we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter at all
and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
Biggest mistake ppl make in trying to find their authentic self is thinking it has any particular shape. “I am an artist” “I am a warrior” no sir, those are just identities – the authentic self is that formless thing which can maintain integrity across identities
You don’t want AI photos of everything you want. You want this real photo you didn’t know existed until Twitter of a cat you don’t know stealing an egg. The magic is in discovering what you didn’t know you wanted. Kill the treats machine.
1) Too many people have jobs so the Fed raises rates to boost unemployment in the name of taming inflation. 2) People lose their jobs, making them need food stamps. 3) Politicians demand those same people get jobs to be eligible for food stamps, but the jobs are now harder to get
@IanKarmel If you’re not in the two week window, you could schedule time to go into the office and buy a new ticket for a next week flight the day of. Then once you’re done at the office just cancel that flight you booked (you have 24hrs). They don’t verify you actually got on the flight.
It's depressing to consider, but I suspect the demise of skiing in the Alps will prove to be far more consequential to the rich world's awareness of climate change than news that one third of Pakistan is underwater.