliarity with intense, life-changing situations. Emergencies, acts of violence. People freeze up, think "this can't be happening"... "this isn't allowed to happen."

Very dangerous, and distinctly modern, way of thinking.

[magnusbe.bsky.social @magnusbe]

No, it is not

[Morgan Freider @hvorforkrig]

Denne ser jeg hver morgen!

[X ER ET HØL @Reynolds420]

Shoutout til en real king 😄😄 lmao

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. These are some of the best...

A THREAD

1/20 - Mrs Doubtfire

[Jay @idek_tb]

I jus know he was holding in his laugh 😭😭

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Watch the moment a baby snatches the Princess of Wales' handbag during a royal visit to Aberfan 👶 👜 👇

[Dan McCormick @damccormick13]

Elon Musk wasn’t a rocket scientist.

Sam Altman wasn’t an AI researcher.

Jeff Bezos wasn’t a bookstore owner.

Mark Zuckerberg didn’t have friends.

Sometimes it takes an outsider 😤

[Tobias Storruste Dahle @TobiasSD]

Scener!

https://t.co/BSbRZW1iLD

[FairAndBalanced @KSteigen]

Du kan hevde at det ikke er synd på de rike, at de ikke blir undertrykt og urettferdig behandlet i forhold til fattige. Javel. Forklar hva det kommer av at rike aldri, ikke en eneste gang, har vært tema for TV-aksjonen? Det er alltid, uten unntak, de fattige, det samles inn til.

[HasbullaHive 🐐 @HasbullaHive]

Had to do it to em